Overcome a financing hurdle. Guarantee cost. Reduce risk. Find efficiencies between planners, designers and builders. There are a lot of reasons to look to alternative delivery methods.

Alternative delivery can often surmount hurdles that the traditional plan-design-bid process can’t, to achieve more desirable outcomes. Each approach has its own advantages and drawbacks. It’s worth exploring all the options to find the methods that best fit an owner’s objectives, timelines and constraints.

Integrated project delivery, with its continuous collaboration between the designer, builder and owner, allows direct sharing of data between the design and construction teams, and can reduce waste and improve efficiency.

A design-build approach merges design and construction responsibility into one company with a single point of accountability and a single contract, allowing for phased construction and simplified management.

Public-private partnership provides a financing mechanism that transfers financial, technical and operational risk of the project to a private party while guaranteeing performance.

AECOM works with clients to understand the unique conditions of their project and identify the most appropriate approach.

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AECOM’s Buildings + Places practice includes architecture, building engineering, interiors, workplace master planning, urban design, economics, and portfolio advisory experts. Our team designs and delivers some of the world’s most complex and interesting projects from major sporting venues such as the London 2012 Olympic Park and Legacy Framework, to the new plan for the LA2028 Olympics, to industrial facilities for GE and Rolls-Royce, to headquarters and workplace for NASA, Unilever, Sony Music, DirecTV, Box, Inc. and many Fortune 500 companies. We integrate sustainable solutions into everything we do and approach every project with a high-performance design strategy.

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We are passionate about empowering our clients to realize value to asset users and stakeholders through asset management at all stages of the asset life-cycle.

We have supported numerous asset owners and managers across industry sectors world-wide to improve their approach to asset management aligned with the core principles of ISO 550001, the Global Forum for Maintenance and Asset Management (GFMAM)/Institute of Asset Management (IAM) framework, and other local AM guiding documents.

We link strategic, tactical and operational levels of asset management to deliver quantifiable benefits (including the optimized balance of performance, risk and cost over time). Our multi-disciplinary specialist teams, combined with asset management advisors, cover a range of engineering and technical aspects.

AECOM understands that many of our clients are under increasing pressure to gain additional value from their assets. We help our clients plan, design and construct many of their assets and is perfectly positioned to help clients build their asset management systems. Asset management is the systematic approach to the realization of value of an organization’s tangible and intangible assets over the entire life cycle.

We are key co-authors in the IPWEA International Infrastructure Management Manual (IIMM), and we are an Institute of Asset Management endorsed trainer and assessor. https://aecom.kineoportal.com/

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As cities continue to recover and reinvent themselves to provide equitable, safe, and sustainable places for their citizens to live, play, and thrive, we are supporting and advancing critical infrastructure programs in cities globally to deliver a better world.

Cities have never been more important, nor the competition among them more intense. Those positioned to excel in this time of incredible challenges will emerge stronger by pursuing broad, holistic infrastructure solutions that address inequities, unlock hidden value, attract people and investment, and overcome financial and operational challenges.

At AECOM, we offer both the depth of insight and breadth of expertise required to thrive in these conditions.

Brilliant Cities

We believe no one discipline has all the answers to urban challenges. Our unique contribution to the urban agenda is our whole-systems approach to better prioritize projects, plan ahead, protect vulnerable assets, and provide sustainable growth.

Much has been said in recent years about making our cities smarter. Our aim is to go one step further and make them not just smart, but more resilient places that are responsive to the people who live in them and sensitive to the ecological environments in which they inhabit.

As a global company with a deeply rooted presence in many of the world’s major urban centers, we routinely connect the best ideas and insights — blurring the boundaries of both geography and profession, and engaging with public and private sectors, to help cities overcome their challenges and build brilliant futures. This work embraces a diversity of established and emerging project types — from citywide masterplans and climate change adaptation, to integrated design and operation of transport systems, to the development of innovative urban resilience strategies and programs. We work with cities large and small, mature and emerging, directly for city governments or with those who have a critical stake in the future development of their city to imagine and implement the urban environments and critical resilient infrastructure of tomorrow.

As one of the world’s most trusted infrastructure consulting firm, AECOM partners with clients to solve the world’s most complex challenges and build legacies for generations to come. We have harnessed our collective expertise and data to develop our Sustainable Legacies strategy to ensure that our work leaves a positive, lasting impact for communities and our planet.

A selection of our projects is provided below:

• New York State Environmental Bond Act Study: Partnering with Rebuild by Design, we analyzed the benefits of a $3 billion environmental bond act to stimulate New York’s economy and strengthen the state’s green infrastructure through job creation and project investments.
• Business Case for Resilience in Southeast Florida: Working with a multi-county, bilateral committee, we teamed with ULI to evaluate the benefits of investments in building and community climate change adaptation and the economic development and job-generative potential of investing in resilient climate resilience infrastructure.
• San Francisco Bay Area Transit Recovery Scenario Planning Tool: Developed modelling tools that show how prioritizing equity in transit recovery investment can enhance transportation efficacy across the San Francisco Bay Area.
• Chicago New Energy STEM and Job Training Program: Partnered with the Chicago School District City Colleges to design education and job training potential across Chicago that will provide the qualified labor pool to deliver new energy programs.
• Guide to Joint Development of Public Transportation Agencies: Produced this Transportation Research Board guide on joint development, a subset of transit-oriented development in which transit agencies are direct participants.
• Oakland County, Michigan: Developed equity metrics for the disbursement of the current Americas Relief Plan to ensure that they create the most impact in vulnerable communities.
• City of Baltimore Equity-Based Project Prioritization Tool: Improve visibility and impact of equity in decision making, make equity considerations more comprehensive, and improve equity analysis and insights.

