Ruiz Larrea Arquitectura S.l.p.

Name

Ruiz Larrea Arquitectura S.l.p.

Legal name

Ruiz Larrea Arquitectura S.L.P.

Website

https://ruizlarrea.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1984

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Architectural Services

NAICS

Architectural Services (54131), Architectural Services (541310), Architectural, Engineering, and Related Services (5413)

SIC

Services-Engineering, Accounting, Research, Management (8700)

akta.pro primary industry

Architectural Design Services (BPAHAKAA)

akta.pro secondary industry

Residential Design-Build & Renovation-Integrated Builders (IMAFABAE)

Keywords

• Sustainable architecture services
• Bioclimatic building design
• Passivhaus rehabilitation
• Urban planning services
• Asset transformation architecture

Headquarters

HQ city

Las Rozas De Madrid

HQ country

Spain

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Supply Chain, Others

Revenue model

1. Architecture and Design Services: Full-service architecture firm providing comprehensive architectural design and project management for residential, commercial, hospitality, healthcare, office, and public sector projects. Revenue is generated through professional service fees on a project-by-project basis, typically for new construction, rehabilitation, and asset transformation engagements.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Ruiz Larrea Arquitectura provides full-service architectural design, urban planning, and project management for new construction, rehabilitation, and asset transformation projects across residential, hospitality, corporate office, healthcare, retail, and public-sector buildings. The firm specializes in sustainable and bioclimatic architecture certified under Passivhaus, BREEAM, WELL, LEED, and VERDE standards, and delivers services from conceptual design through construction oversight to corporate, government, and developer clients in Spain and internationally.

Product overview

Ruiz Larrea Arquitectura S.l.p. is an architecture firm offering comprehensive architectural and project management services. The portfolio includes specialized services in sustainable/bioclimatic architecture with certifications including Passivhaus, BREEAM, VERDE, WELL, and LEED. The company operates through its R&D laboratory R_lab and recently launched ACTIA, a joint venture with Certis for industrialized wood construction. Services span new construction and rehabilitation of residential, hospitality, office, retail, and public facility projects.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• R_lab: R&D+i laboratory for sustainable architecture research and innovation

Products and services

• Obra nueva (New Construction)

Quantifiable outcome

• First Passivhaus office rehabilitation in Madrid (Castellana 19), reducing energy demand by up to 80% compared to traditional offices
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers9 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• ACTIA (Ruiz-Larrea + Certis)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 3 October 2024Ruiz-Larrea and Certis Constructora co-founded ACTIA in October 2024, a company dedicated to the design, manufacture, and assembly of industrialized wood buildings. ACTIA operates from a 16,000 m² factory near Zaragoza, Spain, and offers an integral construction system covering the entire building cycle from design to turnkey delivery. The partnership combines Certis's 50 years of construction experience with Ruiz-Larrea's 40 years of bioclimatic architecture expertise.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Arup: Global engineering and architecture firm with deep sustainability, Passivhaus, and BREEAM expertise; competes for the same enterprise and hospitality clients but operates at vastly greater scale and across all geographies.
• Perkins&Will: Global architecture firm with leading WELL, LEED, and sustainability practices serving healthcare, corporate, and education clients — a comparable large incumbent in the same sustainable-certification design space.
• Foster + Partners: Internationally renowned architecture practice with established sustainable and heritage-rehabilitation credentials; represents the global-tier competitor for high-prestige European projects Ruiz Larrea also targets.
• SOM (Skidmore, Owings & Merrill): Global architecture and engineering firm with extensive sustainable design credentials; relevant comparator for tier-1 multinational corporate and hospitality commissions that overlap with Ruiz Larrea's enterprise segment.

Direct peers

• IDOM: Spanish-headquartered multinational engineering, architecture, and consulting firm with strong sustainable building and rehabilitation practices across Iberia and Europe — the most direct comparable in scale, geography, and service mix to Ruiz Larrea.
• OAB (Office of Architecture in Barcelona): Catalan architecture firm co-led by Carlos Ferrater; collaborated with Ruiz Larrea on The Madrid Edition, indicating directly overlapping design philosophy, hospitality expertise, and Iberian market focus.
• Rafael de La-Hoz Arquitectos: Spanish architecture firm with a similarly long heritage of large-scale commercial, corporate, and sustainable design in Madrid, directly overlapping with Ruiz Larrea's enterprise and hospitality client base.
• RCR Arquitectes: Catalan architecture practice (Pritzker Prize winner) known for sustainable design and material innovation, offering a directly comparable Iberian architecture peer with strong brand recognition.
• Miralles Tagliabue EMBT: Barcelona-based architecture studio with a comparable portfolio in cultural, public, and adaptive-reuse projects in Spain and internationally, sharing similar scale and award-driven positioning.

Emerging players

• BIG (Bjarke Ingels Group): Globally recognized architecture firm with strong sustainable-design brand and increasing activity in Europe; competes for high-prestige sustainable architecture commissions across corporate and hospitality segments.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks4 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/ruiz-larrea-arquitectura-sostenible

Compliance7 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles8 records

Subsidiaries2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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