Johnson, Laschober & Associates (JLA) is a planning and design firm offering building and interior design, comprehensive engineering and landscape architecture services with over 40 years of experience in engineering, landscape architecture, building and interior design for clients in Augusta, Georgia and Charleston, South Carolina and beyond

JLA has provided landscape design services for commercial, recreational, institutional, educational, religious, industrial and healthcare facilities across Georgia and South Carolina. Johnson, Laschober & Associates utilizes the resources of the landscape architecture and civil engineering departments in a team approach for creative and cost-effective land planning. Our landscape architects have designed around complex environments, such as wetlands, and have the knowledge and experience to obtain the proper permitting necessary to design around said complex environments.

Georgia DOT Prequalified Consultant for Area Classes

JLA is a Georgia DOT prequalified consultant for our Augusta area clients. We are authorized and prequalified in the following area classes:

  • 01 Two-Lane or Multi-Lane Rural Generally Free Access Highway Design
  • 08 Landscape Architecture
  • 11 Architecture
  • 13 Facilities for Bicycles and Pedestrians
  • 15 Highway Lighting

JLA is committed to providing quality design for new as as well as site improvements to clients in the Augusta and Charleston area. Our landscape architects have expertise in multiple areas that include:

  • Site Master Planning
  • Site feasibility studies
  • Site design
  • Landscape design
  • Sustainable design
  • Natural water quality enhancement
  • Bio-engineering
  • Streetscapes
  • Urban Renewal
  • Landscape preservation
  • Landscape restoration/reclamation design
  • Irrigation

Landscape Architecture Permitting

JLA’s approach to permitting involves balancing the needs of the client and their contractors with the requirements of the municipality or facility owner for each project in the Augusta and Charleston area.

  • Local site ordinance permitting
  • Army Corps of Engineers permitting
  • South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (SC DHEC) permit
  • Georgia Department of Natural Resources (DNR)
  • North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality (NCDEQ)
  • National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System or NPDES permit
  • ADA code analysis