Our unique contribution to the urban agenda is our whole-systems approach to better prioritize projects, plan ahead, protect vulnerable assets and provide sustainable growth. We work in partnership with cities large and small, mature and emerging to imagine and implement the kind of urban environments and critical resilient infrastructure that provide opportunity for everyone and improve economic output.

Our expertise

Our specialist team provides strategic consultancy, economics, architecture, master planning and a range of ESG advisory services together with digital and technological solutions to improve access to education, healthcare, sport, transport, clean air, water and safer spaces.

Our services

Our projects

Our teams have advised cities and delivered a range of projects large and small all around the country; from master planning and urban design to economic advisory and climate resilience solutions.

Our perspectives

Our city leaders are at the heart of shaping the world’s global towns and cities. They are sought out for their expertise, opinions and design perspectives to help tackle some of today’s most complex and pressing challenges, from climate change to public safety and social equity.

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We play a critical role in the conceptualization and execution of these spaces and have been involved in some of the most iconic projects ever delivered; buildings that define the skyline of many of the world’s most illustrious cities.

ArchTam works with owners and developers who demand creativity and flexibility because, while they must develop a distinct project for today that stands apart, their project must also be able to seamlessly pivot towards future trends in the market. Modern commercial and residential buildings present opportunities to investigate new and innovative concepts that could fundamentally alter the collective vision of what is possible within these spaces.

From outdoor space within a commercial building that provides a platform for enhanced employee interaction to environmentally-responsible materials that lower the carbon footprint and operating costs of a multifamily apartment building, ArchTam’s technical specialists work collaboratively with our clients to constantly redefine what these spaces can be.

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At ArchTam, we are at the forefront of delivering academic facilities around the world, from primary and secondary schools to colleges and universities. With our exceptional history of deploying innovative solutions, our academic clients turn to us for the guidance and expertise to produce enduring educational spaces that balance learning opportunity, economic responsibility and environmental sustainability.

In a procurement environment with multiple stakeholders where funding is tightly controlled, we are focused on front-end thinking. We coordinate designs for buildings that are flexible and future-ready, provide cost certainty and manage risk through best practices. We also place an emphasis on vigilant planning and comprehensive jobsite safety that minimizes the interruption of ongoing academic operations.

Our extensive bench of technical resources and diverse teams can deploy a myriad of solutions. Ranked #1 in Educational Design by Engineering News Record (ENR), ArchTam provides a suite of services with an award-winning portfolio, including a full spectrum of educational facilities.

We offer expertise in:

• State-of-the-art academic buildings
• High-end residence halls
• Iconic mixed-use student centers
• Essential data centers
• Popular sports venues
• Technologically advanced medical research laboratories

Through our collaborative design practice, we help institutions create human-centered buildings and places that reduce environmental impacts and life-cycle costs and improve the user experience.

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Navigating growing energy demand requires infrastructure that is flexible, reliable and cost-effective. We support the full energy value chain, spanning conventional and renewable generation, transmission, distribution and storage. We enable clients navigate grid evolution, resolve interconnection challenges and build resilient energy infrastructure. Our integrated services span planning, permitting, engineering and program management, tailored to meet the needs of utilities, developers and public agencies worldwide.

Generating the future of power

At the forefront of power generation, our capabilities extend across the spectrum of energy systems and solutions. We recognize the importance of aligning the right power source with each project: whether it calls for consistent power for effective government operations, sustainable energy to support carbon reduction goals for national governments, or a phased approach that adapts to evolving demands throughout a private sector client’s project lifespan.

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Delivering power with purpose

We’re uniquely positioned to support public and private clients through every phase of the power delivery. Our comprehensive engineering and technical services address a wide range of needs — from modernization and expansion to replacement, new build, and the implementation of digitized transmission and distribution systems.

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Strengthening systems with smarter storage

As clean energy scales and electrification accelerates, storage plays a critical role in balancing supply and demand. Our team specializes in unlocking flexibility and resilience across the energy system. We offer end-to-end energy storage services, from feasibility studies and technology assessments to engineering, procurement and construction.

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We have partnered with government agencies at the federal, provincial, territorial, and municipal levels for over 100 years.

We provide comprehensive infrastructure, facilities, energy, environment, disaster resilience and civil works services for our clients’ most challenging projects. Our industry-leading design, planning, architecture, engineering, program management and construction management teams are focused on exceptional client service and flawless execution. 

At the federal level, we maintain a variety of service agreements for work with various government agencies across the country. From upgrading civil, first responder, national parks, and defence infrastructure to completing site remediation, we design and implement infrastructure solutions that provide value today and for future generations.  

