What Traverse Landscape Architects does

Traverse Landscape Architects is a private landscape architecture firm headquartered in Providence, Rhode Island, with a second studio in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Founded in 2011 as Birchwood Design Group and rebranded to Traverse Landscape Architects in February 2026, the firm delivers site planning, master planning, placemaking, athletic field design, and full-service landscape architecture from concept through construction administration. Its work spans eight sector verticals: academic and educational campuses, municipal parks and civic spaces, athletics, healthcare, hospitality, commercial and mixed-use, gardens, and high-end residential.

The firm operates a project-based professional services model, with pricing quoted per scope of work and not publicly disclosed. Customers are primarily institutional and public-sector: K-12 school districts, municipalities, universities, and healthcare providers, supplemented by hospitality and private residential clients. Distribution is driven by direct engagement with municipal officials, school administrators, developers, and architects; design-team collaboration with architect-led construction projects; and a referral network with architecture firms such as Ai3, DBVW, and LLB. The firm employs nine people across its two offices and has won multiple regional and national industry awards, including a 2026 RIASLA Merit Award, a 2024 BSA Built Design Excellence Award, and LEED Silver and Gold certifications on completed projects.

The firm is independently owned with no disclosed outside investment. Revenue, contracts, and unit economics are not publicly disclosed. Core differentiators include a participatory design process involving stakeholder engagement, deep expertise in New England ecology and climate resilience, and a track record with educational and municipal clients. The company is privately held as Traverse Landscape Architects, LLC in Rhode Island.

Name

Traverse Landscape Architects

Legal name

Traverse Landscape Architects, LLC

Website

https://traversela.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2011

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Traverse Landscape Architects is a private landscape architecture firm providing site planning, master planning, athletic field design, and placemaking services to K-12 schools, universities, municipalities, healthcare, and hospitality clients across the Northeast US and Midwest.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Landscape Architecture Services

NAICS

Landscape Architectural Services (541320), Landscape Architectural Services (54132), Architectural Services (54131)

akta.pro primary industry

Landscape Architecture & Site Design (BPAHAKAC)

akta.pro secondary industries

Architectural Design Services (BPAHAKAA), Landscape Design, Build & Installation (Hardscapes/Softscapes) (BPABADAF), Commercial Landscape Design & Installation (HSAIABAJ)

Keywords

• Landscape architecture services
• Site planning design
• Athletic facility design
• Campus master planning
• Placemaking consulting

Headquarters

HQ city

Providence

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, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Professional Design Services: Landscape architecture and site planning services including master planning, schematic design, design development, construction documentation, and construction administration. Services provided to educational institutions, municipalities, developers, and private clients.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Traverse Landscape Architects is a professional landscape architecture firm providing site master planning, permitting, concept design, schematic design, design development, construction documentation, athletic field design, athletic field assessments, design guidelines, graphic representation, and landscape assessments. The firm serves clients across parks, academic, athletics, healthcare, hospitality, commercial, gardens, and civic sectors using a participatory design process that engages clients, communities, and stakeholders from listening through implementation.

Product overview

Traverse Landscape Architects is a landscape architecture and design firm (formerly Birchwood Design Group) offering a unified suite of professional services centered on landscape architecture, site planning, and placemaking. The firm's core service portfolio spans site master planning, permitting, concept through construction documentation, athletic field design, and landscape assessments. Their work is organized across eight market sectors: Parks & Open Space, Athletics, Healthcare, Hospitality, Academic, Commercial & Mixed Use, Gardens, and Civic. The company operates from two offices (Northeast in Providence, RI and Midwest in Cedar Rapids, IA) and delivers projects primarily in the New England and Midwest regions.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Landscape Architecture Services Full-service landscape architecture offering including site master planning, permitting, site planning, concept design, schematic design, design development, construction documentation, athletic field design, athletic field assessments, design guidelines, graphic representation, and landscape assessments for institutional, municipal, and private clients.
• Parks & Open Space Design Design of outdoor spaces addressing sustainability, sea level rise, and lack of open space while respecting budgetary and maintenance requirements for municipalities and public agencies.
• Athletic Facilities Design Design of athletic fields and recreation facilities ensuring comfort, performance and safety for athletes, coaches and spectators, including synthetic turf systems and track design for educational institutions and municipalities.
• Academic Campus Design Design of spaces for suburban schools to urban college campuses that improve access, foster outdoor learning, and enhance quality of life for K-12 schools, school districts, and universities.
• Healthcare Landscape Design Healing landscape design for healthcare facilities, expressing therapeutic power of landscape while maximizing benefits to patients and family members.
• Hospitality Landscape Design Welcoming and relaxing landscape design celebrating natural features and ecology of a place for hotels, restaurants, resorts, and country clubs.
• Commercial & Mixed Use Design Design highlighting distinctive assets of each commercial site to enrich visitor experience and promote sense of place for commercial and mixed-use developments.
• Garden Design Design of gardens as spaces for enjoying life, discovering the environment, and dwelling in the world for private and institutional clients.
• Civic Space Design Design of public spaces that bring life back to communities and create positive cultural, social, and environmental impact for municipalities and civic clients.

Quantifiable outcome

• Multiple LEED-certified projects completed (Silver and Gold certifications)
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers11 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature2 records

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• OLIN: Landscape architecture and urban design firm with strong civic, campus, and parks practice; peer to Traverse in delivering master plans and site designs for institutional and municipal clients.
• Sasaki Associates: Well-established landscape architecture, planning, and urban design firm with strong institutional and campus planning practices, comparable to Traverse in working with universities, municipalities, and developers on site planning and master plans.
• SWA Group: Landscape architecture, urban design, and planning firm working across parks, civic, academic, and waterfront projects — closely aligned with Traverse's parks/civic/academic practice areas and participatory planning ethos.
• Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates (MVVA): Landscape architecture firm specializing in parks, campuses, and complex public sites; comparable to Traverse in delivering civic and academic landscape architecture with strong design reputations.
• Reed Hilderbrand: Landscape architecture practice with a deep campus, academic, and cultural-institution portfolio — directly comparable to Traverse's higher-education and civic project mix.
• Hoerr Schaudt Landscape Architects: Mid-size landscape architecture firm with strong campus, urban, and public realm portfolios; similar scale and segment mix to Traverse.
• Landworks Studio: Smaller, regional landscape architecture practice delivering site planning and community-oriented design — comparable in scale and craft focus to Traverse.
• James Corner Field Operations: Landscape urbanism and design firm working on parks, public realms, and waterfronts — comparable to Traverse's parks, civic, and waterfront-influenced projects in Providence and the Northeast.

Broad incumbents

• AECOM: Global infrastructure consultancy with integrated landscape architecture capabilities; competes for large municipal and campus master plan pursuits where Traverse also bids, but offers significantly larger bench and integrated delivery.
• Stantec: Large global multidisciplinary design and consulting firm with a landscape architecture practice; competes for the same institutional and municipal design contracts as Traverse but from a much broader service portfolio.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Instagraminstagram.com/traverselandscapearchitects
• Xx.com/Traverse_L_A
• Facebookfacebook.com/TraverseLA
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/traversela

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles12 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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