About JJC Inc.
For 48+ years, John J. Chando Jr. has brought the discipline of large-scale engineering for the nuclear industry to the design and construction of custom homes on the New Jersey Shore.
1978
Year founded by John J. Chando Jr.
48+yrs
Designing & building on the Jersey Shore
1,000+
Custom homes, remodels, and additions completed
10×
Listed in Qualified Remodeler's US Top 500
The founder
John J. Chando Jr. is a mechanical engineer by trade. Before he ever broke ground on a custom home, he spent a career on some of the most precise engineering work in the country — nuclear submarines, nuclear power plants, and high-integrity containers (HIC) for the safe handling and transport of critical materials. Decades of work where the engineering, the materials, and the craft all have to be exactly right, every time, for as long as the asset is in service.
He carried that practice into TFC Nuclear, the company he founded to engineer and manufacture HIC structural systems for some of the most tightly regulated industries in the country. The business has since been acquired, but the engineering discipline that built it — load calculations, materials science, quality control, traceable documentation — is the same discipline still applied to every JJC home.
In 1978, he brought that practice to the Jersey Shore and founded John J. Chando Jr. Inc. — pairing his engineering leadership with a team of registered architects and LEED-credentialed designers, all under one roof. 48 years and more than a thousand homes later, JJC is still owner-led, still based in Normandy Beach, and still delivers both halves of the equation most coastal builders can't: architectural craft from a real design team, structural rigor from a working engineer.
What that means for you
01 — Engineering rigor
Most custom homes on the shore are designed by drafters and built by carpenters. Ours are designed by engineers. Every load path, foundation detail, and structural connection is calculated against coastal wind, flood, and seismic loads — not just sketched to code minimum. That's the difference between a home built to pass inspection and one built to outlast the next storm.
02 — Systems thinking
Architecture, structure, MEP, envelope, finishes — they all interact. Decades managing complex industrial projects taught John to think in systems. We design every project so the trades don't fight each other on site, the schedule doesn't slip waiting on a missing detail, and the finished house performs the way the drawings promised it would.
03 — Quality control
In high-integrity industrial work, the tolerance for a missed defect is zero. That same standard travels with us into every home we build — daily site walks, written quality checklists, and a project manager with the authority to stop work for any defect. Punch lists are short because problems get caught the day they happen, not at the final walkthrough.
04 — Generational accountability
John's name is on the company. His phone number is on the contract. Forty-eight years building in the same towns means our reputation is the only marketing that matters — and it's the reason we still get calls from clients' children and grandchildren when they're ready to build their own home.
The team
JJC Inc. is the architect, engineer, and general contractor on every project. By keeping architectural design, structural engineering, general contracting, estimating, and project management together under one roof, decisions stay coordinated, drawings match the build, and the team you meet at the first consultation is the team that finishes the job.
Founder & Principal
Mechanical engineer with a career spanning nuclear submarines, nuclear power plants, and high-integrity containers (HIC). Founder of JJC Inc. (1978) and TFC Nuclear (since acquired). Leads the engineering side of every JJC project and partners with the in-house architectural team to deliver each home.
RA, PP — Registered Architect, Professional Planner
Architectural design and zoning approval lead. Pulls together site planning, design, and the regulatory work to get projects from concept to permit.
LEED® AP BD+C
Building design + construction. Coordinates the technical detailing that makes high-performance homes actually perform in the field.
Start a conversation
John takes every initial consultation himself. No sales team, no hand-offs — just a direct conversation about what you want to build and how to make it happen on the shore.