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Americas Practice Capability Statement

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• intelligent built environments
• spectacular social environments
• responsible natural environments
[ encourage collaboration • inspire thought • facilitate research • stimulate interaction]
[ advance the environmental agenda • create community • integrate indoor/outdoor]
[ performance-based solutions of excellence • integrated systems • net-zero ]

/01 About AECOM
/02 Relevant Experience
/03 Design Leadership
CONTENTS

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5AECOM | Qualifications
/01 About AECOM
We’ve built a new kind of organization. One that aligns
creative, analytical and technical expertise suited to assist
our clients with the complexities of today’s business
environment.
From creating new buildings and communities, to
enhancing public space, to engineering energy,
transportation and utility systems, our vision is to make
the world a better place. AECOM is one of the world’s
largest, most comprehensive consultancies, combining
architecture, engineering, masterplanning, landscape
architecture, environmental planning, economics, urban
design and construction management. We integrate
sustainable solutions into everything we do and have a
substantial portfolio of LEED certified projects. We also
have developed proprietary software (SSIM) to model the
sustainability aspects of our large-scale projects.
The depth and breadth of our capabilities means that we
can be adaptable and flexible depending on client needs;
however, each project benefits from consistent delivery
based on quality, efficiency and cost effectiveness. With
approximately 45,000 employees around the world,
AECOM is a leader in all of the key markets that it serves.
≥≥ More than 800 LEED accredited professionals across
AECOM
≥≥ Delivery of more than 100 million square feet of
workplace environments including multi-building
campuses for leading U.S. and global companies
≥≥ Architectural Record’s Top 5 Firms
≥≥ Among Newsweek’s Greenest Big Companies
≥≥ Engineering News-Record’s #1 Global A/E
≥≥ Financial Times “Best Workplaces”
≥≥ Named by the Ethisphere Institute as one of the
world’s most ethical companies
≥≥ Integrated services addressing the full life cycle of
projects

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/01 About AECOM
What does AECOM offer clients? We execute and collaborate
on the world’s most complex projects, bringing together the
in-depth knowledge required to deliver projects that meet
business objectives.
AECOM’s architecture, engineering, planning and design
experts are a key part of designing and delivering some of
the world’s most complex and interesting projects from
major sporting venues such as the London 2012 Olympic
Park and Legacy Framework and Rio 2016 Olympic Park,
to industrial facilities for Coca-Cola, Shell, Rolls-Royce,
to headquarters campuses for Unilever, the Social
Security Administration, Blue Cross, Blue Shield, RAND,
and multiple buildings for NASA.
The experts needed to design and deliver on time and on
budget.
AECOM provides specialist skills in architecture, building
engineering, interiors and workplace strategy, landscape
architecture and public realm, economics, cost consulting,
and sustainability. Our construction services team adds
great value to our architecture and design projects, providing
industry benchmarks, schedule and cost review as design is
developed.
Experience and thought leadership in Workplace Design.
Our Strategy Plus team works with some of the world’s leading
brands to develop and plan environments that respond to the
way client’s work now and in the future.
Design brilliance and a collaborative approach.
Our architecture, interiors and landscape design teams have
created award-winning, enduring work that contributes
positively to our clients’ business performance and
communities. Whether we work as part of an all-AECOM
team or partner with other firms, our focus is on quality,
innovation and responsible solutions. Most recently, AECOM,
in partnership, was awarded a prestigious 2014 Architectural
Record “Good Design is Good Business” Award.
Depth of resources and knowledge.
As one of the world’s leading architecture/engineering firms,
AECOM has access to global resources and knowledge. Our
firm includes more than 3,000 professionals in our Buildings
+ Places business line who focus on creating exemplary built
environments.
Reputation and stability.
AECOM has consistently ranked among the top A/E firms in the
world since its founding in 1990. Our company has grown to
annual revenue of $8Bn and is a respected partner for Fortune
100 companies and government agencies around the world.

/01 About AECOM
Global Locations
400+ offices around the world
Americas: 13,000 employees
Asia/Pacific: 20,000 employees
Europe/Middle East/Africa: 12,000 employees

An Integrated Approach
AECOM’s approach to the business of design emphasizes
collaboration among all key players from the beginning of
the planning phases of a project through post-occupancy
assessment. This is the essence of AECOM’s progressive
business model which merges the traditionally fragmented
components of a design process (economics, strategy,
programming, design, management, cost modeling,
construction, etc.) into one collaborative platform. It is
especially relevant for projects that aspire to high levels of
sustainability, where a fully integrated design team is essential
to a successful end product.
Our integrated approach provides the best opportunity
to control cost, schedule and design through early
communication, workshops and a culture that engages
each discipline at the commencement of the project while
advancing the design at every opportunity. We are able to
quickly explore alternatives and their impacts to cost and
schedule; and, when they are vetted, we don’t have surprises of
missed impacts. Our cost consultancy is borne of the globally-
recognized firm of Davis Langdon which is now embedded into
each office and each project.This team participates actively on
every project, providing input into materials, building systems,
constructability and design.
Our workplace strategies team, formerly DEGW, is renown as
a founder of workplace design.This team also plays an active
role in all of our corporate interiors as we develop bay spacing,
cores and bay depths all of which play an important role in
controlling costs. Additionally, our interiors group which works
hand-in-glove with our architecture team, is currently working
with Fortune 100 companies on their work environments.
/01 AECOM Capabilities
AECOM Services at a Glance
Architecture + Interiors
Building Engineering
Construction Services
Cost Estimating
Economics
Energy
Environment
Design + Planning
Government Services
Program Management
Workplace Strategies
Sustainable Design
Transportation
Water

Facilities Management
Occupier Strategies
Workplace + Interiors
Strategic Asset Management
End User Research
Occupier Strategies
Building Information Modeling (BIM)
Workplace + Interiors Strategies
Economics + Planning
Management Consultancy
Change Management
Masterplanning
Building Surveying
Economics + Planning
Project Management
Cost Management
Value + Risk Management
Environmental + Ecological Planning
Fiscal Incentives
Sustainability
Project Management
Cost Management
Architectural Design
Landscape Architecture
Interior Design
Procurement Strategy
Value + Risk Management
Conditions for Success Planning
Supply Chain Management
Sustainability
Health & Safety Management
Construction Management
Project Life Cycle / Services Approach

Architecture
AECOM helps clients create distinctive environments where
architecture, landscape, company culture and local community
merge to create a ‘place’. We provide a comprehensive
approach grounded in our expertise in each aspect of the
project life-cycle. As planners, environmental consultants,
designers, architects, engineers and program managers, we
knowledgeably lead complex, larger teams to execute the
scope of work in an integrated manner.
With more than 100 million square feet of experience
encompassing every US metropolitan area, we bring specific
expertise in the planning, programming and design of office
buildings. Our team has detailed knowledge of land use
and planning and government processes as well as the
comprehensive technical engineering and environmental
experience that is expected in responsible and sustainable
development.
Our professional engineers design buildings systems with
future needs in mind. We understand the commercial drivers
behind a project and design adaptable solutions, offering a
longer lifespan for the owner and tenant. Our experts strive
to find strategic solutions that reduce the building’s carbon
footprint, while making it easier to build and more cost
effective to operate. With the most talented specialists around
the globe, we have the ability to meet any challenge, for any
space whether a tall building, a sports stadium, a laboratory, a
commercial office block, a leisure resort, an airport terminal or
a retail mall.
AECOM’s design approach is inclusive. We always consider the
environmental impact of a new development or refurbishment
on its immediate surroundings. With a culture of dynamic
creativity running through the company, we strive to provide
innovative solutions that work. AECOM’s renowned global
reputation rests on our ability to design buildings that
maximize opportunities to capture naturally occurring
energy and minimize waste, both during construction and in
operational use.
Project /Client Highlights
Headquarters/Offices
Abbott Vascular NASA
Social Security Administration Unilever
Aerospace Corporation Target Corporation
General Electric Altria Group
Blue Cross Blue Shield Envision Energy
Dow Chemical Hines
Publix RAND Corporation
NBC Universal Hewlett-Packard
British Petroleum Assurant
Giant Interactive Florida Light & Power
USAA Korea Development Bank
Air National Guard Army National Guard
State of Maryland State of California
State of Arizona National Bank of Australia
GSA FBI USC Health Sciences
Wulfe Development AAA

