The ATP Academy is a unique training and advanced training program for our employees. It offers a wide range of opportunities to identify and further develop specialist skills.

The European Green Deal envisages the transformation of Europe into the first climate-neutral continent by 2050. This challenges – but also obliges – us as architects and engineers to further improve our built environment. Sustainable design demands engagement and professional expertise and is even more firmly anchored in our own “ATP Green Deal” than in the EU requirements. This means that we and our clients are jointly assuming our responsibility for the future.

“architects and engineers for better buildings” is the essence of the ATP Mission Statement, the guiding principles for our collective work that make a decisive contribution to our success. Our vision of changing the world for the better with our buildings leads to our mission of saving resources and minimizing waste in the spirit of the European Green Deal. Our work is based on our interdisciplinary culture of cooperation, combined with our key corporate values of commitment, dialog, and enthusiasm.

The ATP Partnership was established in 1990. The model shares corporate responsibility among a broad cross-section of employees and enables them to participate in the success of the company. ATP’s corporate culture is currently represented by eight partners, 32 associate partners, and 71 associates.

ATP Zero is a research and specialist design company whose core competence is research & development in the area of building services. ATP Zero’s experts develop bespoke, ecologically and economically optimized ideal building services solutions, both as part of ATP’s integrated design teams and in the form of consulting services for external clients.

ATP health is a specialist design company that has developed an expertise in the planning of medical facilities, pharmacies, laboratories, research institutions, and industrial kitchens. With its user-oriented design approach, ATP health establishes the basis for the operational success of a facility and makes a decisive contribution to the wellbeing of both users and employees.

ATP sustain is a research and specialist design company for sustainable design and building with offices in Germany and Austria. Its experts implement sustainable research-based approaches to climate-friendly building and operation in the planning of new buildings and the refurbishment of existing structures. ATP sustain accompanies its clients as they are certified by the leading certification bodies with the help of surveys of the existing, practical optimization concepts, and successful implementation programs.

Our architect-led project teams plan in an interdisciplinary manner: ATP's architects design and plan resilient and future-proof buildings in integrated cooperation with their structural and building services engineering colleagues and ATP experts from other specialist areas such as landscaping, sustainability, AI, and digitalization, etc. The development of buildings within a BIM model (a "digital twin") ensures that all functional, constructional, and building services aspects of the planning process are up-to-date and correlate with the design. As the single point of contact for our clients, ATP's architects are responsible for both the quality of the overall building planning process, including the object monitoring, and for meeting all cost and timetable targets.

As a digital interface between the design and the tender processes, BIM2AVA is used throughout ATP. It automatically links the elements of the BIM model with the tendering program.

Thanks to our use of Building Information Modeling (BIM), BIM2FIM enables us to supply clients with building data from the digital planning process that enables them to carry out efficient, digital facility management.

Well-thought-out building automation solutions enable us to optimize the functionality of our building services, save energy, increase user comfort, and guarantee a better level of security.

Building Information Modeling (BIM) stands for the digital depiction of all constructional, technical, physical-functional, economic, and timetable-related characteristics of a building in a central data model. The data generated by all planning processes – from the initial information search, via the planning, construction or conversion/repurposing, and operation, up to demolition – is recorded, updated, and documented. As digital pioneers, we at ATP have exclusively planned all projects with BIM since 2012.

ATP’s integrated design service includes building physics, with the sub-services of thermal, humidity, and noise protection. These are delivered by the research and specialist design company ATP sustain as part of the integrated design team.

ATP’s integrated design service includes building physics, with the sub-services of thermal, humidity, and noise protection. These are delivered by the research and specialist design company ATP sustain as part of the integrated design team.

Building services include all technical installations and systems in buildings that safeguard their supply infrastructure, use, security, and comfort – e.g. their heating, ventilation, air conditioning, sanitary, and electrical systems. This means that building services engineers make a decisive contribution to the functionality and energy efficiency of buildings.

