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May 10, 2012
Mason City Federal Avenue Streetscape and Plaza: A Main Street Iowa Award Winner
RDG Planning & Design received recognition from Main Street Iowa at the 2012 Main Street Iowa Award ceremony on May 4, 2012 in Des Moines, Iowa. Representatives from RDG Planning & Design and the city of Mason City were on hand to accept the award for a Public Improvement Project for the design of the Federal Avenue Streetscape and Plaza in Mason City, Iowa.
April 16, 2012
Under the name, "regional sustainability plan," HUD has charged communities and regions across the country with the critical work of shaping a future that is both vibrant and lasting.
Well before HUD found funding for this work, RDG has been helping community's craft their own vision for sustainable regional plans. These plans have been built with a solid foundation of rich public engagement around a broad scope of economic, social, and natural resource factors.
read more...January 27, 2012
Des Moines Water Works, working in partnership with Iowa State University Department of Landscape Architecture, officially announced in a January 25th press release that the collaborative team of Sasaki Associates, RDG Planning & Design and Applied Ecological Services has been selected as the winner of the Water Works Park Parkitecture Competition.
read more...March 31, 2011
The High Trestle Trail Bridge Artwork - an example of RDG's collaborative design process.
read more...March 29, 2011
Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield Corporate Office Receives LEED® Platinum Environmental Rating
Des Moines, IA - RDG Planning & Design is proud to announce that the Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield Corporate Office project achieved LEED® Platinum under the US Green Building Council (USGBC) new construction rating system. It is the first and only LEED Platinum project for new construction in Des Moines and at 852,000 square feet, is the only LEED Platinum for new construction certified office building of its size in the world.
read more...May 22, 2010
Design is our business, people are our passion.
As a corporation, we can only provide as much value to our projects and our community as the value our employees create. As the recipient of the 2010 top 5 Best Places to Work award among Omaha's medium-sized companies, RDG is honored to accept this award that coins us "one of the best in Omaha".
read more...May 4, 2010
RDG Planning & Design is the recipient of SIX lighting design awards presented at the 2010 Illuminating Engineering Society's (IES) banquet in Minneapolis / St. Paul on April 13, 2010. IES Illumination Awards (formerly the International Illumination Design Awards) provides a unique opportunity for public recognition of the professionalism, ingenuity, and originality in lighting design based upon the individual merit of each entry judged against specific criteria.
read more...January 8, 2010
Des Moines, IA - January, 2010 Athletic Business Magazine selected the University of Florida Heavener Football Complex Expansion to receive their distinguished Facility of Merit Award - One of only ten awards given in 2009. This LEED Platinum facility serves the national championship football program of the University of Florida. RDG and the University were publicly honored at Athletic Business' national conference in Orlando, December 4, 2009, and this facility is featured in the December 2009 issue of Athletic Business. One of the jurors commented, "Nicely integrated into the football stadium, it holds its own, and certainly sets the tone for the importance of the football program."
read more...October 7, 2009
OMAHA, NE--AIA Nebraska held its 2009 Excellence in Design Awards Banquet Sept. 24th in Lincoln. The contest Jury chose the winning projects from among 70 entries by Nebraska architects. RDG Planning & Design had an excellent showing winning 5 awards in 3 categories. Congratulations to the RDG team members responsible for the outstanding projects. These achievements were in pursuit of the lofty goal of bettering our communities with socially relevant architecture. Most importantly, these projects met the needs of our clients and function well for their intended purposes.
read more...June 11, 2009
Des Moines, IA - May, 2009: The University of Florida has a new eco-friendly, highly sustainable, athletic-focused, Gator recruiting magnet. Better know to all as the Heavener Football Complex. The USGBC knows it as its newest PLATINUM certified building. This building is in great company with other highly sustainable facilities, and it is now on a very short list of greatly acclaimed structures. As one of 141 Platinum buildings worldwide, it appears to be the only athletic facility to have achieved this recognition, and the first platinum building in the State of Florida.
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