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
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
Our environmental graphic designers create easily navigable, comfortable and exciting places that express our clients� missions and strengthen their relationships with their customers. Our services include: environmental graphic design, branding/branded environments, identity/logo design, signage and wayfinding, print design, concept generation, exhibit design, 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.
Special Systems Design
RTKL's Special Systems Design Group 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.
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.
Landscape Architecture
Committed to achieving an environmentally sound, culturally informed and budget-conscious design process, RTKL's landscape architects create sensible, inspiring and memorable habitats. We offer site design, landscape design, hardscape design, water feature design, irrigation systems design, plant and materials selection, and artwork and sculpture selection services.
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.
Healthcare Technologies
RTKL delivers the industry's most comprehensive healthcare technology services--medical equipment planning, communication systems design, data center design, and facility transition management. These services respond to the increasingly complex digital demands healthcare providers face. With over 100 in-house experts, RTKL has both the knowledge and resources to attain even your most challenging clinical, operational, and financial technology goals.
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.
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.