Johnson, Laschober & Associates

What Johnson, Laschober & Associates does

Johnson, Laschober & Associates (JLA) is a private, 100% employee-owned multi-discipline architecture, engineering, and landscape architecture (A/E/L) firm founded in 1980 and headquartered in Augusta, Georgia, with a second office in Charleston, South Carolina. The firm delivers integrated services across architecture, interior design, landscape architecture, civil, structural, mechanical, and electrical engineering for public and private clients throughout the Southeast United States.

Its project portfolio spans K-12 education (e.g., Fox Creek High School), industrial/manufacturing (the Textron Specialized Vehicle Plant, recognized as the SC Section ASCE 2019 Project of the Year), civic and cultural facilities (Miller Theater, Augusta Canal), and historic preservation work honored with South Carolina's highest preservation award. The firm is led by licensed architects, professional engineers, and LEED-accredited professionals, with individual honors including ASCE Fellowship and the Letellier Lifetime Achievement Award reinforcing its credentials in regional public-sector work.

JLA operates a project-based professional services model, generating revenue through design and engineering fees on negotiated and competitively bid engagements with municipalities, school districts, healthcare systems, commercial/industrial owners, religious institutions, and recreation clients. The firm is in the midst of a planned leadership transition: principal Mark Lorah retired in October 2025, and the firm appointed Kris Phillips (August 2025) and Patrick Jones (February 2026) as Directors of Architecture to maintain continuity of the practice.

Name

Johnson, Laschober & Associates

Legal name

Johnson, Laschober & Associates, P.C.

Website

https://thejlagroup.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1980

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Johnson, Laschober & Associates is a 100% employee-owned multi-discipline architecture, engineering, and landscape architecture firm serving municipalities, education, healthcare, and industrial clients across the Southeast from offices in Augusta, GA and Charleston, SC.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Augusta

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Professional Services Fees: Fee-based professional services for architecture, engineering, and landscape architecture projects. Projects are typically fixed-fee or cost-plus arrangements for design, engineering, master planning, and construction administration services.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Johnson, Laschober & Associates, P.C. (The JLA Group) is a multi-discipline professional consulting firm providing integrated architecture, interior design, landscape architecture, civil, structural, mechanical, and electrical engineering services. The firm delivers design, master planning, permitting, and construction administration services for new construction, renovations, and adaptive reuse projects under Design-Bid-Build, Design-Build, and negotiated delivery methods.

Product overview

Johnson, Laschober & Associates (JLA) is a professional consulting firm offering a multi-disciplinary approach to design services. The firm provides a comprehensive suite of services including Architecture, Interior Design, Landscape Architecture, Civil Engineering, Structural Engineering, Electrical Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering. The company also offers specialized 3-D modeling and Revit services for visualization and clash detection. JLA serves diverse markets including commercial, governmental, institutional, industrial, medical, and recreational sectors. Project delivery methods include Design-Bid-Build, Design-Build, and Negotiated work. The firm operates from offices in Augusta, Georgia and Charleston, South Carolina, serving the Southeast since 1980.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Architecture Services Complete architecture services including conceptual and schematic design, design development, construction documentation, bidding and negotiation assistance, and construction contract administration for commercial, governmental, institutional, industrial, healthcare, and educational facilities.
• Interior Design Interior design services applying creative and technical solutions that are aesthetically pleasing to the interior environment, enhancing quality of life for building occupants.
• Landscape Architecture Landscape architecture services including land planning, landscape design, construction documentation, construction administration, 3D modeling, illustrative renderings, and consultation.
• Civil Engineering Civil engineering services forming the foundation of all projects, employing a team approach with landscape architects for creative, cost-effective site development and specialized permitting expertise.
• Structural Engineering Structural design for new and existing facilities, historic structures, and adaptive reuse, with specialized experience in deep and shallow foundations, soil retaining systems, and dynamic analysis and design.
• Electrical Engineering Electrical design services for commercial, recreational, institutional, educational, religious, industrial, and healthcare facilities; JLA is a Georgia DOT Prequalified Consultant for area class 3.15 Highway Lighting.
• Mechanical Engineering Mechanical, plumbing and fire protection design for new and existing facilities, designing healthy, sustainable and energy efficient systems using AutoDesk Revit for clash detection.
• 3-D Modeling/Revit Services 3-D modeling and Revit services used for clash detection and visualization across architectural and engineering disciplines.

Quantifiable outcome

• Emergency structural response awarded 'Project of the Year' through SC Section of ASCE in 2019
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers9 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 indicators3 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights2 records

Broad incumbents

• Arcadis: Global design, engineering, and consulting firm where JLA's new Director of Architecture (Kris Phillips) previously held VP roles. Competes in Southeast for government, industrial, and education work but operates globally with materially larger project delivery capacity.
• Stantec: Global A/E and environmental services firm with significant Southeast operations. Competes across virtually all of JLA's verticals (government, education, healthcare, industrial) but at much larger project scale and with cross-discipline capabilities JLA cannot match.
• Moffatt & Nichol: Larger global engineering and infrastructure consulting firm with a strong Southeast presence. Competes with JLA on civil/structural engineering for industrial and municipal waterfront/infrastructure projects but operates at significantly greater scale and project complexity.
• Kimley-Horn: Top-tier national planning and engineering consulting firm. Active in the Southeast across municipal, transportation, land development, and environmental work, often winning RFPs that smaller regional firms like JLA also pursue, with materially deeper resources.
• Woolpert: National architecture, engineering, and geospatial firm with Southeast offices. Overlaps with JLA in government, education, and infrastructure design but offers broader national footprint, federal contracting capacity, and proprietary geospatial capabilities.

Direct peers

• LS3P: Southeast-based architecture, interiors, and planning firm with offices across the Carolinas, Georgia, and Tennessee. Competes for the same education, healthcare, government, and commercial design work and shares JLA's integrated design model and regional growth profile.
• Davis & Floyd: South Carolina-based engineering, architecture, and surveying firm with a 60+ year history serving municipal, industrial, and commercial clients across the Carolinas. Highly comparable regional A/E peer with overlapping service mix and similar project types.
• Thomas & Hutton: Multi-discipline engineering, planning, and landscape architecture firm headquartered in Savannah, GA with offices across the Southeast. Directly comparable regional A/E competitor with similar municipal, industrial, and commercial client mix and overlapping service lines including civil, structural, and landscape architecture.
• Goodwyn Mills Cawood (GMC): Southeast regional A/E firm providing architecture, engineering, planning, and environmental services to municipal, education, and commercial clients. Closely comparable in scale, geography, and service breadth to JLA.
• CPL (Clark Patterson Lee): Mid-size A/E firm with strong Southeast and Mid-Atlantic presence, providing architecture, civil/structural engineering, and surveying for government, education, and healthcare clients. Direct regional competitor of similar scale to JLA.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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