Place matters.

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Place matters.

Making our world more livable, healthy and resilient.

Essential infrastructure can be great design.

Cover image + this page: Bethany Home and Grand Canal Flood Control Outfall Channel In Maricopa County, Arizona, we worked with a FEMA floodplain community to mitigate flooding for over 745 business and residential properties. Crosschannel designs integrate flood control and incorporate equestrian and multi-use trails to help this community thrive.

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01 / PHILOSOPHY Resilient design for a changing world 02 / CLIENTS AS PARTNERS Ingredients for successful placemaking 03 / WHAT WE DO A diverse practice of economists, planners, urban designers and landscape architects 04 / OUR WORK / World Trade Center, New York

/ Naval Station Norfolk Installation Development Plan / Los Angeles Waterfront

/ Resilient Cities Case Studies

/ Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge, Washington, D.C. / 2028 Olympics, Los Angeles

/ Triple Bottom Line Economics Case Studies / Resilient by Design New York Case Studies / Intuit Corporate Campus / Hyperloop Texas

/ Park System Planning Case Studies / Golden 1 Center, Sacramento 05 / CONNECT WITH US

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Design for a changing world.

The world is changing. Climate change, the rise of urbanization, the shifting weight of the developing world, and the increasing scarcity of resources are all causing us to rethink the way we plan and design places. The complexity of today’s world presents both challenges and opportunities. The pace and magnitude of change that our world is experiencing is unprecedented.

As the greatest product of human imagination, cities have become our preferred place to live because of the advantages they offer for human connection, efficient mobility, exchanging ideas, sustaining commerce and expressing culture. And yet, as cities become more important and demands upon them increase, so too do the pressures on the rural and natural regions upon which an increasingly urban culture depends for its physical and emotional sustenance. Because these natural and man-made worlds are inextricably linked, touching them requires an appreciation and understanding of the complexity, interrelationships and staggering rate of change in the social, political, economic and physical systems upon which they depend.

Effective and artful solutions for adapting to a changing world require an increasingly collaborative and multidisciplinary approach, where diverse skillsets are integrated in the pursuit of design and technical excellence. This is why we work as we do, with our designers, planners and economists thinking creatively, together, at any scale.

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We need to ask the right questions

If we are to be truly resilient in the face of this magnitude and rate of change we need to not just anticipate and mitigate risk, but thrive in spite of it.

We must do more. We need better, more inclusive answers, reached more quickly and supported by science. We need to create more value with fewer resources. And we need to make sure that change brings meaning to all lives and that place matters. This requires imagination, both in the way change is envisioned and the methods by which it is delivered.

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...and understand our changing world.

In total, between renters and homeowners, nearly 39 million American households — 33% — spend more than 30% of their annual income on housing.

70%

The percentage of Americans who will live in cities by the year 2050.

(Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies)

(Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies)

40 cities currently have policies and legislation related to automated driving. 13 states have passed autonomous vehicle legislation and 16 states have legislation under consideration.

(Eno Foundation, Beyond Speculation Automated Vehicles and Public Policy, April 2017)

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The percentage of current work activities that can be automated using current technologies.

(McKinsey Global Institute October 2017)

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50% of total US GDP is generated by coastal megaregions subject to sea level rise.

(Statistics from US Conference of Mayors Metro Economics Reports 2015-17)

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The percentage of U.S. jobs at high risk of automation by the early 2030’s.

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A Multidisciplinary Approach to Placemaking How do you create place?

There is a clear difference between an assemblage of buildings, open spaces, and civil infrastructure and what we consider a place. We feel place. Places give us comfort and excitement.

Our Design + Planning and Economics team merges landscape architecture, urban design, planning, resiliency, sustainable development and economics to create places that matter and thrive. Our work

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positively impacts communities through the design and planning of artful social spaces combining sustainable infrastructure with cultural relevance and expression.

The thoughtful integration of flood control, green stormwater, active mobility and natural habitats advances urban resiliency and performance.

City building demands both benefits for citizens and returns to investors. Nothing is more important to this equation than creating destinations that inspire use and reward it with memories, a shared sense of belonging

and invariably, greater value.

Great places, places that we love and return to again and again, are not formulaic, though most share a number of attributes.

Activated places with comfortable, memorable spaces can balance the often competing needs for community ownership, social equity, financial success, resource conservation, vernacular identity and cosmopolitan appeal. Our challenge is to accomplish a successful blend of ingredients over the shortest possible time.

To minimize risk and ensure success in placemaking, we focus

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our attention on the relationship between buildings, the public realm and associated urban infrastructure. We then look at programming that enlivens these elements and contributes to their vitality and stewardship of places.

We distill the essence of need and opportunity, unlock potential, reconcile disparities between public and private interests, and inspire innovation in the conceptual, financial, legal and delivery aspects of development.

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Great places, places that we love and return to again and again, are not formulaic, though most share a number of attributes.

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02 / CLIENTS AS PARTNERS

Ingredients for successful placemaking From establishing the economic framework for development, to undertaking the urban analytics required to enable informed decisions, we partner with our clients at every step of the planning and design process. We accelerate the process through the use of our urban analytic tools, which enable more time for creative collaboration with our clients.