/01 Capabilities:Architecture and Building Engineering

1. Los Angeles Police Headquarters, Los Angeles, California, USA (Architecture/Interiors)
2. RAND Corporation Headquarters, Santa Monica, California (Architecture, Interiors)
3. NASA N232, Mountain View, California (Building Engineering)
4. 6080 and 6100 Howard Hughes Center, Los Angeles, USA (Architecture)
5. Unilever Asia Headquarters, Bangkok,Thailand (Architecture, Interiors)
6. USAA Headquarters,Tampa, Florida (Architecture/Interiors)
7. Social Security Administration, Baltimore, Maryland (Architecture/Building Engineering)
8. Publix Headquarters, Lakeland, Florida (Architecture/Interiors)
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Interior Architecture
AECOM’s interiors team is recognized for designing
appropriate environments for clients across all market sectors
and for bringing a new approach to traditional challenges. Our
projects range from Fortune 100 company headquarters to
boutique hotels to interiors for public agencies. In each of our
projects, we act as stewards of our clients’ aspirations and
fiscal realities, working to capture opportunities and plan for
the long term.
The AECOM design philosophy for interior design is based
on balance. From the outset of the project, we structure
our project teams to integrate design, management and
technical professionals.These team members are assigned
to the project on day one and remain on the project until it
is completed. Each team member, while focused on certain
aspects of the project to expedite design and production,
maintains overall responsibility for the entire project.
Our process is a collaborative one, with a constant dialogue
between the architectural team and client, contractor, and
consultants.The process requires strong leadership to
encourage the exchange of ideas while having the maturity
and experience to make decisions and balance various
concepts against the overall project objectives.
This collaborative approach allows that design integrity
will be maintained in every detail and in every document
produced. It also guarantees that design concepts
are constantly balanced with budget, schedule, code
considerations, and other requirements.
DirecTV Velti mGage
PriceWaterhouseCoopers Nestle
North County Transit Center Yahoo!
Blue Cross Blue Shield AMC Theatres
Publix Paul Hastings LLP
Los Angeles County Broadcom
Envision Energy Aerospace Corporation
Target Corporation Altria Group
General Electric GSA FBI
Giant Interactive USC Health Sciences
RAND Corporation AAA
Assurant USAA
Capital Group California Endowment
Annenberg Foundation Ernst & Young

/01 Capabilities:Interior Architecture

1. Envision Energy Headquarters, China (Architecture/Interiors)
2. DirecTV Headquarters, California, USA (Workplace Strategy/Interiors)
3. Financial Services Firm, National Locations, USA (Workplace Strategy/Interiors)
4.Velti mGage Headquarters, California, USA (Workplace Strategy/Interiors)
5.Target Corporation Headquarters, Minnesota, USA (Architecture/Interiors)
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Innovators in Workplace Environments and Strategy
We know that optimizing the portfolio to ensure “best use”
is paramount. We also know that our clients want to think
strategically about the workplace, realizing that it can be
used as an organizational asset to enhance the employee
experience, productivity, and idea generation, and in parallel,
generate space efficiencies and value.
Through the necessity for aggressive cost reductions,
workplace strategies, including simplifying business models,
are providing an opportunity to right-size real
estate portfolios and create the business case for change.
Implementing new ways of working can result in double-digit,
first-cost reduction and reduced churn or lifecycle costs as
well. In addition, to manage unpredictable business cycles
and headcount as well as constant restructuring, clients are
examining ways of future-proofing real estate strategies by
implementing alternative working practices. Desk-sharing
and non-territorial working can provide protection against
short-term expansion and contraction, while supporting the
changing and increasingly mobile nature of work.
As ever, getting and keeping the right talent is critical to
success. Overall, a workplace strategy that leverages space,
technology and alternative workplace practices to enhance the
performance of individuals and teams can result in a return
on investment, via potential reductions and cost avoidances in
real estate and in potential gains in human capital terms.
For the 38 years, we have been researching, publishing, and
presenting on how to use the workplace as an organizational
asset – and not simply something that must be minimized.
While we have published over 30 books and research studies
on the topic of working environments, we know it’s always
evolving and shifting.That’s why we never stop pushing the
boundaries of what we know.
Project/Client Highlights

PricewaterhouseCoopers UBS
DBS Bank Capital One
Microsoft ANZ Bank
HSBC Deloitte
Accenture Royal Bank of Scotland
Fidelity Ernst & Young
Autodesk SAP
Adobe Shell
National Grid GlaxoSmithKline
Telefonica Carnegie Mellon
Golden State Waters Yahoo
Cisco Unilever
Philips Roche
Reuters Google
Time, Inc. Nokia
Lilly AstraZeneca
Microsoft BBC
When there is no such thing as
business as usual, the
workplace can contribute to
addressing the drivers for
change.
/01 Capabilities:Strategy Plus

1. Macquarie Bank, London, UK (Workplace Strategy/Interiors)
2. UBS Switzerland (Workplace Strategy)
3. DBS Bank, Singapore (Workplace Transformation)
4.Velti mGage, San Francisco, US (Workplace Strategy, Interiors)
5. Roche, Indianapolis, US (Workplace Strategy)
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Urban Planning / Masterplanning / Landscape Architecture
A comprehensive understanding of how people’s lives shape
and are shaped by their environments is the starting point
for AECOM’s approach to the design and planning of places
at all scales. Whether working on a multi-acre corporate
landscape, a small urban park, or a year-round resort, our
landscape architects and urban designers consider the site’s
physical surroundings and the needs of the client as well as
the financial mechanisms, long-term community effects,
implementation, maintenance, and management of the
project.
AECOM’s practice is not simply focused on buildings and sites
but on systems: the physical framework of streets, squares,
parks, plazas and gardens that contribute to a sense of place.
Effective and sustainable design requires careful integration
of the myriad features of a particular site, from issues of
aesthetics to those of ecology, circulation, infrastructure,
visual impacts and economic viability. Our interdisciplinary
approach brings together the best creative and strategic
thinkers to facilitate the often complex reciprocal
relationships between sites and their surrounding context.
Our work takes place in a variety of settings, from established
downtowns to new communities to rural landscape settings.
All our projects have in common the need for practicality,
quality and attractiveness. Underlying everything we do is the
ideal of making places where we ourselves - and ultimately,
many others - will want to be.
Environmental and Ecological Planning
In a resource-constrained world, environmental planning and
design are cornerstones of our ability to create, enhance and
sustain the world’s built, natural and social environments.
AECOM provides unparalleled resources to meet even the
most complex environmental challenges, including conserving
sensitive natural resources, evaluating climate change
impacts, optimizing stressed water resources, managing
diverse energy portfolios, preserving cultural heritages,
restoring ecological processes and functions, and integrating
sustainability into design.
Our environmental services are provided by a diverse team of
environmental planners, engineers, scientists, and designers,
who offer innovative, balanced, and objective solutions
to the complex environmental and social issues of today
and tomorrow. We understand the unique environmental
opportunities and challenges presented by each project, and
tailor our deliverables to meet the needs of individual clients.
Services include water and coastal systems planning and
design; environmental planning and assessment;natural
resources management;ecological design;climate change
planning; environmental geographic information systems
mapping and analysis; sustainable design; visual resource
analysis; and energy planning and management.
Royal Bank of Scotland Mitsui Fudosan
Intuit Ayala Land
The Irvine Company Forest City Development
Westfield Port of Los Angeles
Port of New York/New Jersey Silverstein Properties
The St.Joe Company Shell
Hines Bovis Lend Lease
Chicago Park District Public Building
London Development Agency Commission of Chicago
Georgia Institute of Technology State of California
Shenzhen Planning Bureau UK Olympic Delivery
Vina Capital Authority
The Walt Disney Company US National Park Service
Department of Water City/County of San Diego
Resources City of San Francisco
State of California Syngenta
/01 Capabilities:Design + Planning

