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2024 revenue: $7.64 million
Making life better: Jarvis Jointer founded the civil engineering firm JQOL in 2019 with a desire to improve the quality of life for the people his company works for and the people who work for his company. “I started off with a vision of, how do we do engineering differently?” he said. “How do we create a fun environment that includes integrity, quality and commitment?” From there, JQOL—which stands for Jointer Quality of Life—has grown to more than 60 employees at offices in Indianapolis, and in Owensboro and Louisville in Kentucky. The company also has expanded into Georgia and South Carolina.
Scope of work: JQOL’s core services include structural engineering; surveying; landscape architecture; and civil, site and construction inspection. Its projects include libraries, parks, schools, multifamily housing and commercial properties—“all these different things that increase the bottom line of our society and build communities,” Jointer said. “We get to literally change the landscape of our environment.”
Favorite project: Among JQOL’s proudest work is Frederick Douglass Park in the Martindale-Brightwood neighborhood, an $18 million project that features a two-level recreational facility with parking lot, landscaping and playground. JQOL handled the structural engineering. Jointer’s company also was the construction administrator for a $30 million, seven-mile stretch of Interstate 70 near Greenfield and was the structural and civil engineer for the $8 million Whitestown branch of the Hussey-Mayfield Memorial Public Library.
Get to know them: “A lot of people don’t know what we do,” Jointer said. “Civil engineers are the unsung heroes of society. As long as everything is going perfectly, we’re doing a great job. But as soon as things start happening—if a bridge falls or the water quality is not the highest—it’s, ‘Who’s the civil engineer behind that?’”
Youth movement: Jointer said JQOL is heavily invested in Marian University’s engineering program. The company offers a scholarship there for a minority student and is invested in The Minority Engineering Program of Indianapolis, where it gives two scholarships and offers internships. In addition to developing talent, JQOL principal Ed Garrison said the company will continue to do what it’s been doing. “We are focused on growth opportunity,” he said. “I don’t know exactly where that’s going to be yet, but we’ve got some feelers out, and it’ll be a continuous growth path for us.”•
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