We work at all scales across the globe with both public and private clients, to address complex urban challenges with innovative solutions to improve quality of life and ensure return on investment.

We are your partners in great placemaking.

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Dumbo and Vinegar Hill District Preliminary and Final Design New York, NY

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The future of placemaking

The challenges of placemaking are complex and demand an innovative strategy to design and deliver future-ready solutions for successful environments. We accomplish this through a globally connected integrated platform of services supercharged by technology.

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We are all affected by climate change, the reshaping of world economies, rapid urbanization, scarcity of water and natural resources, and instability of energy markets. All of these significant factors underscore our global interdependencies, and are the backdrop for the challenges confronting governments, cities and private industry. We partner with clients across all market sectors to find solutions to problems caused or impacted by these pervasive issues. We have illustrated below the complex range of issues that are shaping the future of placemaking and their relationships to desired outcomes.

We must consider an array of diverse yet interconnected issues, ranging from social equity, affordability and mobility to protecting capital assets and achieving design excellence. This is why we have developed a suite of tools including Sustainable Systems Integration Model (SSIM), Triple Bottom Line (TBL) and Climate Action for Urban Sustainability (CURB).

Advancing your vision

Facilitating solutions

Protecting capital assets

Delivering places

Achieving design excellence

Optimizing integrated delivery

Maintaining performance

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03 / WHAT WE DO

A diverse practice of economists, planners, urban designers and landscape architects.

With a closely integrated practice that includes economics, planning and urban design, and landscape architecture, our teams can accomplish innovative solutions improving people’s lives and their environments. We have organized our practice to bring the specialized expertise needed for the different market sectors in which we work. These sectors range from cities to transportation, mixed-use development, governments, healthcare, education, commercial, sports, and leisure and hospitality. We find that the combination of specialized expertise needed for one market sector can inform how we approach our work more generally in other market sectors. We also work closely with the other disciplines within our Buildings + Places business line to bring expertise in strategy+, architecture, interiors, corporate workplace, asset management and high performance building engineering to our clients.

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Areas of expertise CITIES

CORPORATE

EDUCATION

LEISURE + THEMED ENTERTAINMENT

URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE

COMMERCIAL/ MIXED-USE

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HEALTHCARE

INDUSTRIAL

GOVERNMENTS/ FEDERAL

TRANSPORTATION

JUSTICE

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03 / WHAT WE DO

Landscape Architecture: Great design as essential infrastructure.

Our landscape architecture practice creates, restores and stewards urban and natural environments. Whether concepts, detailed designs, or broad policy frameworks, we offer implementable solutions that promote sustainable use of resources and enhance quality of life. We design the systems of spaces that render places vibrant, healthy and sustainable— namely the greenways, streets, squares, parks, waterfronts and plazas that typically comprise more than half the land area in any given city. Our landscape architecture practice seeks to positively impact communities through the design of artful social spaces combining sustainable infrastructure with cultural relevance and expression. We believe that urban infrastructure has enormous untapped capacity to become placemaking—and vice versa—especially as related to the integration of flood control, green stormwater, active mobility and natural habitats that advance urban resiliency. We measure landscape performance to ensure that the long-term viability of landscapes we design can be accomplished. We work at all scales, from park systems and corporate campuses to intimate courtyards, across the Americas and the globe.

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Urban public realm

Trails and recreation areas Restoration planning and design Brownfield design

Roof gardens and extensive roof design Landscape performance Waterfronts

Cultural landscapes Green walls

Custom furnishing

Design prototypes and research

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Planning and Urban Design: Establishing a resilient framework for future development.

Our planning and urban design practice has the specialized expertise needed to address the broad range of policy frameworks that guide development through to the threedimensional evaluation and planning of spaces at both master planning and urban design scales. Our urban design practice operates at the intersection between architecture and landscape architecture and establishes appropriate scaling and interfaces of urban spaces. Our clients trust us to map the path forward for new development and redevelopment of buildings, campuses, infrastructure, cities and regions. We deliver documents that guide policy, strategy and site configuration.

Processing quantitative and qualitative data, developing and applying advanced modeling tools, and consulting closely with communities, we drive social quality, economic growth and environmental sustainability. We help our clients manage the cost of their projects by working hand in hand with our economists and cost planners, navigating the full development cycle and reaching advanced levels of sustainability going beyond LEED to more meaningful standards established through our SSIM tools. We are at the forefront of eco-district planning and comprehensive planning, and our military planning teams are the world’s leading planners in their sector. As urban designers we work at the intersection of buildings and surrounding spaces and collaborate with our economists, architects, engineers and landscape architects to create transformative urban environments.

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Comprehensive planning Eco-districts planning

Urban analytics modeling

Transit-oriented development Mixed use development Cultural planning

Resiliency planning

Sustainability consulting Specific plans District plans

Community consultation Geospatial services

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03 / WHAT WE DO

Economics: Making ideas possible.

Successful projects and policies share a common trait: informed decision-making early in the process.

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Triple Bottom Line Modeling

Our economics professionals help clients evaluate and make decisions about feasibility, financial requirements, social impact, risk and prospects for success.

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Economic Analyses

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.

