Jeffrey L. Bruce & Company Firm Profile

In 1986, Jeffrey Bruce founded Jeffrey L. Bruce & Company (JBC). From the start of the firm’s operations, Mr. Bruce has insisted on maintaining direct involvement with both clients and project team members. While directing the firm’s overall growth and development, he has maintained active involvement in every area of service offered by the firm. JBC’s initial projects during the 1980’s earned the firm a solid reputation in comprehensive master planning, site design, landscape architecture, recreation planning, and urban design. Projects included the awarding winning landscape development of the Kansas City International Airport and multiple commissions with the University of Missouri/Columbia campus.


By the early 1990’s, the firm began to take on larger and more complex projects and was considered one of the region’s leading firms in campus design, irrigation engineering, sports turf design and urban soils. Work in recent years has included the design of athletic field and sports turf for many major sports facilities. Many of the JBC projects have been recognized for design excellence. These include the Kearney Artist Studio for Hallmark Cards Inc., the Okavango Elephant Sanctuary at the Kansas City Zoo, the Overland Park Arboretum, and the Iowa World War II Memorial located on the grounds of the Iowa State Capitol in Des Moines.


Today JBC is a national landscape architectural firm providing highly specialized technical support to many of the nation’s leading Landscape Architectural and Architectural firms on a wide variety of project profiles including engineered soils, urban agronomy, green roof technology, performance sports turf, maintenance programming and irrigation engineering. The firm has received over 60 separate design and leadership awards for innovation and creativity. Award winning projects of Jeffrey L. Bruce & Company, have been published over 85 times. JBC has received two recent Awards of Excellence from Green Roofs for Healthy Cities (GRHC) in 2004 for the Soldiers Field at North Burnham Park Redevelopment in Chicago and in 2005 for the world’s largest green roof Millennium Park in Chicago.