Landscape Architect Albuquerque
B2B Landscape Architecture Services for Albuquerque's Development Community
Evergreen Design Group is a landscape architect Albuquerque, New Mexico project teams rely on for land planning, landscape architecture, and irrigation design across Bernalillo County and the broader Albuquerque metro. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in Bluffton, South Carolina, our licensed team has delivered commercial, multifamily, mixed-use, and industrial landscape architecture services throughout New Mexico’s high-desert market for more than two decades. Evergreen Design Group is licensed, bonded, and insured, giving architects, civil engineers, land developers, and design-build contractors a dependable landscape architecture partner from entitlement through construction documentation.
We are not a residential landscaping company. Our clients are project teams: the architects, engineers, and developers who need a licensed landscape architecture partner to carry a project from entitlement through construction documentation. Our in-house team handles land planning, planting design, irrigation design, tree disposition, community amenities, and hardscape design under one point of contact, which reduces coordination overhead across your consultant team and keeps your project on schedule through plan review.
Landscape Architecture Services We Provide in Albuquerque
Each service below can be scoped individually or bundled under a single point of contact across design, plan review, and construction documentation.
Site organization and land use planning for development projects in Albuquerque, Rio Rancho, and the broader Bernalillo and Sandoval County markets.
Landscape Architecture & Planting Design High-desert-appropriate planting design that satisfies City of Albuquerque landscape requirements and supports long-term site performance. We select native and adaptive species — including regionally appropriate xeric species — that reduce maintenance demands and meet water conservation requirements under Albuquerque Bernalillo County Water Utility Authority (ABCWUA) guidelines.
Water-efficient irrigation systems designed to comply with New Mexico’s water conservation mandates. Our designs integrate drip and low-flow systems appropriate for Albuquerque’s semi-arid climate (Zone 7a/7b), and we coordinate with the ABCWUA’s landscape water budgeting requirements where applicable.
Tree surveys, preservation plans, and disposition documentation to support permitting and site plan approval. Particularly relevant for infill sites and any project requiring compliance with the City of Albuquerque’s tree preservation ordinances.
We design amenity spaces that meet occupancy, ADA, and maintenance requirements while supporting resident and tenant engagement across multifamily and mixed-use developments.
Durable hardscape design for Albuquerque’s temperature extremes — from below-freezing winters to triple-digit summer heat. Material specifications, paving layouts, and site furnishing selections are all informed by UV exposure, thermal expansion, and freeze-thaw cycling common at Albuquerque’s 5,300-foot elevation. Material selections are documented in our construction sets to support accurate contractor bidding and long-term maintenance planning.
When evaluating a landscape architecture partner for an Albuquerque project, project teams should confirm New Mexico licensure, request examples of comparable commercial or multifamily work, and verify the firm’s familiarity with ABCWUA water budget requirements and City of Albuquerque site plan review.
Markets and Project Types We Serve in Albuquerque
Our Albuquerque-area landscape architecture work spans a range of development types, including:
Multifamily and residential community development — apartment communities, townhome developments, and master-planned neighborhoods throughout Albuquerque, Rio Rancho, and the East Mountains corridor.
Commercial and mixed-use development — office parks, retail centers, and mixed-use projects requiring landscape, hardscape, and irrigation design that meets City of Albuquerque site plan requirements.
Industrial and logistics facilities — functional, low-maintenance landscape and land planning solutions for warehouse, distribution, and light industrial sites in Albuquerque’s South Valley and I-25 corridor submarkets.
Civic and institutional projects — landscape architecture support for public sector and institutional clients navigating New Mexico’s design and permitting requirements.
Designing for Albuquerque's High-Desert Environment
Evergreen Design Group’s process for Albuquerque projects begins with a site analysis covering climate, soils, topography, and existing vegetation, followed by coordination with your civil engineering and architecture team to align grading, utilities, and building design before landscape documents advance. We carry projects through conceptual design, City of Albuquerque and ABCWUA plan review, and construction documentation, with construction administration available through project closeout. Every deliverable is formatted for direct coordination with your consultant team’s CAD standards and submittal schedule.
Frequently Asked Questions: Landscape Architects Albuquerque, NM
No. We are a B2B firm exclusively. Our clients are architects, civil engineers, land developers, and design-build contractors. We don’t engage on individual residential homeowner projects.
Yes. We hold licensure in New Mexico and are registered to practice in 43 states nationwide.
Scope varies significantly by project type and phase. Common deliverables include landscape and planting plans, irrigation design and water budget documentation, hardscape plans, tree disposition surveys, and land planning exhibits. We scope each engagement based on the project’s specific regulatory requirements, site conditions, and entitlement strategy.
Yes. Xeriscape-compliant design is a standard component of our Albuquerque practice. We understand the ABCWUA’s water conservation requirements and design planting and irrigation systems that meet or exceed those standards across commercial, multifamily, and mixed-use project types.
Yes. Civil-landscape coordination on grading, drainage, and stormwater management is a routine part of how we engage. We provide design documentation formatted for civil coordination and participate in multi-discipline review processes as needed.
We serve projects throughout Albuquerque and the surrounding region, including Rio Rancho, Bernalillo, the East Mountains, the South Valley, the North Valley, and Sandoval and Valencia Counties. We follow the project, not the zip code.
Engagement typically starts with a review of your site plan, project schedule, and applicable jurisdiction, whether City of Albuquerque, Bernalillo County, or Rio Rancho, so we can scope land planning, landscape architecture, or irrigation design against your civil and architectural deliverables. From there we confirm ABCWUA water budget requirements where applicable, provide a fee proposal aligned to your submittal milestones, and integrate into your project team as a subconsultant. We recommend engaging during the site planning phase so xeriscape compliance and water budget constraints are addressed before the civil plan set is substantially developed.
Yes. We regularly join Albuquerque projects mid-design, including situations where a prior landscape architect has exited a project or where landscape scope was not carried by the original consultant team. We review existing civil and architectural drawings, confirm what has already been submitted to the City of Albuquerque or ABCWUA, and scope our work to fit the project’s current phase and submittal deadline without requiring a restart of the design process.
Start a Conversation About Your Albuquerque Project
Let us lead your next project to success—if you’re an architect, engineer, developer, or design-build contractor with a project in Albuquerque or anywhere in New Mexico, we’re ready to discuss scope, timeline, and how we fit into your team. Contact Evergreen Design Group to get started.
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