We live in the same communities where we work. Across Canada, our teams also have long-term relationships with their provincial, territorial, and municipal governments. Local teams with knowledge of their areas are supported by technical leaders from around the world.  

Our services for regional and local government include the full spectrum of our engineering, consulting, program management and construction services. We help revitalize cities through urban planning, climate change adaptation, energy efficiency and sustainability consulting, as well as condition assessment, design and renovation of facilities. 

We plan, design and manage systems for drinking water, wastewater, stormwater and flood control, and we connect people through highway, bridge, rail and aviation links. In addition, our environmental specialists provide planning, consulting, design and emergency response services. Our expertise also helps clients identify alternative delivery methods and help finance critical programs.

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We are a leader in delivering acute care, ambulatory and critical care centers, specialized laboratory spaces, biomedical research facilities, life sciences centers, senior living housing and medical administrative buildings. The constant advancement of technology, ever-changing patient demographics, and more stringent regulations is critical in the healthcare market, and our technical professionals are acutely aware of the complexities and requirements.

Around the world, we create healing environments that offer quiet overnight stays, sterile operating rooms, cleanroom research laboratories, visitor-friendly accommodations, and places of rest and recuperation. Our project experience has earned special recognition within the healthcare industry, because we listen and respond with solutions that support and articulate each client’s vision through the eyes of patients, families, medical staff and the surrounding community.

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Our clients are supported by an agile organization with leading design, build, finance, and operate services that are unmatched by any firm competing in the industrial landscape today.

From cybersecurity to construction market buying power, innovative design solutions to 24-hour facility operations – we bring you time and cost efficiency along with a single and straightforward source of accountability to increase productivity, conserve resources, optimize life-cycle costs, and reduce risks.

Our integrated teams serve clients across industries by:

• Driving technological innovation in planning, project execution, and operations
• Providing best-in-class technical teams and market leading services through our Industrial Centers of Excellence
• Achieving robust, cost effective solutions through process led design
• Implementing advanced security applications to minimize risks to systems and facilities
• Providing competitive building engineering, civil infrastructure, transportation, and process engineering through our Global Delivery Services
• Accelerating project schedules through speed-to-market efficiencies, such as modular design and modular construction
• Executing unmatched global program delivery through a robust Client Account Management program
• Enhancing workplace productivity through Strategy Plus, a dedicated workplace strategy group

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At ArchTam, our embedded experience in the communities where we work—combined with our understanding of how public needs and services intersect—has helped us become a leader in the justice market. We provide multidisciplinary planning and design for justice-related projects.

Our mission is to leverage the most current technologies to create spaces that reflect the transparency of justice and respond to local cultural and physical context, while seamlessly addressing security, flexibility, functionality, efficiency, and sustainability. We work to leverage an area’s emerging assets to create projects that foster additional renewal and development.

Court Planning and Design

Court planning and design have changed dramatically over the past 15 years. The modern courthouse must instill a sense of trust and fairness, as well as be inviting. We work to fulfill this vision by creating places that are uplifting and grounded, secure and open, purposeful and flexible.

Our approach includes collaborating with our national, state, territorial, and municipal government clients to address and incorporate societal changes in how people work and how institutions serve the public. Functionality, technology, wellness, security, and sustainability influence our thinking and strategy as we help our customers plan for increasing and new caseloads, as well as changing community demographics. Essential and integral components of our planning and design process include studying caseload projections in addition to considering the context of the surrounding city, future growth, expanding technologies, and changes in the legal process.

Secure and Inviting Public Safety Facilities

The design of public safety facilities must enhance the ability of law enforcement professionals to provide exceptional services in a modern, inspirational environment and, in doing so, elevate the profile of police departments in the communities they serve. ArchTam has more than 40 years of experience in planning and designing efficient and reliable police and public safety facilities.

Changing technology, increased resiliency, and heightened awareness of personal well-being are at the core of the facilities we plan and design. With more than 75 police and public safety projects across the

United States and Canada, we help our clients create environments that allow for both the protection and sharing of information—often in situations where every second count.

Detention and Correctional Facilities

With a 35-year history in the planning, design, and management of detention and correctional facilities, we recognize that every correctional project has the potential to go beyond the function of merely housing inmates. We approach each project as an urban design challenge that considers the needs of the facility, as well as those of surrounding communities.

As a leader in correctional planning and design, our experience encompasses hundreds of criminal justice projects. We deliver high-quality environments that lower operational costs and have introduced successful new design concepts to the field of justice and correctional facilities design—including such innovations as normative environments, unit management, and direct supervision design.