1. Royal Bank of Scotland, (Landscape Architecture)
2.Tokyo Midtown,Japan (Urban Planning, Landscape Architecture)
3. Beach Replenishment Project , San Diego, CA (Environmental and Ecological Planning)
4. London 2012 Olympic Games, UK (Urban Planning, Masterplanning, Landscape
Architecture)
5. Chengdu 24 City Retail, China (Masterplanning, Landscape Architecture)
6. Sacramento Delta, Aquatic and Hydrodynamic Technical Services, California
(Environmental and Ecological Planning)
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Through AECOM’s program, cost, consultancy (PCC) capability,
our clients have access to a comprehensive suite of
construction consulting expertise. With a well-earned, global
reputation for excellence, creativity and thought leadership,
our PCC services are seamlessly integrated with AECOM’s
network of professionals.
Our PCC specialists provide services that focus on reducing
client risk, improving value and assuring outcomes on
projects in all market sectors of the built, natural and social
environments. Our experts provide cost consulting, project
management and associated specialist consultancy services.
We structure ourselves around our clients’ sectors to provide
industry-relevant advice and it is our ability to provide
specialists — and not generalists — that adds real value to a
project and sets us apart from our competitors.
Our service offerings include but are not limited to the
following:
• Cost Planning and Management
• Conditions Assessment
• Design Management
• Facilities Management
• Market Intelligence
• Project / Loan Monitoring
• Development Consulting
• Portfolio Management & Optimization
• Project Controls
• Program and Project Management
• Quantity Surveying
• Schedule Management
• Sustainability Consulting
• Value and Risk Consulting
/01 Capabilities:Program Cost Consultancy
Project/Client Highlights
Bristol-Myers Squibb Goldman Sachs
JP Morgan Chase Transbay Transit Center
Standard Chartered Bank UBS
Clorox Apple, Inc.
Novartis Hilton Foundation
3M Salesforce
Shell Jaguar Land Rover
Rolls-Royce Allergan
GE Carrefour
Chiron Ikea
Porsche Volvo
Genentech Marks & Spencer
Chevron Exxon Mobil

1. UBS AG (Project and Cost Management;Sustainability)
2. Morgan Stanley, Cabot Square, UK (Cost Management)
3. Shell Global Provider, Multiple Projects (A/E, Environmental, Cost,
Workplace Strategy)
4. Morgan Stanley Program, London, UK (Cost Management)
5. Deutsche Bank, Birmingham, UK (Cost Management)
6.Transbay Transit Center, San Francisco, CA (Cost Consulting)
7. Genentech (Building Engineering, Cost Estimating, Project Controls)
8. Salesforce.com, San Francisco, CA (Real Estate strategy and budget
development)
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02/ PORTFOLIO OF SELECTED WORK
Large-scale + Complex Development
Corporate and Campus Environments

NBC Universal selected AECOM to join a
comprehensive design and entitlement team to
provide master planning design services for a
comprehensive long-term Vision Plan for the
391-acre Universal City property, home to Universal
Studios, Universal Studios Hollywood theme park,
and Universal CityWalk. The Vision Plan will
revitalize production facilities, explore extending
studio facilities to the adjacent Universal City
Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) Station
property, generate new office space, refresh its
theme park operations, create a new residential
neighborhood on a portion of the property and
address traffic congestion.
The purpose of the Vision Plan is to create a
blueprint for Universal City for the next twenty five
years to remain the largest working studio in the
world, one of Los Angeles’ top tourism destinations,
and one of the San Fernando Valley’s top employers.
The Vision Plan will accommodate future uses on the
property, addressing the need for economic and
employment vitality, housing and transportation
solutions and environmental stewardship that will
benefit both NBC Universal and the region as a
whole.
NBC/UNIVERSAL MASTER PLAN
Los Angeles, California
1 Residential Village
2 CityWalk Theme Park
3 Master Plan
4 The Great Street
5 Residential Overlook
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BLVD PLACE
Houston, Texas
AECOM was selected to provide master planning and
design for BLVD Place; a 21-acre mixed-use
development in the prestigious Galleria area of
Houston, Texas. AECOM developed the master plan
and parcelization of the overall site to accommodate
the client’s desire to sell parcels and development
rights to others for the hotel and condominium sites
while self-developing the retail and office
components. This new high-density, mixed-use
development project is being implemented using a
multi-phase approach, and when completed, will
link the adjacent upscale neighborhoods with the
city’s premiere commercial real estate thoroughfare.
The development contains 450,000 square feet of
retail, including: an 80,000-square foot Whole Foods
flagship grocery store; 90,000 square feet of upscale
restaurants; 250,000 square feet of office space; a
225-room signature hotel; and an 800 unit high-rise
condominium. There is parking for 2,700 cars, with
800 cars in a single level underground garage, 200
surface parking spaces, and 1,700 cars parked in
above-grade structured parking.
1 Site Plan
2 Aerial
3 Retail Corridor
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LONDON 2012 OLYMPIC GAMES AND LEGACY FRAMEWORK
London, UK
Our involvement in the London 2012 Olympic and
Paralympic Games started in 2003, two years
before the city was awarded the honor of hosting
the event. Our contribution, and leading role took
many forms, and we worked collaboratively with
the full range of organizations and agencies
responsible for the delivery of the Games, as part
of a wider regeneration plan for a large area of
east London. We contributed to the successful bid
and have shaped the way the Games will be
delivered and remembered. We are confident
enough to say that London set a new high
benchmark for the planning and delivery of this
extraordinary global event.
There are four stages to our story:
1. Establishing the candidacy and winning the
Games for London
2. Designing the Olympic park and implementation
to host the Games
3. Delivery and implementation
4. Designing and delivering the Games’ legacy and
regeneration plan
The 2012 Olympic Games created a unique
opportunity for the regeneration and
redevelopment of an entire new urban district in
London. The Legacy Communities Scheme is
central to realising this objective, by establishing
the key principles to achieve the overarching
ambitions for the Olympic Park by 2040.
In leading the development and testing of this
Scheme, AECOM has been working collaboratively
with the London Legacy Development
Corporation, the ODA Planning Decisions Team,
host boroughs and local communities.
The work involved developing a series of detailed
strategies for social infrastructure, housing,
employment, leisure & culture, town planning,
transport, water, waste, strategic sustainability,
infrastructure, energy and climate change.
1 The 2012 Olympic Park
2 Masterplan and Legacy Framework
3 River Lea in 2006 before regeneration
4 River Lea in 2012, restored as Queen Elizabeth
Olympic Park
In September 2012, planning permission was granted
for the Legacy Communities Scheme. A series of new
neighborhoods within the Lower Lea Valley will provide
6,870 new homes, with a target of 35% affordable
housing. The objective is to create a high quality urban
environment and a development that can respond to
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RIO 2016 OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC GAMES MASTERPLAN
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Prefeitura de Rio de Janeiro (Mayor of Rio de
Janeiro) has commissioned AECOM to design the
masterplan for the 2016 Rio Olympic and
Paralympic Games. AECOM’s entry, created in a
team effort with Rio-based DG Architecture, was
chosen from 59 submissions originating from 18
countries.
AECOM’s masterplan for the project focuses on
approximately 300 acres of land in the district of
Barra de Tijuca, southwest of Rio. It includes three
phases: the Rio Olympic Park area during the 2016
Games, a transition plan and the final position
showcasing the site in legacy mode after 2016.
The plan’s first phase shows the 300-acre site,
which will host 15 Olympic sports competitions
and 11 Paralympic contests. The Media Centre will
also be constructed at the same location, which
will host approximately 20,000 journalists. The
second phase illustrates how the site can operate
during the transition stage — a 5 to 7 year period
of time following the Games when the site is not
fully developed. The final phase comprises a
legacy mode masterplan that demonstrates
economic, environmental and social sustainability
development around the permanent structures
and without the temporary structures.
The new permanent sports facilities will be
concentrated around existing ones — the Maria
Lenk Aquatic Centre, Velodrome and HSBC Arena.
After the Games, these facilities will become the
Brazil “Olympic Training Centre” and will be used
to discover and develop new sporting talents.
1 The 2016 Rio Olympics Masterplan
2 2016 Masterplan
3 2018 Masterplan evolution
4 2030 Masterplan evolution
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RAND CORPORATE HEADQUARTERS
Santa Monica, California
Having outgrown their aging office building, RAND
sought to create a new headquarters that would
support their contemporary interactive,
interdisciplinary working groups. AECOM was
selected to provide architectural and interior
design services for the new headquarters building
located in heart of the Santa Monica civic center.
Consolidating their property down to a 3.7 acre
portion of the organizations original 15-acre
property dictated that the new campus be
contained in one structure. The result is a unique
310,000 SF campus building that acts as a
prominent gateway to the existing Santa Monica
Civic Center.
The building is a modified ‘figure 8’ of office space
reflecting RAND’s internal choreography and
interaction between disciplines and experts.
Responding to the goal of conserving natural
resources, several sustainable elements are
incorporated throughout the building including:
1 Main entry and interior courtyard
2 Exterior sunshading
3 Aerial view
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raised floors, operable windows and shading devices,
and daylight harvesting. The building received a
LEED® Gold-level rating from the U.S. Green Building
Council.

