Professional Engineering Associates Inc. is a landscape architecture and multidisciplinary consulting firm with over 70 employees. PEA has been serving southeastern Michigan since 1947 and has completed landscape architecture projects in 11 states. It specializes in habitat restoration, regional trail planning, therapeutic gardens and senior living facilities. In 2009, PEA was honored as "Firm of the Year" by the Michigan chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects.

Courtyard Garden, McLaren Proton Therapy Center, Flint, Mich.
PEA was awarded the 2014 Michigan chapter ASLA Honor Award for designing a courtyard garden at a Cancer Treatment Center. The garden is an amenity that provides a positive distraction to patients waiting for proton therapy. PEA designed this project using a metaphor of a healing journey to draw people into the space and capture their full attention.

Warren Tech CenterTechnical Center Walking Path, Warren, Mich.
This project was awarded a 2014 Michigan chapter ASLA Honor Award for sustainable design. PEA developed an innovative solution to eliminate an unused mile-long concrete test track. It was not cost effective to remove the pavement. So the pavement was pulverized, unused soil from nearby projects was trucked in and the track was buried. In the process, 17 acres of natural open space with a walking path was created on land that was once a wasteland of concrete.

 

Garden of Healing and Renewal, Clarkston, Mich.
PEA was honored with the 2009 Michigan chapter ASLA Design Award for this project. PEA designed this four-acre healing garden that is considered extremely innovative because it also serves as a public park. The garden consists of numerous therapeutic amenities, including a labyrinth, sensory gardens, quiet woodland gardens, social gathering areas, a half-mile of walking paths and fountains.

Marathon Gardens and Fort Street Bridge Park, Detroit, Mich.
PEA designed a 100-acre green buffer and a new park for the city of Detroit. The project involved removing over 200 dilapidated houses in order to re-claim the land that was later used as a green buffer zone between industries and the Rouge River. The master plan for the buffer zone included a combination of natural habitat, new development and park and recreation uses. A private-public partnership was also involved in the development of a new park near the Fort Bridge site that celebrates the history of the bridge and the Rouge River.

Visitor Entrance, Milford Proving Ground, Milford, Mich.
PEA was honored with a 2014 Michigan chapter ASLA Design Award for this project. PEA completed a sustainable design project and transformed a mundane landscape of mowed lawns and irrigation systems into bold lineal patterns of planting beds, bisected by a curved pathway and wall. The revamped entrance projects a sense of imagery of motion, in relation to the test tracks at the site.

Visitor Entrance, Detroit Hamtramck Assembly Plant, Hamtramck, Mich.
PEA received a 2011 Michigan chapter ASLA Design Award for this project. PEA's design renovated a visitor entrance for a large automotive assembly plant. The existing cold, rigid concrete plaza was given a more natural feeling, and strong visual themes that reflected the Chevy Volt brand that is assembled at this facility were incorporated into the project.

City of Brighton, Mill Pond, Brighton, Mich.
PEA designed a new city streetscape and public plaza for the city of Brighton, called the Mill Pond. The concept creates a multiuse amphitheater and a plaza that gives users a warm and inviting feeling. It can also accommodate special events of varying audience sizes.

Building 30 Nature Garden, Milford, Mich.
PEA designed a garden at the Milford Proving Ground that includes walking paths, seating areas and an impressive display of Michigan native plants. The garden replaced an obsolete building to provide an outdoor break area for the professional campus. The end result was a sustainable garden that provides new habitat for the endangered Karner Blue Butterfly. It is also popular amenity for employees on the campus.