Residential Projects:

Architect and Builder: 136 Glenn Circle Renovations, Decatur, GA. Multi-phased renovation of a 1930's Victorian 2-story brick home (the architect's personal residence) over a 25-year period. Projects included conversion the home from a duplex into a single family home, internal reconfiguration and expansion of the family room and kitchen, renovation of all bathrooms, and addition of a screened porch and freestanding carport.
Architect: Blaker Residence, Social Circle, GA. Design services for construction of a new 6,000sf home on a 12.5 acre property bordering the Alcovy River.
Architect and Builder: 220 Greenwood Circle Renovations, Decatur, GA. Renovation of a turn of the century craftsman bungalow (the architect's personal residence) over an 8-year period. Projects included completion of a previously abandoned master bedroom addition, replacing the existing kitchen, and limited remodeling of all other rooms.
Designer: Firestone Residence, Waterford, VA. Conceptual Design of a large home in rural Virginia in the English country style (never executed).

Industrial Projects:

Project Architect / Project Designer: Denso Osceola Factory Project, Osceola, AR. Design for a 260,000 SF auto parts manufacturing and distribution facility on a 100-acre site. Includes two major production areas: one for aluminum and plastics production of air-conditioning equipment, the other for copper production of radiators for heavy equipment; a finished product warehouse for shipping, receiving, and packing; and an office area facing the highway. Other features: parking areas and expandability for future growth in all areas. This project is currently under construction.
Project Manager / Project Designer: Motorola de Mexico Latin American Paging Division Manufacturing & Office Facility, Chihuahua. Planning and Phase I design for a new 238,000 SF plant (expandable to 438,000 SF) for the production and distribution of electronic paging products including administrative offices, training and conference center, food service, chemical storage, water treatment, water storage, wastewater treatment, and recreational amenities for employees; master planned for ultimate build-out totaling 800,000 SF on a 120-acre rural desert site; required historically-appropriate design reflecting the facility's provincial location and the need to be culturally appropriate to Mexico. This project received a Georgia AIA design award, and was published in World Architecture magazine.
Project Manager: Total System Services de Mexico Credit Card Processing Center, Toluca, Mexico. Design from pre-design through construction for a 50,000 SF credit card production and billing facility under an accelerated schedule; building includes administrative and executive offices, statement / billing center, client services, production, and warehouse facilities.
Project Architect / Project Designer: Robert Bosch Corporation Southeast Distribution Facility, Atlanta, GA. Design and engineering for a 250,000 SF auto parts distribution facility on a 49-acre site. Includes three major areas: a high bay pallet storage area; a low bay warehouse for shipping, receiving, maintenance, and packing; and a two-story office area adjoining the low bay area. Other features: parking areas and expandability at both ends.
Architect / Designer: Mobil LaGrange Films Plant Phase I, LaGrange, GA. Master planning, engineering studies, and accelerated-schedule design services for a new plastic film manufacturing complex on a 260-acre wooded site, totaling 375,000 SF. Phase I facility houses film production lines and is designed for expansion to 1 million SF. Features include warehouse areas for materials handling and distribution, engineering offices and labs, training rooms for production lines, locker rooms, a cafeteria / dining facility for 200, an 18,000 SF administrative office building and lobby, a lake, and a 380-space parking area.
Project Manager: GlaxoSmithKline (formerly Burroughs-Wellcome) Greenville Manufacturing Site Development Plan, Greenville, NC. Design studies for analysis of a 350-acre manufacturing campus with facilities involved in primary (chemical production), secondary (delivery system production and product packaging), and sterile (clean room) pharmaceutical manufacturing. Study evaluated engineering solutions and projected costs to identify a strategy for disposal of the real estate in part or in whole, as a result of the merger of Glaxo and Burroughs-Wellcome.
Project Designer: Digital Communications Associates, Inc. Corporate Headquarters and Production Facility, Alpharetta, GA. Design for a master development plan for a new, 320,000 SF corporate headquarters complex on a 40-acre site. Phase I: two-story, 177,000 SF office and production facility for assembly of digital communications equipment, parking for 480 cars and an equipment testing facility.