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

The Global Attractions and Attendance Report is the 11th annual collaboration between the Themed Entertainment Association (TEA) and AECOM.

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Our Work

Underscoring all of our work is the recognition that whether we are engaged in economics consulting, master planning, urban design or landscape architecture, we need to promote social equity, improve physical and mental health, and support overall community wellbeing.

We understand the pressures that our clients are under to do more with less. The success and resiliency of our cities, and the creation of high performing environments depends upon cooperation between all elements, from horizontal infrastructure to the vertical built environment, and the spaces that become the connective tissue for mobility, recreation, and conservation. Every project fits within this continuum, and we find enhanced efficiency when we approach our projects with integrated thinking. The following projects illustrate how we work across disciplines, utilizing technology and planning tools to produce better outcomes for our clients, and better places.

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PROJECTS / WORLD TRADE CENTER NEW YORK, NY

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Working for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, AECOM has designed the public realm, including Liberty Park, for what may already be the most well-known urban site in the world, the World Trade Center in vibrant Lower Manhattan. The area caters to millions of tourists, visitors, commuters and residents and symbolizes the strength and unity of a nation.

Unifying streets, plazas and park with ‘Ground Zero,’ the project is a 16-acre redevelopment that includes five world-class skyscrapers, a performing arts center, a regional multimodal transportation hub and a state-of-the-art vehicle security center. The streetscape is intended to ground the entire

district with a distinctive paving pattern that follows the east-west grid of the 9/11 Memorial. The AECOM team worked in partnership with architect Santiago Calatrava to design the new multi-billion-dollar permanent Port Authority Trans-Hudson (PATH) Transportation Terminal.

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Rebuilding New York’s World Trade Center District involves working with a complex and sometimes conflicting set of demands: on the one hand creating a civic space that is beautiful, fully accessible and complements the new iconic buildings and 9/11 Memorial, while on the other incorporating high levels of security and subsurface infrastructure, including utilities and public transit. From the start of the project, the sense of openness and accessibility in this high profile civic space was a key priority. Delivering a new kind of security aesthetic, designs are unobtrusive and create a calming and ordered public space. To visually unify the entire 6.5-hectare site, the public realm has been designed as an elegant skin with a streetscape in a simple and complementary palette of dark gray, midtone and white granite. This is the base from which the new buildings rise and it acts as the public face of the scheme, including the introduction of a new public park.

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Liberty Park is a 64,000-square-foot (1.5-acre) rooftop park centered within the World Trade Center District. The park is situated on top of the district’s vehicle screening center and serves as a publicly accessible community open space with unprecedented views to the 9/11 Memorial.

Considering the site’s relatively small footprint and the needs of multiple stakeholder groups, a balance between circulation and programming was carefully developed to maximize a park-like feel in this highly urban neighborhood.

Lush pockets of greenery and seasonal plantings unfold along a series of gently sloped ramps and stepped garden spaces, creating the experience of walking along an elevated promenade.

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The site is organized by a series of sculptural precast planters. Characterized by a distinct faceted geometry, the planters are asymmetrically arranged in drifts across the site, like a field of scattered diamonds, bringing sharp definition to the site’s layout and circulation. As users walk through the park, the planters appear in a cascade, creating meandering view sheds and intimate ‘garden rooms’ that provide space for both larger gatherings and moments of intimacy. Each element is tilted, providing integrated seating on the raised side and a lush display of vegetation on the low side. Smaller planters anchor the edges of the park, doubling as both seasonal planting gardens and spacious sun lounges.

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A place of healing, the World Trade Center streets, plazas and parks support an array of movement, resulting in a cohesive and memorable space promoting wellbeing, resilience, and hope.

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PROJECTS / NAVAL STATION NORFOLK PLANNING NORFOLK, VA

Sustaining A The world’s largest naval station and its surrounding communities benefit from a comprehensive 20-year master plan to achieve a sustainable future.

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The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) owns or leases property in 41 countries globally, occupying nearly 300,000 facilities and 28.5 million acres of land. The military footprint spans every continent and employs over 3.5 million people. Military bases and surrounding communities are dependent upon each other more now than ever before.

For over 40 years, AECOM has been a strategic partner with the DoD, and a pioneer of new methods to achieve mission readiness and effectiveness while maintaining environmental and community stewardship. Today the DoD faces the unprecedented challenges of a changing force structure, deteriorating infrastructure, and continuing fiscal constraints.

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AECOM prepared and delivered a comprehensive Installation Development Plan (IDP) for Naval Station Norfolk that integrates mission, vision, environmental context, and history to enhance the way installation personnel live, work, and play. The planning team led stakeholders through an 18-month planning process that included a vision workshop and three course-of-action workshops in order to develop an inclusive installation vision, a framework plan, and a preferred plan for development over the next 20 years.

Recommendations in the plan include concepts to build within a minimal footprint, reduce traffic demand by shifting the transportation focus to pedestrian and transit-oriented movement, establish vertical and horizontal mixed uses within concentrated and identifiable land use nodes, support roadway modification and transit options external to the installation, and minimize environmental impact.

