Most Recent News at RTA

Congratulations to the Hinsdale County School District! On November 6 voters approved a $3.95 million bond to be matched by a $9.4 million state-funded BEST grant to address security, safety, and health concerns at Lake City Community School. Read more about this exciting project here.

RTA is ecstatic to announce that we have officially awarded our second annual Bud Roberts Memorial Scholarship to not one, but TWO staff this year! The scholarship, in honor of our founding partner, is intended to help one of our folks each year do something exceptional to further their education and development as an architect, and this year we couldn't pick just one. Patti Sharp will be working with Engineering Ministries International and Mitchell Starrs will be working with Habitat for Humanity to design and build distaster resistant housing in El Salvador. Congratulations Patti and Mitchell!

If you've been wondering what excavation for our new Summit Complex at 14,115 feet atop Pikes Peak looks like, check out this awesome video!

It was standing-room only at the groundbreaking celebration for the new William J. Hybl Sports Medicine and Performance Center at UCCS that is poised to transform education, research, and healthcare for athletes of all levels, active individuals with disabilities, elite military, and first responders. We were thrilled to celebrate this milestone with the university and Penrose-St. Francis Health Services, Centura Health, and our design-build partners HOK Architects and JE Dunn Construction. Visit our page for more updates on this great project!

We had a wonderful weekend celebrating the ribbon cutting for TWO completed projects on one very special campus. The Colorado School for the Deaf and the Blind provides specialized education services and we are honored to have a role in their growing campus. At more than 12,000 SF, Jones Hall houses the Colorado Instructional Materials Center as well as VIP rooms for campus guests and a low vision clinic. In addition, a full renovation of the 15,000+ SF Palmer Hall was completed and hosts CSDB's "Bridges to Life" program which serves students between the ages of 18 and 21 and seeks to bridge the gap between high school and the real world, emphasizing education, employment, and independence. Congratulations CSDB!

The team atop Pikes Peak has been working hard to complete as much as they can on the new Summit Complex before their short construction season comes to an end. Recently they have been blasting permafrost and bedrock, preparing for the central raised walkway, and some excavation has already begun. We'll be looking forward to the erection of part of the building core in the coming months and now you can watch too! Click here to access the live stream.

RTA's work on the NICU/ED/OR expansion at the St. Francis Medical Center is one of the few IPD projects with a multi-party agreement in the state of Colorado. RTA Principal John Hoelscher, AIA discusses some of the key differences between an integrated team approach, or "IPD light," and a true multiparty agreement as well as some of our project team's lessons learned in the September issue of Healthcare Design magazine. 

Big things are happening at Academy District 20's  School in the Woods! Thanks to GE Johnson things are really taking shape, and we are so excited to see the final result. 

We recently attended the ribbon cutting for the St. Francis Medical Center NICU. With 25 new beds, an outdoor balcony, and a wellness garden, the new facility will be able to provide family integrated care for Colorado Springs' smallest patients. Read more about this project here.