"Most people never think about where a desk lives on a map. RSC thinks about little else."
RSC - short for Robert Stephen Consulting LLC - is not a household name, and that is rather the point. It works in the basement of the modern enterprise: the systems that track every room, lease, asset and work order across a real estate portfolio. The category has an unlovely acronym, IWMS - Integrated Workplace Management Systems - and an even less lovely cousin, CAFM. RSC made a career of both.
Bob Stephen founded the firm in February 2000, bringing thirty-plus years across the facilities industry and design. He is Archibus certified in four disciplines: Real Property & Lease, Space Management, Asset Management, and Building Operations. The credentials matter because the work is unforgiving - a database of 800 buildings is only as good as the survey behind it.
The firm's signature feat reads like a logistics riddle: field-survey, AutoCAD-draft and populate an Archibus database covering 800 buildings, 4.4 million square feet, across 600 sites throughout California - and synchronize it with PeopleSoft. It is the kind of project that wins no design awards and earns total, grudging respect from anyone who has tried it.
RSC grew from a Bay Area shop into a multi-state practice, with footprints in San Ramon and Los Angeles, California, and Phoenix, Arizona. In 2015 it rebranded from "Robert Stephen Consulting, LLC" to the cleaner "RSC." The work, though, never changed: make the building tell the truth.
