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Services

RTKL draws upon our global resources to provide clients with the most comprehensive set of end-to-end planning, architectural and creative services available in the marketplace today. Always at our table: great architecture rooted in smart planning and urban design, but we take that model to the next level with services like interior design and environmental graphic design, and intelligent engineering and applied technology services. In the end, we create fluid, cohesive, sustainable environments that serve the needs of today and stand the test of time.

Services Overview

Architecture
With experience in nearly all project types, our architecture studios combine outstanding design skills with superior project management capabilities to shape communities and organizations around the globe. At RTKL, we offer facilities consulting, architectural design, sustainable design, specifications, construction administration, and post-occupancy evaluations.
Planning & Urban Design
Whether revitalizing downtown districts or developing large-scale land plans, our planning group creates visually exciting and economically viable settings in which people live, work and shop. Drawing on decades of experience, RTKL planners and urbanists create projects that establish logical frameworks, foster heightened cooperation between public and private interests, and spark a sense of civic and community pride.
Interior Architecture & Design
From the initial client meeting through occupancy, our specialists in programming, space planning and interior design work with our clients to identify their design goals, schedule requirements and budgetary parameters. Ultimately, we develop a design that is sensitive to the individual considerations of the project and reflects and advances our clients’ missions.
Environmental Graphic Design
RTKL creates easily navigable, detailed and exciting places that express our clients’ brand and strengthen their relationships with their customers. Our services include: environmental graphic design, strategic branding, identity/logo, signage and wayfinding, print and collateral, and multimedia.
MEP Engineering
Our mechanical, electrical, and plumbing engineers offer clients a full complement of services dedicated to efficient system operations and technological innovation. Our careful, computer-modeled studies ensure each system balances initial cost against operating expenses to achieve a life-cycle cost-benefit ratio that meets every requirement of the owner.
Structural Engineering
Our innovative structural engineering studio strives to overcome the physical limitations of sites while also meeting the requirements of each project. The studio works with our in-house architects, as well as with clients directly, to develop solutions to the full range of structural needs, in many cases creating new opportunities for the architect and project owner.
Technology Design
RTKL's Technology Design Studio is a leading provider of comprehensive voice, data, audio-visual, and security systems technology solutions. Our seasoned professionals provide a range of services, including voice systems design, data systems design, audio-visual services, wiring infrastructure systems, and physical security systems design. For greater detail about who we are and what we do, please click here.
Historic Preservation
Our historic preservation professionals aim to revitalize communities and give buildings new meaning for the future. With services ranging from replacing building systems to addressing accessibility and safety issues, we’ve worked with historic structures of all types, facilitating renovation, adaptive reuse, reconstruction and rehabilitation.
Protective Planning
In today's uncertain times, the need for careful security planning is critical to ensure the safekeeping of people, systems and data. Providing a rich array of protective services, we coordinate our extensive facilities planning and design expertise with consultants representing technical and operational security, life safety, structural blast effects, and traffic engineering.
Sustainability
Every RTKL project reflects a commitment to preserving and ensuring the needs of future generations and the capacity of our resources. From project conception to completion, RTKL implements sustainable design practices ranging from the use of environmentally friendly products to LEED® Certification.
Environments
The Environments Studio, a group of professionals from a range of disciplines, has developed a unique way of translating our clients' intangible brand, corporate mission or desired experience into a tangible, built environment. The strategic approach to design helps to bring our clients closer to reaching their short- and long-term business and environmental goals.
Healthcare Technologies
RTKL delivers the industry's most comprehensive healthcare technology services—capital equipment strategic planning, medical equipment planning, strategic sourcing, communication systems design, data center design, and facility transition management. These services respond to the increasingly complex digital demands healthcare providers face. With more than 100 in-house experts, RTKL has both the knowledge and resources to attain even your most challenging clinical, operational, and financial technology goals.
Healthcare Strategic Facility Planning
Modifying, expanding or developing new healthcare facilities requires an integrated and multi-tracked planning approach. We facilitate every aspect of the decision-making process through clear communication and consensus building. From analyzing market dynamics and incorporating emerging technologies to rating customer demand and maximizing capital resources, we ensure that healthcare systems are in the best possible position for long-term advantages.
Healthcare Facility Transitioning
The process of moving into a new healthcare facility requires a carefully sequenced transition. From personnel preparedness to occupancy planning to move management, RTKL's transitioning team can manage the entire process. These experienced clinicians will create a master schedule of activities and coordinate implementation, so the new hospital can open on time and function efficiently.
Brand Building
Increasingly, companies are looking for ways to achieve market differentiation while further reinforcing their identities. We design places that integrate brand into physical surroundings, creating enriched environments that choreograph a deeper, more resonant experience for customers and employees.
Building Information Modeling (BIM)
RTKL was an early adopter of Building Information Modeling (BIM) technology. We began using the AutoDesk Revit platform in late 2003 and have since adopted Revit Architecture, Revit Structural and Revit MEP as our corporate standard for design software. Direct benefits of BIM include consistency across drawings and schedules, accurate 3D visualization, and the ability for designers from various disciplines to work collaboratively in a 3D database.
Predictive Analytics
RTKL’s predictive analytics services help determine the most effective approach to expanding, consolidating or reworking your real estate assets. We use simulation software and statistical analysis to assess multiple scenarios of the interactions between people, space, technology, equipment, staff and patients. Invest confidently in the future knowing that your new or renovated facility will precisely meet your operational and fiscal objectives.