Who We Are

LAND DESIGN ASSOCIATES ENGINEERING, SURVEYING & LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE, D.P.C., a professional, friendly and reliable multidisciplinary organization, providing high quality professional site planning and design services for commercial, municipal and domestic clients throughout the Northeast. LAND DESIGN offers professional workmanship and high-quality service at competitive prices delivered on time and within budget. LAND DESIGN, which is located at Coram, New York, was established in 1971.

LAND DESIGN specializes in a broad range of projects involving residential and commercial design from planned unit developments of a multi-use nature to recreational communities and cluster developments. LAND DESIGN also provides expertise in the field of commercial and industrial site design, environmental assessment and impact, recreational planning, including marina, park and golf course design, as well as professional and expert testimony.

Our team is skilled in a variety of disciplines: engineering, construction management, surveying, environmental, cost estimating and scheduling, forming a professional collaboration ready and able to address the full needs of its many and diverse clients.

What We Do

Master Planning

 As specialists in residential and master plan design, emphasis is placed on an environmental approach to project planning through a total commitment to the preservation of meaningful open space and recreational amenities.

 This approach produces a comprehensive master plan which enables one to first understand, and then work effectively with the natural advantages that a site has to offer. The master plan approach also makes it possible to reduce land development costs through the preservation of all beneficial existing features, while enhancing not only the beauty, but the long-term value of the project.

 Further, because all operations are directed from in-house, the LAND DESIGN TEAM can ensure superlative quality while carefully controlling all associated costs. As experienced consultants, the team understands the relationship between progress and protection. The firm takes pride in assisting its clients in meeting the challenge of growth in these environmentally sensitive times.

 Maximizing real estate holdings in today’s complex and highly technical world of rapidly changing regulations and land use requirements can be a formidable experience. It is an experience that is frequently burdened with frustration and costly delays.

 Our team offers a very effective combination of diligence, insight and expertise. This balanced combination is precisely what is required to coordinate the many interrelated services needed to ensure fulfillment of every aspect of community planning, land use planning and site design from concept through construction.

 Site/Civil Engineering

Our team has a long and successful history in site/civil design, having worked in tandem with land development, surveying and environmental experts to deliver creative and cost-effective designs. Our professionals are passionate about developing innovative processes and new technologies that help our clients and their stakeholders best visualize projects. Our engineers have worked for both private and government employers, which gives us
the ability to understand the needs of all our clients.  Our team has developed site plans for solar farms, multi-unit housing developments and single-family residences, as well as utility modifications and site plans for facilities such as and, student housing and condominiums/residential and office. Services include:

• Site evaluation and feasibility studies

• Conceptual land planning

• Planning/zoning and project entitlements

• Surveying and mapping

• Environmental consulting and permitting

• Geotechnical engineering

• Site and subdivision design

• Land acquisition mapping

• Parking / pavement design

• Drainage investigations

• Land use studies 

• Roadway design

• Sustainable stormwater management design

• Sediment and erosion control design

• Landscape architecture

• Construction observation services, permitting, and stakeout

• Utility infrastructure

• Survey and right-of-way mapping

• Stormwater management and design

• Sewer and sanitary design

 Construction Management / Construction Inspection Services

 Our team coordinates and supervise the construction process from the conceptual development stage through final construction making sure that the project gets done on time and within budget. They often work with owners, engineers, architects, and others who are involved in the construction process. Our construction managers can oversee the planning, scheduling, and implementation of the construction designs, find the most cost-effective plan and schedule for completing the project, divide all required construction site activities into logical steps, budgeting the time required to meet established deadlines. Our construction managers also oversee the selection of general contractors and trade contractors to complete specific pieces of the project, determine the labor requirements and, in some cases, supervise or monitor the hiring and dismissal of workers, direct and monitor the progress of construction activities and oversee the performance of all trade contractors to ensure that all work is completed on schedule

 Surveying / Mapping

Land Design provides surveying and mapping services in direct support of the other primary services offered by the firm.  Through the direct management and integration of the data into our design systems, there is an increased efficiency and level of technical proficiency. Land Design provides surveying and mapping to a diverse clientele.  Specific surveying and mapping services including topographic and detailed mapping, land planning, streets and highways and Construction stakeouts.

 Value Engineering

Value engineering can be defined as an organized effort directed at analyzing designed building features, systems, equipment, and material selections for the purpose of achieving essential functions at the lowest life cycle cost consistent with required performance, quality, reliability, and safety.

In the design and planning phases of each project, our team applies value engineering, and considers alternative design solutions to optimize the expected cost/worth ratio of projects at completion. Value engineering elicits ideas on ways of maintaining or enhancing results while reducing life cycle costs.

In the construction phase, the team draws on their special 'know-how' to propose changes that cut costs while maintaining or enhancing quality, value, and functional performance.

Traffic Studies

Our design team has successfully completed design projects for roadways ranging from highways to multi-lane arterials to local residential roadways. Each of these projects were performed according to local standards to ensure that the roadways were reconstructed in the most cost-effective manner.

Our team has extensive experience in the field of traffic engineering, having recently successfully completed a wide variety of projects. These projects include traffic signal rebuilds, traffic signal timing using Synchro and TEAPAC and traffic impact studies.  In the Transportation Planning field, our team has performed studies to determine the existing conditions within corridors and to determine what improvements can be done to facilitate travel in the areas. The studies have been performed for state highways in downtown areas, at intersections of multi-lane arterials, and for areas where bike paths are being considered. Each study included analysis techniques including existing traffic counts, accident analysis, trip generation and estimation of future traffic volumes. Also, traffic conflict studies were performed to determine accident causing factors not apparent in accident reports.