Certifications in the building sector are official confirmations that specific standards have been met in such areas as sustainability, energy efficiency, environmental protection, quality, and health. They offer a competitive advantage to clients and owners due to the fact that certified buildings command higher rental and sales prices. The most common certification systems in the DACH Region are: DGNB, ÖGNB, BREEAM, LEED, and klimaaktiv.

Computational design is a design method for the automation, analysis, and optimization of the architectural planning process. The use of algorithms to intelligently link all parameters of the integrated design process enables the potential of integrated design with BIM to be fully exploited. ATP’s computational design experts support the office’s project teams in such areas as parametric and generative design, data exchange, and design automation.

Corporate architecture concerns the design and development of buildings and architectural structures that reflect and underpin an organization’s identity, values, and brand.

Every Christmas, we support a constructional and/or social project selected by one of our design offices as a means of making our concrete contribution to the community.

We concentrate our social and community engagement in the geographical region in which ATP is anchored as a service provider and as an employer. Our focuses include subjects such as education, research, the arts, the environment, and the support of social institutions and initiatives.

“Cradle to Cradle” (C2C) describes the approach of a continuous and consistent circular economy. The aim is to create products and systems that are not only environmentally friendly but also regenerative: The waste from one process becomes the resource for a new one. Among other things, ATP is a founding member (“Kennedy”) of Madaster, an online register of materials and products.

As creative laboratories, ATP’s D&R studios provide design leadership and develop competitions and studies. As academic platforms and open workshops they cooperate closely with technical universities and universities of applied sciences and expand our core competence of integrated design through small but prestigious projects in such special areas as new working environments, alternative living concepts, or the use of new and innovative materials.

The differentiation and grouping of building design projects/tasks into sectors with homogenous requirements:

• Urban design and landscape

• Production and logistics

• Retail

• Culture and leisure

• Hospitality

• Offices and administration

• Housing

• Mixed-use

• Teaching and research

• Health sector

• Infrastructure and transport

EU Taxonomy is a system of classification that was developed by the European Union as a means of defining economic activities that can be regarded as sustainable. It acts as a framework for identifying and encouraging investment in projects and companies that are contributing to the achievement of the EU’s environmental targets.

ATP’s interdisciplinary teams work with enormous enthusiasm on the design of buildings that offer maximum comfort and utility while minimizing energy consumption. Our building services engineers design state-of-the-art control systems that reduce energy consumption and protect the environment.

We offer Engineering, Procurement, and Construction Management (EPCM) services in cooperation with the ATP subsidiary redserve. EPCM enables us to assume responsibility for all the processes of a real estate project and, as a result, for the holistic coordination of the project development, planning, and implementation. As representatives of our clients, we coordinate all processes and interactions with the statutory authorities and other stakeholders and manage communications with all project participants.

The world – in Europe at least – is already densely built, as a result of which the future lies in the refurbishment and resource-friendly repurposing of existing buildings. Revitalization projects are a growing aspect of our core competence, integrated design.

FactoryXperts is a Swiss-based international market leader in consultancy services for the baking industry. With its profound understanding of the production processes of the food and drink industry and all aspects of design and construction, a multidisciplinary team supports clients in the planning of their future-oriented production facilities.

Gray emissions are the indirect, in-built emissions that are created during the manufacturing, transport, and disposal of materials and products. Red emissions are the direct emissions that are released during the operation of buildings, products, and machines. Both types of emission are decisive for the overall evaluation of the environmental impact of a building and the development of sustainable strategies for the reduction of emissions.

Gray energy describes the amount of energy consumed during the entire construction cycle, i.e. during the manufacturing, transportation, and disposal of materials and products – as opposed to the red energy consumed during the use phase. The more we design energy-efficient buildings and constructional elements (and, hence, reduce the red energy consumed during the operational cycle of a building), the higher the share of the overall energy demand of a building represented by gray energy, particularly in the building materials, and, thus, the better the overall evaluation of its environmental impact.

