TEAM PROFILES
Plenary Americas
Lead Equity Member
Plenary Americas is a leading long-term investor, developer, and manager of public and private infrastructure, specializing in public-private partnerships, local development, and asset management. Our holistic approach to projects embraces project financing, planning, design and construction, complementary commercial development, and ongoing operations and maintenance.
Our reputation is built on having delivered diverse and challenging privately financed public
infrastructure projects and we pride ourselves on delivering innovative, first-class infrastructure on time and on budget. With 60 projects throughout the United States and expertise across all aspects of an infrastructure project, Plenary Americas delivers holistic solutions providing Clients with timeline, budget, and performance certainty over the long term.
Our mission is to deliver high-performing infrastructure that empowers people, supports communities, and promotes a just and sustainable future. We believe that, as a business, we need to be environmentally, socially, and corporately responsible. Our goal is to deliver and operate our projects in a manner that reduces environmental impacts, reflects the values of their owners and users, and positively contributes to the local community.
Phoenix Infrastructure
Equity Member
Founded in 2015, Phoenix Infrastructure Group is a minority-owned and certified firm focused on impactful equity investments in critical infrastructure projects. We provide not just an attractive risk-adjusted return to our investment partners, but also look to positively impact the communities in which we invest. Headquartered in the DC/Maryland region, we actively pursue infrastructure investment opportunities across North America, with an emphasis on the United States and the Caribbean. In all of our projects within various infrastructure asset classes, prioritizing local contracting, fostering the growth of minority and women-owned businesses, and promoting community engagement, stand as fundamental pillars embodying our values as both a developer and investor.
EllisDon Capital
Equity Member
EllisDon Capital Inc. is one of North America’s most successful and experienced infrastructure developers and investors. A wholly owned subsidiary of EllisDon Inc. and part of the EllisDon Group of Companies, ED Capital provides development, investing, financial advisory, and asset management services for public infrastructure and private assets.
Since 2003, ED Capital has developed, managed and delivered more large, complex infrastructure projects than any other developer in North America. It now has 56 in its portfolio, representing an aggregate capital cost of more than US$19 billion and over US$5 billion in assets under management.
ED Capital’s unique offering, within EllisDon Group of Companies’ broader construction and facilities services lines of business, guarantees clients a sophisticated and executable plan for the development and delivery of their assets. ED Capital draws on the knowledge base of its colleagues across Canada, in its Texas office and internationally – experts in the fields of design-build, sustainability, energy efficiency, building technology, and facilities management and lifecycle to strengthen its overall project offering.
MCN Build
Lead General Contractor
MCN Build, Inc. (MCN) is an award-winning K-12 construction firm headquartered in Washington, DC, with a Baltimore office and affiliate county-based business, MCN Build Mid-Atlantic, located in Riverdale, MD. The firm brings extensive design-build experience on large, complex K-12 projects and strong local ties to the subcontractor and public communities in Prince George's County and the surrounding areas. MCN has a successful history of working with clients, design partners, and the community to deliver cutting-edge educational facilities.
JL Terrell Construction
Lead Contractor Protégé
J L Terrell is a minority-owned general contracting firm. With a combined 50+ years of experience and wide-ranging certifications in DC, Maryland, and Virginia, we guarantee superior construction and facility management services. Thanks to an extensive understanding of the communities we serve and industry-leading efficiency, customer service, communication, and sustainability practices, we have earned a reputation as one of our area's most reliable companies among government and private partners. Within our portfolio of completed projects, we showcase our dedication to enhancing the infrastructure and aesthetics of the region. Through active participation in community events and strategic marketing efforts, J.L. Terrell Construction has established itself as a trusted and influential player, contributing to the growth and development of Prince George's County and surrounding areas.
Perkins Eastman Architects
Lead Architect
Perkins Eastman has been a leader in innovative school planning and design since its founding in 1981. We have spent four decades helping schools and school districts think strategically about their campuses, buildings, and facilities. We create innovative educational spaces that shape the way students identify, absorb, and retain knowledge while promoting health and wellness, and community resilience. Perkins Eastman’s education group is led by facility planning and design specialists who are genuinely interested in the success of today’s schools and youth. We understand how the built environment impacts teaching and learning and the role it plays in the education of the whole child.
School buildings should welcome students and staff with open arms and positively contribute to their educational, physical and social-emotional growth. Prioritizing the needs of students, teachers, and administrators while being fiscally responsible is central to our approach.
In addition to our industry-leading original research which has enable us to stay in the vanguard of national and international best practices, we have also completed over 750 million square feet of educational facilities. We know that no two school or district-wide projects are the same, and that every project is an opportunity to challenge ourselves to plan for or create relevant and inspiring learning environments for students and teachers and their communities.
Our passion is to improve school facilities for educational clients, both domestic and international, through the incorporation of each institution’s unique core values, goals, and mission. Working closely with constituents, we make sure that curriculum and program drive solutions. With our planning work, we have proven that we know how to take a pragmatic approach to create an achievable and implementable strategy.
