Jaros, Baum & Bolles has spent 105 years as a leading mechanical, electrical and plumbing design firm adapting to ever-changing dynamics in the New York City regional market and beyond. But its next generation of business will feature much more of that.
The JB&B team over the past decade has expanded from its core as a project-focused MEP consultant based in Manhattan to embrace a far more substantial advisory role, one that adapts to client needs with innovative solutions. The three managing partners who now lead the firm—Scott Frank, Walter Mehl Jr. and Mark Torre—see two main arenas where its expertise will be in greatest demand: sustainable design and technology innovation. “Sometimes we don’t get to write the script of who we want to be,” Mehl says. “If for the first 100 years we were primarily an MEP design firm, in the second hundred years we’re going to be more of a services firm, offering a whole host of other services that round out what our clients need.”