Professional Design Associates LLC (PDA), co-founded by architects Edward Delapaz and Wayne J. Guskind, aims to deliver high-performance, sustainable building design services across residential, commercial, industrial, and government sectors. The company has extensive public sector experience and focuses on collaborative and integrated approaches to achieve clients' visions, encompassing a wide range of projects including restorations, new constructions, and green design initiatives. PDA operates as a minority-owned business and regularly collaborates with independent staff and engineers to enhance project outcomes.

1. Professional Design Associates LLC Company Mission Statement Friday, January 1, 2010
Mission Statement
Organization Achieve high performance in building design. Provide integrated and
collaborative sustainable design services inclusive of independent
Edward DeLaPaz AIA, ncarb, engineering disciplines. To realize our clients’ vision.
LEED AP
1. PDA Organization
Public Sector PDA is a SBE/MBE that is currently 100% minority owned. PDA is
co-founded by two Architects, Edward DeLaPaz and Wayne J.
Experience Guskind who have collaborated either in employ of others, as a sub-
consultant to either, and for other prime contracts in private practice.
Federal-GSA/IBB This is illustrated in our resumes and project summaries. The
State-NJ DDC experience denoted is collaborative. The company was formed when
Edward DeLaPaz became a displaced worker due to current
City-NYC economic crisis and the lack of work in the industry. In this past year,
since founding the company, the trend of collaborative work has
Construction Types continued and the two Architects have collaborated on several
projects, including residences and commercial rehabilitation projects.
New As such, PDA regularly contracts additional independent staff support
and engineers for projects undertaken.
Restoration & Rehabilitation
Planning PDA is a small group of affiliated professional associates that offer a
breadth of experience from large and small top
Sustainable Design Architectural/Engineering firms alike whose exposure in innovative
technologies is unrivaled. Services are in all markets including
LEED AP residential, commercial, industrial and government sector work.
Expertise in mission critical facilities has fostered an in bred
Leadership in Energy & familiarity with application of sustainable design or green
Environmental Design technologies and PDA offers that service in striving to achieve high
performance in building design.
IBB Botswana Indigenous Building Design Jersey City Historic Preservation
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2. Professional Design Associates LLC Company Mission Statement Friday, January 1, 2010
New York City – Channel 16 Fire Police integrated communications system
A. Public Sector Project Experience
Public sector experience is quite comprehensive and includes following projects;
a. GSA (Federal) – 2 former 5 year term contracts performed for the Newark GSA office that included
numerous facility rehabilitations, analysis and assessment of existing facilities, corrective works and
rework of existing space. Additional work included façade and roof restorations.
b. IBB (Federal) – 2 former 5 year IDIQ contracts that included domestic and overseas projects. The
range of work included rehabilitations as well as new construction. On overseas work, the project
required sustainable design and mission critical facility work. These facilities, in many instances were
stand-alone operations with self-supported utility.
c. DDC (NJ State) – Former 5 year IDIQ contracts performing facility restoration work on state owned
facilities in Trenton and numerous facilities including vehicle maintenance garage and offices for state
trooper administrative offices.
d. NYC (DOITT) – Work performed for City’s Information and Technology department for development
of channel 16 (Cooperative Fire and Police emergency radio band) for the City of New York. This
work was performed for Motorola in support of their contract with NYC.
e. Housing (State) – Former projects completed in employ of others for numerous housing authorities
across the state including Paterson with work completed in the early 90’s.
f. Municipal – Numerous independent work performed by both Architects in the employ of others.
Additionally, Edward DeLaPaz was Senior Principal Architect in the employ of the Jersey City Bureau
of Architecture for over seven years where rehabilitation, restoration and new construction was
undertaken for numerous City facilities including administrative offices, police and fire stations,
institutional departments, parks and public spaces. A great deal of this work involved neighborhood
planning and community level interaction.
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3. Professional Design Associates LLC Company Mission Statement Friday, January 1, 2010
B. Experience
a. New Construction
Experience includes residential, commercial, industrial and government sector work. The range of
building types includes single-family residences from two to fifteen thousand SF and multi story
buildings from 20 – 100K SF.
b. Restoration & Rehabilitation
Experience includes residential, commercial, industrial and government sector work. As example,
restoration includes older turn of the century classical architecture requiring re-roofing in historic
preservation and public spaces such as park gazebos requiring authentic clay tile roof works and
hard wood carpentry. Rehabilitation consisted of preservation or restoration of shell spaces and
re-working of spaces either for existing or new use. The rehabilitation would modernize amenities,
utilities and provide for a responsive program space use.
c. Planning-neighborhood and/or community
As noted above in municipal public sector work, there were numerous projects, generally involving
parks, recreation facilities and public spaces where neighborhood planning and community grass root
support was required. Additionally, in private work, presentations in support of variances have been
conducted. In addition, in communications work including data centers and broadcast transmitting
(Cell/TV/Radio) facilities the variance work would require community outreach to garner local support
and gain approvals of certain developments. Often,
Variance work or Local presentations would include expert witness testimony and/or attorney
assistance.
C. Green (Sustainable Design)
Much of the overseas government sector work, communications facilities, mission critical facility
design and fire/police stations require sustainable design features. The breadth of experience in this
work is quite extensive and has been employed for over twenty years. Currently, Edward DeLaPaz is
a LEED AP (Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design – Accredited Professional) and as such is
recognized as a professional versed in the process of certifying a project and having a
comprehensive knowledge of sustainable design.
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