The largest naval base in the world in both size and population, Naval Station Norfolk, in Virginia, is home to a variety of ships, aircraft, and supporting commands. With more than 60,000 employees (nearly 30% of the region’s population) and an estimated annual economic impact of more than $500 million regionally, NSN’s impact on and role within the community is significant. Its 10 square miles of land are largely built out, which requires the Navy to approach future development in a way that maximizes the use of high-value land while also minimizing impacts to the environment.

NSN has long been a partner with all DoD, community, and civilian agencies outside of its military boundaries in collaborating to plan for optimal community outcomes.

These partnerships are a key element of the installation’s planning efforts to maintain compatibility among internal and external uses, link transportation systems and networks, reduce the impact of commuter traffic, and plan for longterm sea level rise both on the installation and within the surrounding community.

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The world’s largest naval station and surrounding communities benefit from a comprehensive 20-year master plan to achieve a sustainable future.

WIDENING OF SIDEWALKS with high visibility crosswalks provide for a walkable and safe enviornment for pedestrians and cyclists within the dense central core campus.

MANDATED MINIMUM ANTI-TERRORISM/FORCE PROTECTION (AT/FP) standoff zone provides safety for those who work and live in facilities on military installations.

PARKING Consolidated, centralized, and shared parking lots.

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SECONDARY STREETS provide a safe, attractive, and convenient route for pedestrians and vehicles to access campus facilities and amenities as well as to transit to other areas of the installation. A landscape strip on either side of the road may be used as a swale for stormwater and/or for planting trees.

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NAVY EXCHANGE (NEX) MINIMART Multi-story retail store constructed following the historic context of the campus located near a main population center.

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RECREATION FIELD/ LAND BANK for future housing infill.

RECAPITALIZED HISTORIC FACILITY for administrative functions.

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BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICE Storm water retention pond and water feature.

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CLOSURE OF THROUGH STREET to decrease conflicts between vehicular turning movements and improve walkability.

CIRCULATION ROUTE provides access to adjacent parade ground and pedestrian mall.

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PARKING STRUCTURE provides for the consolidation of many surface lots, minimizing footprint and reducing impervious surfaces.

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INFILL DEVELOPMENT to consolidate housing and supporting functions within modern, flexible, and energy-efficient facilities within a walkable campus environment.

MULTI-STORY COMMUNITY SUPPORT FACILTY constructed following the historic context of the campus. The mixed-use facility provides for administrative and training functions on the top floors with fitness, retail, barber shop, and other sailor support and quality-of-life functions on the lower levels.

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PROJECTS / LOS ANGELES WATERFRONT SAN PEDRO, CA

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The City of Los Angeles is home to America’s busiest port and encompasses 43 miles of waterfront. The Port accounts for 259,000 full- and part-time jobs, one of every 24 jobs in Southern California, and more than 1.3 million jobs on a national scale. The increasingly complex demands placed on this booming, diverse seaport have challenged its ability to balance the growing needs of the community with those of regional and global stakeholders. In response, the Port has established a vision that has made it synonymous

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with groundbreaking green initiatives that have formed the blueprint for the City’s broader community and regional development and regeneration plans.

Over the past 12 years, AECOM has provided ongoing services in strategic guidance, master planning, project management, economic feasibility studies, design guidelines, and construction administration on a variety of projects concentrated along the 9.6-mile-long stretch

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from Vincent Thomas Bridge to the ocean breakwater.

The transformation of the waterfront has stimulated economic regeneration within the heart of San Pedro, and has provided a diversified range of uses and spaces for community recreation along the waterfront. Different districts along the waterfront create a wide array of opportunities to experience the life of the port, and to be at the water’s edge, which had not previously been available.

The creation of a series of authentic places resulted from

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a process of close collaboration with the community on everything from the programming of spaces to a series of sculptures that enliven the waterfront. The stories of the generations of families who have settled around the Port formed the inspiration for our work and are expressed in the detailing of furnishings, lighting, and wayfinding signage.

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A catalyst for new investment and revitalization of neighborhoods, the project brings the community closer to the water.

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PROJECTS / 100 RESILIENT CITIES VARIOUS LOCATIONS: Bangkok

Melbourne

Salvador

Cali

Chicago

Greater Miami and the Beaches

San Juan

Colima

Oakland

Honolulu

Quito

Lisbon

Rome

Berkeley

Mexico City

San Francisco

Christchurch

Montreal

Santiago de los Caballeros

Dallas

Paris

Sydney

Jakarta

Ramallah

Medellin

Rotterdam

Seattle

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Cities are looking for ways to prepare for the increasing number of physical, social and economic challenges that threaten their growth and development. 100 Resilient Cities (100RC) —Pioneered by the Rockefeller Foundation — is dedicated to helping cities around the world respond to these challenges, and AECOM is providing strategic planning services to make it happen.

As a strategic advisor, thought partner and project manager for over 30 cities around the world participating in 100RC, we help facilitate diverse stakeholder engagement workshops to better understand perceptions, needs and risks. We carry out technical analyses in key priority areas, help to identify a list of potential actions and assist in developing the final strategy.

