Commercial
Infrastructure Planning
Plan Design Enable
Atkins offers comprehensive services to commercial infrastructure clients.
We provide client-focused innovative planning, designs based on sustainable
principles, and cost-effective solutions, while applying an effective construction
management approach that maintains the established budget. These services
encompass our Plan Design Enable solution.
Infrastructure planning
for the 21st century
Plan Design Enable value
proposition
Commercial infrastructure is in crisis.
Maintenance programs are often underfunded
or ignored, and organizations face reduced
budgets. With limited resources, maintenance
backlog increases. This, combined with delayed
capital projects, places a strain on existing
facilities and staff.
Successful facilities management begins with a
sound foundation—quality engineering services
that bring value to project stakeholders, tenants,
and neighboring communities. Atkins has served
the engineering needs of public- and privatesector clients nationwide since 1960. We are at
the forefront of creative technology applications,
such as BIM implementation and Lean
Construction technology. We use the latest 3D
modeling to visualize designs and communicate
information, and we implement innovative GISbased permit management systems to facilitate
facility management, infrastructure, and energy
planning. We also offer a “one-stop shop” for
owners seeking comprehensive infrastructure
solutions.
•California SB 1608, which addresses Certified
Access Specialist (CASp) Americans with
Disabilities Act (ADA) compliance, has
added new challenges to facility planning as
commercial infrastructure leaders evaluate their
accessibility infrastructure to accommodate
services.
•Abandoned, old, and/or antiquated utility
infrastructure becomes “out of sight and out
of mind,” until new infill construction becomes
necessary—creating expensive and timeconsuming consequences.
•Identifying and addressing all old and new
commercial infrastructure is frequently
time consuming and inadequately funded,
poorly documented, and energy inefficient.
Integrating existing information with new
building information modeling (BIM) modeling
is often incomplete.
•Commercial infrastructure faces increasing
energy costs, which places new demands on
management to reduce cost. Finding ways to
reduce energy expenses while maintaining
critical services is complex, time consuming,
and difficult to monitor.
Atkins has a proven track record
of applying our Plan Design Enable
approach and comprehensive
services for buildings in California
and across the nation.
From analysis to design and budgeting to
construction, we provide local, single-source
management. We incorporate Leadership
in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED)
principles into our designs to minimize negative
impacts, and we understand the unique needs
for infrastructure assessment, management, and
development. Atkins’ award-winning planning,
design, and construction help to ensure
successful implementation.
Plan – ADA certification and
compliance
New ADA federal standards, implemented in
California in March 2012, address elements
in existing facilities that are subject to
“supplemental requirements” and must be
brought into compliance quickly. Our CASp staff
provides planning and reports to confirm facility
eligibility for receipt of protection afforded by
current California legislation. Completion of such
reports enables arbitration in lieu of lawsuits
for ADA claims. Atkins’ engineers, architects,
cost estimators, and construction managers
can provide a complete compliance package
with budgets, schedule for completion, and
construction management services. Through
our GIS/mapping services, we provide an
Internet “dashboard” of compliant ADA
walkways, parking locations, and all accessibility
paths throughout the facility. We also offer
monitoring and updating of the report to
confirm ongoing compliance. Services we
provide include the following:
•Planning and CASp reports
•Complete compliance package solutions
Plan – Environmental planning
One of the first firms to specialize in interpreting
and implementing the California Environmental
Quality Act (CEQA) and National Environmental
Policy Act (NEPA), Atkins has been recognized
with numerous planning and municipal awards
of excellence. Our CEQA/NEPA capabilities
include the following:
•Initial studies/negative declarations
•Environmental assessments
•Environmental impact statements and reports
(EIS/EIR)
•Tiered environmental documents
•Construction and mitigation monitoring
programs
•Public hearings and presentations
•Findings and overriding considerations
•Records of decision
•CEQA/NEPA compliance training
Plan – Facilities assessments
Well-conducted facility condition assessments
are integral to smart life-cycle facility
management. Through interviews with facility
management staff, we seek to thoroughly
understand our clients’ facility operational
requirements, maintenance and repair practices
and programs, objectives and constraints,
and deferred work issues. Our assessment
methodology enables valid comparisons among
similar facilities and effective enterprise-level
decision making, while placing strong emphasis
on life safety, codes, ADA compliance and
standards, and client policies and directives.
