Landscape Architects for Program Management Across the U.S.
Enhancing Project Efficiency with National Landscape Architects
For civil engineers, architects, and developers managing multi-site development programs, Evergreen Design Group works as your landscape architects for program management — one firm handling landscape architecture, land planning, and irrigation design across every market you build in, rather than a new consultant at every site. Since 2005, we have served as the landscape architecture partner of choice for repeat-build programs across the United States, and our team currently holds registration in 43 states.
Our directors stay involved on every program we run, providing consistent oversight from the first kickoff call through the last site in your rollout. That continuity is what national rollout programs actually need: a firm that already knows your brand standards, your approval process, and your design intent before your civil engineer sends the first base file.
What Is Landscape Architecture Program Management?
Adding a landscape architect to your program management team ensures consistency and continuity in your landscape plans and irrigation plans from site to site. Rather than sourcing a new landscape architect for each project — with the learning curve and inconsistencies that come with it — program clients work with one firm that maintains institutional knowledge of their brand standards, design intent, and approval requirements from project to project.
For national retailers, restaurant chains, hospitality brands, healthcare operators, and commercial developers, this model reduces costs, compresses schedules, and produces more consistent results across every site. Evergreen Design Group has extensive experience designing projects in a wide range of geographic areas, adapting to local regulations and site-specific needs.
Why Choose Evergreen Design Group as Your Program Management Landscape Architect?
One Firm. National Reach. Local Expertise.
Evergreen Design Group’s landscape architects hold landscape architecture registrations in 43 states, making us one of the few firms capable of serving as a true single-source landscape architecture provider for multi-state programs. You eliminate the time and risk of vetting, contracting, and onboarding a new firm in each new market.
Fast Project Startup on Every Site
Because we develop and maintain prototypical plans and written design guidelines for your program from the outset, every new site we take on benefits from an already-established understanding of your standards, expectations, and design intent. That means less back-and-forth, faster design delivery, and fewer revision cycles.
Scalable Capacity to Meet Demanding Rollout Schedules
National development programs move fast. Our team is structured to absorb high project volumes without sacrificing turnaround times. We assign the right team members to the right projects based on workload and regional expertise — an agile model built around your schedule, not ours.
Deep Knowledge of Local Jurisdictions, Codes, and Zoning
Permitting requirements for landscape and irrigation vary significantly by municipality, county, and state. Our experience across hundreds of jurisdictions means we understand local submittal requirements, plant palette restrictions, water-use regulations, and code nuances — reducing the risk of permit delays that can hold up your groundbreaking. When a municipality updates its landscape ordinance or a state changes its water-use restrictions, that update gets applied to your program's design guidelines directly, rather than discovered site by site during review.
Landscape Architecture Services for your Program Management Portfolio
Prototypical Planting and Irrigation Plans
We develop prototypical landscape planting plans and irrigation designs that serve as the master design template for all locations within your program. These prototypical plans ensure visual consistency, brand alignment, and design efficiency across every site — whether you are building in Arizona, Georgia, Oregon or any other state within the U.S.
Written Design Guidelines and Standards
We pair prototypical plans with comprehensive written landscape and irrigation design guidelines. These guidelines address geographically appropriate plant selections, hardscape material standards, irrigation specifications, and installation procedures — giving your internal teams, general contractors, and local municipalities a clear, consistent reference document for every project.
Site-Specific Permit and Construction Documents
For each individual site, our landscape architects and irrigation designers produce permit-ready planting plans and irrigation construction documents that reflect local code requirements while staying true to your established program standards. We handle the site-specific variables so your team doesn’t have to.
The Advantage of Partnering with Evergreen Design Group for
Program Management Landscape Architecture
The Benefits of a Single-Firm Landscape Architecture Partner
Managing landscape architecture separately at every site creates costs that don't show up until a program is already underway — a new firm learning your brand standards from scratch, inconsistent plant palettes and hardscape details from market to market, and a design point of contact who changes every time you open in a new state. Consolidating that scope with one firm removes those costs directly:
Design consistency across every location. One master prototype and one set of written guidelines mean every site reflects the same brand standards, whether it's your fifth location or your fiftieth.
One point of contact, not a new vendor per market. Your team works with the same lead landscape architect across the program instead of re-establishing a relationship, and re-explaining your standards, with a different firm in every state.
Fewer revision cycles. Because we already know your approval process and design intent, site-specific plans need less back-and-forth before they're ready to submit.
More consistent permitting performance. The same team that knows how your program is supposed to look also knows how your submittals move through review in each jurisdiction, which keeps timelines more predictable from site to site.