LOS ANGELES POLICE DEPARTMENT (LAPD) HEADQUARTERS
The new 500,000-square foot LAPD Police
Administration Building features areas dedicated to
police administration and investigative operations,
plus large assembly spaces including a conference
center, the Police Commission hearing room and the
Compstat (computer comparison statistics)
Command Center. In addition to below-grade parking
for 365 cars, a 200-seat cafe and 450-seat
auditorium are located adjacent to the building along
Main Street. The cafe and auditorium, which are
open to the public, serve to engage the community
as well as serve building occupants.
The administration building was a collaborative
process between the City of Los Angeles Bureau of
Engineering, the police department, the design team
and the community to develop and refine several
alternatives.
Reviews, comments and collaboration with other
stakeholders also occurred, including the
Department of Public Works, City Council members,
office of the Mayor, Chief Administrative Office, Chief
Legislative Analyst, Cultural Affairs Commission,
and the Project Restore First Street Design Team.
Additionally, more than 30 public workshops were
held with community members.
The community and stakeholder groups regarded
proper consideration of key issues including building
massing, traffic, pedestrian circulation, amenities
and open space critical to the success of the project.
Balancing project requirements with these issues
resulted in mutually successful solutions such as
75-foot security setbacks which offered an
opportunity to create generous public spaces, civic
plazas and lush gardens that promote a sense of
openness and community between the LAPD and
the surrounding neighborhood.
Responding to the city’s goal of sustainable building
practices, this project is LEED certified to the Gold
level. Numerous sustainable elements were
incorporated.
1 Main Entry
2 Curtainwall
3 View to City Hall
4 Aerial
5 Entry Plaza
6 Public Plaza
7 Pedstrian Pathways
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ENVISION HEADQUARTERS
Jiangyin, China
The Envision Headquarters building is designed to
support a “Green Energy” research and development
firm responsible for designing and producing wind
turbines. The 3000 M² Headquarters is located
directly adjacent to an assembly facility responsible
for assembly of the rotor component of the wind
turbine system.
The headquarters will support design engineers and
the Executive Directors of the company while
providing public display and educational facilities
informing customers of the benefits of “Green
Energy”. The building also houses dining facilities,
sports and fitness center and an employee “Spirit
Lounge Room” designed to promote collaboration
and rejuvenation among the design talent.
The concept of the winds energy and movement was
the generator behind the development of the
buildings massing, exterior skin and interior
atrium. The winds movements have an adverse
reaction to the massing, shearing a single glass
volume into 2 volumes that have slipped against
each other along a north/south axis. This shearing
movement creates a cantilever that shelters the
main entrance on the north side of the building
while producing a roof terrace on the south side of
the building. Site constraints required that the
building maintain a north/south orientation on the
site and in order to connect the building to the site,
visitor parking was located directly north of the
buildings cantilever for direct movement into the
buildings entrance.
1 Second Floor Conference Room
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LA JOLLA COMMONS CAMPUS (LPL Financial Headquarters)
La Jolla, California
The La Jolla Commons Phase I tower was a joint
venture between Hines, an international real estate
firm, and TIAA-CREF, a leading financial services
organization. This 13-story, 312,000-square foot
building was the first high-rise office tower to break
ground in San Diego’s University Town Center since
1989. Our design for this Class A facility was driven
by sustainable building practices, integrating
international standards for highly efficient
floorplates with natural materials, state-of-the-art
operating systems and extensive campus amenities.
The Tower was pre-certified with a Silver rating by
the US Green Building Council and ultimately earned
the LEED for Core & Shell Gold certification—the
first LEED Gold multi-tenant building in Southern
California. Standout green design features include:
innovative wastewater and water conservation
technologies; reduction in the use of electricity
through highly efficient lighting and HVAC systems;
low-emitting materials; 60 percent more glass than
conventional office buildings providing maximum
daylight within interior spaces; extensive gardens
with 50 new trees; and landscaped outdoor
workspaces.
Sustainable Design Highlights:
• LEED certified at the Gold level
• Includes energy management system and tenant
sub-metering equipment
• Exceeds 2005 Title 24
• Exceeds community connectivity requirements
• Uses materials that are VOC compliant, have
recycled content and are fabricated regionally
• Features Forest Stewardship Council (FSC)
certified walnut paneling and doors
The La Jolla Commons Phase II tower is home to
LPL Financial. The 13-story, 415,575-square-foot
office building was developed through a joint
venture between managing partner Hines and
institutional investors advised by J.P. Morgan
Asset Management. This project is the second
office building at La Jolla Commons.
LPL Financial at La Jolla Commons is Hines’ first
net-zero project, and the nation’s largest carbon-
neutral office building to date. The new building
will achieve carbon neutrality on an annual basis
through a combination of high-performance
building design, directed biogas and on-site fuel
cells that annually will generate more electricity
than the building and tenant will use.
The building’s exterior is predominately a glass
curtainwall system incorporating highly efficient,
insulated double-paned glass with a clear,
low-emissivity coating. LEED® certification is
being pursued and the building incorporates many
sustainable features including under-floor air
distribution and extensive use of reclaimed water
for building systems and waste water.
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UNILEVER ASIA HEADQUARTERS
Bangkok, Thailand
Our clients often ask us to help them create
environments that capture the essence of their
brand and connect their physical environment to
their commitment to employees and communities.
This was particularly important for Unilever, the
world’s second-largest consumer goods company,
as their mission and products are based on nutrition,
health and well-being. The new “U-Place”
headquarters building is located in Bangkok,
Thailand, adjacent to the lively Thanon Rama 9 Road
near Bangkok’s central business district. AECOM’s
competition-winning proposal offers fresh ideas
about what an office building can and should be.
The design concept is based on creating an open,
agile, dynamic and environmentally responsible
workplace. To encourage interaction between
employees and departments, the 12-story,
44,000-square-meter building features an
innovative diagonal circulation strategy that
connects the building’s signature open space at the
north end of the building to a roof top garden at the
south end.
AECOM provided architecture, interior design and
landscape architecture services for this project from
our US studio in Los Angeles. The building is
currently under construction.
1 Site Plan
2 Headquarters Building
3 Headquarters Building Section
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Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida chose AECOM
through a national design selection process to assist
them in their strategic facilities planning. This effort
would accommodate Blue Cross Blue Shield of
Florida’s anticipated growth into the 21st century.
Utilizing demographic studies of Blue Cross Blue
Shield of Florida’s staff and expected development
patterns of the city of Jacksonville, five sites were
studied for the possible creation of a corporate
campus.
Ultimately, a 121-acre site was selected in the
Deerwood area of Jacksonville. Concurrently, a
facility programming effort was conducted to verify
staff and support space requirements. Our study
determined the long term need for 1.8 million square
feet, in order to centralize staff from 14 leased
locations around the Jacksonville area. Initial design
concepts developed for Phase I provided for 640,000
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Jacksonville, Florida
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campus setting. In addition to corporate
headquarters office space, planned amenities
included a cafeteria, fitness center, health facility,
computer print operations center and training
facility.
As part of Phase II, we designed two additional
buildings—hybrids of Phase I’s six-story
buildings—to house more than 7,000 additional
employees. By incorporating the most effective
design features from Phase I, we were able to
maximize operational/administrative space used
in Phase II facilities and minimize Blue Cross Blue
Shield of Florida’s need to lease additional
properties.
1 Master Plan Phasing
2 Phase I Buildings
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AECOM provided the Altria Group, Inc. with
architectural and interior design services and
preliminary engineering design services for their
corporate headquarters building in Richmond,
Virginia. This effort was a major renovation/
rehabilitation of a historic building registered with
the Commonwealth of Virginia and the National
Register of Historic Places.
The building, the Reynolds Metals Company
International Headquarters, was designed by
Gordon Bunschaft. Built in 1958, it won an AIA 25
Year Award for its continuing relevance. The
renovation won an Award of Excellence in Interior
Design from the Miami AIA in 2005. The Altria
Group’s desire was to take this mid-20th century
modern corporate headquarters and maintain its
architectural significance and overall design while
upgrading the infrastructure and internal
configuration to function as a 21st century corporate
headquarters.
AECOM faced a number of design challenges in
renovating this four-story building. One was to
preserve the integrity of the exterior curtain wall
constructed with over 1.6 million pounds of
aluminum. Another was to maintain the operable
vertical fin shade structures on the east and west
ALTRIA GROUP HEADQUARTERS
Richmond, Virginia
sides of the building and the center courtyard
walls, which were programmed to automatically
counteract the sun’s rays through the year 2100
(programmed in 1958). Critical historical finishes,
such as natural cherry wood paneling, Virginia red
brick floors, book-matched marble wall panels at
the escalator lobby, and custom plastic laminate
wall panels and concealed cabinetry on the
building’s four cores, were preserved. AECOM
interior designers fitted new system furniture and
case goods compatible with mid-20th century
modern design and preserved finishes. A new
cafeteria, coffee bars, company store, hair salon,
and travel agency were added. A new executive
fitness center was designed and coordinated with
an internal Altria Group Wellness Initiative.
A new 200,000 sq. ft. annex was built (connected
to the original structure) to provide administrative
offices; conferencing areas; full service cafeteria,
and miscellaneous support spaces.
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3 Employee Cafe
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As part of a lease-design-construct team, AECOM
designed the new Social Security Administration
(SSA) complex, which is sited on 11 acres in
northwest Baltimore. Required to attain LEED-NC
Silver certification, the project includes a two-
building office facility comprised of 538,000 rentable
square feet, a 1,076-car parking garage, and a
separate daycare center. GSA procured the project
using a best value process, which champions design
excellence.
The result of a national competition, AECOM’s
winning “arc of light” design brings light deep into
the floor plates, while animating a central
organizational spine that will become the
community gathering place within the complex.
The design will achieve a unique balance of light,
form, space, and scale that is transparent in
intention, efficient and flexible in planning, and
holistic in the integration of the urban and natural
environments. The facility is designed to be a fully
integrated living building system, a responsible
contributor to the community, as well as an
outstanding work environment. The design
provides for sound, efficient and flexible
structural systems; a high-quality, attractive, and
maintainable building envelope; and high-
SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION HEADQUARTERS
Baltimore, Maryland
performance HVAC, electrical, emergency
electrical, and fire protection/life safety
systems, with flexibility to meet changing needs
over the building’s life.
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2 Headquarters Building
3 Interior Atrium
4 Exterior Entry
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NBC/Universal’s new high-definition news
headquarters and content center in Los Angeles will
be a state-of-the-art, “green” complex housing the
Los Angeles bureau of NBC News, as well as local
KNBC affiliate, KVEA and the “Access Hollywood”
program.
The new facility is designed as the anchor tenant for
what will be a mixed-use development at the MTA
Red Line Subway Station on Lankershim Boulevard.
The development will feature 655,200 sq.ft. of office
with 315,000 sq.ft. of dedicated media production
facilities as well as retail and restaurants and over
1,700 parking spots.
This new media office complex will update an
existing entertainment hub and will bridge the
company’s television and motion picture production
facilities located directly across the street.
NBC/UNIVERSAL HIGH DEFINITION NEWS CONTENT HEADQUARTERS
The new West Coast News Headquarters will
enable high definition broadcasts and is
intended to achieve a certified rating for
sustainable design from the US Green Building
Council.
1 Site Plan
2 Main Office Tower
3 Office Tower and Retail Podium
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Maguire Partners, LLC selected AECOM Design to
provide site planning and architectural design for a
new speculative office building located at 207 Goode
between North Brand and North Central Boulevards
in Glendale, CA.
The design for the new 188,889 SF building offers
flexible and efficient office space, and is visually
integrated into the existing office development in a
way that complements and improves the quality of
Glendale’s urban environment.
The LEED Gold building is comprised of eight floors
of approximately 24,000 square feet, each with a
central core and column-free floorplates for
maximum lease potential. The office building
features extensive landscaping and pedestrian links
to surrounding office buildings, the adjacent parking
garage and a future hotel project.
207 GOODE OFFICE BUILDING
Glendale, California
1 Lobby
2 View from Freeway
3 Roof Garden
4 Sculptural Address
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Conceived as the urbanization of a once suburban
site, Campus El Segundo will comprise more than
two million square feet of state-of-the-art real
estate development to cater to the needs of today’s
balanced life¬style. The master plan for Campus El
Segundo optimizes the site’s features and attributes
to create a cohesive corporate campus environment.
The site design is established through careful
integration of public open spaces, urban planning
strategies, and creating pedestrian-user friendly
environments.
The campus master plan will be built in a phased
manner and at full build-out will accommodate eight
new office buildings, a hotel and health club, above
and below grade parking structures, retail and
restaurant amenities, a central open park, and six
plaza locations integrated throughout the campus.
AECOM established design principles and guidelines
CAMPUS EL SEGUNDO
El Segundo, California
defining the overall campus design intent to
facilitate the ultimate development of the various
parcels by independent corporate users or
developers. In addition, AECOM was retained by
Thomas Properties Group to develop detailed design
for the first office building of 240,000 SF while
working in conjunction with Marriott in their design
of the adjacent 180-room hotel and sports club.
1 Master Plan
2 Phase I Building and Central Courtyard
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The new Fortune 100 Company Asia Headquarters in
Shanghai is a state-of-the-art corporate campus
comprised of eight buildings. The new campus
located in Zhangjiang Park, an industrial park in the
Pudong region of Shanghai, is approximately 62,000
square meters (667,362 square feet) in total building
area, and houses a major portion of the client’s
operations. Our comprehensive masterplan for the
site was implemented in two phases, and developed
to support the company’s needs well into 2015 with a
fi nal buildout supporting over 6,000 people. The
campus was the first LEED Silver building in China
when it was certified.
FORTUNE 100 ASIA HEADQUARTERS
Shanghai, China
1 Site Plan
2 Site Model
3 Headquarters Main Building
4 Campus Entry Garden
5 Main Building Lobby
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Occupying a prominent site along Seoul’s Youido
Park, is the AECOM-designed Korea Development
Bank (KDB) headquarters. Within close proximity to
the Korean National Assembly building and the Han
River, the site borders a significant open space,
similar to Central Park in its size and proportions.
In addition to extensive corporate office and
conference space, the KDB headquarters includes
three large banking halls (one dedicated to
international transactions, and the other two to
domestic), a 600-seat auditorium, 750-seat dining
hall and separate executive dining facilities, a 15,000
SF library, and a trading room of the same size.
KOREA DEVELOPMENT BANK
Seoul, South Korea
1 View form Youido Park
2 View into Atrium
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AECOM provided mechanical and electrical
engineering services for the design and construction
of Manitoba Hydro’s new 700,000-square-foot,
23-story headquarters office tower in downtown
Winnipeg. The new facility houses approximately
2,150 personnel and hosts the main data center and
power trading facility.
The new, green office building is a state-of-the-art,
world class, “cold climate” sustainable and energy-
efficient building. It has targeted energy savings of
60 percent and complies with the Leadership in
Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Platinum
level and Natural Resource Canada’s C-2000
Program standards.
AECOM’s services included fire protection, plumbing
and heating, and uninterruptible power system
design. The mechanical systems included radiant
heating and cooling, displacement ventilation,
natural ventilation, and a high-efficiency central
heating and cooling plant with a geothermal
component. The building is heated and cooled with
radiant slabs (hydronic tubes embedded in the
concrete), and its displacement ventilation system
supplies the office space with 100 percent fresh air
(unlike a conventional building where air is
recirculated).
MANITOBA HYDRO
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