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From luxury hotel towers and integrated resorts to cultural and entertainment destinations of the highest caliber, ArchTam’s greatest skill is in creating memorable and authentic places where people can both enjoy their leisure and free time to the full and work efficiently and comfortably.

We understand the challenges that developers and institutions face when embarking on leisure and hospitality projects — from assembling land and gaining approvals, to financing management and operations, to creating projects that will stand out in fiercely competitive markets. All elements, from guest experience to life-cycle operations, are considered at every stage of planning and implementation to create the level of service and quality that is the hallmark of a successful destination.

The leisure and hospitality market is focused on creating highly attractive environments while achieving guest satisfaction and operational efficiency. ArchTam has helped to bring a wide variety of leisure and cultural offerings to their fullest potential. We assist clients in creating distinctive environments where architecture, landscape, entertainment, culture and history combine for an unforgettable experience.

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We partner with some of the world’s largest oil and gas companies to deliver tailored solutions across upstream, midstream and downstream operations. Our multidisciplinary teams bring together expertise in engineering, design, environmental services, architecture, construction and program management, water resources, and infrastructure development — including transportation, ports and rail.

Our experience spans the entire energy value chain. We support clients in everything from corporate planning and management, mergers and acquisitions, and exploration to production, processing, transportation, storage, marketing, and asset retirement and remediation. Whether it’s embedding personnel within management teams, staffing full-time roles at refineries and terminals, or delivering on-site and remote technical services, we provide flexible, scalable support across a wide range of specialties.

Proven expertise, tailored to you

• Complex facility development
  We excel in master planning and design of future-ready energy parks, including marine terminals, petrochemical plants, power generation, worker housing, docks, and other ancillary infrastructure. We bring together multidisciplinary teams in planning, engineering, sustainability, permitting, cost estimating, ports and marine, dredging, traffic, water resources and desalination to deliver optimized layouts and execution strategies.
• Onshore and offshore development permitting and impact assessment
  We provide full-service environmental planning, permitting and impact assessments for offshore and onshore oil and gas assets. This includes seismic surveys, drilling, pipelines, liquid natural gas (LNG) terminals, refineries, floating production storage and offloading (FPSOs)/floating storage and regasification units (FSRUs).
• Engineering, procurement, construction and management (EPC/EPCM)
  We offer a comprehensive suite of in-house engineering and procurement services for new builds, retrofits, and a full range of power generation, delivery and storage infrastructure — covering refineries, terminals, splitters, hydrogen production, pipelines, refrigeration systems, storage facilities, oil-water separators, marine docks.
  Composed of process, civil, structural, mechanical, electrical, instrumentation and controls, pipeline engineering and relevant subject matter specialists, we offer 3D modeling, full-service procurement and materials management, estimating, as well as construction, project and program management for all work phases. Our experienced team utilizes state-of-the-art laboratories and in-house digital engineering strategies to offer robust research and development support to help companies manage risk.
• Building planning, permitting, design and engineering
  Our teams deliver integrated design and engineering services for offices, labs, production facilities and plants, hardened facilities, warehouses, control rooms, data centers, parking structures, housing and green spaces. Services include space planning, permitting, feasibility studies, building certifications, code compliance, real estate business case development, surplus asset assessments, constructability reviews, facility inspections and construction administration. Our high-performance buildings team specializes in advancing building performance beyond expected criteria while adhering to budgetary requirements.
• Environmental compliance, resilience and sustainability
  We’re specialists in planning, training, permitting and auditing for air, water and waste compliance services, full-service and real-time digital monitoring systems and resilience planning for greenhouse gases, methane, biodiversity and water. This includes regulatory reporting, fenceline ambient air monitoring, community engagement and aligned sustainability strategies.
• Due diligence and asset transfers
  Supporting upstream, midstream, downstream and retail portfolios, we offer rapid, scalable evaluations and environmental due diligence reports for asset transfers for buyers, sellers and lenders. Our assessments cover health, safety, security and environment (HSSE) systems, crisis management and emergency response, pipelines, agency inspections, integrity management, and carbon/sustainability risks to support mergers, acquisitions and divestitures.
• Asset retirement and remediation
  Delivering end-to-end solutions for a wide range of oil and gas infrastructure, we cover decommissioning, investigation, remediation, regulatory closures, feasibility studies, risk modeling, remedial design, regulatory engagement, long-term monitoring, and sustainable redevelopment planning.
  Supported by fit-for-purpose solutions, we utilize a digitally supported programmatic approach to retire and remediate large, multi-site assets. This approach enables us to deliver consistency, efficiency and visibility across diverse portfolios for public and private sector clients, enhancing compliance, sustainability alignment, stakeholder engagement and closure timelines while reducing total lifecycle costs.

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