About RGS Design Studio
RGS Design Studio, Inc. is a full-service design firm founded by Ren Santizo in 2002
dedicated to plan development for residential, commercial, and light industrial projects. Its strength resides in working with building departments and other professionals in obtaining entitlements for residences and varied structures.
RGS offers
project pre-assessment, conceptual planning, construction documentation, project administration, and consultancy. Its expertise encompasses multifamily residential, ADU's, tenant improvements, restaurant design, fire-reconstruction, retrofits, renovations, landscape design, and abating Code Compliance cases. We work exhaustively to meet the requirements stipulated by any agency and building code.
The Team
RGS team is comprised of principal Ren Santizo, drafters, an office assistant, and associates Structural, Civil / EMP engineers doing the support analysis. We produce and coordinate the needed documentation and work with builders during the planning phase for a fluid process.
REN SANTIZO
Principal Designer has over 25 years' experience in architecture, background work experience in Advertising & Graphic Design, assistant and field inspector for electric engineers doing medical institutions. After his tenure at an architectural firm in California doing residential and commercial projects, he founded RGS in 2002. He is a dedicated, hard-working, perfectionist, and progressive innovator.
QUALIFICATIONS:
Alumni of School of Architecture -USAC University of San Carlos, Guatemala City, his course of study covers Architecture, Interior Design, and Construction Technology, he earned an Associates in Science Architecture
from Ventura College in Ventura, California, and took private studies in Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design. He was affiliated member of the USGBC C-4 regional chapter from 2007 -2010.
He has conducted travel-studies through Spain, Italy, France, North Africa, and Mexico in diverse architectural styles, and has used empirical structural analysis in his work for 15 years.
