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About AECOM

At AECOM, we believe infrastructure creates opportunity for everyone.

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Innovation & Digital

Our technical experts and visionaries harness the power of technology to deliver transformative outcomes.

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About AECOM

At AECOM, we believe infrastructure creates opportunity for everyone.

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Innovation & Digital

Our technical experts and visionaries harness the power of technology to deliver transformative outcomes.

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High performance buildings

Integrated design that optimizes sustainability

High performance building design

High performance design is a collaborative approach to designing buildings that achieves high quality internal environments and improves energy performance to optimize environmental and social outcomes across the life cycle.

Through integrating design practices from the outset of a project, we can maximize the performance of a building across a number of key attributes:

  • Total carbon optimization
  • Disaster resistant
  • Improved safety and security
  • Accessibility and integration with place
  • Cost efficiencies
  • Optimized functionality
  • Reduced risk

Our global integrated design studio brings together the best people, ideas, technical expertise and digital solutions from across our network. We design new and refurbish tall towers, always striving to advance high performance outcomes for our clients.

We focus on optimizing environmental and social outcomes, which is underpinned by our unique digital design and delivery model. The integration of cost from the outset of the design process enables us to align the scope with defined budgets and then manage this throughout the design and construction process to mitigate financial risk.

Our 7 points of difference:

  1. Design methodology
  2. Cost-led integrated delivery
  3. Application of high performing design tools
  4. Timber construction
  5. Expertise in building refurbishment
  6. Global centers of excellence
  7. International delivery

Our high performance design methodology:

Projects

    • Golden 1 Center

    • Intuit Dome

    • Wesley Place

    • Olderfleet

    • 22 Bishopsgate

    • ICD Brookfield Place

 

Insights

    • Experiments in Landscape Integration

    • Elevating the Outdoors

    • Multi-Dimensional Facades: 11 Skies

    • Strategies for assessing and reducing carbon

    • Adapting existing towers to be taller and greener

    • New ways to measure excellence in tall buildings

Awards

Many of our high performance buildings have been recognized with external awards:

  • 80 Collins Street, Best Innovative Building, Property Council of Australia Innovation and Excellence Awards 2022
  • Kingdom Centre, 2005 Honor Award, American Institute of Architects (AIA)
  • Etihad Towers, 2013 Best Large Project, MEED Quality Awards for Projects
  • Wenzhou Gohong Towers, Commercial High-Rise Architecture Zhejiang Province, Asia Pacific Property Awards 2022
  • Shaoxing Huafa Financial Center, Mixed Use Architecture Zhejiang province, Asia Pacific Property Awards 2022
  • Shaoxing Huafa Community Center, Leisure Architecture China, Asia Pacific Property Awards 2022
  • Wesley Place, Urban Habitat District/Master Plan Scale Jury Selection Award, CTBUH Tall Excellence Awards 2022
  • One Vanderbilt Avenue, Geotechnical Audience Selection Award and Best Tall Building 400 Meters and Above Jury Selection Award, CTBUH Tall Excellence Awards 2022
  • Olderfleet, Best Tall Building 100-199 meters Jury Selection Award, CTBUH Tall Excellence Awards 2022
  • Collins Arch, Best Tall Building, Mixed-Use Jury Selection Award, Best Tall Building Australia Award, CTBUH Tall Excellence Awards 2022
  • 22 Bishopsgate, Best Tall Building Europe, Audience Selection Award, CTBUH Tall Excellence Awards 2022
  • One Crown Place South, Best Tall Building Europe Jury Selection Award, CTBUH Tall Excellence Awards 2022
  • Four Season Hotel and Private Residences, Best Tall Building 200-299 Meters Jury Selection Award, CTBUH Tall Excellence Awards 2022

Contacts

    • Marc Colella

    • Ross Wimer

    • Victoria Watson