Pacific Design Architecture, Inc.

What Pacific Design Architecture, Inc. does

Pacific Design Architecture, Inc. is an Oakland, California-based architectural firm founded in 1994 by Thomas Chytrowski. It provides architectural, interior-design, and planning services, with healthcare as its principal area of focus. The available data also identifies commercial, laboratory, institutional, residential, and government work, and states that the firm has completed more than 200 projects in Northern California.

The firm serves healthcare organizations and other project owners requiring hospital and facility design, including work associated with OSHPD regulatory requirements. It is described as a private, founder-controlled company with 1–10 employees and a Northern California geographic focus. Revenue is generated through project-based professional-service fees; contract values, margins, backlog, and current project cadence are not provided.

Name

Pacific Design Architecture, Inc.

Legal name

Pacific Design Architecture, Inc.

Website

https://pdarchitecture.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1994

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Pacific Design Architecture, Inc. is an Oakland architecture firm providing architectural, interior-design, and planning services, primarily for healthcare clients and hospitals across Northern California. Its work includes projects subject to OSHPD regulatory requirements.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Architectural Services

NAICS

Architectural Services (54131), Interior Design Services (54141)

akta.pro primary industry

Architectural Design Services (BPAHAKAA)

akta.pro secondary industry

Interior Design Services (BPAHAKAB)

Keywords

• Healthcare architecture
• Architectural design services
• Interior design services
• Tenant improvement
• OSHPD permitting

Headquarters

HQ city

Oakland

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Architectural Services: Professional architectural services including design, construction documents, permits acquisition, and construction administration for healthcare, commercial, institutional, residential, and governmental projects. Revenue is generated through project-based fees tied to project scope and complexity.
2. Interior Design Services: Interior design services often bundled with architectural services, particularly for commercial tenant improvements and healthcare facility buildouts.
3. Planning Services: Pre-construction planning services ranging from schematic conceptual diagrams to completed plans suitable for contractor bids, helping clients determine project feasibility and establish financing estimates.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

Pacific Design Architecture is a full-service architectural firm providing professional architectural, interior design, and planning services to healthcare, commercial, institutional, residential, and governmental clients. The firm's primary specialization is healthcare facility architecture, having completed over 200 projects in Northern California hospitals and medical office facilities since 1995, with deep expertise in OSHPD permitting, construction documentation, and construction administration.

Product overview

Pacific Design Architecture is a full-service architectural firm established in 1994 serving healthcare, commercial, institutional, residential, and governmental organizations. The firm offers architectural services, interior design, and planning across specialized service areas including healthcare facility design (imaging/radiology, emergency departments, medical offices, oncology, pharmacy, call centers), commercial and tenant improvements, laboratory design, institutional and educational projects, and residential architecture. The firm's primary expertise is healthcare, having completed over 200 projects in Northern California hospitals and medical office facilities. Projects are delivered by a seasoned team of architects, engineers, and interior designers.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Healthcare Architectural Services Comprehensive architectural services for healthcare providers including hospitals and medical office facilities, with expertise in OSHPD permit acquisition, design development, construction documents, and construction administration.
• Commercial & Tenant Improvement Services Office tenant improvements, bank remodels, retail design, and new mixed-use buildings ranging from 40,000 square feet of new construction to 1,000 square foot remodels, including interior design and systems furniture coordination.
• Laboratory Design Services Complex laboratory projects for government institutions and healthcare organizations, often in existing buildings requiring system upgrades for lab equipment, filtering systems, and climate control, with significant engineering components.
• Institutional & Educational Services Projects for educational institutions including renovation studies and construction documents with construction administration, working with complex and lengthy design processes typical of institutional clients.
• Residential Architectural Services Private residential work ranging from remodels and additions to ground-up home design, exploring architectural ideas and maximizing local conditions such as climate and site topography.
• Imaging/Radiology Project Services
• Emergency Department Project Services
• Medical Office Project Services
• Oncology Department Project Services Oncology department projects ranging from entire floor build-outs in high-rise medical office buildings to expansions of six infusion chairs at existing cancer centers, creating open, well-lit, calming environments.
• Pharmacy Project Services Pharmacy projects in hospitals and medical office buildings, including inpatient compounding pharmacies meeting USP 797 requirements and OSHPD design review, as well as ergonomic casework installations.
• Call Center Design Services Healthcare provider call center design including Behavioural Health Call Center in San Leandro, California and general call center in Vallejo, California.
• Planning Services

Quantifiable outcome

• Over 200 healthcare projects completed successfully in hospitals and medical office facilities in Northern California

Named customers5 records

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

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Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• DIRTT (Environmental Graphics Ltd.)minorOthersPDA used DIRTT prefabricated wall, door, and window system as a pilot for the Kaiser Oakland Chemical Dependency Recovery Program project. DIRTT provided the modular wall system that presented unique design and construction opportunities and challenges.

Scale indicators3 records

Regional players

• EHDD: EHDD is a San Francisco Bay Area architecture firm with healthcare, education, and institutional design experience. It is a strong regional peer to PDA given its similar Bay Area footprint and comparable mix of healthcare and institutional project types.

Broad incumbents

• HOK: HOK is a large global architecture practice with a significant healthcare design studio delivering major hospital and academic medical center projects. It competes with PDA for healthcare work but as part of a broader portfolio spanning aviation, sports, and commercial sectors.
• Stantec (Architecture practice): Stantec is a global design and consulting firm whose architecture practice (including the former Anshen+Allen) delivers healthcare facility design alongside broader infrastructure and environmental services. It offers overlapping healthcare architecture capabilities as part of a much wider service portfolio.
• HDR (HDR Architecture): HDR is a large professional services firm with an architecture practice that delivers healthcare facility design as part of its wider infrastructure, engineering, and consulting portfolio. It overlaps with PDA on hospital and medical facility design at a much larger enterprise scale.

Direct peers

• Boulder Associates: Boulder Associates is a healthcare-specialized architecture firm focused on hospital and medical facility design, the closest pure-play direct peer to PDA's core healthcare architecture niche. Both firms concentrate on inpatient and outpatient healthcare environments with regulatory-driven design requirements.
• Payette: Payette is a healthcare-focused architecture firm specializing in hospital and academic medical center design, with deep regulatory and clinical planning expertise. Its dedicated healthcare practice is directly comparable to PDA's healthcare facility focus and integrated architecture-plus-engineering delivery model.
• CannonDesign: CannonDesign is an integrated design firm with healthcare as a flagship practice, delivering architectural and interior design for hospitals and academic medical centers. Its integrated architecture-plus-engineering model mirrors PDA's cross-disciplinary approach to healthcare facility delivery.
• HGA (Hammel, Green and Abrahamson): HGA is a national architecture, engineering, and planning firm with deep healthcare design expertise delivering hospital, clinic, and medical research facility projects. Its healthcare practice parallels PDA's hospital-focused, integrated-service delivery model.
• SmithGroup: SmithGroup is a national integrated design firm with a deeply established healthcare architecture practice that delivers hospital and medical facility design comparable to PDA's core healthcare focus. Both firms combine architecture with interior design and engineering under integrated project teams serving healthcare clients.
• Perkins&Will: Perkins&Will operates one of the largest healthcare design studios globally, providing full architectural and interior design services for hospitals and medical facilities directly comparable to PDA's healthcare specialization. Both firms emphasize research-driven, evidence-based healthcare design.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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