The 100RC resilience method identifies interdependencies between major components of a city: people and organizations, places and infrastructure, and the economy, networks and knowledge. This harnesses connections to help cities cope and recover after sudden events like fires, earthquakes and floods, referred to as “shocks” by 100RC, which make cities vulnerable. The method also addresses long-term trends, referred to as “stresses,” such as housing affordability, unemployment and traffic congestion that undermine cities’ systems and increase their vulnerability.

In 2016, AECOM helped Bangkok (Thailand), Berkeley (United States), Christchurch (New Zealand), Medellín (Colombia), Melbourne (Australia), Mexico City (Mexico), Oakland (United States), Rotterdam (Netherlands) and San Francisco (United States) publish their resilience strategies. We worked with Paris (France), Quito (Ecuador) and Wellington (New Zealand) to publish their resilience strategies in 2017. We will help an additional thirteen cities publish their strategies in 2018.

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CASE STUDY: MEXICO CITY Our team developed a Preliminary Resilience Assessment and a City Resilience Strategy in 2016 which includes over 40 strategies organized in five key areas: foster regional coordination; promote water resilience; plan for urban and regional resilience; improve mobility through an integrated, safe, and sustainable system; and develop innovation and adaptive capacity.

AECOM’s technical analysis carried out as part of the strategy development process included research on strategies to improve mobility. AECOM also provided case studies on drought management and public-private partnership models for resilience officers.

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CASE STUDY: OAKLAND As a Strategy Partner, AECOM worked closely with Oakland’s Chief Resilience Officer over the course of two years to provide project management and technical leadership in the development of a Preliminary Resilience Assessment and Resilient Oakland, a city resilience strategy. The strategy was released in October 2016 and includes 3 key themes, 10 goals, and nearly 40 actions.

Oakland’s strategy is unique for its focus on equitable community engagement, data-driven decision-making, and opportunities for collaborative governance. AECOM’s technical analysis carried out as part of the strategy development process focused primarily on infrastructure resilience and climate adaptation. AECOM developed a Sea Level Rise Road Map, which provides an inventory of actions and collaboration carried out in Oakland to date and also maps out actions the City will take over the next two years to build resilience to sea level rise. AECOM also developed recommendations to streamline green infrastructure implementation and a scope for updating the city’s Storm Drainage Master Plan.

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We are helping cities to prepare for the increasing number of physical, social and economic challenges that threaten their growth and development.

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PROJECTS / FREDERICK DOUGLASS MEMORIAL BRIDGE WASHINGTON, D.C.

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The South Capitol Bridge replaces a decaying bridge spanning the Anacostia River, in honor of abolitionist icon and statesman Frederick Douglass. Acting as project managers, engineers, urban designers and landscape architects, AECOM has led the design of the $600-million project, winning the commission through a design-build delivery process. As a major vehicular and ceremonial gateway into the city’s core area, the bridge encompasses over 30 acres of parkland, including two circulation ovals envisioned as active memorial sites. Through separate but coordinated assignments, AECOM also contributed to the project the urban vision for adjoining new development on both sides of the river, allowing the bridge to rise as a signature feature of a vibrant future waterfront without match within the DC Metro area. While serving primarily as a vehicular passage, the project integrates green infrastructure in the form of multiuse trails, bio-retention swales and rain gardens, pollinator meadows, and extensive tree cover. Slated for completion in 2021, the bridge will revitalize the southwest section of the city, bringing about economic improvements to historically disadvantaged communities.

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PROJECTS / LA 2028 OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC GAMES LOS ANGELES, CA

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Cities around the globe have been approaching AECOM for the past 30 years to help with everything from the Games bid process, through to the planning and design of venues and public realm, both for the Games and legacy modes.

AECOM’s leadership on the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games has transformed a challenging site into five new neighborhoods with its centerpiece, the 500 acre Queen Elizabeth Park with four venues retained for both community and elite athlete training. Surrounding the park will be 6,800 homes with over 3,000 already built, along with new schools, employment space, and a retail center all anchored by an extensive public transport network.

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Follow the Sun Los Angeles provides the ideal setting for a transformative Games in 2028. The LA 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games will deliver a financially viable Games, utilizing an ideal climate, an unparalleled number of existing world-class venues, the unique culture of creativity and innovation, and the City’s youthful energy. The Games Concept Plan further reinforces this vision, as it makes use of LA’s revitalized neighborhoods, fast-growing mass transit system, newly renovated airport terminal upgrades, world-class cultural attractions, and state-of-the-art sports venues to illustrate the concept of how a Games can fit in to the long-term goals of the city. LA 2028 is committed to being privately funded, and delivering a Games that will be reimagined for a new era.

Creating a Viable Concept AECOM’s responsibilities have included everything from managing the facilities assessment exercise for each venue potentially participating in the Games, to providing design services for each one of the potential venues to accommodate their Olympic and Paralympic sports, to running a comprehensive cost model for all venues and infrastructure, to advancing a wide-reaching sustainability strategy, to developing the extensive transportation plan required for the Games. The breadth of AECOM’s multidisciplinary team of experts facilitates the coordination required to ensure the success of a plan as complex as the LA 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games. All key venues that have been identified in the plan are based on the ability to provide athletes with an excellent field of play and unmatched Games experience; locations where worldclass venues exist today or where temporary venues can be easily built; locations with short journey times from the Athletes’ Village, Media Village, and Olympic Family Hotel; and opportunities for a sustainable legacy.

