O`Brien/Atkins Associates, P.A. services

O’Brien/Atkins’ project management approach is based on careful planning, scheduled monitoring, in-house coordination and progress meetings and design workshops.

Architects at O’Brien/Atkins create designs with an appreciation for the diverse factors that shape a productive and meaningful building environment. These factors include the building’s context, its utility, its economic value and, not unimportantly, the critical role such buildings play in expressing the cultural and aesthetic sensibilities of our society. Our design work embodies the interests and needs of the client. We listen carefully and act decisively to craft outcomes that are responsive, responsible and well fit to each of our client’s specific needs. Our goal is to create building environments of lasting value for our clients. We do this through a process of inquiry that fosters clarity of purpose, continuity of expression and accountability.

O’Brien/Atkins’ landscape architects take design initiatives beyond the confines of the building, offering clients a comprehensive package of services that extend from property line to property line. We assess key variables including topography, climate, access, utilities, governing regulations and adjoining development thereby enhancing the project’s ultimate success. Well seasoned in creating exterior environments that make the best use of the opportunities inherent in every site condition, O’Brien/Atkins’ landscape architects offer core services encompassing site analysis, site design, plant material selection and land pl0anning.

O’Brien/Atkins’ Master Planning services assist clients in determining the optimum potential of their sites. Optimization is assessed in balanced terms of economic return and environmental sensibility. The master planning process includes a thorough review of state and local regulatory issues. The process ensures the development of a productive land use strategic plan that preserves economic resources, respects environmental sensitivities and promotes a stimulating setting. Our master planning effort extends beyond the arrangement of physical components. We, in conjunction with our client, formulate a master plan that can serve as a strategic tool that addresses maximization of land usage, projected improvement costs across time, projected employment demographics and those impacts on building needs.

The Mechanical Engineering group at O’Brien/Atkins offers clients innovative, energy efficient and sustainable HVAC and plumbing systems analysis, design and documentation.  We integrate the mechanical systems into the overall design process through collaboration with all of our design disciplines, offering accurate, efficient and thorough attention to detail. The Mechanical Engineering staff also provides expertise in total building systems energy cost comparisons, including Life Cycle Cost Analysis, using industry-standard performance simulation software. O’Brien/Atkins has been designated as an EPA Energy Star Compliant Service Provider