AECOM worked with design architect William
McDonough + Partners, guiding NASA to achieve a
LEED platinum rating for the new N232 office
building. The 50,000-square-foot, two-story facility,
known as Sustainability Base, officially opened April
20, 2012.
When NASA planned to add the first new building in
20 years to the Ames Research Center, home to
much of the agency’s most innovative technology,
the goal was that the facility be an exemplar in
sustainability. The result is a working environment
that prioritizes user health and comfort with natural
daylight, fresh air and temperature control while
making minimal environmental impacts.
Sustainability Base will save more than 60 percent
of the energy and more than 80 percent of the water
typically used by a facility of its type.
NASA N232
Mountain View, California
AECOM’s High-Performance Buildings group
provided the innovative engineering behind this
model facility. An onsite fuel cell, roof-mounted
photovoltaic solar panels, a geothermal heat
pump, passive and low-energy HVAC systems, and
intelligent building controls that interact with
users are among the building’s advanced
engineering features.
AECOM served as architect of record, engineer of
record and landscape architect of record for the
project, while William McDonough + Partners led
the design vision and sustainability goals for the
project. The team also included Loisos Ubbelohde
(lighting consultant), Siteworks Studio (landscape
design), and MBDC (materials assessment).
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DIRECTV’s vision was to create a high-energy work
environment that reflects their brand, sparks
far-reaching collaboration, improves employee
engagement, and leads innovation through
enhanced productivity and performance. DIRECTV
opted to create a campus within its existing
architecture, dividing 830,000 sq.ft. over 37 floors in
four buildings.
AECOM interviewed 42 departments, spoke with
more than 300 members of senior leadership and
more than 1,000 employees on the El Segundo
campus on work process, and to understand which
occupant and proposed amenities would be best
suited within each building.
The visual strength of the design starts at the
“cyclone,” a larger-than-life articulated LED display
that surrounds the main entry, beginning with a
pixilated image and finishing on a high resolution
wall-to-wall, floor-to-ceiling video display,
describing the video provider’s vision of the future
way of the “television.”
The most important architectural drivers were to
replace the high paneled workstations and
perimeter offices with open workstations along the
windows with glass offices at the core and to
increase the number of DIRECTV’s collaborative
spaces. The design included the addition of more
conference room seating to provide employees with
additional workspace outside of their typical
workstations or private offices, and equitably
distributing both small and large conference rooms
throughout the campus.
Special amenities include a training and conference
center, a state of the art media viewing room for VIP
guests and research, a 10,000 sq.ft. fitness center to
support their wellness program, a coffee bar and
cafeteria where fresh food is prepared daily and
where different seating arrangements serve as
alternate meeting space throughout the day. Direct
access to the exterior courtyard was enhanced by
adding doors where outdoor seating is arranged
around the fountain.
DIRECTV
El Segundo, California
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FINANCIAL SERVICES FIRM
US Locations
Our client is a U.S. professional services firms with
more than $18 billion in annual revenues from
Assurance, Advisory and Tax Services. With offices
in 85 cities in the U.S. and more than 27,000
partners, principals and staff in the U.S., their
network of independent firms operates in 144
countries and employs 122,000 people worldwide.
Our work involved architectural and interior design in
response to four possible scenarios:
Consolidation — one or more offices being
consolidated and relocating into another office.
Expansion — adding square footage to an existing
lease.
Relocation — a lease is expiring and the office is
relocating to new space.
Renovation — renovation within current space.
Our scope encompassed pre-design services
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including programming, feasibility studies and test
fits; complete design through construction, FF&E,
artwork and signage.
The design reflects the client’s brand and seeks to
drive productivity and performance through spatial
relationships and collaborative space, and also
provides amenities and an aesthetically outstanding
environment to help with employee retention/
attraction.
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VELTI MGAGE
San Francisco and London
Velti mGage is a leading global mobile marketing and
advertising firm that offers Fortune 500 companies
cutting edge technologies to reach their consumers
and drive brand awareness.
For its new headquarters, our client chose the sixth
floor of the Steuart Tower in San Francisco’s
Financial District. The 38,000-sq.-ft.-office offers
expansive views of the Ferry Building and San
Francisco Bay and ample space for a creative,
flexible workplace. The scheme of the new
headquarters supports the company’s 200
employees by embracing an innovative workplace
strategy that allows its employees to work in a
collaborative and inspiring environment that
embodies their brand.
The remodeled space has employees in an open
workspace environment, including the founders,
who gave up their executive offices in favor of
working in open workstations. Distinct workspace
neighborhoods of formerly scattered departments
are now defined in their layouts through color,
graphics, furniture and finishes.
During a visioning session with Velti, employees
requested a “museum” be incorporated near the
reception area to feature the history of mobile
devices and Velti. AECOM provided a circular space
where video content is projected on its interior walls.
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The skin of the structure is made out of perforated
panels and was designed with a global map and
orange acrylic dots to indicate the locations of Velti
offices globally.
Near this exhibition space a staff lounge, inspired by
a San Francisco tavern, was installed. It includes bar
and lounge seating, gaming and a quiet reading area.
The featured elements of design— exposed
concrete flooring, open and layered ceilings, custom
super graphics, retractable walls, a unique
neighborhood system, and formal and informal
workspaces—exemplifies the qualities and culture
of the Velti and ensure these headquarters are a
workspace for the future.
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NESTLE
US Locations
With our Strategy Plus team we developed the
program for the “Office of the Future” for one of the
world’s leading nutrition, health and wellness food
companies. The strategic plan placed Nestlé’s
various brands (Water, NUSA, DSD, Purina and
Nutrition) under one roof, thereby reducing real
estate costs, and increasing efficiencies and
employee satisfaction. This allowed the client to
express a “one Nestlé” brand while still maintaining
the individual brand identities.
AECOM worked closely with Nestlé on program and
workplace strategy components to create an open
and interactive collaborative workspace that
incorporated the latest in workplace standards.
Nestlé’s multi-brand identity drove the integration of
a broad range of visionary workplace spatial
solutions with the goal of facilitating collaboration
and knowledge sharing among employees within and
across the different brands. The new design is very
flexible and will improve the overall work experience.
Our design was developed to be implemented in
Nestlé’s offices nationwide. The first two locations
in Cincinnati, Ohio and San Ramon, California served
as models for a national rollout of the new workplace
standards.
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YAHOO! OFFICE CONSOLIDATION
Sunnyvale, California
This campus consolidation project encompasses a
phased re-stack of seven buildings including food
service areas with indoor and outdoor dining and a
new visitor entry experience.
Workplace strategy was used to achieve a program
that was developed through a comprehensive
workplace study comprised of executive interviews,
workshops around vision and brand management,
performance measures and employee needs and
expectations. A new workplace environment was
also desperately needed to recruit top talent in this
highly competitive market sector.
The deliverable included a change in strategy to shift
attitudes and behaviors as the workplace evolves.
The design of the project will reflect these findings
and create the ultimate workplace for the Yahoo
teams which means a transition from cubicles with
high panels to benching solutions for the
workspaces. A large number of different style
meeting areas is located at the core of each floor
with varying privacy and audio visual options to
support the employees and teams.
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The main lobby design will reflect a new client /
visitor experience, the traditional reception desk
was replaced by an interactive table and visitors at
all times can watch the live feeds from other Yahoo
product lines such as Flickr and Tumblr.
All café and food service areas will be re-designed to
reflect the new Yahoo! culture and function as
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PAUL HASTINGS, LLP
Worldwide
Paul Hastings conducts a global law practice
through an international network of offices that links
the world’s leading financial centers. With more than
800 attorneys in 13 offices serving clients around
the world, Paul Hastings’s mission is to provide
clients with the collective experience and expertise
of the entire firm, whether those clients deal with
lawyers in a single location or across the firm’s
network of offices. To this end, Paul Hastings sought
to unify the aesthetic of its offices and create a new,
vibrant global image and enlisted AECOM’s interior
designers to accomplish this task.
To date, AECOM has designed new offices for Paul
Hastings in Los Angeles, New York, Paris, Shanghai,
Washington, Orange County, and San Diego. These
offices reflect the firm’s commitment to an
expanding enterprise, innovative solutions, and a
progressive environment. Modern architecture,
neutral palettes, and rich materials combine with
efficient planning schemes to create over 400,000
square feet of first-class office space that
communicates Paul Hastings values to its attorneys,
employees, and clients.
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2 Paris, Conference Room
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The new Annenberg Space for Photography is the
first gallery of its kind presenting digital and print
photography in a dynamic, unified venue. The design
celebrates and supports the medium of
photography, and the interior architecture reinforces
the multi-sensory experience of the exhibitions. The
10,000-square foot Space for Photography features
exhibition areas (a center gallery as well as gallery
space encircling the central gallery) and an
interactive area with flat, touch screen technology
where visitors can interact with exhibition materials,
connect to the web and upload their photographs.
The Space for Photography also contains an office
area for administrative needs, a workshop area for
lectures, support areas for conferencing and a
catering pantry with professional kitchen. An
important aspect of the space is the ability to form
an expanded, single space for large gatherings or
lectures by sliding the dividing wall between the
center gallery and workshop/administration area.
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Established in 1968 as the development bank of
Singapore, DBS was the catalyst for economic
development during the nation’s early years of
independence. Since then, DBS has transformed into
a successful financial services institution. In 2008,
DBS embarked on an environmental sustainability
program, and work to create a greener workplace
continues.
As part of the bank’s Future of Work campaign, it
wanted to reduce reliance on paper, make the best
use of the latest technology and embrace the open
plan concept to promote collaboration.The
opportunity to make a step change came with the
relocation of 4,800 staff to the Marina Bay Financial
Centre (MBFC) in Singapore’s new financial district.
Effective change management was identified as a
priority to move the large workforce into its new
premises in stages over four months. For the process
to be successful and sustainable we worked closely
with the DBS change management project team.
Creative and consistent communication was core of
the work ensuing a flexible and effective change and
communications plan to sustain the migration.The
success of the CM plan was captured in an Early
DBS
Singapore
Movers Survey of 2,000 staff resulting in 98
percent satisfaction with the overall experience
of the move process, over 80 percent satisfaction
with the new open plan support spaces, and
staff reporting an active increase in printing less
and recycling more.The entire change program is
due to be completed in March 2013 and will
include a post-occupancy evaluation.
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As part of the workplace transformation,
we identified changing employee
needs and ways to drive greater
awareness of our key strategic pillars
— Asian relationships, insights, service,
innovation and connectivity. We also
set out to create an environment that
fosters ideation, a strong sense of
community and collaboration among our
people, transforming the way we work
and operate as a leading Asian bank.
David Gledhill
Group Executive and Head of Group Technology &
Operations, DBS Bank

