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Under-Performing Assets in a client's building portfolio can raise serious concern from investors reviewing financial performance. DiGeronimo PA Planning provides insight to clients who wish to make prudent business decisions regarding a portfolio of building facilities.
Capital Project Analysis occurs when Public Clients request a report on maintenance / repair scope and cost at multiple property asset sites. The DiGeronimo PA Approach engages our in house licensed building code officials to first focus capital projects on life safety issues, for the occupants of the structures. Our analysis determines status of security from break in and vandalism. Our analysis determines security as a component of defense against threats of terrorism in public spaces.
In the Development Planning cycle, a whole tract of land comes into play to create new uses responding to regional and community growth parameters. On-site newly planned roads, utilities systems, and human occupancy uses interrelate with off-site support from the local community, as the need may arise for public capital expenditure projects.
Within cities, Urban Design incorporates existing buildings into the Development Planning cycle, DiGeronimo PA interacts with communities and regulatory agencies - Historic Districts, Landmarks Legislation, Environmental Ordinances, Local / Regional / State Master Plans. We suggest market viable new uses for inner city land tracts.
Sustainable Design Services offers Development Planning that sites buildings advantageously to climate, sun, wind and ground topography. DiGeronimo PA Designs create a sensible placement for facilities within the site, establishes the groundwork for community responsible solutions, for workable connections to, from, and between buildings, and for reasonable project budgets.
Computer Applications at DiGeronimo PA go beyond the everyday on-line research and latest AutoCAD version. We enhance presentations to produce extremely readable graphics for the general public audience. We provide Three-Dimensional (3-D) Animation for a visual walk through our designs.
See
also the following service areas:
A
fundamental truth is that good architecture requires good
clients and a coordinated team effort.
DiGeronimo PA Architecture is Award Winning.
Our Principals have authored many Technical Articles.
Books, Newspapers, and Magazines have Published Work
about DiGeronimo.
DiGeronimo
PA Interiors reflect understated elegance and provide
excellent working environments that are attractive,
environmentally safe, operationally efficient, and maintainable.
In
architecture, construction is the ultimate reality.
Here plans, ideas, drawings, and specifications take
physical form. DiGeronimo
PA Construction Management approach is more varied than that
of any other firm.
DIGERONIMO
PA PLANNING
Description
of Services
DiGeronimo
PA provides Project Administration and Management Services
for the overall project. Project administration includes consultation, research,
conferences, and progress reports.
Our clients’ own work forces occasionally require
DiGeronimo PA coordination.
At times, our clients need DiGeronimo PA to further
document existing conditions.
An architectural project normally follows a sequence,
where one phase requires approval before progressing onto a next
step.
Projects
begin with a statement that describes the function of the
facility or site, the project’s goals, the activities to be
accommodated, and any special requirements, which could guide
the design. DiGeronimo
PA Programming Services are a problem seeking process,
one that identifies the problems that the design must solve.
DiGeronimo PA uses programming to discover the client’s
goals, the user’s requirements, and community opportunities,
thus establishing the essential foundation for quality design.
Programming, combined with budgeting, sets the project
scope and the project quality.
Our designs identify quantity, type, and location of
spaces. Through
diagrams and drawings, we can help clients understand if it is
spatially feasible to fit all of the client’s program goals
into a space, building or site.
DiGeronimo
PA provides Coordination of Designated Services to
incorporate the interpretations and advice of non-design
professionals such as economists, sociologists, attorneys, and
accountants.
Regulatory
Agency Consulting Services include research of critical
applicable regulations, preparation of written and graphic
diagram explanations, and appearance, on the client’s behalf,
at agency and community meetings.
These services apply local laws, statutes, and codes to
the design plan concept and present these concepts to user and
community groups who have limited or no statutory authority but
who do have significant influence on the approving agencies.
The
question is neither how many units a building facility or site
can contain, nor how many units a market can absorb.
The question is: who holds control?
Planning involves a wide range of people and interests
– lenders, investors, neighborhood committees, political
groups, project owners, users / tenants, regulatory agencies.
DiGeronimo PA Community Awareness Service helps manage
community by providing public information gatherings,
descriptive handouts, and locally focused presentations.
Project
Promotion / Public Relations presents the project to the
public in general or in identified groups.
DiGeronimo PA can prepare technical portions of Press
releases, special brochures, and promotional pieces.
We assist in the production and distribution of
materials. We are
available for public relations and promotional meetings.
DiGeronimo
PA Scheduling Services establish an initial timetable for
decision-making. Time
and money are interrelated.
A preliminary estimate of the cost of the work provides
the client with critical information early in the process.
First cost is critical.
DiGeronimo PA Planning provides input into affordability
and financial feasibility, leading to our assistance in
identifying funding resources
Feasibility
Study Services consist of preparing a graphic evaluation of
the project based on estimates of the total project cost,
operations cost, and cash flow required for design and
construction. DiGeronimo
PA Planning provides insight to clients who wish to make prudent
business decisions regarding a portfolio of building facilities.
Large private clients view their physical facilities as
assets requiring astute management, where property portfolios
present strategic possibilities.
