Passionate about designing public amenities that bring communities together, Hemna strives to promote accessibility for citizens while supporting the people that keep our neighborhoods safe. Clients such as the Correctional Service Canada, Alberta Justice, Ministry of Public Safety and Solicitor General, Calgary Police Service, and Royal Canadian Mounted Police have relied on her to deliver detachments, police headquarters, evidence warehouses, forensics labs, gun ranges, courthouses, corrections facilities, and training facilities.
Hemna has over 20 years of experience leading design teams on large, technically complex, public safety and justice projects across all phases of planning, design, and construction. She’s led the collaborative delivery of justice facilities with strict security requirements, and she’s developed several master plans, functional programs, feasibility studies, business cases, and strategic development plans for a wide range of public safety clients.
Overseeing an integrated team of designers, engineers, and technologists, Hemna constantly works to bring her client’s vision to reality. Throughout planning, design, and construction administration, she advocates for and facilitates an open, collaborative approach in all phases of project development.
Whatever project she’s working on, Hemna promotes best practices in public safety design. Most recently, she published a white paper that details how to meet law enforcement standards for safety and flexibility in gun ranges in the American Institute of Architecture’s (AIA) Justice Journal.
