Cannon Design, a multi-office A/E and planning firm headquartered in Grand Island, N.Y., has hired lab planner Steven G. Copenhagen, formerly of AHSC-McLellan Copenhagen, Seattle/San Francisco/Tarrytown, N.Y. Copenhagen will now head a new initiative called Cannon Copenhagen, providing lab planning support to all 14 Cannon branches. Copenhagen will be based in San Francisco. In addition, the firm has announced that it has received the AIA/CES 2006 Award for Excellence, given by the American Institute of Architects to firms with an exemplary commitment to providing high-quality continuing education. Perkins+Will continues its acquisition strategy with the addition of CNI Design, a 100-person interiors firm in Los Angeles. CNI’s portfolio includes office, healthcare, education, R&D, hospitality, retail, and residential projects. Founders Jo Carmen and Clara Igonda will be principals at Perkins+ Will, with co-founder Jay Nordsten continuing as an associate principal. Recent merger/acquisitions that have boosted the A/E firm’s capabilities in the research facilities market include those of MBT Architecture, San Francisco; BH2K Architecture, Houston; and DTS Shaw Associates, Boston. Health, Education + Research Associates Inc., the St. Louis-based lab planning, programming, and design firm, has expanded its Philadelphia office. The office, which opened in 2004, has been newly renovated and has hired Jennifer Browne, AIA, LEED AP, as an associate and senior laboratory architect. In addition, HERA has hired Clay Stafford as a senior laboratory programmer in Atlanta. November 2006 marks the firm’s 10th anniversary. Kling, the A/E, planning, and interiors firm, has hired Pascal Pittman, AIA, as managing director for its Washington, D.C., office. Also in D.C., Kevin Blankenship, AIA, has joined the firm as project director, and Ray Doyle, PE, was promoted to engineering design principal. Hellmuth, Obata + Kassabaum has hired Crystal Barriscale, AIA, LEED AP, as director of planning and landscape architecture for its San Francisco and Los Angeles offices. Sustainable design is a key thrust of the A/E firm, which is based in St. Louis and counts lab facilities among its major market categories. SP Industries, Warminster, Pa., has acquired FTS Systems, Stone Ridge, N.Y. SP Industries is a global supplier of specialty glassware, environmental control chambers, and laboratory to production-scale freeze dryers; the FTS acquisition will boost the firm’s position in freeze drying products and technology. Terms were not disclosed.