Each of our offices has an ADM Officer, who acts as the “on-field team captain” and is responsible for developing and overseeing these agile design rules within their office and training our employees to use them. ADM Managers help our design teams to apply this approach in the context of integrated design. They spread the message of agile working across the office and ensure that our teams are in top form – so that they are all able to play “in the same league.” The speedy distribution of responsibilities makes the predictable planning of the design process more efficient and, above all, more transparent. Clients have a central role in this design process – as an intrinsic part of the agile team. And the team, in turn, is focused on the delivery of concrete results – according to a tight schedule.

Because agile methods have long been part of our corporate philosophy. And because integrated design requires exactly those qualities that are also the objective of ADM: excellent team-based cooperation, clear and transparent processes and responsibilities, and the early identification of problems. In other words, these new agile methods can build upon an excellent foundation at ATP. And the efficiency envisaged by ADM also perfectly supports our latest mission: to minimize waste.

A high-quality BIM model demands integrated cooperation. This means that all relevant data from the actors involved in the design process are available in a digital model (a single source of truth), where they can be updated and accessed at any time – in contrast with the options offered by other standard BIM platforms without integrated design. The continuous recording and processing of data permits the comprehensive support of the sustainability certification process and, then, the complete documentation of the project as the basis for efficient facility management (CAFM). Model-based design also allows different variants of a good, ESG-compliant building to be simulated – including the ideal variant of a sustainable building in line with the ATP Green Deal, which we also provide as a benchmark for every client.

BIM creates a “digital twin” from the first design idea to the facility management phase. This offers our clients not only a “look and feel” experience with 3D visualizations or virtual guided tours. The central data model also records, simulates, updates, and documents the information from all design processes – from the initial information search, via the design, construction or remodeling/repurposing, and operation of the building, to demolition. The depiction of all architectural, technical, physical, and functional characteristics of the building optimizes the quality of the entire design, construction, and operational process. Clients can be provided with solid analyses – such as precise forecasts of construction and lifecycle cost savings or of the energetic behavior of the building – that enable them to make decisions from the early design phases.

Integrated rather than linear is the essence of integrated digital design. Consistency, team spirit, and transparency are basic requirements for the successful combination and optimization of huge quantities of data and different levels of information from all disciplines within this model, which is the focus of project communication and cooperation from day one. This approach not only reduces error rates and project costs, but also shortens the overall project duration and cuts non-budgeted changes by up to 40 %. The permanent objective of digital integrated design is to increase the quality of the building while reducing waste in all processes.