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From buildings and civil construction to energy and industrial solutions, AECOM Construction Services is built to modernize, expand and deliver the most iconic and complex structures ever conceived.

With over 13,000 employees in 25 countries, Construction Services partners with visionary owners and developers around the globe. From urban centers to remote locations, mass transit terminals to water treatment plants, concert halls to power plants, stadiums to refineries, supertall skyscrapers to residential towers – we are a fully integrated infrastructure firm that can build anything.

The world’s infrastructure is not keeping pace with current demand. Solving this complex challenge requires an organization steeped in experience and primed for the future. With legacy projects that date back to the 1890s, our construction experts integrate the best practices we’ve honed over the last century into the technologies defining our industry today.

Through several strategic acquisitions over the last decade, we’ve best positioned ourselves to serve a diverse range of clients. Our building construction business was created in 2010 with the acquisition of Tishman Construction (AECOM Tishman) and bolstered in 2014 with the acquisition of Hunt Construction Group (AECOM Hunt). The full acquisition of URS Corporation in 2014 gave us a strong foothold in the power, oil and gas, and industrial sectors and our acquisition of Shimmick Construction in 2017 provided us with leading heavy civil construction capabilities.

Imagine the Western Hemisphere’s tallest building. Imagine grids that power entire cities. Imagine the largest private real estate development in history. Imagine aging infrastructure restored.

If you can imagine it, we can deliver it.

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We align ourselves around client sectors to provide industry-relevant advice and specialized expertise. Our integrated approach creates custom-made client teams that bring together technical delivery experts, strategists and other in-house specialists. We work together to achieve viable developments that capture client objectives through value-driven and efficient designs. Costs are controlled through rigorous change management and risk-management processes and reporting.

As one of the largest cost management consultancies, we have access to unprecedented cost data on projects across contexts and sectors. Based on that intelligence and analysis, we’ve developed industry-leading benchmarking data sets on a global basis. Along with our extensive experience and specialist knowledge of end markets and building types, we can provide more accurate advice on the cost implications of client requirements.

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Successful projects and policies share a common trait: informed decision-making early in the process. We pull ideas into focus and sharpen the boundaries of a preliminary plan or concept for regional and place-based economic development, urban revitalization, real estate, tourism and culture.

Collaborating with other disciplines, our economics team develops strategies that respond to the market, attract financing and enable implementation. Our teams address challenges through clear communication, creative thinking and structured, impartial analysis.

Our global experience and comprehensive, integrated approach help us understand how multiple factors influence value and feasibility. It’s not just the market, but also project design, public policies and regulations, site conditions, mitigation requirements, development and financing costs, phasing and implementation challenges.

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The scale and ambition of these projects require close collaboration between multiple disciplines. We connect core engineering services with specialty expertise to address extreme conditions and threats, achieve higher levels of performance and life safety, and reduce construction and operating costs.

From initial site studies, to design, to construction and commissioning, we stand by our clients as technical experts throughout the development cycle. We collaborate with planners, architects, consultants, program managers and construction managers to deliver high-performance buildings, infrastructure and communities.

Our experience can be seen in landmark projects around the world.

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We work closely with clients and communities to solve the most complex environmental challenges throughout the business life cycle: asset development, operations optimization, integrated products, and restoration and reuse.  Our core value of Safety underpins all our work.

Delivery

For clients across industries and government agencies, our integrated delivery model supports performance-based remediation and operations, maintenance and monitoring (OM&M), as well as engineering, procurement, construction/construction management (EPC/EPCM) for capital expansion and infrastructure projects.

Technical innovation

Our collaborative Technical Practice Network enables our global community of 9,000 environmental professionals to share expertise, leading-edge technology and best practices to solve client problems. Our TPN also cooperates with trade associations and universities to extend that knowledge.

In addition, we fund research and development to drive innovation and excellence into all our project work. Our investments have produced exciting new technologies, including:

• Mobile field applications for data collection
• A comment management system for public documents
• Remediation advances, including an in situ wetlands treatment, nanotechnology and hexavalent chromium applications

A single source provider

Our broad capabilities, combined with our deep understanding of local cultures, regulatory practices and emerging global trends, provide clients with a single source for global environmental needs.

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In a world where environmental preservation and biodiversity are more important than ever, our team of experts is committed to designing and implementing innovative solutions to improve how fish transit through aquatic ecosystems.

The goal of AECOM’s fish passage service is to find ways around the obstacles that interfere with the natural migration of aquatic species, like dams and other obstacles acting as water infrastructure. Informed by groundbreaking technical expertise in hydraulic engineering, aquatic ecology, and numerical modelling, our designs account for the unique needs of each environment. These designs include creating fish passages, rivers, and improving natural habitats to promote biodiversity. By incorporating technology and sustainable practices, AECOM projects not only meet regulatory requirements but also positively impact the health of aquatic ecosystems.

On December 31, 2019, AECOM welcomed the expertise and employees of MILIEU Inc., in an effort to affiliate with the industry’s most knowledgeable resources. AECOM is thus able to continue the legacy of this Quebec-based company, whose achievements include the development of various climbing ramps designed specifically for eels. Technological development is also an area of focus, with a photoelectric counter tracking the number of migrations. 

Indigenous Engagement

Since 2018, collaborations with the Indigenous communities and First Nations have also seen much success, building on shared strengths and expertise to restore the connectivity of aquatic habitats. Projects have focused on the free passage of fish in general while aiming to increase habitats in the upstream areas of watersheds for brook trout, Atlantic salmon, and American eel. These restoration projects have sought not only to set up eel migration passages but also to positively modify the watercourse beds in order to restore a water level that is compatible with anthropogenic structures (various kinds of culvert).  

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