Who We Are

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.

Timeline

1978

Company Founded

Our company is founded in Owensboro, Ky., by Otto M. Ranney, Architect.

1979

Ranney and Blake Architects

Architect Otto Ranney and Architect Terry Blake formed Ranney and Blake Architects.

1984

Ranney and Blake Architects merged with Strehl Engineering to become Ranney, Blake and Strehl Architecture and Engineering.

1984

Mike Ranney Becomes Partner

Mike Ranney — current Vice President and son of founder Otto Ranney — is named partner.

1984

Jim Ivy Joins Firm

Architect Jim Ivy joins the firm.

1991

Craig Thomas Joins Firm

Craig Thomas, current President, joins the firm.

1995

Company Name Change

RBS Design Group Architecture, PSC is established.

1995

Ivy and Thomas Become Partners

Jim Ivy and Craig Thomas buy in, becoming partners of the firm.

1998

RBS Design Group proposed a design for a NASCAR Motor Sports Museum for the Owensboro Museum of Science and History.

2006

Otto Ranney Retires

Otto Ranney, founder of the firm, retires.

2009

Terry Blake retires after 30 years.

2009

RBS Design Group moves into its own building on Harvard Drive.

2015

Jim Ivy retires after 27 years with the firm.

2020

Cannon Becomes Associate

Jeanie Cannon become an Associate of the firm.

2021

Second Office Location

RBS opens a secondary office in Louisville, KY.