About Us
OUR VISION
To deliver high quality, innovative building and design solutions with outstanding customer service in a supportive work environment to exceed our clients’ expectations-making us the logical choice for our partners.
We will continuously strive to exceed our clients’ expectations by partnering with them to implement effective solutions that will help them achieve their business objectives. To fulfil our mission, we will rely on our people, follow our values and utilise innovation and technology.
OUR VALUES
We value our clients, our employees and our environment. We achieve organisational excellence through the following core values:
Principles
Being honest and open. Demonstrating a caring attitude. Showing integrity. Being respectful.
Quality
Continually improving. Developing the best skills. Exceeding goals and objectives. Communicating effectively.
Responsibility
Doing what we say we will do. Ensuring safety. Striving for environmental sustainability. Building solid partnerships with our clients.
Achievement
Demonstrating competence. Recognising the success of out team members. Working as a team and sharing a desire to succeed. Supporting a positive attitude.
OUR AIMS
Our strategic aims are the tools we use to organise and focus our activities to achieve our strategic vision and mission, We will define specific objectives and targets relating to each strategic aim.
People: To recruit and retain high-quality and appropriately qualified staff in all areas of the company, to provide an effective framework for staff development, to develop good management and leadership skills and to reward good performance.
Through an annual appraisal system we identify individual development needs and provide a personal technical and professional training plan, helping each person to fulfil their potential. This ensures skill levels are strategically aligned with our client and business needs.
We work with integrity and discipline in an open and relaxed atmosphere, having a flexible team structure that enables team members to be selected specifically to suit the project in hand. Through staff training and the cross-fertilisation of ideas across the practice, an innovative, challenging and fulfilling working environment has been created.
Excellence: To provide an increasingly strong infrastructure to support RPA’s activities and enhance its reputation by utilising best practice, improving technology and providing sound cost-effective design solutions.
Partnering: To develop new projects consistent with the mission and to continue the company’s positive and open approach to partnership and collaborative work.
Financial: To secure, through robust financial management, a sustainable financial performance within margins to invest in the company’s development, driving profitability and increasing its value.
Environmental: To promote sustainable building and design methods ensuring they can continue to sustain value and quality and contribute to the community’s wellbeing.
Innovation: To ensure a high-quality service through a commitment to excellence and innovation, an up-to-date and stimulating environment, expanding areas of string demand, identifying new opportunities and keeping the programme portfolio under regular review.
OUR APPROACH
RPA understand that in a constantly evolving world it is important to provide a flexible service which can be exactly modelled to the prescribed requirements of our clients.
We continually seek to deliver professional and well-managed projects which are responsive to their environment, procured on time and within budget. To achieve this we believe it is essential to work in partnership with our clients and other disciplines.
We also believe our passion for quality in design, creativity and flexibility adds value for our clients.
The starting point for every project at RPA is always to consider the brief alongside the building’s cultural, social and historical context. Putting enormous effort into understanding the nature of the site and the needs of the building’s users, it is only from here that the design, materials and methods will be determined. Working as a team, in close collaboration with clients, consultants, contractors, and all other stakeholders the result is an original and fitting architecture.
RPA is dedicated to designing buildings that acknowledge their impact on the environment. The practice strives to produce environmentally sustainable design, using leading edge technology; adding value through imaginative, innovative and positive design solutions.
In this way, the team has successfully delivered affordable housing and private residence projects, commercial spaces and buildings for mixed, cultural and leisure uses.