At ATP, a Group Leader is a member of the management team and reports directly to the Managing Director(s). They lead their expert group of 10 to 15 architects or engineers like an “office within an office.” Alongside their organizational role, they are also responsible for the quality assurance of the design process and the training and career development of the members of their group.

In planning buildings for the health sector, the objective of our expert and thorough design process is to enhance the wellbeing of patients, visitors, and staff, reduce stress, and support the healing process.

The Zurich-based engineering company for efficient and sustainable building services offers innovative and energetically-optimized solutions for the design of complex buildings, especially in the field of hospital building. HGPC has been part of the ATP Group since 2020.

The implementation-oriented and innovative company for integrated building services with two offices in Germany offers forward-looking MEP planning in all areas of construction. ITA engineering has been part of the ATP Group since 2023.

We define integrated design as the simultaneous and interdisciplinary interaction of the creative services delivered by all participants in the planning process, with the objective of optimally achieving the project goals. At ATP, the three key service providers in the building planning process (architects and structural and building services engineers) and specialists in the areas of ESG and landscape and interior design work together in our own teams.

In ATP’s 14 European locations, our integrated design companies act as independent offices, whose interdisciplinary teams deliver all architectural and key engineering services from the initial project idea to completion. This cooperation within an office and across the entire ATP network of around {{MitarbeiterAnzahl}} architects and engineers enables us to plan an efficient, high-quality, and resource-friendly project from day one. In this process, we assume overall design responsibility, including for the preliminary and execution design, cost and timetable planning, and site supervision, for all phases of the project.

ATP’s interior architects are part of the integrated design team. They support the building’s core and other functional processes with a rigorous and aesthetic interior concept, right up to execution. The ATP subsidiary Mint Architecture, a strategy and design office for architecture and interior design, specializes in identity-rich concepts for working environments, restaurants, hospitality, retail, and brand spaces, branch concepts, and mixed-use solutions.

As the leader of a (temporary) project team, the Lead Project Manager is responsible for the overall project outcome and quality and the integrated design process from the very beginning to the end of a project.

The objective of Lean Construction Management is to increase the efficiency, speed, and cost-effectiveness of the design and construction process by minimizing waste and continuously improving processes.

The planning of sustainable buildings requires the lifecycle approach, because the largest cost factor of a building is represented not by the design and construction phase but by the operational phase – in the form of maintenance and energy consumption, etc. As a result of interdisciplinary quality assurance during the integrated design process and the simultaneous simulation permitted by BIM models there are now excellent opportunities for comprehensively optimizing decision-making during the early project phases – and this is the best guarantee of long-term project success.

As a strategic tool for the development and use of buildings, the masterplan offers clear guidelines for planning and building in line with a strategy. The structure and central ideas of the masterplan provide a framework for further concrete design work and it retains its value through regular updating and needs-oriented adaptation. The objective of the masterplan is to align building measures with the client’s strategic objectives – in the short, medium, and long terms.

The ATP subsidiary Mint Architecture, a strategic and design company for experience-oriented architecture with offices in Switzerland, Germany, and Austria, focuses rigorously on the benefits to the end user as a means of establishing a solid basis for increasing the commercial success of spaces and buildings. The “placemakers” within the ATP Group, Mint Architecture works closely with its clients to create places that fascinate.

Our modular buildings, which are integrally designed with BIM, consist of individually prefabricated elements that are delivered to the building site where they only have to be assembled. Due to their quality of execution and sustainable performance we highly rate the future potential of modular buildings, especially in the housing and special housing sectors.

The “NEUES LEBEN – New Life for Department Stores” initiative, which was established by ATP, intensely addresses the revitalization of deserted inner cities through the refurbishment and repurposing of empty department store buildings. The objective is to offer investors a perspective for the future and, hence, an alternative to demolition. Cooperation and networking among experts from politics, local government, the construction sector, and project development are generating innovative ways of meeting economic, urban, social, and ecological requirements.

