Most Recent News at RTA

Pueblo Community College recently hosted the ribbon-cutting ceremony to officially open the Nursing and Allied Health Teaching and Learning Center at St. Mary-Corwin Hospital in Pueblo. Unused spaces were converted to create simulation labs, student lounge areas, classrooms, patient rooms, and support spaces utilizing many of the hospital’s previous patient care areas in the older east tower. This cooperative partnership between PCC and St. Mary-Corwin expands PCC’s healthcare training program and will increase the number of career-ready healthcare professionals in the healthcare industry.

Photos courtesy of Pueblo Community College

Modern classroom designs in schools like the new Cherry Creek Schools Woodland Elementary School create comforting, student-centered spaces. By utilizing noise-absorbing elements for focused learning, using color to support classroom productivity and creativity, and configuring classroom layouts to allow for collaboration, the design supports diverse learning styles. Read more about these design elements in this recent eSchool News article co-authored by RTA’s Ann Marie Jackson.

Learn more about the innovative approach to safety and security at Newton Middle School in the Ed Market Essentials Winter issue. For this new school, the design team worked closely with Littleton Public Schools to create a security approach that balances best practices in safety and security with open and flexible 21^st Century educational environments. The carefully designed layers of security start at the building entry and continue layer by layer into the interior spaces, creating a warm and inviting space that supports collaboration and creativity while keeping students and staff safe.

Check out the article here.

Cherry Creek School District's Woodland Elementary School was featured in Education Snapshots! This new elementary school offers flexible learning environments that support a variety of learning styles and enable students to learn beyond the classroom. The new Woodland Elementary School also furthers the District’s mission, “To inspire every student to think, to learn, to achieve, to care,” and reinforces the school’s tagline, “Be Bold. Be Brilliant. Be a Bear!” Take a photo tour of this exciting RTA project:  https://educationsnapshots.com/projects/25671/woodland-elementary-school/.

Jessica Massie, RTA’s Interior Architect, has earned her Certified Healthcare Interior Designer (CHID) credential! Healthcare interior architects with this certification demonstrate integrity and commitment to the healthcare environment and have mastered core competencies essential to the healthcare setting, including current codes and protocols that improve the health and safety of patients, visitors, and staff. Earning her CHID will increase Jessica’s ability to serve our healthcare clients. Congratulations Jessica!

Newton Middle School has gone international! Featured in the latest International CPTED Association newsletter, the design solution for Littleton Public Schools Newton Middle School utilizes flexible 21^st Century educational environments and best practices in school safety and security. With carefully designed layers of security that start when a visitor, staff, or student enters the school property and continues layer by layer into the interior spaces, the design creates safe, positive spaces that promote a feeling of belonging and support collaboration, creativity, and critical thinking.

Check out the article to learn more.

Congratulations to Joey Bahnsen, AIA, on being named to the 2023 AIA Colorado Board of Directors as South Director. The Board of Directors provides stewardship of the nonprofit and is responsible for collaboratively setting the direction of the organization through consensus-driven governance, policy-making, and strategic planning. As South Director, Joey will represent Southern Colorado. 

Did you spot the fireworks above Pike’s Peak on New Year’s Eve? December 31, 2022 marked the AdAmAn Club’s 100^th anniversary, and in honor of this momentous milestone, the club set off a larger display of fireworks at midnight. The Gazette captured this amazing photo of the fireworks framed by the new RTA-designed AdAmAn alley arch. 

Congratulations to RTA Senior Associate Darren Rouse on becoming a Certified Healthcare Constructor (CHC)! Certified Healthcare Constructors require knowledge of and expertise in healthcare planning, design, and construction processes related to patient safety, systems and equipment unique to healthcare, scheduling impacts, sustainability, regulations, quality assurance, and project close-out and occupancy. With this certification, Darren expands his ability to serve RTA's healthcare clients.

Check out this great post from Bentley Mills where RTA Interior Designer Ann Marie Jackson shares insight into the innovative design for the new Woodland Elementary School for the Cherry Creek School District.