Five of JPA’s projects are LEED Gold certified and five are Silver, and we are currently working on more than two dozen LEED registered projects. Seventeen members of the engineering staff are LEED Accredited Professionals. These engineers document compliance of the MEP portions of the design for LEED and review USGBC credit interpretations when unique aspects of the design deviate from typical conditions. JPA is a corporate member of the U.S. Green Building Council and USGBC Maryland. We also have engineers who are ASHRAE certified High-Performance Building Design Professionals and AEE Certified GeoExchange Designers.
Featured Work
Montgomery County Public Schools
Great Seneca Creek Elementary School
Germantown, MD
This was the County school system’s pilot LEED project and is the first LEED Certified school in Maryland, achieving Gold status. The 82,500-SF school centers on the themes of “Earth, Water and Sun” as the organizing strategies to make sustainable design features visible and reconnect students with the natural environment.
Garrison Forest School
New Middle School
Owings Mills, MD
A new 28,000-SF middle school building for this independent girls’ school is LEED certified Silver and the first LEED certified K-12 school in Baltimore. Sustainable features include an energy-efficient HVAC system in compliance with ASHRAE 55 for thermal comfort, airside economizer operation to reduce compressor operation, zoned night set-back temperature control, low-flow toilets and faucets, and waterless urinals.
Corporate Office Properties Trust
302-308 National Business Park
Annapolis Junction, MD
Four nearly identical speculative office buildings at 165,000-SF each are part of the dramatic growth of Class-A office space for defense information technology contractors eager to locate near the National Security Agency and Fort Meade. The first three buildings are LEED certified Silver and the fourth LEED Gold.
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Center for a Livable Future
Baltimore, MD
This is the first LEED Gold certified project for Johns Hopkins University. The renovated space houses offices for the School of Public Health’s environmental health services program. A commitment to sustainability and recycled building materials was made at the beginning of the design process.
Roland Park Country School
Athletic Center
Baltimore, MD
A new 60,000-SF athletic center for this college preparatory girls’ school contains a triple-court gymnasium and 3,300-SF jogging track in the gymnasium roof truss space. The project is LEED Gold certified and received a USGBC Maryland design award.