Restoration Design Group, Inc.

What Restoration Design Group, Inc. does

Restoration Design Group, Inc. is a small professional consulting firm founded in 2003 by Drew Goetting and headquartered in Berkeley, California, with a second office in Medford, Oregon. The firm provides landscape architecture, restoration engineering, and environmental planning services focused on urban creek and wetland restoration, shoreline stabilization, and process-based design for public open space and infrastructure projects. Its client base is concentrated in government municipalities, regional open space districts, and land trusts across Northern California and the Pacific Northwest.

The firm operates on a project-based fee-for-service model, executing work primarily through government contracts, capital improvement programs, and grant-funded engagements. Technical capabilities are delivered through conventional engineering and design tooling — hydrologic and hydraulic modeling (HEC-RAS), LiDAR-based terrain analysis, GIS, AutoCAD, and Adobe Creative Suite — combined with senior practitioner expertise in CEQA/NEPA permitting, grant writing, and construction administration. There is no proprietary software, platform, or AI product; revenue is generated entirely from professional services hours and project deliverables.

The business is privately held, founder-led, and has operated for over two decades without external funding, M&A, or public positioning events. Growth is signaled primarily through incremental hiring, geographic extension into Oregon, and subconsultant roles on larger institutional programs such as the Stanford University master plan. The firm’s economic model is anchored to public-sector capital and grant cycles, which provides revenue stability tied to multi-year funded programs but exposes billings to the timing and availability of municipal budgets.

Name

Restoration Design Group, Inc.

Legal name

Restoration Design Group, Inc.

Website

https://restorationdesigngroup.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2003

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Restoration Design Group is a Berkeley-based landscape architecture and restoration engineering firm serving public agencies and open space districts across California and Oregon through project-based consulting, planning, and grant-funded design services.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Environmental Consulting Services

NAICS

Landscape Architectural Services (54132), Environmental Consulting Services (541620)

akta.pro primary industry

Landscape Architecture & Site Design (BPAHAKAC)

akta.pro secondary industries

Ecological Restoration Planning & Monitoring (Habitat, Wetland, Stream) (EUAHAHAF), ROW Reforestation, Revegetation & Erosion Control (Environmental Mitigation) (EUADAOAJ)

Keywords

• Stream restoration
• Landscape architecture
• Environmental planning
• Watershed planning
• Restoration engineering

Headquarters

HQ city

Berkeley

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

Revenue model

1. Professional Consulting Services: RDG generates revenue through professional consulting services including restoration engineering, landscape architecture, and environmental planning for public sector clients. Revenue is project-based, typically through contracts with municipalities, open space districts, and land trusts. The firm also earns fees for grant writing services, permitting assistance, and post-construction monitoring.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

Restoration Design Group (RDG) is a small consulting firm that plans and designs public landscapes through three integrated service areas: Restoration Engineering (stream restoration, site assessments, hydrology and hydraulics, and post-restoration monitoring), Landscape Architecture (parks, greenways, trails, green infrastructure, interpretation, and graphics), and Environmental Planning (watershed plans, site management plans, permitting, public participation, and grant writing). The firm serves municipal governments, open space districts, and land trusts, combining landscape architecture, planning, and ecological science under a single interdisciplinary offering.

Product overview

Restoration Design Group, Inc. is a landscape architecture and environmental planning consulting firm founded in 2003 that operates as a single unified service offering rather than a platform-plus-modules architecture. The company's services are organized into three interconnected service areas: Restoration Engineering (covering stream restoration, site assessments, hydrology & hydraulics, and monitoring), Landscape Architecture (encompassing parks & greenways, trails, green infrastructure, interpretation, and graphics), and Environmental Planning (including watershed plans, site management plans, permitting, public participation, and grant writing). These service areas work together in an interdisciplinary approach to plan and design public landscapes that restore ecosystems and create meaningful places for communities. The firm has successfully acquired over $10 million in grant awards for clients through its integrated service delivery model.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Restoration Engineering Engineering service area encompassing stream restoration, process-based site assessments using fluvial geomorphology, hydrology and hydraulics modeling (HEC-RAS), and post-construction monitoring including terrestrial LiDAR surveys, geomorphic surveys, vegetation transects, and benthic macroinvertebrate bioassessments. Delivered to public agencies managing creeks, rivers, and open space lands.
• Landscape Architecture Landscape architecture service area covering design of parks, plazas, greenways, trails, bridges, playgrounds, ball fields, and pocket parks, along with green infrastructure (bioswales, bioretention, rain gardens, permeable surfaces), interpretive signage, and project graphics. Designed for municipal clients seeking accessible, ecologically rich public spaces.
• Environmental Planning Planning service area including comprehensive watershed plans, site management and maintenance plans, environmental permitting (404/401 and agency coordination with USACE, USFWS, Regional Water Quality Control Board, Coastal Commission, BCDC), public participation facilitation, and grant writing services that have secured over $10 million in client funding.

Named customers15 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature5 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Mia Lehrer + AssociatesminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerRDG served as subconsultant to Mia Lehrer + Associates on the Compton Creek Earthen Bottom Enhancement Feasibility Study for the State Coastal Conservancy, developing detailed conceptual designs for restoring ecological functions and public access to Compton Creek.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• AECOM: Global infrastructure consulting firm with environmental restoration, landscape architecture, and water resources practices serving the same California public-sector clients as RDG, with substantially greater capacity and resources.
• Stantec: Global engineering, environmental, and landscape architecture firm with restoration and green infrastructure practices that compete for the same municipal RFPs RDG targets, though as part of a much broader portfolio.
• WSP: International professional services firm with environment and landscape architecture practices serving California municipalities, open space districts, and transportation agencies on restoration and green infrastructure projects.
• Environmental Science Associates (ESA): Large California-headquartered environmental consulting firm with restoration, planning, and permitting practices that overlap with RDG, but operating at significantly greater scale and geographic reach.

Direct peers

• Stillwater Sciences: California-focused riverine and watershed science/restoration firm providing fluvial geomorphology, process-based restoration design, and monitoring — closely aligned with RDG's restoration engineering practice.
• Prunuske Chatham, Inc. Northern California-based ecological restoration and landscape architecture firm of similar size serving public agencies, land trusts, and open space districts. Directly comparable in service mix (restoration engineering, landscape architecture, planning) and public-sector client base.
• WRA Environmental Consultants: California-based environmental and restoration consulting firm working with public agencies, land trusts, and conservation districts on similar stream restoration, habitat, and watershed planning projects.
• Madrone Ecological Restoration: California-based ecological restoration firm offering similar stream and habitat restoration services to public agencies, land trusts, and conservation organizations.
• H.T. Harvey & Associates: California ecological consulting firm with comparable restoration biology, bioassessment, and habitat planning capabilities serving public sector and conservation clients in the western U.S.
• Balance Hydrologics: Bay Area hydrology and geomorphology consulting firm with comparable technical capabilities (HEC-RAS, geomorphic surveys, stream restoration monitoring) and shared regional client base in open space districts and watershed projects.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles9 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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