Name

RK & Associates

Legal name

RK & Associates Inc

Website

https://rka-inc.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1995

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Warrenville

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Environmental Consulting Services: Professional consulting and engineering services delivered to private industries, real estate developers, waste management firms, wastewater treatment plants, law firms, and public sector clients. Services include environmental strategic solutions, air permitting, environmental site assessment, health/safety assessment, and odor control.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Core offering

RK & Associates is a Midwest environmental and engineering consulting firm that delivers professional environmental health and safety services to industrial, commercial, institutional, municipal, and public sector clients. Core offerings include environmental strategic solutions and policy assistance, air quality management (monitoring, permitting, AERMOD dispersion modeling), Phase I and II environmental site assessments, odor assessment and control strategy development using trained odor panels and olfactometry, and industrial hygiene exposure assessments and EHS compliance audits.

Product overview

RK & Associates, Inc. (RKA) is a Midwest environmental and engineering consulting firm founded in 1995, offering professional consulting services rather than a software product platform. The company's service portfolio centers on five core areas: Environmental Strategic Solutions & Policy Assistance, Environmental Management, Air Quality Management, Environmental Site Assessment, Odor Sciences, and Industrial Hygiene & Safety. These services are delivered as discrete consulting offerings to industrial, commercial, institutional, municipal, and public sector clients, rather than as a modular software platform. The firm employs over 120 professionals across offices in Illinois and Wisconsin.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Environmental Strategic Solutions & Policy Assistance

Named customers6 records

Segments7 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves3 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Direct peers

• Terracon Consultants: Terracon is an employee-owned environmental, geotechnical, and facilities engineering consultancy delivering Phase I/II ESAs, remediation, air quality, and industrial hygiene — directly overlapping RKA's five core service lines across industrial and real estate clients.
• Antea Group: Antea Group is an environmental, health, safety, and sustainability consultancy offering EHS compliance, site assessment, air permitting, and industrial hygiene services to industrial and institutional clients, closely overlapping RKA's service portfolio.
• Haley & Aldrich: Haley & Aldrich provides environmental and geotechnical engineering consulting with deep practices in site investigation, remediation, air quality, and EHS compliance for industrial, real estate, and institutional clients, similar to RKA's Midwest-focused service mix.
• Trinity Consultants: Trinity Consultants specializes in air quality, environmental permitting, dispersion modeling (BREEZE/AERMOD), and EHS compliance — directly mirroring RKA's air quality management, odor science, and industrial hygiene offerings for industrial and municipal clients.
• SCS Engineers: SCS Engineers provides environmental engineering and consulting with strong practices in solid waste, air quality, and remediation, comparable to RKA's waste-management client work, environmental site assessment, and air permitting services.

Broad incumbents

• GHD: GHD is a global engineering, environmental, and architecture consultancy with significant North American practices in air quality, site assessment, remediation, and EHS compliance, comparable to RKA's services but with broader geographic and capability reach.
• Tetra Tech: Tetra Tech is a global leader in water, environment, and sustainable infrastructure consulting, offering the full suite of services RKA provides (air quality, site assessment, remediation, EHS) but at much larger scale and with international reach.
• AECOM: AECOM is a global infrastructure consulting firm with major environmental services practices spanning air quality, site assessment, remediation, and EHS audits, representing the largest-scale competition for mid-sized regional environmental consultancies like RKA.
• ERM (Environmental Resources Management): ERM is a global pure-play environmental, health, safety, and sustainability consultancy serving industrial and financial-sector clients with air permitting, site assessment, and EHS services that directly overlap RKA's portfolio at much larger scale.
• Arcadis: Arcadis is a global design, engineering, and environmental consulting firm providing air quality, remediation, EHS, and sustainability services across industrial, municipal, and real estate sectors, competing with RKA especially on larger integrated programs.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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