Duplantier & Meric Architects

What Duplantier & Meric Architects does

Duplantier & Meric, Architects, LLC is a privately held, founder-owned boutique architectural firm headquartered in New Orleans, Louisiana, originally established by principals Henry C. Duplantier and Thomas S. Meric, Jr., who have practiced together for 37 years and bring 43 and 34 years of professional experience respectively. The firm provides full-service architectural and engineering design across project phases — research, concept, construction documents, and construction administration — with emphasis on responsive facility design and intimate principal-level involvement. Its portfolio spans healthcare and medical facilities (LSU Health Sciences Center, Charity Hospital Medical Center, Chalmette Medical Center, St. Bernard Parish Hospital), higher education and research complexes (University of New Orleans, LSU Baton Rouge), correctional and judicial facilities (six 1,000-bed medium-security prisons throughout Louisiana), and state and municipal government buildings, with a cumulative construction value exceeding $700M at the date of construction.

The firm earns revenue through professional service fees on project-based engagements with institutional and government clients, with pricing structured per project scope rather than disclosed publicly. It sells exclusively through direct enterprise engagement with state agencies, universities, healthcare systems, and government entities — no digital marketing, no app or SaaS distribution, no resellers. Notable deliverables include seven major LSU Health Sciences Center buildings plus a full renovation of an eighth (~1.75 million sq. ft., over $450M in construction cost), 27+ years of ongoing Charity Hospital renovations, and a post-Hurricane Katrina campus restoration project valued at approximately $86 million. Awards include the National 2006-2007 Gold Standard Award for Public Health Laboratory Excellence and Best Public Building in 1999.

The firm operates exclusively within the State of Louisiana and the Gulf Coast region with no disclosed headcount, revenue, external investors, or parent company. Its competitive positioning rests on principal tenure, institutional knowledge accumulated across decades of repeat engagements, and recognized brand strength in Louisiana higher education, laboratory research, and healthcare design.

Name

Duplantier & Meric Architects

Legal name

Duplantier & Meric, Architects, LLC

Website

https://dumearch.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1970

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Duplantier & Meric, Architects, LLC is a New Orleans-based, founder-owned boutique architectural firm providing full-service design for Louisiana healthcare, higher education, correctional, and government facilities, serving state institutions with deep multi-decade relationships.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Architectural Design Services

NAICS

Architectural Services (54131), Architectural Services (541310)

SIC

Services-Engineering Services (8711)

akta.pro primary industry

Architectural Design Services (BPAHAKAA)

akta.pro secondary industry

Architectural Reconfiguration & Structural Alterations (HSAPAEAB)

Keywords

• Architectural design services
• Healthcare facility design
• Higher education architecture
• Correctional facility design
• Government building design

Headquarters

HQ city

New Orleans

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Architectural Design Services: Professional fees for architectural design services including research, concept, construction documents, and construction administration. Revenue derived from project-based professional service engagements with institutional clients.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Core offering

Duplantier & Meric Architects is a New Orleans-based architectural firm that provides full-service architectural and engineering design for institutional, healthcare, higher education, correctional, municipal, and residential clients. The firm's offerings span all project phases from research and concept through construction documents and construction administration, with particular depth in post-disaster restoration and mitigation design following Hurricane Katrina.

Product overview

Duplantier & Meric Architects, L.L.C. is a New Orleans-based architectural firm offering comprehensive architectural design services rather than a unified software product. The firm's portfolio encompasses six primary service areas: Medical Facilities Design (including hospitals, medical centers, and research buildings), Institutional Facilities Design (university campuses and research complexes), Detention & Correctional Facilities Design, Educational Facilities Design, Municipal & Government Facilities Design, and Residential Design. The firm also provides specialized Hurricane Katrina restoration and recovery services. With a combined 77 years of professional experience between its founders, the firm has delivered projects with an aggregate construction value exceeding $700 million at date of construction. Notable projects include the LSU Health Sciences Center campus (seven major buildings totaling over 1,750,000 sq. ft.), the Charity Hospital Medical Center, and numerous state university buildings across Louisiana.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Architectural Design Services Full-service architectural design covering all project phases from research and concept through construction documents and construction administration, with emphasis on responsive facility design for institutional clients.
• Medical Facilities Design Specialized design services for medical facilities including hospitals, medical centers, clinical research buildings, and medical office buildings.
• Institutional Facilities Design Design services for institutional buildings including university campuses, research complexes, and educational facilities.
• Detention, Correctional & Judicial Facilities Design Design services for correctional facilities including medium-security prisons, detention centers, and courthouse-jail complexes.
• Municipal & Government Facilities Design Design services for municipal and government buildings including post offices, convention centers, and police training academies.
• Residential Design Custom residential architecture services for individual homes and multi-unit residential buildings.
• Hurricane Katrina Restoration & Recovery Services Post-disaster assessment, restoration, and mitigation design services for hurricane-damaged buildings, including the LSU Health Sciences Center campus restoration valued at approximately $86 million.

Quantifiable outcome

• Aggregate construction value exceeding $700M at date of construction, present day value exceeding $1.8 billion
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers8 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators10 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights2 records

Broad incumbents

• Perkins&Will: Global architecture firm with a recognized healthcare and institutional practice. Comparable in healthcare/lab design credentials and institutional client base, though operating at much greater scale and geographic reach.
• CannonDesign (formerly Cannon): Large national architecture and engineering firm with deep healthcare and higher-education practices. Comparable in target verticals (especially healthcare/lab design) and institutional client base, but at substantially larger scale.
• NBBJ: National architecture and design firm with significant healthcare and higher-education practices. Comparable in institutional/healthcare specialization and large-project complexity.
• HKS: Major national architecture firm with a market-leading healthcare design practice. Directly comparable in healthcare vertical specialization and complex institutional project delivery, though at substantially larger scale.
• DLR Group: Large integrated architecture and engineering firm with strong higher-education, healthcare, and civic-sector practices. Comparable in institutional vertical mix and public-sector client engagement.

Direct peers

• GraceHebert Architects: Baton Rouge-based architectural firm specializing in healthcare, higher education, and correctional facilities for Louisiana public-sector clients. Comparable in niche institutional verticals and state-agency procurement experience.
• Sizeler Thompson Brown: New Orleans-based architectural firm active in institutional and commercial work across the Gulf South. Directly comparable in regional positioning and institutional client base.
• Eskew+Dumez+Ripple: New Orleans-based architectural firm of comparable boutique size with a comparable institutional, civic, and cultural-project portfolio. Direct comparable in geography, scale, and public-sector orientation.
• Broadmoor Design / Broadmoor LLC: Louisiana-based architectural firm serving institutional, healthcare, and educational clients in the Gulf South. Comparable in vertical mix, regional footprint, and small-firm delivery model.
• Mathes Brierre Architects: New Orleans-headquartered architectural firm with a long-standing institutional and civic portfolio. Comparable in regional focus, boutique scale, and engagement with Louisiana public-sector clients.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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