Prioritizing the Needs of Students
Our primary and secondary education practice has been creating beautiful and innovative educational spaces that shape the way students discern, absorb, and retain knowledge for more than four decades. Our education specialists are invested in the success of today’s schools and possess the knowledge and experience necessary to design functional, inspiring, sustainable and joyful places to learn for students of all ages and abilities. Prioritizing the needs of students, teachers, and administrators is central to our approach. We are excited to have the opportunity to create sustainable, healthy, high performance learning environments for the families and communities served by the Prince George’s County Public Schools that will be specifically tailored for this exciting program, and to leverage our research-inspired design process to help each student realize their full potential to become a creative, healthy, life-long learner!
R. McGhee & Associates Architects
Associate Architect
R. McGhee & Associates (RMc) is a minority owned architectural firm with offices in Washington, DC and Prince George’s county. RMc has filed for the County Located Business certification. We provide a full range of architectural, historic preservation, and urban design services. RMc’s portfolio includes residential, commercial, educational (K-12) and institutional facilities. We take particular pride in our experience and success with the analysis, alteration, restoration, and adaptive reuse of existing buildings. RMc has concentrated on developing specialized techniques to bring unique and difficult projects to fruition; including skills in building consensus and support with neighborhoods, community groups, and regulatory bodies to achieve client goals.
RMc has worked closely with both DC, MD and VA as well as federal agencies including the National Park Service, Commission of Fine Arts, the National Capital Planning Commission, State Historic Preservation Office, as well as local agencies, preservation organizations, and public interest and community groups on a variety of successful master plans and building design projects. RMc utilizes over 25 years of experience working with local and federal agencies on new construction and historic properties to deliver projects on-time and on-budget.
As a local African American boutique firm, RMc has developed a culture that responds to personalized client service, innovative solutions and on time project delivery. Success on every project is based on three things: people, communication, and processes.
EllisDon Facilities Services
Services Provider Member
In 2004, EllisDon (one of Canada's largest construction services companies) established EDFS as its in-house facilities management (FM) division that would carry out both long and short-term FM scopes covering a variety of market sectors including healthcare, education, justice and transportation. EDFS has been delivering full FM services for two of the earliest P3 projects in North America for nearly 20 years; providing valuable insight into the performance of these assets under the DBFM contract model.
EDFS specializes in facilities and infrastructure operations and maintenance, providing hard (mechanical & electrical) and soft (food, housekeeping, landscaping, etc.) services. EDFS has grown significantly both in terms of experience and capabilities and provides services to a portfolio of 15 P3 projects, maintaining 15 million square feet of facilities with over 500 employees.
US Facilities
Services Provider Member
U.S. Facilities, Inc. (“USF”) provides site-based integrated facilities management, operations, maintenance, and consulting services for single buildings, campus settings, and transportation infrastructure across the nation. USF has over 50 years of proven experience providing comprehensive, safe, efficient, and effective facilities management and infrastructure support services, freeing up resources to focus on core activities. USF is a wholly-owned subsidiary of PRWT Services, Inc., and a certified Minority-Owned Business Enterprise.
Tina Boyd & Associates
Community Outreach
TB&A is a Washington, DC based boutique communications and strategic engagement company founded in 2005. TB&A is a woman-owned, minority business enterprise whose focus is on infrastructure projects in the Washington, DC Metropolitan Area. TB&A provides community outreach, public relations, events management, inter and intra-agency coordination, business opportunity outreach and compliance. TB&A’s outreach and engagement process includes community education and proactive communication utilizing a variety of outreach methods such as virtual engagements, public meetings, social media campaigns, door to door grassroots marketing, website development and maintenance, interactive mapping, video production, digital marketing, local media placement, automated calls, electronic distribution, etc.
TB&A has provided community engagement support on the Clean Water Partnership (CWP), a Public-Private Partnership (P3) with Prince George’s County and Corvias Infrastructure Solutions. The CWP is the first of its kind to design, build, finance, operate and maintain urban stormwater infrastructure to meet the County’s Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System (MS4) permit requirements. TB&A has managed the Prince George’s County Public Schools stormwater educational component of outreach and engagement from its inception, conducting both virtual, in-person and hybrid community meetings, selecting the appropriate data collection tools, designing project collateral that range from meeting announcements, presentations, articles for community newsletters, educational videos and interactive activities and special events.
Our team of professional creatives are industry leaders in cultivating and maintaining favorable, ongoing communication throughout the life cycle of a project. The TB&A team consists of community outreach specialists, facilitators, graphic artists, writers, website designers, creative director/branding experts, photographers, videographers, communication, and social media experts, therefore providing a “ONE STOP SHOPPING” FULL-SERVICE COMMUNITY OUTREACH AND COMMUNICATION OFFERING.
