The master plan provides you with a window to the future by responding to your requirements in terms of surface areas and functionalities. The result is a coherent organisation of functions in spaces that are estimated on the basis of substantiated ratios, and the simultaneous definition of the operations to be implemented. The ultimate aim is to achieve the enduring valuation of one or more building assets.

By providing you with a master plan, we can simulate the financial, organisational, surface area and scheduling consequences of the various building development options in the medium and long term. This tool will support you in your decision-making when you are drawing up the building strategy for your activity.

The master plan will set out the guidelines for the long-term layout of a site and the various stages and phasing that will enable the implementation of the work.

Site analysis allows you to select or understand the advantages and/or disadvantages of your plot. The analysis rigorously inspects every aspect of the site: urban regulations, construction capacity, networks, urban surroundings, accessibility, displacements, environmental impact, environmental quality, sanitary quality, etc.

Site analysis assists you with decision-making and project costing.

For project owners who carry out the same type of operation on a recurring basis, we can draw up a reference framework that allows you to understand the requirements and organisation for each equipment type.

This service is aimed more specifically at designers and consultancy groups (tender bids, design and development, public-private partnerships, etc.) and at the development stage of projects undergoing preliminary or final design.

The board intervenes at various stages: analysis of the programme, highlighting issues, pinpointing functional questions, making comparisons with other similar projects to give the designer greater insight, participation at design meetings, analysis of the plans, etc.

The aim is to support the designer or the group in their decision-making with regard to the general design of the project and to ensure all of the project owner’s requirements are incorporated in accordance with the details submitted to the programme.

The experience and expertise of the specialised project managers ensure that responses addressing contemporary design standards will be provided.

Space planning consists of designing the optimal layout for work spaces, such as individual or shared offices, open-plan offices, meeting rooms, reception areas and corridors and passageways.

It lets you organise and lay out all the spaces on plans, taking into account all the various components of the work environment.

A key step in any company’s relocation project, space planning can, in itself, be the crux of an operation’s success or failure.

What matters is achieving optimal occupancy of spaces, ensuring that the organisation and layout of the facility are perfectly adapted to the user’s needs.

Change management involves the combination of methods, techniques and means that will be used to monitor and follow through on changes to ensure the best possible chance of success and to achieve the desired outcome as quickly as possible.

Change management is crucial to the success of a project and the implementation of a company’s development strategy. It ensures that the expected benefit of the changes made will actually be achieved in favourable circumstances.

Micro-siting ensures compatibility between the project premises, the building and the fittings and furnishings.

It enables an assessment to be made in respect of the suitability of the site for the intended fittings and furnishings, the ergonomics of the work spaces and any processes, and to chart the various interfaces between the building and the equipment.

Micro-siting consists of several aspects that complement the programme and covers :

• The detailed programming of day-to-day and specific requirements in terms of property and fittings, e.g. for hotels, service industries, biomedical and medical industries, logistics, etc.;
• The quantification of requirements and the setting-up of an equipment database;
• The installation of the equipment wherever required as per the architect’s plans, from the final design stage onwards;
• The equipment / building interfaces in respect of connections, distribution and junctions.

Based on the project owner’s expectations, athegram can complete micro-siting with assistance in drawing up an equipment purchasing plan, as well as the actual purchase and reception of the goods.

Relocation engineering encompasses the entire relocation process in all of its various aspects: social, functional, technical, economic and scheduling. It is a speciality that combines the necessary experience and expertise to ensure that the relocation can be carried out in optimal conditions.

In particular, this service comprises the following steps :

• Assessment / analysis of the circumstances and sites involved in the relocation;
• Comprehensive inventories of everything that needs to be relocated, with qualitative and quantitative assessment;
• Assessment of the existing furniture and assistance in ordering and installing new furniture;
• Drawing up zones at the departure sites and layout plans for the furniture and equipment;
• Drawing up a detailed relocation schedule;
• Assistance in drawing up and monitoring contracts, assistance in choosing companies (removal companies and specific providers): drafting specifications, analysis of bids and applications, site visits, answering questions;
• Organising and chairing information and onsite meetings;
• Organisation, running and general coordination of the moving process;
• Acceptance of services and settling of any disputes.