Carter Van Dyke Associates

What Carter Van Dyke Associates does

Carter Van Dyke Associates (CVDA) is a privately held landscape architecture and planning firm founded in 1988 (one source cites 1984) by Carter van Dyke and headquartered in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, with a second office in Naples, New York. The firm provides professional landscape architecture, community planning, and campus planning services delivered through project categories including academic campuses, residential estates, public gardens, parks, cemeteries, and community revitalization. Its core technology is a multidisciplinary "synergistic studio" approach combining landscape architecture with architecture, engineering, and planning disciplines, grounded in Ian McHarg's "steward of the biosphere" design philosophy with an emphasis on sustainable and therapeutic design.

CVDA operates as a project-based professional services consultancy, typically serving as prime consultant and assembling sub-consultants for civil engineering, geotechnical, and architectural disciplines as needed. Its client base spans government entities (municipalities, townships, national cemetery administrations), healthcare systems (Doylestown Hospital, Penn State Hershey, St. Mary Medical Center), real estate developers (The Hankin Group, Heritage Building Group, Stoltzfus Enterprises), corporates (Olympus America), and nonprofits (Wildlands Conservancy, Awbury Arboretum). Go-to-market is sales-led via client relationships, referrals, and public RFP responses, with the firm's website portfolio serving as the primary marketing channel. The firm is co-led by principals Carter van Dyke (RLA, ASLA) and Peter R. Fernandez (RLA, ASLA, CLARB), with a reported headcount of 1–10 employees and no disclosed external funding, parent entity, or M&A activity.

Name

Carter Van Dyke Associates

Legal name

Carter Van Dyke Associates

Website

https://cvda.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1988

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Carter Van Dyke Associates is a privately held landscape architecture and planning firm serving government, healthcare, real estate developers, and nonprofits with master planning, campus design, and streetscape projects across the U.S. Northeast.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Landscape Architecture & Planning Services

NAICS

Landscape Architectural Services (54132), Architectural, Engineering, and Related Services (5413)

SIC

Services-Engineering Services (8711)

akta.pro primary industry

Landscape Architecture & Site Design (BPAHAKAC)

akta.pro secondary industries

Urban Planning & Master Planning (BPAHAKAD), Landscape Construction Project Management & General Contracting (HSAIABAK)

Keywords

• Landscape architecture services
• Community planning design
• Master planning services
• Site planning design
• Streetscape design services

Headquarters

HQ city

Doylestown

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Others

Revenue model

1. Landscape Architecture and Design Services: Professional services revenue from providing landscape architecture and planning services including master planning, site design, streetscape design, and construction oversight. Projects range from residential gardens to large-scale master planned communities and institutional campuses.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

Carter Van Dyke Associates (CVDA) is a landscape architecture and planning firm that delivers professional design services across master planning, site design, streetscape design, campus planning, healthcare healing garden design, public park and trail planning, national cemetery design, and residential estate landscape design. The firm operates as prime consultant on most projects, partnering with sub-consultants in civil engineering, architecture, and geotechnical disciplines, and provides services from initial master planning through construction oversight for academic campuses, healthcare facilities, municipal clients, private developers, and high-end residential property owners primarily in the U.S. Northeast.

Product overview

CVDA is a landscape architecture and planning firm that operates as a single unified service offering rather than a platform-plus-modules architecture. Their core services consist of Landscape Architecture and Design, Community Planning, and Campus Planning, which are delivered through project categories including Campuses, Residential, Planning, Public Gardens, Parks, and Cemeteries. The firm works closely with various disciplines to create designs for academic campuses, healthcare and therapeutic facilities, public spaces, public gardens, large and small private gardens, corporate centers, economic revitalization, and sustainable economic design practices for communities.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Landscape Architecture and Design Core professional design service providing elegant and sustainable landscape designs that incorporate the latest research, applied to academic campuses, healthcare and therapeutic facilities, public spaces, public gardens, large and small private gardens, corporate centers, economic revitalization, and sustainable economic design practices.
• Community Planning Master planning, neighborhood design, streetscape design, and preservation services for communities seeking sustainable economic design practices, economic revitalization, walkability, and historic preservation outcomes.
• Campus Planning Specialized landscape architecture planning services for academic and institutional campuses, creating synergistic environments that support educational mission and student life.
• Cemetery and Memorial Design

