PKA Architects

What PKA Architects does

PKA Architects is a privately held professional services corporation founded in 1980 and headquartered in Portland, Oregon, specializing exclusively in healthcare architecture and medical planning. The firm employs approximately 40 staff, including architects, interior designers, production staff, and administrative support, and serves healthcare systems, hospitals, and medical facilities across the Pacific Northwest (Oregon and Washington). Its client base includes major regional health systems such as OHSU, Providence Health & Services, Kaiser Permanente, PeaceHealth, Legacy Health, Adventist Health Portland, Columbia Memorial Hospital, and Trios Health, with several relationships spanning multiple decades.

PKA's service offerings cover the full lifecycle of healthcare facility design, including medical planning, hospital design and expansion, medical office buildings, cancer treatment centers, surgical suites and cath labs, outpatient and behavioral health facilities, and healthcare-focused interior design. Its technology stack is centered on BIM/Revit and AutoCAD for construction documentation, supported by an internal Revit standards team and proprietary CAD standards documentation. The firm holds domain-specific credentials across its team, including AIA, NCIDQ, LEED AP, ACHA, and EDAC certifications, and has been recognized with awards from the AIA, Modern Healthcare, ENR Northwest, the Daily Journal of Commerce, and Kaiser Permanente.

PKA generates revenue through project-based professional services fees negotiated per engagement, with pricing determined by scope, complexity, and size. Go-to-market is direct enterprise engagement with healthcare system executives, hospital administration, and clinical stakeholders; the firm does not advertise consumer-facing channels and is not currently hiring. Ownership is led by President/Owner Josh Kolberg, with no disclosed institutional investors, parent company, or M&A activity. The firm operates exclusively within the Pacific Northwest from its single Portland headquarters.

Name

PKA Architects

Legal name

PKA Architects P.C. AIA

Website

https://pkaarchitects.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1980

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

PKA Architects is a Portland, Oregon-based healthcare architecture firm founded in 1980 with about 40 staff, providing medical planning, design, and interior design services exclusively to Pacific Northwest health systems, hospitals, and medical facilities.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Healthcare Architecture Services

NAICS

Architectural Services (541310), Architectural Services (54131), Interior Design Services (541410)

akta.pro primary industry

Healthcare Facility Construction (Hospitals, Clinics, Labs) (IMAFACAD)

Keywords

• Healthcare architecture services
• Medical facility design
• Hospital planning design
• Medical office building design
• Healthcare interior design

Headquarters

HQ city

Portland

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Architecture and Design Services: PKA Architects provides professional architectural services for healthcare facilities including medical planning, design, and coordination. Revenue is generated through project-based fees for architectural services on healthcare construction, renovation, and tenant improvement projects.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

PKA Architects is a healthcare-exclusive architecture firm that delivers comprehensive architectural and medical planning services for hospitals, medical office buildings, cancer treatment centers, surgical suites, outpatient clinics, and behavioral health facilities. The firm combines medical planning, architectural design, and interior design to create healing environments for healthcare systems and hospitals. Services span new construction, expansions, renovations, and tenant improvements, supported by in-house BIM/Revit and AutoCAD construction documentation capabilities.

Product overview

PKA Architects is a healthcare-focused architecture firm offering a unified set of design and planning services rather than a modular software product. Their core offering is comprehensive healthcare architecture and design services, which encompass medical planning, interior design, and construction documentation across various project types including hospitals, medical office buildings, cancer treatment centers, surgical suites, outpatient clinics, and behavioral health facilities. All services are delivered through their team of 40 architects, interior designers, and production staff based in Portland, Oregon. The firm does not offer a SaaS platform, API, or downloadable product—they provide professional architecture and design services exclusively for healthcare projects.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Healthcare Architecture and Design Services

Quantifiable outcome

• Emergency department design enables patients to reach treatment rooms within 10 minutes of registration
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers14 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Partnerships

25 partnerships are on record, tiered core, major and supporting.

