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Jane ran her own urban residential firm for over fifteen years. Prior to that, she specialized in historic preservation and adaptive reuse at Jan Hird Pokorny Associates. Her extensive experience is in building restoration, new construction, code compliance and working with NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission.
She has worked on a variety of building types including churches, museums and townhouses preparing construction documents, technical specifications, master plans, historic structure reports and conditions surveys. She was project architect for restoration of the Brooklyn Historical Society and the 79th Street Maintenance Facility in Central Park.
Jane was recently selected by the Department of Buildings to serve as a member of the 2019 NYCECC Residential Advisory Committee to review and provide recommendations on proposed amendments to the energy code.
She has completed training and certification in Passive House, a methodology for producing extremely energy efficient buildings with superior indoor air quality. She has recently completed three Passive House retrofit projects in Brooklyn. She lives in a Passive House in Park Slope, Brooklyn.
New York, New York
Broolyn, New York
New York, New York
Bachelor of Architecture
Bachelor of Fine Arts
Providence, Rhode Island
Courses in Urban Studies and Anthropology
Providence, Rhode Island
New York
New York Chapter, Historic Buildings Committee (HBC)
New York Chapter, Committee on the Environment (COTE)
Brooklyn Chapter, Custom Residential Architects Network (CRAN)
Technical Committee on Sustainable Preservation subcommittee (TCSP)
Association for Preservation Technology Northeast (APTNE) Member
Residential Advisory Committee Member
James, Mary. New York: Routledge, 2016. Bergen Street Passive House was featured in chapter 17.
James, Mary. Low Carbon Productions, 2017. Bergen Street, State Street, and Windsor Terrace Passive houses are featured on page 98.
James, Mary. Low Carbon Productions, 2015. Bergen Street Passive House is featured on page 42.