As part of investments Roche Diagnostics is making
to revitalize its existing campus in Indianapolis,
United States, site leadership was interested in using
a research-based approach to explore new ways of
working for Roche employees.The company sought
to pilot an innovative workspace solution that would
increase collaboration, flexibility and productivity
among employees, and chose a new Human
Resources shared services function based on the
campus to pilot the new model.
The project began with a pilot study, involving around
70 employees with the new Human Resources
Shared Services Center (HR SSC), that included
visioning sessions, interviews, a workplace
performance survey, time utilization studies and
focus groups with staff. Based on the data and
feedback, a new workplace environment was created
for the HR SSC that has increased connectivity for
this new organization and helped them come
together to function as a team. While there are no
offices and approximately 50 percent of staff work in
a free address way, everyone has access to a wide
range of open and enclosed support spaces for
concentrative and collaborative activities. A key
setting is a large social hub that is the staff’s favorite
setting and provides a public face for the new
concept.
ROCHE
Indianapolis, IN
With the move now complete, the space for the
group has been reduced by more than 25 percent,
yet there is more collaborative space than before
and greater flexibility for growth. Among findings in
the post-occupancy research are that satisfaction
with the workplace has increased by 33 percent
and that communication is more efficient, with
average response times down 44 percent.This
work has led to a significant follow-up project
where a business case was made for 800 staff to
consolidate into a new building.This strategy
follows the direction set by the pilot, incorporates
learnings from the pilot and has been ratified by
leaders of the various Roche businesses on the
Indianapolis campus as a campus-wide policy to
guide all future buildings and renovations.
“We want a workplace that helps
energize and engage the
employees in their actual work.
Our focus here is twofold: How
do we help design the space to
best meet the goals of the
organization and best meet the
needs of the employees? It’s
really as simple as that.”
Tom Adkins
Senior Vice President
Roche Diagnostics Operations
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GSK has always understood the value of excellent
work environments, not just in attracting and
retaining the best talent, but also in creating places
which foster innovation and productivity. During the
past decade GSK, around the world, has introduced a
range of new workspaces in commercial and
research and development areas of the business. At
the Open Lab the challenge is to facilitate cultural
change, away from a place where individualsusually
work alone on projects to a more dynamic and
collaborative environment, where individuals and
groups of people can share their expertise and ideas
to help conquer widespread and complex diseases.
This project began with an analysis of the existing
space and working methods. Currently the two-story
building, located in the outskirts of Madrid, with
approximately 120 staff, comprises a series of
laboratories with separate, small offices where
researchers write up their results and carry out
desktop work.To help facilitate change, plans have
been developed for a scheme rooted in mobility.The
laboratories remain as fixed points in the floorplan,
but around them a number of collaborative working
areas have been created, including more break out
and quiet spaces with a reduced number of desks.
By promoting desk sharing and distributing the
write-up spaces and collaborative areas unevenly
through the floorplan, it has become necessary for
GLAXOSMITHKLINE (GSK)
Global Workplace
researchers to change their ways of working, to move more
around the office and therefore open up opportunities for
informal encounters.The project is due for completion in
spring/summer 2013.
“Success requires creative thinking
and the identification of new ways for
industry, academia, NGOs and
governments to work together. Working
with Strategy Plus we are now on the
path to creating a collaborative and
dynamic environment, which will
stimulate research into new medicines
for deadly diseases that affect the
developing world.”
Nick Cammack Senior Vice President and
Head of the Tres Cantos Medicines
Development Campus