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The Games Concept is designed to be sustainable and fiscally responsible, and will be the first privately financed Games since 1984, also in Los Angeles.

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PROJECTS / SAN FRANCISCO PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION SSIP PROGRAM TRIPLE BOTTOM LINE PLANNING TOOL

Optimizing Benefits Creating community resiliency takes strategic investment and a full understanding of social and environmental outcomes. How can communities determine where to invest and what will help them thrive? We believe that three elements – financial, social and environmental – contribute to a triple bottom line and optimize the investment mix. Originally developed to support the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC) with their $2.7-billion sewer system improvement program, The Triple Bottom Line (TBL) tool allows for the quantification of financial, social and environmental benefits for infrastructure investment to create healthy communities.

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How does it work?

During each project initiation, the TBL modeling team inputs the project’s location and boundary into a geospatial system (GIS). Project managers then use a standard Project Data Input Form to define the project’s social, environmental, financing, and geo-referenced characteristics. During the project analysis, the TBL assessment model synthesizes project data and watershed hydrologic analysis displayed through the model interface. Finally, the export-ready project reports include graphic summaries of each project together with performance data for each criterion.

The TBL planning tool provides each project team with access to screen project inputs, calibration and criteria logic, results, alternatives, and archived data with project catalogs.

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CASE STUDY: SFPUC SEWER SYSTEM IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC) is undertaking a 20-year, multi-billion-dollar citywide investment to upgrade sewer and stormwater infrastructure for reliability and regulatory compliance. To develop the most effective and resilient community-based solution, The City and County of San Francisco established the principles of a Triple Bottom Line (TBL) to evaluate investments. Our team partnered with the SFPUC to develop a customized assessment tool to evaluate system alternatives on three factors: people (social), planet (environment), and finance (cost effectiveness.)

The SFPUC’s customized and visual model converts the traditional financial bottom line evaluation into an integrated assessment of costs and benefits. The TBL model allows SFPUC to understand how project and program solutions will impact the environment, communities and bill payers, while also allowing comparative assessment of alternative options.

It projects and measures performance against criteria such as job generation, greenhouse gas emissions, air quality, recreation and open space creation, system resilience, odor, noise, habitat, cultural resources and water quality.

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CASE STUDY: CHENGDU HIGH-TECH WEST DISTRICT REGIONAL PLAN The vision for this new high-tech district is to encourage innovation and a balance between the natural and humanmade environment. To evaluate master plan urban form and a smart city implementation framework, our team utilized a Triple Bottom Line tool. The “smart city� plan looks to establish an optimal mix of uses and neighborhood types, creating a rich and varied open space system, a robust mobility system, and above all a distinct sense of place.

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The Triple Bottom Line planning tool quantifies financial, social and environmental benefits for infrastructure investment to create healthy communities.

CREATE AN ENHANCED LANDSCAPE ENVIRONMENT and open space network that allows maximum connectivity for non-vehicular circulation.

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WATERFRONT PROMENADE provides a pedestrianfriendly environment and connects with an extensive trail network to ensure 100% of residents are within easy access to waterfront and open space.

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INTEGRATE SMART INFORMATION display boards in parks and trails, connected with smart infrastructure system onsite to provide convenient information for the public.

MAXIMIZE PERVIOUS PAVEMENT to improve stormwater infiltration and optimize micro-climate conditions.

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PROJECTS / NEW YORK RESILIENCY PROGRAMS NEW YORK + NEW JERSEY

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Multi-benefit, integrated flood protection solutions which improve public spaces, reduce impacts to the natural environment, and improve future resilience

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Rain gardens at Willow Lake intercept storm water from open lawn before it reaches the lake, increasing storage capacity

The runoff from the surrounding open space and path system flows into a series of bioswales at the park’s edges PUMP STATION

Stormwater is pumped from Willow Lake back into the sewer system

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A new public park along the Hackensack River featuring native plantings, open space, and landforms that allow park-goers to see the river beyond the cantilever RIVERFRONT ACCESS

Creates publicly accessible riverfront access with additional width for seating and planting amenities

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Willow Lake is enhanced with rain gardens and berms that are planted in a native palette. The majority of the park’s existing open space is maintained

REBUILD BY DESIGN MEADOWLANDS New Jersey

RBD Meadowlands emerged from the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Rebuild by Design Competition, which promoted development of innovative resilience projects in Hurricane Sandy-affected regions.

The charge is to develop multi-benefit, integrated flood protection solutions which improve public spaces, reduce impacts to the natural environment, and improve future resilience for social, environmental and economic systems in communities located within 100-year floodplains.

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Through RBD Meadowlands, AECOM is working closely with New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection to develop replicable and scalable approaches for inland and tidal surge flood management.

The concepts can be implemented separately, or together, to address a wide spectrum of risks while providing civic amenities and renewed investment.

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Given the complexity of combined flood risks from both stormwater and tidal surge, the approach to Meadowlands is inherently multidisciplinary in nature; requiring a fullyintegrated team of engineers, urban planners, landscape architects, ecologists, environmental scientists, and economists working in concert.

