The year was 1969. After chairing Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley's blue-ribbon panel investigating the cause of the McCormick Place fire, Rolf Jensen was approached by two major architectural firms to help them comply with building codes.

He responded by opening the first office of Rolf Jensen & Associates in Chicago. Created to assist architects, engineers , owners and developers with their code compliance challenges, the practice grew dramatically and quickly.

Original logo for Rolf Jensen & Associates, Inc.

Jensen pioneered the fire protection engineer profession and presided over the evolution of RJA into the leading provider of consulting servcies until his retirement in 1994.

Today, 35 years later, Martin Reiss has transformed RJA into a professional consulting firm providing the most complete offering of life safety and fire protection engineering services.

From the single office in Chicago to seventeen offices across the country and in China, one thing hasn't changed since 1969, the firm's client-first mission is still...

"technical excellence and fast response."