JSA Mission Statement

JSA will continuously provide improving architectural, planning, engineering and interior design services that exceed our client’s and our own expectations and add lasting value to our client’s projects, our firm and the built environment.

JSA Vision Statement

JSA will grow, in targeted areas through the development of specific expertise in the fields of architecture, planning, engineering and interior design. In doing so, we will enrich our staff’s professional experience, exceed our clients’ expectations and increase profitability.

JSA Belief/Value Statements

We will encourage and promote the following values in our dealings with each other, our clients and our community as a whole.

Culture

• Create an environment where people are happy to come to work.
• Emphasize highest design standards as design permeates all aspects of our work.
• We will encourage our people to be entrepreneurs.
• Maintain our focus on client service - the “whatever it takes” attitude.
• We will encourage open and honest communication.
• Pragmatism versus perfection.
• Maintain a professional attitude.
• We want our people to develop professionally and personally.

Professionalism

We practice a learned vocation. As such, we are held to a high standard of behavior. We must perform our responsibilities with honesty and integrity. We must speak and act with commitment and dependability. We will respect ourselves and the work of others. We will display loyalty to our peers, our firm and our clients. We will take pride in our accomplishments and responsibility for all our actions.

Innovation & Creativity

What distinguishes our profession from others is the environment of creativity and innovation. We must seek to view every obstacle as an opportunity to propose insightful, imaginative and resourceful solutions. Innovation and creativity must not be seen only as aesthetic concerns, but as central to everything we do. We will do this with enthusiasm, energy and a passion for our work.

Continuous Learning

We must constantly seek to improve ourselves and our firm in order to continually provide the highest levels of service to our clients and to provide opportunities to enrich our people. We will encourage and support individual effort to learn new skills and techniques, to improve individual, team, and firm capabilities and to constantly grow as individuals and as a firm.

Quality of Life

We work here not because we have to but because we want to. We want to make a difference, to contribute to the creation of a better world through the application of our skills, experience and efforts. We seek meaningful satisfaction not only of the immediate requirements of clients and business, but the fulfillment of individual life goals. We expect recognition and respect of our efforts, contributions and sacrifices.

Client Satisfaction

Strive to exceed our clients’ expectations. Deliver what we promise. Measure our success against their expectations.

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