James Posey Associates is a MEP engineering firm held in high regard by architects and building owners for the superior mechanical and electrical design services we provide.
About Us
JPA consistently ranks in the Engineering-News Record “Top 500”, Consulting Specifying Engineer “Giants 100”, and Building Design + Construction “Giants 300”, and we are the top MEP firm on the Baltimore Business Journal list of the 25 largest engineering firms. We were the first firm honored by AIA Baltimore with the award for “Outstanding Consultant of the Year”, and we are the only firm to receive the award twice.
Our current staff of 60 has been with us an average of 12 years, and we take pride in this high rate of retention. It is essential to the trust, reliability, and consistent level of service we bring to clients. We also have an impressive record of continuity in the firm’s leadership with only four presidents and four generations of principals in 100 years of practice.
The staff includes 13 registered Professional Engineers and 17 LEED Accredited Professionals. We also have engineers who are certified in plumbing design, geothermal exchange design, high performance building design, energy management, lighting design, and healthcare facility design.
Ten of our projects are LEED Gold or Silver certified, and more than two dozen currently underway are LEED registered. We have utilized Building Information Modeling (BIM) on eight projects to date.
Among our awards for design excellence are those from the American Council of Engineering Companies, American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers, and Association of Energy Engineers.
A Century of Excellence
JPA is celebrating the centennial of the firm founded by Baltimore engineer James Posey
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Featured Project
Coppin State University
Baltimore, MD
Providing a major addition to this urban campus, the new 253,000-SF complex includes a state-of-the art sports facility, facilities management/public safety building and a satellite central utilities plant (SCUP).
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U.S. Capitol Visitor Center
Washington, DC
JPA designed the MEP infrastructure for a 580,000-SF underground facility for the five-million visitors to the U.S. Capitol each year.
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Peninsula Regional Medical Center
Salisbury, MD
Phased implementation of the Master Plan to significantly expand facilities at this premier regional tertiary care medical center on Maryland's Eastern Shore.
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National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, MD
Renovation of the first floor in Building 49 transformed existing office and laboratory space into a BSL-2 research area.
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Great Seneca Creek Elementary School
Germantown, MD
This was Montgomery County’s pilot LEED project and is the first LEED certified school in Maryland, achieving Gold status.
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Roland Park Country School
Baltimore, MD
A new 60,000-SF athletic center for this college preparatory girls’ school features an eight-station indoor rowing tank facility, the first of its kind in a Maryland school.
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Fairfax County Public Safety Operations Center
Fair Lakes, VA
Fairfax County and the Commonwealth of Virginia consolidated regional public safety and transportation functions to a new government office park near Dulles International Airport.
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Mount Vernon Estate & Gardens
Mount Vernon, VA
Two new facilities totaling 71,200-SF added 23 galleries and five theaters to the historic family home of our nation’s first president.
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Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD
Opened in 1915, this 146,000-SF academic building is the oldest and largest on the Homewood Campus.