Boca Raton builds outdoors to a high standard, and the structures that last here are the ones engineered for the exposure rather than ordered from a catalogue. Jupiter Pergola designs, engineers, permits, builds and wires motorized louvered pergolas across Boca Raton under Florida licences CGC1530171 and EC13012123.
What we build in Boca Raton
Motorized louvered pergolas are most of what we do: an aluminum roof of rotating louvers that opens for breeze and light and closes when the weather turns, driven by a motor rather than a hand crank. Alongside those we build fixed-louver and open aluminum pergolas, pool cabanas, outdoor kitchens, motorized retractable screens and frameless sliding glass enclosures.
Everything is aluminum. Not because it is cheaper — it is not always — but because rust is iron oxide and aluminum has no iron in it, which matters more here than it does forty miles inland.
Permitting and review
Boca Raton runs its own building department, so a project inside city limits permits through the city rather than through Palm Beach County. Addresses west of the city line sit in unincorporated Palm Beach County and go to County Planning, Zoning & Building instead — two different authorities with two different reviews, and which one you fall under is decided by the address, not the mailing city. We confirm it before anything is drawn. Many Boca communities also run an architectural review board, and where one exists we sequence its approval ahead of the engineering, because moving a structure after a set is sealed means paying for the engineering twice.
What your structure is engineered to
The code basis does not change from one address to the next. Only the numbers that go into it do.
- Code: Florida Building Code, 8th Edition (2023), ASD design method to ASCE 7-16 or ASCE 7-22
- Wind exposure: Category C
- Risk category: II
- Ultimate wind speed: our system carries a general structural evaluation up to 170 mph; your address gets its own sealed engineering
Palm Beach County is not in the High Velocity Hurricane Zone — that designation covers Miami-Dade and Broward only. It does not mean the requirements here are casual. Wind-borne debris provisions and full engineering still apply, and we design to them. A general evaluation from a manufacturer does not clear a permit; sealed engineering for your address does.
What it does in the rain
On rain, the honest answer rather than the sales one: no motorized louvered roof system is one hundred per cent waterproof. Ours, with overlapping louvers closing onto integrated gaskets and a built-in gutter and downspout system carrying water away through the posts, is the most watertight motorized louvered roof available — and in everyday rain the space stays dry. In the heaviest downpours or wind-driven rain you may see misting, splashing or the occasional drip, and keeping the gutters and downspouts clear is most of what prevents it. We show every client where to look.
If you want the space genuinely sealed, a solid patio roof or a sliding glass enclosure on the weather side is the honest answer, and we build both.
One company, both licences
A pergola carrying a motorized roof, lighting, fans or heaters is structural work and electrical work at the same time. We hold a Florida general contractor licence, CGC1530171, and a Florida electrical contractor licence, EC13012123, so the structure, the circuits, the permits and the inspections all come from one company. When those split across two trades, the gap between them is where the problems live.
Free on-site consultation
We come to the property, measure it, and tell you what will actually work there — including when the answer is smaller or simpler than you had in mind. Call (561) 826-9200 or request a consultation.
Nearby
- Pergolas across Palm Beach County
- Motorized louvered pergolas — how the roof works
- Project gallery — structures we have built across South Florida
- Pergola FAQ — cost, permits, wind ratings and rain