To reflect and embrace Autodesk’s dynamic brand
and to celebrate the diversity of its products,
spanning from the world of architecture to
entertainment, the company’s real estate was in
need of a refresh. In recent years, Autodesk has
experienced rapid growth and development and
now, by commissioning its first global workplace
strategy, it had the opportunity to use its space to
incorporate company values and become part of its
brand promotion. The new work environment echoes
the energy of the industries where Autodesk
products play a major role. The spaces incorporate a
rich mix of team and individual working areas, from
enclosed quiet rooms and meeting rooms to small
breakout spaces to desk areas. The U.K. offices at
Farnborough were among the first to receive the
roll-out. The concept forms part of the company’s
first global workplace standards. These were
developed following research with staff, to
understand how they work and to accommodate new
ways of working to incorporate more collaboration
and greater flexibility. In addition, a mobile working
project has also been completed, with pilots
involving sales teams in Europe, Middle East and
Africa (EMEA) and Asia Pacific (APAC). This is to be
implemented soon.
AUTODESK
Global Locations
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“To stay ahead of the game in this
industry, it is crucial to continually
rethink and refresh. We are lucky
enough to see our products used
in highly creative ways, and we
wanted our work environments
around the world to reflect this.
These new spaces don’t just
embody our culture and values,
they are a celebration of what we
do.”
Kristy Schmidt, Program Manager, Workplace
Strategy, Autodesk