Corporate Facilities:

Project Manager: GlaxoSmithKline Sales Training Center, Research Triangle Park, NC. Design for a new 2-story 60,000 GSF facility comprised of three major functional areas: training and meeting facilities, administrative / operations facilities, and food and building service areas, all connected by a two-story, glass-enclosed central circulation rotunda. Amenities include a 100-seat cafeteria, full service servery and kitchen, two private conference rooms, dining rooms, and six training rooms of varying size, equipped with rear-screen projection and state-of-the-art audiovisual systems.
Project Manager / Project Designer: Athens Insurers Office Building - Twin Ponds Office Park, Watkinsville, GA. Heery’s services included Architecture, Engineering and Construction Management at risk services for the new construction of a 2-story, 25,000 SF office building with partial basement on 30 acres of undeveloped land off of Hwy 316, approximately 5 miles west of downtown Athens. The building accommodates the Owner plus four tenants. The floors include conference rooms, open offices with systems furniture and hard wall offices. Porticos are located at two ends of the building which provide for separate tenant entrances and/or function/meeting space. Sidewalks encircling the facility provide access to wooded areas of the site and its 2 natural ponds.
Project Manager / Project Designer: Robins Air Force Base Building 2076, 2083, and 2336 Renovations, Warner Robins, GA. Heery provided design services to the Georgia Air National Guard on multiple projects under a 5-year IDIQ contract. The most comprehensive of these projects was the renovation of Building 2076, a 32,000 SF industrial building, into Class B office space to serve as the headquarters of the Civil Engineering Squadron. The facility included offices, training rooms, engineering lab spaces, maintenance shops, and vehicle maintenance bays.
Designer: First Union Tower and Parking Deck - 999 Peachtree Street, Atlanta, GA. Public space design and detailing for a 28-story flagship building in Midtown Atlanta's redevelopment, providing a 650,000 SF office tower includes a 750-car, eight-level, 200,000 SF parking garage as well as a bank, retail and service shops, a restaurant, and hotel linked by the parking deck. The project also included a canopied pedestrian walk connecting the tower, hotel, and garage, and a pedestrian plaza.
Project Manager: GlaxoSmithKline Charles A. Sanders Center Renovation / Conversion from Southern High School, Research Triangle Park, NC. Planning and design for renovation of 134,000 SF in four buildings, constructed since 1954, to office space, with the demolition of the west wing and construction of a new 72,000 SF two-story building to replace it, for a total of 206,000 SF accommodating 600 occupants, included conversion of large gymnasium and auditorium to office space and a thermal storage energy study. This project was awarded an Award of Merit by Building Design & Construction magazine.
Architect / Project Designer: GlaxoSmithKline Strategic Facilities Planning-West Campus Master Plan, Research Triangle Park, NC. Heery provided conceptual design for master planning of GlaxoSmithKline's 300 acre West Campus, including administrative and research facilities
Designer: Georgia Power Company Corporate Headquarters Phase II, Atlanta, GA. Planning, design, and engineering for a new, six-story office building providing 520,000 SF. Program included a reprographics center, fitness club, food service, a 250-seat auditorium. Client did not proceed with project following construction documents phase.

Data Centers:

Project Designer, ORNL Extreme Scale Computing Facility, Oak Ridge, TN. Conceptual design of a 250,000sf highly secure, state of the art data center to be constructed for secure research by various government agencies and contractors.
Project Manager / Project Designer: MetLife Information Systems Center, North Greenbush, NY. Design of a new, 200,000 GSF, state-of-the-art corporate disaster back-up and software development facility for 450-600 employees on a 42-acre sloping site. Consists of a two-story computer/communications wing and a three-story administrative wing (total 130,000 GSF) linked by a central public core and a 55,000 SF dedicated data systems area with five secure, windowless, 9000 SF computer bays.
Project Manager / Project Designer: Sungard Data Services (formerly Comdisco) Technology Services Center - Southeast Region, Atlanta, GA. Starting in 1998, Comdisco retained Heery for more than twenty professional assignments ranging from fit-ups of data centers to office space to system upgrades for increase reliability and redundancy in mechanical, electrical and plumbing systems. Heery also provided fast-track planning, design, and engineering through construction documents of a stand-alone two-story, 132,000 SF technology services center. The new facility serves as a disaster resource recovery facility, research and development lab, computer lab, and Marketing Center. It provides mainframe and mid range technology workstations and check processing, with a 40,000 SF area dedicated for Comdisco's largest financial services customer.
Architect / Designer: Salomon Brothers Processing and Operations Center at Hidden River, Tampa, FL. Design and engineering for a design / build delivery approach for a new telecommunications / operations / call center featuring extensive fiber optic cabling, consisting of two identical three-story sections sharing a common full-height atrium with lobby entry and an open dining area; 100,000 net usable SF including 25 private offices (5,000 SF), 20 conference rooms (8,000 SF), two 5,000 SF telecommunications equipment rooms, two 750 SF training rooms, a 900 SF medical facility, a 275-seat cafeteria, and a 100-person dining facility.
Project Manager: Total System Services - UK Site Evaluations, Columbus, GA. Preliminary project planning and facility evaluations to assist a US based financial services company with the identification and acquisition of a data center in the UK. Through a prior working relationship with this client on another international project, Heery was positioned to provide initial project planning services through both the Atlanta and UK based offices. The scope of the effort involved evaluation of multiple facilities to establish suitability for lease or acquisition. As a follow-up to these efforts, more detailed "due diligence" investigations were performed on several of the sites which established recommendations for facility maintenance and operations needs.
Project Architect / Project Designer: HP (formerly known as Digital Equipment Corporation) Customer Support Center and Regional Headquarters, Alpharetta, GA. Design and engineering for a new, 522,197 SF administrative office and customer support call center consisting of three floors in two new buildings (with a connecting building) on a 65-acre site. The first building serves as a headquarters, the second as a customer support center that includes training space and a large central computer display area. The project features a total of 60,000 SF of computer facilities, and the central connector area includes a main entrance lobby, conference areas, a dining facility for 500, a credit union, and a central plant.

