Most Recent News at RTA

We have welcomed eight new staff members to our Architectural, Interior Design, and Administrative teams over the last few months! Our new Architectural team members are Architects Bill Hrinko, Jr. and Wilson Day and Emerging Professionals Austin Beninga, Landon Cook, and Dikshit Mahaveer Chand. Our Interior Design team welcomed Interior Designers Susan Brock and Taylor Barker, and newest Administrative team member is Administrative Assistant Amanda “Mandi” Hillenbrand. Read the full press release here.

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RTA was honored to host several government leaders at our table at the 22^nd Annual Downtown Partnership Breakfast last week. Stuart Coppedge, RTA Principal and Downtown Partnership Board Chair, shared his thoughts with the 750+ attendees, and members of the RTA team that attended the breakfast to support Colorado Springs’ thriving downtown. The Partnership works with property owners, nonprofits, and business and civic leaders to ensure that Downtown Colorado Springs expands its role as a primary economic engine and cultural driver for the Pikes Peak Region.

One of the important services provided for families staying at the Ronald McDonald House are the daily evening meals, called Meals that Mend, that are entirely funded and provided by volunteers. RTA had a great evening, serving a Meal and helping with cleaning tasks at the House. Find out how your organization can get involved with this incredible organization! Go to https://rmhcsoutherncolorado.org/volunteer/ for a full list of volunteer opportunities. 

The title of this article, “A Labor of Love”, really says it all. Read more in the Sept/Oct issue of Medical Construction & Design Magazine about how the move to Family Integrated Care drove the design of the renovated and expanded Level III NICU at the St. Francis Medical Center. 

Our thanks to Nicole Brady with Denver Channel 7 for a recent story on upgrades happening in Aurora Public Schools, including the RTA-designed Hinkley High School addition. As the new school year kicks off, students across the District are returning to improved school buildings thanks to a $300 million bond passed by voters in 2016. Read the full story and watch the segment here.

Hope has a new address! We were thrilled to celebrate with the Ronald McDonald House Charities of Southern Colorado at the ribbon cutting of their new facility in northern Colorado Springs. For over 32 years, the Ronald McDonald House has served families across southern Colorado and beyond with temporary housing where families could be near their critically ill child. At 25,000 square feet, the new House doubles the capacity of the former house and will be able to serve 650 families annually. RTA has been honored to work with this incredible organization as they begin the next chapter in their service to families in times of medical crisis. It truly is the “house that love built”.

After a year of planning and design and 18 months of construction, the new Chinook Trail Middle School in Academy District 20 is open! With colorful biophilic design, flexible furnishings, a Learning Stair, state-of-the-art labs, a Curiosity Center, and daylighting throughout, this project-based learning school will eventually serve over a 1,000 students in northern Colorado Springs. THANK YOU to the hundreds of students, parents, staff, District personnel, and community members who participated in the design process to help create this incredible environment to #BeCurious! 

Another successful Pikes Peak Habitat for Humanity volunteer day is in the books! The RTA team started with cleaning up the site, then set the wood beams, installed joist hangers and set all the floor joists for the second floor at two homes. Did you know that it takes 3,000 hours to build a Habitat home? Learn more about this great organization here! http://pikespeakhabitat.org/volunteer/

It was a beautiful day to celebrate with the University of Colorado Colorado Springs, JE Dunn Construction, and Centura Health as the last structural beam of the new RTA and HOK-designed William J. Hybl Sports Medicine and Performance Center was put in place. This marks the halfway point for this City for Champions project!

The new Pikes Peak Summit Complex atop Pikes Peak - America's Mountain has gone vertical, as pre-cast concrete walls and floors are being erected by GE Johnson and Stresscon. Watch the construction progress here!