Project Life Cycle Costs is key. DiGeronimo
PA Planning provides space schematics and flow diagrams that
integrate the important elements of resource efficiency,
environmental responsiveness, and sensitivity to existing
culture and community. Capitalizing
on the interconnections between these elements, our approach
sustains economic benefits into the operation and management
phase of a project.
Project
Financing Services
assist the client in preparing supplemental drawings and
documentation required by financing sources.
DiGeronimo PA is capable of researching financial
availability and of soliciting financing sources directly for
the client.
DiGeronimo
PA can contribute technical information to Leasing Brochures
including providing publication graphics in readable plans,
elevations and renderings.
Integral
to the DiGeronimo PA Planning process is community influence, as
Planning is part of the larger society. In DiGeronimo PA Site Analysis Services, we search out
site related limitations and local requirements. DiGeronimo PA site analysis consists of evaluating an
existing site as it relates to the program, the budget, and the
schedule for the project. Opportunities
and constraints have a direct effect on the cost of
construction. Identification of mandatory regulatory review agencies,
submittal requirements and other site-specific factors affect
the construction schedule, and indirectly the construction cost.
Site
Development Services
consist of identifying a potential site, making on-site
observations, and / or comparing multiple sites.
Deed, zoning, and other legal restriction require
research. The
designed plan considers movement systems of pedestrian and
vehicular traffic, along with site topography.
DiGeronimo PA analyzes the availability of construction
materials, equipment, and labor.
Land use, structures placement, facilities development,
ecological requirements, and landscape concepts come into play.
DiGeronimo
PA Planning Sustainable Design Services enables the
sensible placement of facilities within the site by establishing
the groundwork for community responsible solutions, for workable
connections to, from, and between buildings, and for reasonable
project budgets.
Special
project variables include utility easements, rights of way,
retention ponds, recreation, view sight lines, flood plains, and
ecological preserves. DiGeronimo
PA Planning services assessment for these components is project
specific. Cultural,
physical and regulatory factors impose restrictions on a site.
Climate is a major determinant of building orientation. Prevailing wind direction and velocities jointly affect
occupant comfort levels and place loads on building systems. Solar orientation, temperature, humidity, precipitation, and
topography limit a site’s buildable area.
Natural site elements become advantageous in our
sustainable designs.
Detailed
Site Use Services
include analysis of both on-site and off-site influences.
DiGeronimo PA establishes the requirements and prepares
the initial designs for on-site electrical, gas, water,
wastewater, storm drainage, fire systems, security,
illumination, and communication systems.
Off-site utilities analyses require determination of
requirements to connect to local utilities as well as
confirmation of location and size of line.
DiGeronimo PA coordinates the needed environmental
studies and reports; the geotechnical test borings, test pits,
and other subsoil conditions tests; and Site survey information.
Geotechnical characteristics greatly affect the economics
of development. Utilities
on and servicing the site have a significant effect on site use. Soils types, percolation, bearing capacity of the soil,
contamination, depth to bedrock and elevation of the water table
contribute to limiting the building program or expanding the
cost to build.
DiGeronimo
PA Zoning Process Assistance Services prepares the
presentation materials necessary for attendance at public
meetings. DiGeronimo
PA expresses site coverage in terms of site to building formula
ratios. The biggest constraint in many municipalities is the required
parking ratio. We
examine the area required for pedestrian circulation, vehicular
access, and open space. Floor
area ratio, building coverage, and building height limitations
are zoning restrictions that affect the manner in which planning
design fits the owner’s goals and the user’s program onto a
given site.
Presentation
Services are sometimes key to getting a project to move
forward, by presenting existing conditions in an extremely
readable format to general public audiences.
Renderings are graphic pictorial representations
of the proposed project. Renderings
can be simple perspective in black and white or in full color. DiGeronimo PA architects can insert renderings of the project
into a photograph for presentation purposes.
Video prepares explanatory documentaries of the
project. Three-Dimensional
(3-D) Animation animates space and provides a visual walk
through of the design concept.
Model
Construction is
sometimes useful to present the three-dimensional concepts of a
project program. Small-scale block models can easily relate the building(s) to
the site. Moderate
scale models can show the detailed design with all finished
building materials and site amenities.
Large-scale models are useful to perceive designated
interior or exterior components.
Committed
to providing exceptional, dependable service, DiGeronimo PA
provides creative solutions to complex building problems.
Our success is our quality architectural designs.
Clients find Digeronimo PA an easy firm with which to
work. We are good,
practical, and competent.
DIGERONIMO
PA PLANNING
Services
Listing
Project
Administration and Management Services
Programming Services
Coordination of Designated Services
Regulatory Agency Consulting Services
Community Awareness Service
Partnering with
multiple public agencies, advocacy groups, neighborhood
associations and ad hoc groups
Project
Promotion / Public Relations
Scheduling Services
Feasibility Study Services
Demographic
research to determine best market use
Graphic Evaluation
First Cost Budgeting
Project Life
Cycle Cost
Project Financing
Leasing Brochures
Site Analysis Services
Site Development Services
Environmental
conservation
Sustainable
Design Services
Detailed Site Use Services
Zoning Process Assistance Services
Municipal
planning and zoning boards assistance
Public hearings
Historic districts and landmarks issues
Presentation Services
Renderings
Video
3-D Animation
Model Construction
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