Most Recent News at RTA

RTA wishes all our clients, colleagues, friends, and family a wonderful Christmas and a very Happy New Year!

The Pikes Peak Summit Visitor Center has been awarded Project of the Year by ENR Mountain States! Mountain States’ 2022 Best Projects featured nearly 100 entries spanning Colorado, Wyoming, and the Dakotas that highlighted the tenacity of the AEC industry during the height of the pandemic. Projects were judged on design and construction quality, contribution to the community and industry and how they overcame unusual challenges through teamwork and innovation. Congratulations to our project partners for this well-deserved recognition! Read more about this innovative project here: ENR Mountain States Project of the Year: Pikes Peak Summit Visitor Center | Engineering News-Record.

The new Pueblo District 60 Nettie S. Freed Expeditionary K-8 School tops out! This key milestone marks the halfway point of construction as the final steel beam is placed. Set to open next fall, the new school will provide experiential, hands-on learning opportunities in a technology-rich environment for students.

Check out this great video on the school’s homepage that includes a walkthrough of the construction site with Principal Nicolas Roberts before the topping out ceremony: Freed Expeditionary School / Homepage (pueblod60.org)

Chinook Trail Middle School Principal Tom Andrew and RTA Principal Brian Calhoun teamed up to write an article for EdMarket Essentials describing how the school’s design works with education programming to develop curious design-thinking learners for life. At Chinook Middle School, an open, holistic, positive approach to learning is supported by a design that creates positive spaces, is optimized for learning, and provides opportunities for students to connect with nature in healthful and empowering ways for students and staff.

Read the full article here. https://essentials.edmarket.org/2021/04/design-thinking-framework-in-action/

In the spirit of the season, the RTA interiors team gathered to decorate a Christmas Tree for Children’s Hospital Colorado in Denver. The team had a great time decorating the tree and were thrilled for the chance to bring cheer to a patient for the holidays!

RTA was excited to again sponsor Pueblo Community College’s Miracle on Orman Avenue Tree Lighting Ceremony. Visit the PCC campus during the holiday season and enjoy all the beautiful lights! 

The arch is in place and the AdAmAn Alley project is nearing completion! Set to be unveiled at a grand opening on November 29th, the activated alley pays tribute to Pikes Peak and the AdAmAn Club’s first climb up the Peak in 1922. With several artistic and interactive features, the alley will transport visitors to Barr Trail and allow them to peek into the past. Final touches on the alley are being finished, including this steel arch depicting the Frozen 5, the original AdAmAn climbers to brave the summit in 1922, which was recently installed in the alley entryway facing Pikes Peak.

For more details on the project, check out this great article by Colorado Springs Magazine: Keeping It 100 Colorado Springs 

We were excited to celebrate the success of several of RTA's amazing projects at the Associated General Contractors of Colorado 2022 ACE Awards with our contractor partners, and the bedazzled western theme made it a night to remember!

ACE Award, Contribution to the Community - GE Johnson, Canon City Middle School and Washington Elementary School, Canon City Schools

Bronze Award, Contribution to the Community - Bryan Construction, Pueblo Community Health Center East Side Clinic

Congratulations to these great project teams!

RTA’s incredible Sr. Marketing Manager, Valerie Jackson was featured in Colorado Construction and Design Magazine's fall issue celebrating women in construction. Valerie is an invaluable member of the team at RTA, and we couldn’t be prouder. Congratulations Valerie on the well-deserved recognition!

The accolades continue for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers – Omaha District’s new High Altitude Research Laboratory (HARL) atop PikesPeak! It recently garnered top honors from the Design-Build Institute of America as Best Small Project and a Merit Award in the Federal Project category. (https://dbia.org/project/high-altitude-research-lab-best-small-projects/).

High altitude and mountainous terrains present a challenging environment and a unique opportunity for research and development. At 14,115 feet, this facility is the highest U.S. Army Corps of Engineers project in the world and one of the most remote. The new HARL replaces the old deficient structure and will enhance the United States Army’s ability to conduct medical research and prepare warfighters for battle.

Congratulations GE Johnson and to the entire design-build team!