The focus of JPA’s practice is MEP infrastructure and building systems for program-driven facilities in the public and private institutional sectors for education, government, healthcare, medical research, historic preservation, and the arts.
Following are representative clients.
Design Firms
- Architrave
- Ayers Saint Gross
- Beyer Blinder Belle
- Bohlin Cywinski Jackson
- Bowie Gridley Architects
- Cho Benn Holback + Associates
- CR Goodman Associates
- Design Collective
- Ehrenkrantz Eckstut & Kuhn
- Fanning/Howey Associates
- Gilbert Architects
- Gensler
- Grimm + Parker
- GWWO Architects
- HGA Architects & Engineers
- HOK Architecture
- Hord Coplan Macht
- Ikon.5 Architects
- Kliment Halsband Architects
- LSY Architects
- Marshall Craft Associates
- Moseley Architects
- Murphy & Dittenhafer
- Odell Associates
- Perkins + Will
- Quinn Evans Architects
- Read & Co.
- RMJM
- RTKL Associates
- Rubeling & Associates
- Sasaki Associates
- Shalom Baranes Associates
- Shepley Bulfinch
- SHW Group
- S/L/A/M Collaborative
- Smolen Emr Ilkovich
- Wilmot/Sanz
- Ziger/Snead
Government
- Architect of the Capitol
- Fairfax County, Virginia
- General Services Administration
- Maryland Department of General Services
- Naval Facilities Engineering Command
- National Archives and Records Administration
- National Institutes of Health
- Naval Research Laboratory
- Smithsonian Institution
- U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Higher Education
- Cecil College
- College of Notre Dame of Maryland
- Coppin State University
- Elizabethtown College
- George Mason University
- Hagerstown Community College
- Harford Community College
- Johns Hopkins University
- Loyola University Maryland
- Maryland Institute College of Art
- Morgan State University
- St. John’s College in Annapolis
- St. Mary’s College of Maryland
- Stevenson University
- Towson University
- University of Baltimore
- University of Maryland, Baltimore
- University of Maryland, Baltimore County
- University of Maryland, College Park
- U.S. Naval Academy
- West Virginia University
K-12
- Anne Arundel County Public Schools
- Baltimore County Public Schools
- Calvert County Public Schools
- Cecil County Public Schools
- Charles County Public Schools
- Frederick County Public Schools
- Garrison Forest School
- Harford County Public Schools
- Gilman School
- Loudoun Country Day School
- Howard County Public School System
- McDonogh School
- Montgomery County Public Schools
- Roland Park Country School
- Severn School
- St. Paul’s Schools
Healthcare/Medical Research
- Anne Arundel Medical Center
- Baxter Healthcare Corporation
- Children’s National Medical Center
- Johns Hopkins Health System
- Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
- Kennedy Krieger Institute
- Lonza Group
- Peninsula Regional Medical Center
- Sheppard Pratt Health System
- University of Maryland Medical Center
Other
- Archdiocese of Baltimore
- British Embassy in the United States
- Corporate Office Properties Trust
- Everyman Theatre
- Living Classrooms Foundation
- Mount Vernon Estate & Gardens
- Procter & Gamble Co.
- U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Washington Gas Energy Systems
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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).
Featured Project
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.
Featured Project
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.
Featured Project
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.
Featured Project
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.
Featured Project
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.
Featured Project
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.
Featured Project
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.
Featured Project
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD
Opened in 1915, this 146,000-SF academic building is the oldest and largest on the Homewood Campus.