• OHSU (Oregon Health & Science University)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerLong-standing partnership with OHSU spanning multiple decades and projects including OHSU Center for Health and Healing, OHSU Kohler Pavilion, OHSU Center for Women's Health, OHSU Knight Cancer Center, and multiple tenant improvements. PKA designed the medical planning and tenant improvement design for the Knight Cancer Institute's Inpatient Oncology Department.
• Providence Health & ServicescoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerOngoing partnership with Providence on multiple projects including Providence Willamette Falls Oncology TI, Providence Brain + Spine Institute, Providence Heart + Vascular Institute: Basecamp, Providence Progress Ridge, and Providence Tanasbourne Clinic.
• Kaiser PermanentecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerMajor partnership with Kaiser Permanente on multiple facilities including Westside Medical Center (with Ellerbe Becket), Beaverton Medical + Dental Building (with HMC Architects), Kaiser Permanente Tanasbourne, and Integrated Pediatric Care. Won 2019 Kaiser Permanente Design Excellence Award.
• PeaceHealthcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerLong-term partnership with PeaceHealth including PeaceHealth St. John Medical Surgery Remodel (with JE Dunn), PeaceHealth St. John's Lakefront MOB, and PeaceHealth Hybrid OR at Southwest Medical Center.
• Legacy HealthcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership on Unity Center for Behavioral Health (collaboration with Adventist Health, Kaiser Permanente, and OHSU) and St. Helens Medical Office Building (with 3S Development).
• Adventist Health PortlandcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPKA has been architect of record for Adventist Health Portland for over 30 years. Projects include AHPL Outpatient Pavilion, AHPL Interventional Cardiology, Adventist Parkrose Medical Plaza, and Unity Center for Behavioral Health.
• Columbia Memorial HospitalcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership on CMH-OHSU Knight Cancer Collaborative comprehensive cancer treatment center in Astoria, Oregon, bringing radiation therapy services to the North Coast region.
• HMC ArchitectsmajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaborative partnership on Beaverton Medical & Dental Office project (won 2019 Kaiser Permanente Design Excellence Award) and other healthcare projects.
• Sky Lakes Medical CentercoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership on Sky Lakes Medical Center Kitchen/Dining Remodel and Sky Lakes Collaborative Health Center (nearly 100,000 SF facility).
• PAE EngineerssupportingTechnology or IntegrationDesign partner on Providence Willamette Falls Short Stay Unit Expansion project.
• KPFFsupportingTechnology or IntegrationEngineering design partner on Providence Willamette Falls Short Stay Unit Expansion project.
• Tenor EngineeringsupportingTechnology or IntegrationEngineering design partner on Providence Willamette Falls Short Stay Unit Expansion project.
• Pathway DesignsupportingTechnology or IntegrationDesign partner on Providence Willamette Falls Short Stay Unit Expansion project.
• Lease Crutcher LewissupportingImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerGeneral contractor on Providence Willamette Falls Short Stay Unit Expansion (completed on time and under budget).
• ZIBA DesignsupportingStrategic or Co-development PartnerDesign collaboration with ZIBA Design on Providence Heart + Vascular Institute: Basecamp project.
• LH DesignssupportingStrategic or Co-development PartnerDesign collaboration on Providence Heart + Vascular Institute: Basecamp project.
• LRS ArchitectssupportingStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaboration on Providence Willamette Falls Medical Office Building project.
• SERA ArchitectssupportingStrategic or Co-development PartnerSERA Architects led the project with PKA providing medical planning services for The Portland Clinic - Northeast.
• Trios HealthcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPKA led master planning and site selection for Trios Southridge Hospital, including significant financial negotiations for state and federal grants. Third in a three-campus project for Trios Health.
• Grande Ronde HospitalcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerLong-term partnership on Grande Ronde Regional Medical Plaza (doubled existing building to 27,500 SF) and Grande Ronde Hospital Surgery Expansion including five state-of-the-art operating rooms.
• Ellerbe Becket ArchitectssupportingStrategic or Co-development PartnerTeaming partnership on Kaiser Permanente Westside Medical Center project in Hillsboro.
• GBD ArchitectssupportingStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership on OHSU Center for Health and Healing project.
• Clackamas Community CollegesupportingStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership hosting Clackamas Free Clinic (Volunteers in Medicine) on the college campus, providing healthcare opportunities for students and community.
• JE DunnsupportingImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerGeneral contractor partner on PeaceHealth St. John Medical Surgery Remodel project.
• 3S DevelopmentsupportingStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership with 3S Development on St. Helens Medical Office Building for Legacy Health.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• HKS Inc. Major national architecture firm widely recognized for healthcare design. Competes for large hospital and health system projects that PKA's regional scale prevents it from pursuing.
• Perkins&Will: Large global architecture firm with one of the largest dedicated healthcare practices. Operates in the same healthcare architecture category as PKA but at much greater scale and geographic reach, frequently competing for flagship hospital commissions.
• SmithGroup: National integrated design firm with a dedicated healthcare practice delivering hospital, medical office, and ambulatory care projects. Operates in the same healthcare architecture category as PKA but at larger scale and broader geography.
• CannonDesign: National architecture, engineering, and design firm with a strong healthcare practice serving health systems across the U.S. Direct competitor for healthcare design commissions where clients require multi-office, multi-disciplinary capacity.
• HDR Inc. Global design and engineering firm with a substantial healthcare architecture practice that competes for hospital and health system master planning and design commissions across the U.S.

Direct peers

• GBD Architects: Portland-based architecture firm that partnered with PKA on the OHSU Center for Health and Healing project. Comparable in healthcare project delivery and Pacific Northwest market presence.
• ZGF Architects: Major Pacific Northwest-based architecture firm with a substantial healthcare practice and offices in Portland and Seattle. Comparable to PKA in scale, regional dominance, and focus on complex institutional projects including healthcare facilities.
• SERA Architects: Portland-based architecture firm that has directly partnered with PKA on The Portland Clinic project. Operates in overlapping healthcare and commercial verticals in the same Pacific Northwest market.
• LRS Architects: Portland-based architecture firm with healthcare experience that has collaborated with PKA on Providence Willamette Falls Medical Office Building. Directly comparable in regional healthcare architecture market.
• HMC Architects: Healthcare-focused architecture firm that has directly partnered with PKA on Kaiser Permanente projects including the award-winning Beaverton Medical & Dental Building. Highly comparable in healthcare architecture specialization and Pacific Northwest presence.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles20 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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