Founded in 1978, RBS Design Group has established a reputation for incorporating excellent service, great value, and creative designs as an award winning architectural firm of educational, religious, civic, athletic, and commercial facilities throughout Kentucky.
Our company is founded in Owensboro, Ky., by Otto M. Ranney, Architect.
Architect Otto Ranney and Architect Terry Blake formed Ranney and Blake Architects.
Ranney and Blake Architects merged with Strehl Engineering to become Ranney, Blake and Strehl Architecture and Engineering.
Mike Ranney — current Vice President and son of founder Otto Ranney — is named partner.
Architect Jim Ivy joins the firm.
Craig Thomas, current President, joins the firm.
RBS Design Group Architecture, PSC is established.
Jim Ivy and Craig Thomas buy in, becoming partners of the firm.
RBS Design Group proposed a design for a NASCAR Motor Sports Museum for the Owensboro Museum of Science and History.
Otto Ranney, founder of the firm, retires.
Terry Blake retires after 30 years.
RBS Design Group moves into its own building on Harvard Drive.
Jim Ivy retires after 27 years with the firm.
Jeanie Cannon become an Associate of the firm.
RBS opens a secondary office in Louisville, KY.