Simpler procurement and contracting. One master agreement and one invoicing relationship replace the administrative load of vetting, contracting, and onboarding a new consultant for every new market.
Institutional memory that survives staff turnover. Design decisions, past field issues, and site-specific lessons stay with the firm rather than leaving when an individual employee moves on, on either side of the relationship.
Quality control at scale. A single firm reviewing its own prototype application across every site catches inconsistencies before they reach the field, rather than relying on your team to catch them after the fact.
Industries We Serve with Program Management
Evergreen Design Group has extensive experience providing landscape architecture program management services for the following repeat-development sectors:
Restaurants and quick-service restaurant (QSR) chains, convenience stores with fuel stations (C-stores), car wash facilities, financial institutions and banks, retail centers and pad sites, EV charging station installations and parking lot conversions, cell tower and telecommunications sites, hospitality and hotel development, and childcare and early education facilities.
If your development type is not listed above, contact us — our experience spans virtually every commercial and institutional development sector.
The Evergreen Design Group Advantage for Program Clients
Evergreen Design Group is not a firm chasing design awards. We are a firm built around delivering plans on time, staying true to your design intent, and functioning as a seamless extension of your project delivery team. Our directors provide strong leadership, guiding project teams and ensuring strategic oversight throughout every phase. Our clients include national architects, civil engineering firms, land developers, and design-build contractors who need a landscape architecture partner, they can count on — project after project, market after market.
Since 2005, we've built our practice specifically around high-volume, multi-site program work, and our landscape architects currently hold registration in 43 states. For program clients, that means one firm that already understands what a national rollout requires, not one learning it for the first time on your project.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many landscape architects are assigned to our program at one time, and how does staffing scale during peak rollout periods?
Staffing scales with your rollout schedule rather than a fixed team size. A typical multi-site program is staffed with a lead landscape architect who owns your design standards and serves as your single point of contact, supported by a rotating team of designers and CAD staff sized to your volume. During peak periods, we add staff from our broader team rather than subcontracting to outside firms, so your design standards and quality control stay consistent regardless of volume.
What happens if our internal design standards change mid-program?What happens if our internal design standards change mid-program?
We update the prototypical plans and written design guidelines to reflect the change, then apply the revision going forward without re-litigating sites already under construction or permitted. Because we maintain the master prototype and guideline documents in-house, a standards change is a single coordinated update rather than a round of individual site revisions across multiple consultants.
Do you handle irrigation design and permitting in every state where we build, or only landscape architecture?
Both. Irrigation design is one of our core service lines and is included in program management scope alongside landscape architecture, land planning, and hardscape design. Site-specific irrigation construction documents are produced to match local water-use regulations and permitting requirements in each jurisdiction, using the same prototypical design standards applied to your planting plans.
How do you handle states where you don't have an in-house registered landscape architect?
Evergreen Design Group holds landscape architecture registration in 43 states directly, and we work through the applicable licensing framework in jurisdictions with unique regulatory structures rather than treating every state identically. Landscape architectural services in North Carolina, for example, are performed by our associate entity, Evergreen Design Group of North Carolina, PLLC, and irrigation design in Texas is regulated separately from landscape architecture registration by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. We manage these jurisdictional differences internally so your team doesn’t have to track them site by site.
Can you take over an existing multi-site program from another landscape architecture firm mid-rollout?
Yes. We regularly step into programs already in progress, including cases where a prior firm’s prototypical plans need to be reviewed, standardized, or reissued under our seal. The transition starts with a review of your existing plans and guidelines against current jurisdictional requirements, followed by a proposal identifying what can carry forward as-is and what needs revision before the next site submittal.
How is pricing structured across a multi-site program — per site, retainer, or blended?
Pricing is scoped to match how your program actually runs. Programs with a steady site count typically work well on a per-site fee tied to the prototypical plan, while programs with variable volume or ongoing design-guideline support often work better under a retainer or blended structure. We scope this during onboarding based on your projected rollout schedule and adjust as your program’s pace changes.
What's the typical turnaround from site plan to permit-ready construction documents once our prototypes are established?
Once prototypical plans and design guidelines are in place, most individual sites move from initial site plan to permit-ready landscape and irrigation construction documents faster than a first-time engagement, since the plant palette, hardscape standards, and irrigation specifications are already established. Actual turnaround depends on site-specific variables, including jurisdictional review requirements, civil coordination, and site complexity, and is confirmed at project kickoff.
Start Your Landscape Architecture Program Management Engagement
If you are managing a multi-site development program and need a single-source landscape architecture firm with national reach, we want to hear about your program. Contact Evergreen Design Group today to discuss your rollout schedule, design standards, and how we can support your team from day one.
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