Service Overview
Clients trust ACerts’s planning and consulting services to map the path forward for new development and redevelopment of buildings, campuses, infrastructure, cities and regions.
We deliver documents that guide policy, strategy and site configuration. Processing quantitative and qualitative data, developing and applying advanced modeling tools, and consulting closely with communities, we drive social quality, economic growth and environmental sustainability.
We collaborate with our architects, engineers and landscape architects to create transformative urban environments.
Representative Planning and Consulting Services
- Cost Consulting
- Economics
- Facilities Condition Assessment
- Geospatial Services
- Master Planning
- Public Consultation
- Specification Consulting
- Strategic Planning
- Sustainability Consulting
Our Approach
Our approach embraces a framework of integration and collaboration. We have the resources company-wide and through industry partners to expand our team with all necessary experts to ensure a robust and encompassing process. Our global partnerships allow us to build unique teams for every engagement, capitalizing on different ways of thinking and seeing the world. We work side-by-side to develop the best plan and path forward.
Master Planning
The most successful design projects link the goals of an organization with a comprehensive master plan demonstrating how facilities can support those endeavors. We provide useful and relevant benchmarking data to assist our clients in their planning efforts, ranging from the macro-level (multiple sites, campus) to the micro-level (facility, space). Through understanding potential outcomes of various scenarios, our planning efforts help predict with greater certainty a range of possibilities that encourage long-term sustainable solutions.
Operations Design
We believe that a significant factor in helping make healthcare more affordable is to contain costs, especially those related to inefficiencies in how a building facilitates the work of its users as well as how it functions from an operations standpoint. Armed with the knowledge of current operations along with aspiration future state operations, we design new operating models that minimize waste and variation—leading to repeatable and reliable processes. Using techniques such as Lean process improvement, virtual simulation modeling and iterative facility design, we’re able to maximize efficiency and create intentionally designed experiences.
Predictive Analytics
Our goal is to make data intelligible, meaningful and actionable. We create data-driven foundations for planning and decision-making by integrating all available information. We do this using sophisticated methods and building flexible models tailored to each client’s unique situation. We model demand and our client’s capacity to meet that demand, flexing and adapting to consider a wide range of market and strategic scenarios.
