GPR Planners Collaborative

Management

Josh Meyer, AIA
Managing Principal

As managing principal of GPR Planners Collaborative, Inc., Josh Meyer has exclusively programmed and designed laboratory facilities for over 23 years. Mr. Meyer is a recognized leader in the programming and design of research and instructional laboratories and has an unparalleled understanding of the industry. He is a licensed architect in the state of New York and holds a Bachelor of Architecture from The Cooper Union. His expertise includes existing facilities analysis, facilities master planning, and macro- and micro-level development of laboratory, pilot plant, animal and toxicology facilities. Mr. Meyer frequently lectures on the planning of laboratories and specialized laboratory support facilities and has recently served on the Committee on Cost of and Payment for Animal Research for the Institute for Laboratory Animal Research for the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences. Mr. Meyer has participated in the programming and planning of 120 major research projects and over 80 animal facilities for academic, institutional and corporate clients.

University of California, San Francisco
Mission Bay Building 19A NeuroSciences Laboratory, San Francisco, CA … Phase 1 of this project includes Vivarium space on each of the floors (a vertical Vivarium) and a compliment of related Testing Rooms since Systems Neuroscience work is predominantly with animals.

Northwestern University
Pancoe Life Sciences/CEAR Building, Evanston, IL … the Life Sciences Building contain generic laboratories and flexible support space. The generic laboratories are designed to accommodate virtually any benchtop research while the flexible support space can be tailored to specific requirements of individual researchers.

The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Broadway Research Building, Baltimore, MD … GPR was retained by Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine to develop an animal facility master plan…. As a result of this master plan, a (ABSL3) basement-level vivarium was added into the Broadway project. The program was developed to provide flexibility in cage census with the ability to vary the ratio between animal holding rooms and procedure spaces.

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