We design working environments in which users can find suitable spaces for each different activity and special requirement. Because flexible and adaptable workplaces increase levels of productivity, cooperation, and employee satisfaction.

ATP’s employees in the areas of object monitoring/site supervision guarantee the contractually agreed execution of the building in line with the approved plans, the specifications, and all legal requirements. They ensure that a building project is completed to plan, to the agreed quality, and in line with the specified budget.

Due to the combination of a major housing shortage in urban regions and the high levels of vacant office space resulting from changes in working habits (home office, desk sharing, remote working, etc.), we are intensely examining forward-looking concepts for creating innovative living space in office buildings.

The ATP consulting company Plandata supports us as an independent consultant in the integration of the BIM working method and the optimization of existing BIM processes. Plandata offers services and products for all disciplines involved in digital building design.

The integrally designed renovation of an existing building offers a unique opportunity to safeguard and increase its value and ensure its future viability while improving user comfort. A professional, resource-friendly remodeling, especially one that makes use of recyclable materials, minimizes a building’s CO₂ emissions, optimizes energy efficiency, and lowers operating costs.

Renewable energies are sources of energy that originate from natural processes and are continually regenerative or inexhaustible – such as solar energy, wind energy, hydroelectric power, biomass, or geothermal energy. They represent a sustainable alternative to fossil fuels, which are finite and release greenhouse gases upon combustion.

We combine integrated design experience and interdisciplinary architectural and engineering expertise to conceive resilient buildings that meet the highest ESG standards. In doing so, we enhance our clients’ competitiveness and opportunities for growth. Our research and specialist design offices act as independent “innovation labs” for sustainable building development. They work together with our internal and external planning teams to develop innovative and practice-oriented solutions that improve our built environment – fully in line with the clear vision of ATP.

We plan buildings that employ advanced technology and building automation to control and optimize their operational processes. This smart designing and building leads to more energy efficiency, higher user comfort, and increased security.

ATP’s specialist design companies are highly specialized offices that provide planning services for both ATP projects and external clients in a particular area – such as ATP sustain for sustainability, ensphere for landscaping, ITA engineering and HGPC for building services design, and ATP health for the planning of laboratories or industrial kitchens.

Structural engineers address the structural and constructional design of buildings, ensure their safety, stability, and load-carrying capacity, and calculate and plan loadbearing structures such as foundations, walls, slabs, and roof structures.

Our understanding of sustainability in building is the design of structures that are economically, ecologically, and socially efficient and resource-friendly. Our approach of simultaneous, digital planning in experienced interdisciplinary teams allows us to contribute to improving the architecture of tomorrow.

The planning of building projects is subdivided into different phases of work. In Germany and Austria, these phases are defined in the Fee Scales for Architects and Engineers (HOAI). There is a total of nine work phases:

1. Initial Information Search

2. Predesign (Sketch Design)

3. Preliminary Design

4. Approvals Design

5. Execution Design

6. Tender Preparation

7. Tender Management

8. Object Monitoring/Site Supervision

9. Documentation/Object Support

In Switzerland, these work phases are structured by the Swiss Society of Engineers and Architects (SIA) as follows:

1. Strategic Planning

2. Preliminary Studies

3. Project (Preliminary Project, Construction Project, Approvals)

4. Tender

5. Realization

6. Operation

The ATP subsidiary blu.print Consulting is an expert for strategic building development and construction project management in the health sector. With many years of health sector experience, the consultancy accompanies the operators of hospitals, clinics, health centers, and care facilities in the development and implementation of all their construction projects.

ensphere, an office for landscape architecture and urban planning within the ATP Group, designs spaces in which people and nature can enjoy a sustainable relationship. Nature-based solutions that combine ecological innovation and human-centered design create places that encourage social interaction, cultural exchange, and general wellbeing.

The ATP subsidiary foodfab advises food industry companies and helps them to implement their strategies in bespoke, forward-looking buildings. With its core competence in integrated process planning for food production and processing, the consultant is the market leader in Central Europe.