Heery International


CBRE | Heery, formerly known as Heery International, Inc., was founded in 1952 by George T. Heery and his father C. Wilmer Heery, Jr., and is a full-service architecture, interior design, engineering, construction management, program management, and commissioning firm with over 500 employees located in 19 offices across the United States.
CBRE | Heery touches on a variety of industries and project types, providing design, engineering and construction services. Its focus markets include aviation, corporate/private, K-12 education, government, healthcare, higher education, justice and sports.

History

In 1952, George Heery entered private practice by joining with his architect father, C. Wilmer Heery, Jr., who had an established firm in Athens, Georgia. Together, George and his father formed Heery and Heery, with Wilmer Heery continuing to practice in Athens, Georgia, and George leading the Atlanta office. Early projects included residential, light commercial, governmental and industrial.
During the late 1950s, founder George Heery developed a set of combined architectural, engineering and project management procedures for greatly accelerating design and construction for industrial projects and a decade later he and a small group of professionals developed the concept of Construction Program Management for the purpose of controlling time and cost on behalf of the owner in construction programs.
By the 1980s the firm had grown and changed names to Heery International and Heery was Chairman, CEO and the largest shareholder of the largest program management, architectural and engineering firm in the Southeast with over 500 employees. Over a 17-year span, from the mid-1960s to the early 1980s, George Heery oversaw an expansion the firm's vision and capabilities. Milestones of that expansion include:
In October 2017, commercial real estate services and investment firm CBRE Group, Inc. announced a definitive agreement to acquire Heery International, Inc. from Balfour Beatty LLC.

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