SAN FRANCISCO, CA — HGA welcomes Deepa K. Balgi, RA, as Associate Vice President and Principal in the Science & Technology market group in San Francisco. She will focus on the Northern California market while collaborating across firm-wide offices and practice groups in health care, higher education, public, and corporate.

“HGA continues to build its national expertise designing science and technology spaces that drive innovation and collaboration,” said Chris Martin, Science & Technology Market Sector Leader. “Deepa has an extensive background working with clients to reimagine the intersection of interdisciplinary research and the technical workspaces that support that research.”

Balgi has more than 25 years’ experience as a Planner, Designer, Manager, Programmer, and Team Leader. She has designed research and laboratory projects for such clients as the University of California San Francisco, Stanford University, California Department of General Services, National University of Singapore, Northwestern University, University of Pennsylvania Health System, Texas A&M University, Pfizer, Merck, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.

“Researchers from diverse expertise and disciplines need to collaborate efficiently to solve global health, technology, and social challenges we are facing,” Balgi said. “Productivity-enhancing and aesthetically pleasing research environments that foster collaboration, innovation, and creativity are becoming increasingly necessary. HGA is committed to utilizing its resources to design cutting-edge facilities to address these changing needs. This is an exciting time to join a team of dedicated design experts.”

Before HGA, she led planning and design of education, research, and laboratory projects at leading architecture firms in the San Francisco Bay Area. Deepa has a Master of Architecture from the State University of New York at Buffalo, and a Bachelor of Architecture from the National Institute of Technology in Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, India.

HGA is a national multidisciplinary design firm rooted in architecture and engineering. The firm has more than 850 employees in 11 offices from coast to coast, working in health care, arts and culture, community, corporate, education, government, science and technology, and energy markets.