BMA Architects & Planners

What BMA Architects & Planners does

BMA Architects & Planners is a privately held, Vermont-based architecture and planning firm founded in 1990 and headquartered in Manchester Center, VT. The firm operates three integrated service lines: (1) Architecture and Planning, providing site planning, full architectural design, and permitting for commercial, residential, healthcare, retail, educational, and institutional projects; (2) Building Evaluation, using state-of-the-art thermographic analysis to identify moisture and thermal anomalies, with forensic diagnostics for construction defect claims; and (3) Expert Witness Testimony, providing professional opinions, mediation, arbitration, and litigation consulting for design, construction, insurance, and code compliance disputes.

The firm is led by President/Principal Kirk Moore and Principal Architect Jeddadiah R. Pellerin, who joined in 2014, merging his prior New Hampshire sole practice into BMA and bringing twenty years of design experience across high-end residential and commercial portfolios. The technical differentiator is the in-house thermographic diagnostic capability that supports both building evaluation and expert witness engagements, enabling forensic investigation of construction defects.

The business model is project-based professional services: revenue is generated through quoted fees tied to project scope and complexity, with customers acquired primarily via referrals, professional reputation, and direct engagement within Vermont and surrounding regions. Customer mix spans federal VA facilities, regional hospitals, banks, hotels, retail operators, condominium associations, and law firms/insurance carriers. Distribution is direct (no channel partners), and marketing relies on a portfolio website plus organic social profiles on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Google+. The firm has no disclosed funding, no M&A history, no patents or trademarks, and operates with 1-10 employees, consistent with a small, stable professional services practice rather than a scaling enterprise.

Name

BMA Architects & Planners

Legal name

BMA Architects & Planners

Website

https://bma-architects.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1990

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

BMA Architects & Planners is a privately held Vermont architecture and planning firm founded in 1990, providing architectural design, building evaluation with thermographic analysis, and expert witness testimony to commercial, healthcare, retail, residential, and legal/insurance clients in Vermont and surrounding regions.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Architectural Services

NAICS

Architectural Services (54131)

SIC

Services-Engineering, Accounting, Research, Management (8700)

akta.pro primary industry

Architectural Design Services (BPAHAKAA)

akta.pro secondary industries

Urban Planning & Master Planning (BPAHAKAD), Construction Engineering & Constructability Consulting (BPAHAIAN)

Keywords

• Architectural design services
• Building evaluation services
• Expert witness testimony
• Site planning
• Thermographic analysis

Headquarters

HQ city

Manchester Center

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure, Others

Revenue model

1. Architecture and Planning Services: Professional architecture and planning services including site planning, full architectural services, and permitting for commercial, residential, healthcare, retail, and institutional projects.
2. Building Evaluation Services: State of the art thermographic analysis and building evaluations including forensics, diagnostics, and investigations related to design and construction defects.
3. Expert Witness Services: Expert witness services including mediation, arbitration and litigation consulting and testimony for design, construction, insurance and code compliance claims. Services include discovery support, quantification of damages, and litigation, arbitrations and mediation support.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

BMA Architects & Planners is an architecture and planning firm providing design, site planning, permitting, building evaluation (including thermographic analysis), and expert witness testimony services. The firm serves commercial, residential, healthcare, retail, educational, and institutional clients in Vermont and surrounding regions, with a particular specialty in forensic diagnostics and construction defect investigations.

Product overview

BMA Architects & Planners is an Architecture and Planning firm providing design, planning, building evaluation, and expert witness services for commercial, residential, healthcare, educational, and institutional clients. The firm's core offerings consist of three main service lines: Architecture and Planning (full architectural design and planning services), Building Evaluation (thermographic analysis and construction defect forensics), and Expert Witness Testimony (litigation consulting and professional testimony). The firm serves clients in Vermont and surrounding regions, operating for over 25 years from Manchester Center, VT.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Architecture and Planning

Quantifiable outcome

• Achieved $7 million settlement for client in condominium project dispute through expert witness services

Named customers13 records

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves2 records

Expansion highlights1 record

Broad incumbents

• DLR Group: Integrated architecture and engineering firm with a strong K-12, higher education, and civic practice, competing with BMA for institutional and public-sector work at greater scale.
• CannonDesign: Large national architecture and engineering firm with a significant healthcare and institutional practice that competes for the same VA, hospital, and educational clients BMA serves, but at a much larger scale.
• HKS: Large national architecture firm with deep healthcare and institutional expertise, representing the kind of large incumbent that BMA competes against for hospital, VA, and public-sector design mandates.
• Perkins&Will: Global architecture firm with a major healthcare, education, and commercial practice; a broader incumbent competing for the institutional clients BMA targets.
• Ware Malcomb: National architecture firm with a focused commercial, retail, and healthcare practice that overlaps BMA's commercial and retail client base, particularly in retail and office design.

Direct peers

• Nelson Forensics: National building forensics and expert witness firm providing thermographic analysis, construction defect investigations, and litigation support services that directly overlap BMA's building evaluation and expert witness practice.
• Black River Design: Middlebury, Vermont-based architecture firm with similar size, serving institutional, educational, commercial, and residential clients across Vermont, making it a closely comparable regional peer.
• Legat Architects: Mid-sized architecture and planning firm providing design services for K-12, higher education, healthcare, and commercial clients, comparable to BMA in scale, sector mix, and service model.
• Cushing Terrell: Multi-disciplinary architecture and engineering firm of comparable mid-market size with a similar mix of design, building performance, and consulting services across commercial, healthcare, and institutional clients.
• TruexCullins: Burlington, Vermont-based architecture and planning firm of comparable scale, providing design services across commercial, healthcare, education, and residential sectors in the same New England regional market as BMA.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/BMAAP
• Facebookfacebook.com/bmaarchitects
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/bma-architects-&-planners

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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