Clients

ARC has a broad range of educational and governmental clients. We have worked with 44 New Mexico public school districts, and numerous BIA schools, private schools and institutions of higher education to develop master plans and determine facility requirements. We have done master planning and programming, and comprehensive planning for numerous governmental clients at all levels such as the National Park Service, the State of New Mexico and small rural communities.

Repeat Clients
We have a proven track record and our large number of repeat clients is testimony to the quality of our work. Significantly, more than 80% of ARC's business has been for repeat clients, which include Bernalillo County, the state of New Mexico, the city of Albuquerque, the city of Las Cruces, Sandia National Laboratories, National Park Service, University of New Mexico, New Mexico State University, Dona Ana Community College, San Juan College and Albuquerque Public Schools and numerous other school districts throughout New Mexico.

Education

Since 1987, we have provided facilities and capital master planning services, as well as special studies such as ADA assessments for numerous educational clients. Over 53 K-12 public school districts, and a number of BIA and private schools in New Mexico, Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, Washington, Idaho, and Virginia, ranging in size from a few hundred students to the Albuquerque Public Schools with an enrollment of over 88,000 students, universities, junior and community colleges and technical schools in New Mexico, California, Kansas and Arizona.

Cooperative Educational Services (CES)
ARC has been a partner for the past 19 years with Cooperative Educational Services, a member-owned agency that operates under a Joint Powers Agreement authorized by the New Mexico Department of Finance and Administration. We have worked with a number of CES members on a wide variety of projects. Members can contract directly with CES for our services without the time and expense involved in issuing an RFP and separate contract.

Government

ARC's facility programming and master planning clients include county, municipal, state and federal government agencies. Our work ranges from feasibility studies and stand-alone facility programs to comprehensive agencywide facility master planning.

We have successfully completed projects for many state and federal agencies, including the Bureau of Indian Affairs, National Park Service, and the former U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (now U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement).

Community & Regional

ARC provides community planning services throughout New Mexico.

  • Communities and counties ranging from small rural villages with fewer than 100 residents to the city of Albuquerque with a population of over 800,000
  • • Native American Tribal governments
  • • Individual municipal departments with specialized needs
  • • Economic development initiatives such as New Mexico's MainStreet program

Research Institutions

ARC has extensive experience in facility planning studies for research institutions, the most notable of which is a nearly 25-year working relationship with Sandia National Laboratories (SNL).

Projects for SNL have included project funding justification studies, facilities programs and long-range campus master plans. We have contributed planning services for some of SNL's largest facility undertakings, including the Microsystems and Engineering Sciences Application facility, the Joint Computational Engineering Lab, and the Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, and have completed strategic master plans for many of the Strategic Management Units at the organization.

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