Named customers13 records

Segments7 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

Eight partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• The Hankin GroupcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerLong-term development partner on multiple town center projects including River Station (Downingtown), Weatherstone Town Center (Chester County), and Dwell of Cherry Hill. CVDA provides landscape architecture and planning services for their mixed-use developments.
• John Milner ArchitectscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerArchitecture firm collaboration on Woodward Community Centre renovation in Chestnut Hill, PA. John Milner Architects led building renovation while CVDA designed exterior grounds.
• EwingColecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerArchitecture firm for Olympus America Headquarters project. CVDA provided master plan and site planning for North American headquarters in Upper Saucon Township, PA.
• Navarro & WrightminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerEngineering partner on Pike to Bike project - 11-mile abandoned PA turnpike multi-use trail master plan.
• Taylor Wiseman & TaylorminorImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerSite/Civil engineering sub-consultant for Westwood Cemetery master plan project in Carrboro, NC.
• TerraconminorImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerGeotechnical engineering sub-consultant for Westwood Cemetery project, performing deep hole test pits to determine bedrock depth for burial area planning.
• Raphael ArchitectsminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerArchitecture firm collaboration on Newtown Staycation residential project in Bucks County, PA. Project received AIA Small Projects Award 2022.
• Peter Zimmerman ArchitectscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerLong-term architecture partner on multiple projects including Newtown Square Estate and Bowman's Hill Sanctuary.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves1 record

Expansion highlights3 records

Direct peers

• OLIN: Philadelphia-headquartered landscape architecture, urban design, and planning firm with comparable service mix including master planning, public space design, and ecological restoration — directly competing for the same Mid-Atlantic government, institutional, and developer clients as CVDA.
• Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects: Landscape architecture firm specializing in gardens, memorials, and ecologically driven public landscapes — closely comparable to CVDA's cemetery, public garden, and healing garden specialization.
• Andropogon Associates: Ecological landscape architecture and planning firm emphasizing sustainable, restorative design — directly comparable to CVDA's McHarg-inspired stewardship philosophy and similarly focused on campuses, gardens, and environmental planning projects.
• LandDesign: Multi-office landscape architecture, civil engineering, and urban design firm with comparable services across master planning, campus design, parks, and community development — competes directly with CVDA on residential, civic, and developer-led projects.
• Studio-MLA: Landscape architecture and urban design practice focused on public realm, ecology, and community-driven projects — directly comparable to CVDA's public space, park, and community revitalization offerings.
• Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates: Brooklyn-based landscape architecture firm with strong portfolio in parks, cultural landscapes, and master planning — comparable in scale and practice mix, frequently competing on East Coast public commissions.

Broad incumbents

• SWA Group: Large national landscape architecture, urban design, and planning firm offering comprehensive services across parks, campuses, and master planning — competes with CVDA on larger park and planning commissions but at meaningfully greater scale and geographic breadth.
• James Corner Field Operations: High-profile landscape architecture and urban design firm active in public parks, waterfronts, and large-scale master planning — overlaps with CVDA's parks and planning practice on major commissions where CVDA would compete as a smaller regional alternative.
• Sasaki Associates: Multidisciplinary design firm spanning landscape architecture, urban planning, and architecture — competes for campus master planning, healthcare, and community revitalization RFPs in the same Mid-Atlantic institutional segment as CVDA.

Regional players

• LaQuatra Bonci Associates: Pittsburgh-based landscape architecture and planning firm serving Mid-Atlantic residential, institutional, and community clients — competes directly with CVDA on Pennsylvania-based master planning and site design commissions.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/carter-van-dyke-associates-inc

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

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