Our History

RA Consulting was started in 2009 after President Rod Shreckengost decided to leave Intertex General Contractors after almost 22 years with the company. The first project taken on by RA Consulting was the close out of the Real Life Church's main building in Valencia, CA which was designed by Taylor Teter Architects out of Fresno, CA and constructed by Vision Builders out of Los Angeles, CA. Real Life Church is now a loyal client with more projects slated for the near future. That first project at Real Life Church led to several small projects and then the doors opened at Grace Baptists Church in Santa Clarita, CA to manage the construction of the Parking Expansion project. That project was designed by Jensen Design out of Ventura, CA and was run with RA Consulting acting as Construction Manager. Grace Baptist Church is now a regular client of RA Consulting with plans for an upcoming remodel project.

• Rod Shreckengost, President

  Rod learned construction literally from the ground up. Working with his father, Charles Shreckengost, he built churches in Southern Oregon, constructing the buildings from the foundation to the roof and doing all the work in between.
  
  Rod originally came to California in 1983 to pastor a small church in North Edwards, CA. Then, in 1987 he took on work as a carpenter for Intertex General Contractors to help augment his ministry income. Rod worked on projects ranging from military bases _to room additions and a few short years later became the company's first General Superintendent and then became a partner. Within five years of joining the company, Rod went from being a carpenter to becoming a partner and Vice President of Field Operations.
  
  Rod was instrumental in the growth of Intertex and was primarily responsible for the development of the field operations systems such as reporting, communications, scheduling, contracting, controlling documents and standard operational procedures for the field staff. Rod served as the Safety Director concurrently with his role as VP of Field Operations and recorded three consecutive years without a single reportable accident just before leaving the company. Rod was key to bringing technology to the company and the field operations moving the staff from pagers and fax machines in the early days to fully integrated computer systems and smartphones.
  
  During his time at Intertex, Rod was responsible for overseeing $236,000,000.00 in completed projects. The projects ranged from small tenant improvements to large retail centers and multi-story buildings. In the early days, the type of projects was largely public works projects and the client list included the Army Corp of Engineers, the US Navy, the US Air Force and NASA. Intertex completed quite a number of public school projects from the San Mateo USD to the Los Angeles USD. In the later years, Intertex did more private work and concentrated on development projects like the Bridgeport Marketplace.
  
  In 2009, Rod founded his own business in order to make his construction knowledge and experience available as a consultant. What makes Rod's management and leadership abilities unique is that it comes from having learned the ins and outs of construction from his father starting at an early age and having been taught well by a man with incredible drive, wonderful skills and inscrutable character. That background has made Rod who he is today and it's what makes him someone you can trust to get your job done no matter how big or how small.
  
  Rod has been married since 1976 to his lovely wife Ann. They have two wonderful children, Geoffry and Amanda, who are both married and a grandson named Luke who was born on 10/10/10 at 10:10 am! Rod enjoys music, acting and serving at his local church.