REBECCA BACHAND, PLA, LEED AP

With a background in larger scale planning, MA entitlements, and LEED certification, I provide expedited permitting, cost-effective strategies, and practical, build-able solutions. I look at the big picture – beyond the planting plan – particularly site layout and logistics, early in the process.

A registered landscape architect and LEED accredited professional, I have a broad design background and experience with all phases of project development and property entitlement efforts.

RBLA Design LLC has been certified as both a Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) and a Women-owned Business Enterprise (WBE) by the Massachusetts Operational Services Division Supplier Diversity Office. We are also certified DBE in New Hampshire and Rhode Island. We feel this is a benefit to our public sector clients as well as those developers working with public funding.

Low overhead keeps me cost-competitive while I provide Principal-level experience. Working from my home office in Dedham, MA, I am conveniently located to most Eastern NE locations, and millions of square feet of retail and restaurant space.

I’m happy to meet you for coffee, lunch, or virtually to discuss your project!

In RBLA's little microclimate of oak/pine/ledge, a good chunk of our yard becomes a shared carbon sink with the neighbors behind us. An unusable slope makes great leaf storage & critter habitat! We'll (eventually) get around to moving what's on
Appreciating the microclimate of our little yard. Always a few weeks behind the rest of the neighborhood, the mature oaks and pines are giving the doggo plenty of shade in this heat wave and allowing me to work outside so he doesn't get lonely. (Ther
Revisiting Salem's El Punto neighborhood, site of TWO @CREWBoston tours with Lt. Gov. Driscoll at @bslaoffice #FieldDay! #thisislandscapearchitecture #climatecrisis #housingcrisis
Granite Street Crossing, Rockport, MA featured by Harborlight Hones' Cynthia Nina-Soto in the opening plenary session of MHP Housing Institute! Creating FAMILY HOUSING! "It takes a village to raise a child. AND it takes a village to age in pl
We've been working with the UMASS Amherst LA&RP Alumni Board, Faculty, and Staff to host virtual and in person #mentor sessions over the past 18 or so months and would love to get more alumni involved! Since there are so many ways our career pat
UMASS GIVES is underway! Any contribution made during our Department's "Power Hour" from NOON to 1PM 4/24 will make us eligible for a $2,000 prize from the University! UMASSgives.org (linkinbio) 💖A very generous alum is offering a $50,
🎉UMassGives is just two days away! 🎉 We hope you will join our LARP community this Wednesday and Thursday (April 24-25th) to spread joy and support our amazing students. Giving to LARP during UMassGives ensures the success of our students and de
It's Elbie's Gotcha Day! Glad Mother Nature came through with weather that's letting him spend the day outside... Though it may be a little warm for him right now. We're having a bit of a rest on one of his preferred (too long) walking routes. Mayb

Registrations

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Registered Landscape Architect:

  • State of Connecticut #1405, 2016

  • State of Rhode Island #636, 2016

  • State of New Hampshire #136, 2015

  • Commonwealth of Massachusetts #1368, 2003

House Doctor Light Certification, MA Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD), 2013

LEED AP®, #83775, Green Building Certification Institute (GBCI), 2006

Certifications

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Women-Owned Business Enterprise

  • Massachusetts, 2017

  • Rhode Island, 2020

  • New Hampshire, 2020

Education

USGBC LEED New Construction v2.2 Technical Program, 2006

Bachelor of Science Landscape Architecture, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, 1998

Employment

2000 – 2010

Stantec Consulting, Inc. / Geller DeVellis, Inc. / Geller Associates, Inc.

Wellesley and Boston, MA

(Stantec acquired Geller DeVellis, Inc. in May 2007; Geller Associates merged with DeVellis Associates ~2001)

Project Landscape Architect, Project Manager, Associate

1998 – 2000

Larson Associates, Inc., Arlington, MA

(Now Warner Larson Landscape Architects, Boston, MA)

Draftsperson

Associations

American Society of Landscape Architects, Member, Boston Chapter

Commercial Real Estate Women Network (CREW Boston, formerly NEWiRE), Member, Co-chair: Entrepreneur Exchange Group 2011-2024; Board of Directors 2015-2018

UMASS Amherst Frank A. Waugh Alumni Board, Member

Awards

CREWBoston, Achievement Award, Entrepreneur of the Year, 2023

CREWBoston, Achievement Award, Esprit de Coeur, 2015

Connect

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RBLA Design LLC is proud to be a certified Women Owned Business Enterprise