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RDK Hosts Lean Design Charette

Recently, RDK Engineers participated in a half-day Lean workshop in our Andover office.  The workshop was facilitated by the dynamic and talented team of Kelly Meade and Lisa Turturro, both of Haley & Aldrich.  Below are some highlights of the day's events. What is Lean?At its core, Lean is a philosophy that seeks to increase customer value and... Read More

RDK Gets into the Holiday Spirit

For the past 10 years, RDK Engineers has been a proud supporter of Santa Clause Anonymous, a non-profit fund-raising organization that supports programs dedicated to the educational, social and character development of youth in the Greater Boston Area. This year, RDK sponsored and decorated several Christmas trees for Santa Clause Anonymous' 25th A... Read More

What is happening at RDK?

RDK Engineers has completed work on the Department of Environmental Protection's William X. Wall Experiment Station.  RDK served as MEP/FP design engineer for the project, which involved extensive renovations to the lab facility, as well as construction of a new 11,400 SF state-of-the-art laboratory addition.  Perkins+Will served as the project arc... Read More

Technology Design Group "Tech Tip"

This "Tech-Tip" is provided by the Technology Design Group at RDK Engineers in an effort to assist Architects in space planning for integrated design of technology driven systems. Today's RDK-TD "Tech-Tip"- Equipment Racks EQUIPMENT RACKS: Why Pre-Planning is Key!You've all been there. You're at a schematic design level meeting with the owner's Inf... Read More

RDK Celebrates Several Grand Openings

The summer and fall have been a busy time for RDK Engineers as many of our project teams celebrated the official opening of several projects. RDK provided LEED commissioning services for the new 34,000 square foot New Boston District B-2 Police Station in Dudley Square, which celebrated its official ribbon cutting on July 30.  The building is on tr... Read More

RDK Welcomes Bill Leuci and David Courtemanche

RDK welcomes Bill Leuci as a new Group Leader and Vice President in the Boston office.  Specializing in laboratories, pharmaceutical facilities, data centers and power systems, Bill will focus his efforts on continuing to deliver world-class consulting services to Fortune 100 clients.   Bill's other areas of specialty include business continuity, ... Read More

Evolution (or Substitution?) of AEC Design Art

Author:  Dan Villeneuve, Design Technology Manager/BIM Manager As a guru of all things Autodesk and lover of Design Technology, I have come to realize that the required tool for our industry is a longer list of software than ever before.  It made me think back to when I was first interested in buildings as a boy, sketching the Gore Estate on my ske... Read More

Boston Business Journal Honors RDK's Laura DePalma

Laura DePalma, RDK Principal and CFO, is a winner at the Boston Business Journal's Annual CFO of the Year Awards!  Laura, who was triumphant in the Midsized Private category, was part of a diverse group of winners that included CFOs from Suffolk Construction, the New England Aquarium, and Atlas Ventures.  An accompanying article in the Boston Busi... Read More

Take a Moment to Stop and Smell the Buildings

Author: James Koloski, Business Development Manager Every day I pass the Kennedy Library and don't give it much thought.  I've been in the facility dozens of times since it opened, on field trips in school, or more recently for fundraisers.  Last week, my son asked me what the building was when we passed it on the Expressway.  A long conversation f... Read More

RDK: Shining Twice on the Same Building 80 Years Later

When reviewing the existing conditions of the historic Cambridge Police Station in preparation for a planned renovation, RDK Engineers Project Manager David Ellowitz got a sense of deja vu.  Finegold Alexander + Associates Inc, the Boston architecture firm who is leading the renovation, shared the original 1930s building plans, and upon review Ell... Read More

The Revit Dilemma

Author:Cedric Mukania, Plumbing Engineer Active BIM Engineer Working on BIM Projects Revit, the AutoCAD product, is a great design tool for the AEC Industry. Notice I said design, not building. Unfortunately for every pro, there is a con. With Revit, the pros certainly outweigh the cons. However, the cons of Revit simply can't be ignored. Revit can... Read More

MEP/FP Reflections

Welcome to RDK's newest addition to our website...the RDK Blog.  Though I'm an engineer by trade, I am going to try my hand at this blogging thing.  I figure this might be a place where we can share a little wisdom, or maybe even vent a bit when there's something I think we, in the AEC Industry, need to discuss.  I am hoping this is a place where p... Read More

It's May at RDK

RDK People on the Move... Even though it has been raining for weeks in our RDK Massachusetts locations, it feels decidedly sunny for several RDK leaders. Principal Kim Sousa, RDK's Director of Marketing and Business Development, was recently awarded by Consulting-Specifying Engineer as a recipient of their 2011 40 Under 40 Award. This award is giv... Read More

RDK Engineers helps bring Rex Healthcare closer to home for Holly Springs Resident

RALEIGH, NC (NOVEMBER 1, 2010) - RDK Engineers (RDK) has joined forces with BJAC Architects and Duke Realty Construction to begin work on a new medical office building in Holly Springs, NC for Rex Healthcare. RDK will provide Mechanical, Electrical, Plumbing, Tel Data, and Fire Protection engineering services for the project. This is an exciting a... Read More