RGA Ofc-Architectural Design

For nearly three decades, RGA, Office of Architectural Design, Inc. has been a leading architectural practice in Southern and Central California, Arizona, and Texas. Our firm has established itself as a regional leader in the California industrial market, with a high level of principal involvement, providing clients with well-designed projects, a responsive delivery approach, and comprehensive construction documentation.

Our History

Founded in 1992 by Dennis Roy and Mike Gill, RGA has a rich history of providing outstanding architectural services to our clients. Prior to forming RGA, Dennis and Mike were managing directors at another California-based architecture firm. The firm opened its office in downtown Long Beach, CA, where it developed a small practice focused on office and industrial work, as well as port terminal projects at the nearby Port of Long Beach. In 2001, the firm relocated to Irvine, CA to bring it closer to its regional and institutional clients, as well as to the expanding industrial market in the Inland Empire. Over the next two decades, the office and staff grew as RGA's reputation and client relationships continued to thrive. In 2015, Chris Savage, a long-time employee, was brought in as a Partner and Associate Principal to ensure the continuation of the firm into the next generation of leadership. In 2018, Dennis Roy stepped back from day-to-day involvement in the firm practice, and Chris Savage and Mike Gill continued as the current and active Principals and Partners.

Our Expertise

RGA specializes in industrial work of all types, from light industrial business parks to million-square-foot-plus distribution centers. We have extensive experience in warehouse logistics and E-commerce fulfillment centers, food processing facilities, cold storage buildings, manufacturing plants, and transfer hubs for global couriers such as UPS and FedEx. As part of this work, RGA also frequently works on the interior tenant improvement scope, ranging from highly specialized improvements for sophisticated automated facility operators to corporate headquarters offices and flexible office spaces delivered to speculatively. Our office TI projects often range from 500 square feet to 50,000 square feet. We have also completed design and construction documents for hundreds of millions of square feet of building development in our nearly 30-year history and have master-planned many thousands of acres in the development pipeline for our clients.

Our Services

At RGA, we offer a complete range of architectural services, including:

• Master Planning
• Site Planning
• Programming
• Space Planning
• Schematic Design
• EIR Support
• Documentation
• Construction Documents
• Architectural, Structural, Mechanical, Plumbing, Electrical, and Landscape (consultant services)
• Sustainable / LEED Design
• City Approval Processing
• Construction Site Observation & Administration
• Sustainability

Our Sustainability Expertise

RGA was an early adopter of the USGBC LEED rating program. Our first LEED project, the Contessa Foods project completed in 2006, was the first LEED Certified frozen food processing facility in the country and was awarded the Gold Certification level. Since then, RGA has designed and completed approximately 50 LEED Certified projects totaling over 25 million square feet, with another dozen LEED projects in the pipeline. Our projects have achieved certification levels from basic Certified all the way to Platinum ratings, in both the New Construction and Core & Shell ratings programs.