APECx

APECx is a certified and licensed architectural  and design consulting firm located in Granite, MD and was founded in 2019. APECx specializes in architectural competitions, peer design and code review, general architectural services, graphic design, 3D modeling, NFTs , game design, educational toys, and product development.

Why choose APECx?

 APECx is anchored by a Maryland-registered Principal Architect and Owner with over 20 years of continuous technical design leadership, extensive code compliance execution, and dedicated institutional plan examination experience. APECx bridges experience in both premier private-sector design and rigorous federal regulatory enforcement:

• Federal Regulatory Experience: Over 6 years of comprehensive building permit document reviews and enforcing strict compliance with the International Building Code (IBC), ADA Accessibility Guidelines, and Life Safety codes across multi-million dollar federal biomedical and laboratory facilities.
• Private Sector & Local Track Record: +14 years as a Design and Project Architect at Whitman, Requardt and Associates (WR&A). Led complex commercial, institutional, and municipal architectural projects throughout Maryland. This role involved managing interdisciplinary quality control (QC) across structural, MEP, and civil engineering sets, navigating local building code interpretations, and coordinating directly with municipal permit approval offices.

This dual background—combining hands-on local design coordination with high-level federal permit examination—directly aligns with the comprehensive technical oversight required of our clients. 

Awards & Recognition

Architectural competitions can have one of three objectives: To select a design and an architect; To select an architect; To provide awards for design ideas and/or research. Competitions help architects to think outside the constraints of the typical architecture practice and aid to garner new interest in the firm.  Awards & Recognitions APECx has received to date include the 2019 AIA Baltimore and BAF Spring Lecture Series Design Competition: Edge Harbor and City for the Knolly project as well as published work in the internationally published architectural journal T3xture. Additional industry impacts include exhibits in the Baltimore Visitor’s Center Architecture Month Exhibit, AIA Baltimore Chapter House's Doors Open Baltimore Exhibit, and  published works including "The Biggest Secrets of the Design & Construction Industry Revealed." Recently, APECx was featured in CONNECTION's 2021 Q1 Vol. 19 Issue I. CONNECTION is the architecture and design journal of AIA's Young Architects Forum.