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BATTERY PARK CITY 1.15 MILES

LOWER MANHATTAN ADJACENT USES COASTAL RESILIENCY New York, NY

The Lower Manhattan Coastal Resiliency (LMCR) Project aims to reduce flood risk due to coastal storms and sea level rise from Manhattan’s Two Bridges neighborhood to Battery Park City. It intends to improve the physical, social, and economic resiliency of the area by integrating flood protection into the community fabric and fortifying the City’s coastline, improving access to the waterfront, and enhancing public spaces.

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FINANCIAL DISTRICT 1.33 MILES

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PROJECTS / INTUIT CORPORATE CAMPUS MOUNTAINVIEW, CA

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For years our client had functioned as a tenant in a cluster of 1990s-era corporate buildings lacking any relationship with the exterior and surrounded by parking lots. We worked with the corporate leadership to study how to invert the organization of the campus and push parking to the perimeter of the site and create usable and inspiring places near the buildings. These new places have become the outdoor meeting rooms for small interactions as well as company-wide meetings, and are cost-effective both in terms of capital expenditure and operating costs.

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environment best suited to their needs during the course of a day, both inside and outside of buildings. As a result, the campus as a whole becomes an interconnected working environment for the collaborative exchange of knowledge and ideas. The company is launching into an exciting and important era where its campus—the look, feel and experience of it—can begin to truly represent the values of the company and its vision for the future. That vision, rooted in sustainability, unity, inclusion, collaboration and a strong sense of place, can be achieved in the landscape that binds the campus together. The attention to detail is accomplished in a way that speaks to a unique natural context and reflects the Bay Area’s tradition.

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Our design team helped our client to create a cohesive, connected environment rooted in sustainability, unity, inclusion, and collaboration.

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PROJECTS / HYPERLOOP TEXAS DALLAS, TEXAS

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uture of Mobility Hyperloop technology will revolutionize how we travel, work, live, and play. It will change how we plan, design and navigate our built environment and will radically alter urban development patterns. Just as the streetcar, train, automobile, and airplane redefined transportation and set the stage for urban development patterns, a Hyperloop system is capable of having an equally transformative effect.

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AECOM is partnering with technology companies HyperloopONE and Arrivo, city and state governments, and private developers to understand how to effectively negotiate an urban context in which an individual can effectively commute from one metro area to another more quickly than from a downtown to suburb. Megaregions, such as the Texas Triangle or the Pacific Northwest, will operate in such a way that Dallas and Austin or Seattle and Portland will be suburbs to each other, rather than separate cities. Dallas and Austin, which are 200 miles apart, will be effectively closer in travel time than Dallas to Plano, only 20 miles apart. The altering of land economics will reduce suburban competitiveness while inducing more dense, sustainable, and inclusive transit-oriented development. Time-sensitive industries will rearrange themselves not around highway infrastructure or airports, but on Hyperloop network nodes. By consolidating more development around these nodes, cities can mitigate some of the negative impacts of sprawl and reserve more of the natural environment for conservation and recreational use.

AECOM’s Hyperloop Texas project will allow people and goods to travel between any major Texas cities within 30 minutes, dramatically reducing highway congestion and enhancing air quality. It will move people and goods through a sustainable transport system that emits almost no greenhouse gases and requires little external power. The 640-mile route will create a true mega-region that connects the major logistical hubs of DFW Airport, the Port of Houston, and the Laredo Inland Port along with 18 million people across five major cities.

Planning for Hyperloop Texas has included evaluation of regional route alignments, placement of nodes, and analysis of the capacity of the areas surrounding stations to absorb development.

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The Hyperloop: The next mode of transportation Hyperloop is a new way to move people and things anywhere in the world quickly, safely, efficiently, ondemand and with minimal impact to the environment.

The system uses electric propulsion to accelerate a passenger or cargo vehicle through a tube in a lowpressure environment.

The autonomous vehicle levitates slightly above the track and glides at faster-than-airline speeds over long distances. Hyperloop eliminates direct emissions, noise, delay, weather concerns and pilot error. The Hyperloop One Global Challenge, a firstof-its-kind competition, identified and selected AECOM’s Hyperloop Texas along with nine other locations around the world to develop and construct the world’s first Hyperloop networks.

It can revolutionize the physical configuration of cities.

It can be both environmentally sustainable and socially equitable.

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1,100 People move to Texas daily, with over 75% of them living within the Triangle cities.

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By 2030, over 33 million people will live in Texas, nearly equal to the present population of Canada.

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PROJECTS / PARK SYSTEM PLANNING VARIOUS LOCATIONS

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The role of parks in our communities has evolved. Today with increasing urbanization in cities and increasing diversities in age and culture, parks can play a uniting role. Local governments are challenged to provide an increasingly diverse breadth of recreation and social services, while competing for limited available funding. We believe that the creative planning, design and management of open space is the framework for building sustainable, livable, equitable cities and cultivating community. With thoughtful planning and design, there are exciting opportunities for local governments to develop new, creative strategies for collaboratively providing highquality services in their communities.