We integrate this data within a GIS framework
and dashboard to facilitate management and
stakeholder communication. Conducting facility
condition assessments helps with the following:
•Protection of capital investments
•Achieving the correct amount of maintenance
•Creating opportunity and value through wellmanaged facilities
•Optimizing resource allocation decisions
ADA certification and compliance
Design – Subsurface utility
engineering
Atkins provides comprehensive, full-service
geomatics support. Building on our traditional
land surveying services, Atkins has incorporated
the most advanced geomatics technologies
available and the latest surveying and data
collection methods, including the following:
Subsurface utility engineering
•Right-of-way mapping
•GIS asset inventory
•Subsurface utility engineering
•High-definition surveying (HDS) laser scanning
•Hydrographic surveys
Design – Civil/site engineering
Atkins understands the unique requirements
of commercial infrastructure facility managers.
We employ value engineering strategies
to streamline construction costs, and we
implement proper phasing that accommodates
the pedestrian, parking, traffic circulation, and
building access demands of commercial facilities.
Our comprehensive civil/site engineering services
include the following:
Civil/site engineering
Information dashboards
•Conceptual engineering
•Cost estimating
•Feasibility studies
•Utilities/infrastructure engineering
•Life-cycle studies
•Site evaluation
Retro-commissioning
Design – GIS documentation
and integration
Atkins’ applied technologies solutions create meaningful data
interpretation and displays, ranging from asset management to
modeling to 3D visualization. By leveraging interface environments
and templates, we generate user-friendly and effective solutions
to provide the following:
•Enhanced decision support
•Increased accessibility
•Improved collaboration and consensus development
•Platform standardization
Atkins’ ArcGIS clients include the County of San Diego, San Diego
Association of Governments, and San Diego County Regional
Airport Authority.
Enable – Construction management
and inspections
Atkins’ integrated construction management approach to project
solutions builds value for clients and helps advance best practices.
Our role is to provide services from the planning stage, into the
design stage, and throughout construction until the project is
delivered to the owner’s satisfaction. Our goal is to represent our
clients’ interests, through professional management, ensuring
we meet established requirements for quality—within budget
and schedule commitments. Many of our construction managers
are certified by the Construction Management Association of
America (CMAA). Additionally, our construction managers have
Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development (OSHPD)/
Department of State Architect (DSA) experience. Services include
the following:
•Construction management, inspection, and reporting
•Risk management
•Value management
•Cost and schedule controls
•Contract administration
Enable – Information dashboards
Atkins is a leading provider of cutting-edge information
management technology. Our business analysts, system
architects, GIS professionals, and software and database
developers continually evaluate new technologies to address
energy usage and building performance. Atkins’ ability to link
technology with operations and maintenance strategies sets our
services apart. We emphasize seamless facility workflows and
flexible, scalable applications to ensure that reliable data are
available for both management and stakeholder communication.
Services include the following:
•Information displayed on clients maps
•Database management/system integration
•Dashboard technologies
•Work order processing
•Business process review and integration
•Energy usage data collection
•Web mapping solutions
Enable – Retro-commissioning
Atkins’ commissioning team includes experienced commissioning
professionals who perform retroactive or retro-commissioning—
even if the buildings were not commissioned upon completion.
When efficiency issues and concerns are found, repairs and
modifications are suggested and designed to improve airflow,
electrical systems, and water flow to reduce energy usage,
improve comfort, and prolong equipment life. Retroactive
commissioning has proven to lessen energy costs by as much
as 35 percent. With the U.S. federal government mandate to
reduce building energy usage 30 percent by 2020, commissioning
is becoming a key component of operations and maintenance
procedures. Our commissioning approach includes the following:
•Design reviews
•Meetings to outline the commissioning process
•Pre-functional startup testing, temperature control verification,
and test and balance review
•Functional performance testing
Value-added services
Construction management and inspections
For more information, contact:
John Merkler, AIA, 858.514.1045
john.merkler@atkinsglobal.com
Sandra Miles, CASp, ICC, LEED AP, 858.514.1048
sandra.miles@atkinsglobal.com
Sean McCarty, PE, LEED AP, QSD/QSP, 858.514.1067
sean.mccarty@atkinsglobal.com
Offices in San Diego, Orange, Los Angeles,
San Bernardino, San Francisco, and Roseville
www.atkinsglobal.com/northamerica
Specializing in total life-cycle services for our commercial
infrastructure clients, Atkins provides turnkey solutions on
complex and demanding facilities projects. We provide
complementary services, as required, for successful project
completion.
•Project and program management
•Utility master planning
•Emergency management
•Move-in/move-out and FF&E
•Energy audit and analysis
•Architecture
•Value engineering
•Structural engineering
•Interior design and space planning
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