RGS Associates

Opportunities to foster health and wellness can be practiced beyond the walls of a medical center.

As part of Lankenau Medical Center’s master plan expansion, RGS Associates designed a half-acre, year-round organic garden that supports nutrition, education, and restorative experiences.

A productive, sustainable landscape was created by including:

- Raised beds
- A greenhouse
- An outdoor classroom
- A pavilion
- On-site composting
- Efficient irrigation

The garden also provides hands-on learning opportunities for approximately 10,000 visiting children each year, while offering patients, visitors, and staff a welcoming place to pause, connect, and recharge.

Learn more about our approach and see how thoughtful landscape architecture helped cultivate wellness and strengthen community connection:

https://rgsassociates.com/project/lankenau-medical-center-wellness-garden/

Strong projects depend on civil engineering that addresses technical complexity while supporting long-term functionality.

RGS Associates integrates utility and roadway infrastructure, stormwater management and conveyance, floodplain considerations, and land development requirements into practical, buildable solutions.

Each project is approached with collaboration, efficiency, and a clear understanding of how thoughtful development can maximize investment, support environmental performance, and strengthen the communities it serves.

Learn more about our civil engineering services that help move projects forward:

https://tinyurl.com/civil-engineering-rgs

What shapes a first impression?

At Harriton Farm, that question found an answer rooted in history, the landscape, and a carefully planned sense of arrival.

RGS helped integrate seven historic buildings into a community of 28 new single-family homes across the 55-acre property, while preserving sensitive site features and creating an open-space network of natural areas, walking trails, and passive recreation spaces.

The carefully planned approach, garden design, and integration of historic structures with new homes work together to create an experience that feels welcoming, cohesive, and connected to its surroundings.

Explore how thoughtful land planning and landscape architecture helped create a lasting first impression:

🔗 https://tinyurl.com/rgs-first-impressions

Strong site design begins with knowing how a campus functions on a daily basis.

For Kendal at Longwood Health Center, RGS Associates brought landscape architecture and civil engineering together to support a more connected residential living and care experience for residents, staff, and visitors.

Through collaboration with Kendal~Crosslands Communities and Lenhardt Rodgers Architecture + Interiors, the project balanced stormwater, grading, access, walking paths and outdoor spaces with the daily needs of the campus community.

🔗 Read the full feature at the RGS website:

https://tinyurl.com/rgs-testimonial-kendal

Project Spotlight | Culliton Park

In the City of Lancaster, Culliton Park shows how thoughtful site design can support recreation, accessibility, and environmental performance in one shared public space.

RGS Associates worked alongside the City of Lancaster and neighborhood stakeholders to help reimagine an existing 3.75 acre park with:

- Accessible pathway improvements
- Recreational amenities upgrades
- Public art
- Stormwater improvements
- Pollinator-friendly plantings
- Improved lighting
- Gathering spaces for the community

The project reflects a careful balance of community revitalization, green infrastructure, and long-term public health benefits.

🔗 https://tinyurl.com/rgs-culliton-park

Recent graduates and early-career professionals can build meaningful experience with a team that brings landscape architecture and civil engineering together.

RGS Associates is hiring for entry-level roles supporting site design, land development, permitting, and field coordination for projects that help shape communities across the region.

If you’re ready to contribute, grow, and work alongside experienced professionals, see current opportunities at our website and apply today!

🔗 https://tinyurl.com/rgs-entry-level-careers

The strongest design solutions begin with understanding the land and its impact on design outcomes.

Before a project moves forward, a strong site analysis and sound land planning helps define what is possible, what challenges need to be addressed, and how each site can support long-term project goals.

RGS Associates brings this perspective to early planning through site evaluation, permitting coordination, infrastructure planning, circulation and growth strategies. This process helps create a practical framework that guides stronger design decisions.

🔗 See how land planning supports the full range of RGS services:

https://tinyurl.com/land-planning-rgs

Project Spotlight | The Courts at Spring Mill Station

In Whitemarsh Township, a former industrial site was reimagined as a connected, transit-oriented community with direct access to Spring Mill Train Station and the Schuylkill River Trail.

RGS Associates supported The Courts at Spring Mill Station through land planning, landscape architecture, and garden design. These efforts helped shape amenity courtyards, streetscapes, gathering areas, and outdoor spaces that serve both residents and the surrounding community.

🔗 See more project details at the RGS website: https://bit.ly/4fpKTf5

This Fourth of July, RGS joins our communities in recognizing 250 years of independence across the shared spaces, public places, and local landscapes that will bring people together throughout the holiday weekend.

Wishing everyone a safe, meaningful, and memorable Independence Day. 🇺🇸

For Kendal at Longwood Health Center, thoughtful site design helps support more than access and infrastructure by shaping a more connected experience of care.

RGS Associates collaborated with Kendal-Crosslands Communities and Lenhardt Rodgers Architecture + Interiors to help create a setting where outdoor spaces, walking paths, and arrival areas are integrated into daily life for residents, staff, and visitors.

The result reflects a careful balance of technical site solutions, resident-centered design, and a campus character that feels natural and connected.

Find the full feature in the Newsroom at the RGS website to see how site design helped support care delivery and a stronger sense of place:

https://rgsassociates.com/2026/06/15/kendal-at-longwood-health-center-site-design-supports-connected-care-experience/