Pergolas in Jensen Beach, FL

Jensen Beach runs from the Indian River waterfront through the neighborhoods off Jensen Beach Boulevard and NE Savannah Road, with Hutchinson Island just over the causeway. It is one of the breezier, saltier places we build — which is exactly the condition our aluminum structures are made for. Jupiter Pergola designs and installs custom motorized louvered pergolas, cabanas, and glass enclosures that turn Jensen Beach patios and pool decks into comfortable, all-season outdoor rooms.

Your Local Pergola Company Serving Jensen Beach

We are based in Jupiter and work the Treasure Coast every week. Jensen Beach projects get the same start-to-finish handling as the ones in our own neighborhood: design, engineering, permitting, and installation to Martin County code, built for salt air and coastal wind.

What We Build

We build motorized louvered pergolas, retractable shades, aluminum pergolas, pool cabanas, outdoor kitchen covers, and frameless sliding glass enclosures — all custom-designed and professionally installed.

Jensen Beach is part of our Martin County service area. Contact us to get started.

Permitting in Jensen Beach — everything runs through Martin County

Jensen Beach is an unincorporated community, not a city. There is no Jensen Beach building department to apply to. Every Jensen Beach permit goes through Martin County — the application, the review, and the inspections.

That includes the Hutchinson Island addresses with Jensen Beach mailing addresses that fall in Martin County. Barrier-island lots are the most exposed wind condition we design for, and a structure out there is engineered to its actual site, not to a mainland average. Structures with lighting, heat, or a motorized roof need an electrical permit as well as the building permit; we hold both licenses and pull both.

One clarification worth having early: Palm Beach, Martin and St. Lucie counties are 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.

What your structure is engineered to

Every set we file with Martin County for a Jensen Beach address is engineered to the following:

• Code: Florida Building Code, 8th Edition (2023), using 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 site-specific number
• Resultant design loads: +25 psf gravity, −15 psf uplift, 33 psf lateral
• Roof loading: 5 psf dead, 20 psf live

What Martin County will actually accept

The county will not issue against a manufacturer’s general structural evaluation alone. A Jensen Beach permit needs a site-specific plan signed and sealed by a Florida professional engineer for your parcel — footing or slab, attachment condition, exposure — and that sealed set covers exactly one permit.

This is where quotes diverge without looking like they do. Two prices for “the same pergola” can be a permitted engineered structure and an unpermitted kit, and the paperwork is the only place you can see the difference before the inspector does.

Licensed to do the whole job

Jupiter Pergola, Inc. — Florida Certified General Contractor CGC1530171 and Certified Electrical Contractor EC13012123. We pull our own building and electrical permits.

Jensen Beach is part of our Martin County service area, alongside Stuart, Palm City, and Hobe Sound. Contact us to get started.