Other Project Types:

Project Manager: The Georgia Dome, Atlanta, GA. Heery was the lead architectural firm in the team that designed The Georgia Dome in 1989, and ongoing services have been provided continuously ever since to support Dome operations. With the retirement of Heery’s Project Manager in 1998, I assumed responsibility for directing all subsequent design and management efforts, including team coordination, annual structural inspections, event rigging reviews, and critical facility repairs including renovations following the 1998 tornado that passed through downtown Atlanta.
Project Designer / Manager: Master Plan for Gymnasium and Auditorium Additions to Decatur High School and Renfroe Middle Schools, Decatur, GA. Heery was selected in 2005 to assist the City Schools of Decatur in the development of an affordable Master Plan to construct much needed additions to the existing middle school and high school. Following completion of the master plan, the city obtained SPLOST funding and has subsequently completed both projects within the projected schedule and budget.
Project Designer / Manager: Salvation Army Long Beach Kroc Center, Long Beach, CA. Programming, conceptual design, and preliminary budgeting for construction of a $60M multi-purpose educational, spiritual, and recreational facility for the Salvation Army’s Long Beach Corps. The proposed facility was to be funded as part of a $2B grant left by Joan Kroc, the wife of McDonald’s founder Ray Kroc.
Project Manager: Greyhound Terminal Study, Atlanta, GA. Site Evaluations and Master Planning services for construction of a new 34,000 SF intercity bus terminal in downtown Atlanta. The original concept for the Multi-Modal project designed by Heery in 1995 included a terminal and integral loading space for inter-city buses. As a result of subsequent changes in land availability and priorities, Greyhound engaged Heery to consider alternate sites in the immediate vicinity, to be linked to the Multi-Modal station via MARTA. The project remains in the pre-development stage.
Architect - Design: Hartsfield Centre Office Building Master Plan and Phase I Design, Atlanta, GA. Master planning for redevelopment of old airport terminal at Hartsfield International Airport, comprised of over one million SF of space including five office buildings, a 400-room 12-story hotel, two parking decks, and 5 office buildings on the 31-acre site. The first phase, an eight-story, 164,000 SF, speculative, Class A office building with three surface parking areas for 720 cars, has been implemented.
Project Manager: Hudson River Stage Site Master Plan Study, Yonkers, NY. Heery’s parent company was the owner of a 300,000 SF cable manufacturing facility located along the Hudson River in Yonkers, NY, approximately 11 miles north of Midtown Manhattan. Manufacturing operations ceased in 1996, leading to the pursuit of alternative uses for the facility. Heery was engaged to develop a master plan for the site, to include the renovated film stage and production facility, 900 housing units, retail facilities, a commuter rail station, a waterfront marina, and all parking and infrastructure to support the development.
Project Manager / Project Designer: Rockefeller Center Ground Plane Renovation, New York, NY. Full A/E design as well as existing conditions survey, contract administration, and site inspection for ground plane study to improve outdoor environment amenities and to create unique and unifying image that would clearly mark boundaries and components of this internationally recognized, historic office and entertainment center. Comprehensive renovation around entire ten-block complex of buildings that included canopies for all major entrances, pavilions at subway entrances, new sidewalk paving design, tree plantings with cast bronze surrounds, address plaques at all building entrances, new street light fixtures, and custom street furniture; the permitting process involved design approval from Landmarks Preservation Commission of New York.