TOKYO MIDTOWN
Tokyo, Japan
Landscape master plan for one of the city’s largest mixed-
use projects to date (10 hectares) that develops half of the
site as open space within an extremely dense mid-town
location.
• Links internal and external users from surrounding streets
and sidewalks (general public) into a green oasis, via open
space flows and networks that create a strong sense of
place.
• Characterizes interior and exterior spaces with a feeling of
interconnectedness through the use of architectural and
landscaping details.
• Provides major view corridors, windows, bridges, and
plazas that open up to, intertwine, and orient visitors.
• Reinterprets a historic stream as a contemporary water
feature, drawing people into the park through the
meandering pathways of the Japanese Garden
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ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLAND CAMPUS
Edinburgh, Scotland
The Royal Bank of Scotland Group has redeveloped the site of
the former Gogarburn Hospital, next to the A8 between
Edinburgh and the airport, as its new World Headquarters.
The development includes its head office, together with
conference and leisure facilities, all set within a mature
parkland setting. It caters for over 3000 bank staff within 7
distinct business offices, linked by a glazed internal ‘street’,
covering approximately 60,000 sq m in total.
AECOM’s role as landscape masterplanners and designers
involved close liaison with the Architectural JV, consisting of
Michael Laird Architects and RHWL, together with Mace
project managers. The already impressive parkland setting
- the remains of Gogarburn House estate - has been
enhanced by:
• the use of natural stone for the entrances and
contemporary courtyards;
• the retention of the most significant mature specimen
trees;
• weaving the building into the existing landscape through
extensive new planting of semi-mature trees and formal
hedges.
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A new sculptural floodplain, which was created to
accommodate potential flooding of the Gogar
Burn, diverts the original canalised route of the
burn. AECOM worked closely with the River
Restoration Centre to ecologically enhance the
setting and route of the burn, and also liaised
closely with WSP Engineers in the creation of two
large open sustainable urban drainage ponds that
have become attractive parkland features. The
project was completed in the summer of 2005, and
was opened in October by HRH Queen Elizabeth II.
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ZACATECAS GOVERNMENT CITY
Zacatecas, Mexico
Open space master plan and site-specific design for the
State of Zacatecas’ government campus, involving thirteen
new buildings and five new plazas.
• Interprets the local culture and incorporates the State’s
history.
• Portrays the distinct character of the natural environment.
• Provides open space and landscape design concepts to link
the community to the administrative functions and civic
hub.
• Works with and leverages the extreme slopes and
topography for the betterment of the project, rather relying
on excessive engineering and grading.
• Ensures a pleasant experience for a wide range of users,
capitalizing on views and celebrating Zacatecas
throughout.

JVC MASTER PLAN
Guadalajara, Mexico
Next generation master plan that re-visions and
transforms almost 600 hectares outside of
Guadalajara into a viable development project.
• Meets project goals and vision developed from
various studies, site visits, workshops, and
feedback of key stakeholders.
• Responds to its environment (proximate to a
national park), incorporating existing drainage
ways, native plantings, and other sustainability
measures.
• Teams consultant and client economists to
perform a market study that establishes socio-
economic drivers and identifies the potential
commercial and retail businesses to best brand
the site.
• Evaluates a range of absorption and development
strategies to determine the optimal mix of
densities and uses that will reflect the highest and
best use of the property, and ensure rapid
absorption.

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