Richard T Anderson

Richard T. Anderson is President of RTA Advisory Services LLC, a private firm specializing in industry relations and strategic planning. He is President Emeritus of the New York Building Congress. For more than twenty years, Mr. Anderson ushered in a period of unprecedented influence and growth for the Building Congress, a public policy organization in its 98th year of promoting the design, construction and real estate community. In his role as an expert in government policy and construction, Mr. Anderson’s views and assistance on a range of issues are sought by private firms, public officials, agency leaders, the news media, good government groups and other organizations inside and outside of the building community. Prior to the Building Congress, Mr. Anderson served as Executive Director of The Dallas Plan, a non-profit group formed to prepare a long-range capital improvements strategy for that city, and as President of the Regional Plan Association, the nation’s oldest metropolitan planning organization serving the New York, New Jersey and Connecticut metropolitan region. Mr. Anderson was the first elected President of the 40,000-member American Planning Association, a national group based in Washington, D.C., and served as Chairman of its College of Fellows. He is a founding member of the American Institute of Certified Planners and is Vice Chairman of the APA Foundation. He serves on the boards of the National Building Museum, ACE Mentor Program of Greater New York Foundation, Greater Jamaica Development Corporation, the Salvadori Center, Beverly Willis Foundation, and Big Brothers/Big Sisters of New York City. He is senior advisor to about 15 building industry organizations in New York. The Salvadori Center presented Mr. Anderson with their 2016 award for lifetime contributions to the building industry. Mr. Anderson also serves as President Emeritus of the New York Building Foundation, the charitable arm of the New York Building Congress.