Our integrated park, recreation and open space team approach includes planners, landscape architects, transportation planners, economists ecologists, and urban designers who have helped over 80 communities throughout the United States plan, develop, and implement successful parks, recreation and open space systems plans. Our proven and flexible process has helped our clients embrace this era of change while providing opportunities to improve broader economic, social and environmental issues.

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CASE STUDY: PLAY DC – DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA PARK AND RECREATION MASTER PLAN

AECOM had the great honor of leading the planning effort for the nation’s capital in development of a comprehensive park and recreation master plan called Play DC. Specifically, the plan provides a set of clear strategies for improving the City’s parks and recreation system and guide program, and capital funding decisions for a 15-year horizon. A large advisory group with representatives from various District departments, the National Park Service, Trust for Public Lands, and the National Recreation and Parks Association (NRPA) was instrumental in guiding the successful development of plan goals and now in the successful implementation of the plan.

The plan focuses on helping the District establish a clear understanding of current conditions of citywide parks, recreation centers, outdoor facilities and available programs.

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CASE STUDY: MIAMI-DADE COUNTY PARKS, RECREATION AND OPEN SPACES SYSTEM MASTER PLAN AECOM worked with Miami-Dade County to develop a 50-year, unifying vision for a livable and sustainable Miami-Dade County through the lens of parks. The plan’s intent was to create a new development culture in the County that focuses on the principles of equity, accessibility, seamless transitions, sustainability, beauty and the generation of multiple benefits.

The Plan also provides a physical framework for sustainability focused on the following five sub-systems: parks, public spaces, natural and cultural areas, greenways/blueways, and streets. The planning process included a lifestyle demographic analysis; an analysis of the existing parks system; a week-long ideas charrette; neighborhood, community and county-wide vision plans; benchmarking and economic analysis; public involvement; and the development of a comprehensive, integrated County-wide open space vision. The project was launched with a well-publicized special community event and was followed with regular community workshops and close collaboration with local, state and federal agencies.

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PROJECTS / GOLDEN 1 CENTER SACRAMENTO, CA

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The AECOM-designed Golden 1 Center is the world’s most comfortable, connected and sustainable sports venue, and the first LEED Platinum arena ever constructed. But it has also been the cornerstone of the City of Sacramento’s downtown revitalization, triggering the creation of over 4,000 permanent jobs, more than 1 million square feet of new construction, and more than $11.5 billion in additional downtown economic activity.

Our team of architects, sports architects, landscape architects, engineers, urban planners and economists worked together from the beginning, studying the flow of people and activity through downtown, analyzing microclimates and the cooling Delta Breeze, engaging with the community to understand the city’s passions and ambitions, and taking inspiration from the Northern California landscape and the granite faces of the Sierra Nevada mountains.

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The key to the building’s unprecedented performance and impact on the downtown environment is the urban design that created the optimum orientation for natural ventilation and a series of inviting outdoor spaces that embrace the daily life of both arena patrons and downtown users.

AECOM’s design reconnects neighborhoods and repairs the city grid, rethinks the traditional, introverted arena by opening to the outdoors and inviting the community for year-round activities, and dramatically reduces energy, water and carbon use. With bike parking onsite, and just steps from train, light rail and buses, the development welcomes the public daily with an open plaza for pre-event activities, farmers markets, or simply enjoying the shade trees, art and sculptured seating in a vibrant setting. An 8-foot living wall wraps the building with plants reflecting the differing microclimates, from drought-tolerant grasses to the south, a fragrant vertical herb garden at the dining terrace, to a cooling shade garden on the north.

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A new heart for Sacramento, unmatched fan experience, and a new standard of sustainability.

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EVENT PLAZA, for pre-game entertainment, community activities and farmers markets.

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RAIN GARDENS, helping the development use 45% less water than California’s stringent requirements.

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PEDESTRIAN FRIENDLY, with a 20% increase in downtown footfall since the development opened.

RETAIL + RESTAURANT FRONTAGES, activating the space when the arena is not in use.

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About AECOM

As a full-service firm operating in over 150 countries, AECOM is a new and progressive consultancy with more than 85,000 staff worldwide. Our collaborative approach unites creativity with technical expertise to address complex challenges at all scales.

AECOM’s best practice solutions achieve notable design excellence and commercial and investment value success. We deliver fully integrated economic assessments, strategy, planning, design, construction, finance, and operations management across our markets, and our industry. AECOM has deep experience in all methods of project delivery as the designer, builder, planner, advisor, manager, and design-builder. We are experienced in leading complex teams, and managing overall construction quality, cost, and schedule.

Our integrated delivery platform is comprised of our design and consulting services group which provides design and planning for buildings and places, urban infrastructure, and environment to public and private clients; our construction services group which provides design-build, construction, and project management services; AECOM capital, the firm’s investment division, which is a sponsor, developer, and equity investor supporting clients in delivering a range of real estate and infrastructure projects; and our management services group which provides operations and maintenance services to clients around the world.

Our Design + Planning and Economics practices are part of our Buildings and Places business line which includes all disciplines needed to deliver the built environment, including Architecture, Interiors, Building Engineering, Asset Advisory, and Strategy+.

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