Planning JMA's Architecture and Preservation Planning Department comprises a multi-talented team of professionals that specialize in historic preservation. The staff is experienced, innovative, and committed to producing tangible and inspiring results. Particular emphasis is placed on understanding our client's needs, and then effecting a quality response in a cost-effective and professional manner. Accustomed to participating on projects throughout the eastern half of the United States, we serve a varied clientele, ranging from individual homeowners to developers and commercial institutions, non-profit and ecclesiastical organizations, and public agencies at the local, state, and federal levels.
Projects range from quite small to very large, complex, multi-year undertakings.
In preservation, each job is unique, and our hallmark is the attention to historically sensitive design, detail, and quality that we bring to each project, predicated on an intimate familiarity with the integration of historic and contemporary construction systems and materials. This experience is reflected in the thousands of projects we have conducted, encompassing nearly every imaginable building type. The services that we provide also derive benefit from the unique opportunity that we have to access the specialized expertise of JMA's Building Materials Conservation and Cultural Resources Departments . In the field of architecture our work includes the architectural restoration, rehabilitation, and adaptive reuse of historic buildings and sites. In the field of preservation planning our work includes master planning for historic sites, historic preservation plans for historic complexes, design guidelines for historic districts, and preservation plans for institutions and county and municipal governments.