[1] CBRE | Heery touches on a variety of industries and project types, providing design, engineering and construction services.

[citation needed] 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.

[3] 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:[citation needed] In October 2017, commercial real estate services and investment firm CBRE Group, Inc. (NYSE: CBG) announced a definitive agreement to acquire Heery International, Inc. from Balfour Beatty LLC.