Points of View.

Integrated Design

Integrated Design ... an alternative to the widely used “sequential” method in which architects, structural and mechanical engineers ... work on a building - often independently from each other and, in any case, one after the other. “90 to 95% of all design processes take this form”.
Christoph M. Achammer, „Netzwerken für die Nachhaltigkeit“, Die Presse, 17^th/18^th July 2010

“By taking off their blinkers and cooperating over real problems, architects and engineers can learn with and from each other.” 
Christoph M. Achammer, Wirtschaftsblatt, 25^th June 2009

“If we architects, structural and mechanical services engineers don´t manage to find a common approach to designing and building we will...continue to play a declining role.”
Christoph M. Achammer, Architektur- und Bauforum, 15^th June 2009

“One secret of ATP´s success is the integrated approach in which architects and engineers tackle projects not one after the other but together.”
Alois Vahrner, Tiroler Tageszeitung, 24^th July 2009

Sustainability

"The design ... determines after all 30 percent of the investment cost and 50 percent of the entire life-cycle costs. “This is a huge tool over which we have control.”
Christoph M. Achammer, „Netzwerken für die Nachhaltigkeit“, Die Presse, 17^th/18^th July 2010

“Both the direct relationship between the sustainability of a building and the corresponding increase in its real estate value and the desire of our clients for ways of certifying their workplaces are additional attractions for us.”
Jens Glöggler, ATP sustain in: Die Presse 18^th February 2009

“After the completion of the preliminary design, 50% of the possibilities for optimising the life cycle costs of a building have been exhausted; when the detailed design is ready just 20% remain and when the tender documents have been completed the opportunity has gone....”
Christoph M. Achammer, Technikum Kärnten Forschungsgesellschaft

“The key to sustainability lies in space planning; closed building forms have a number of positive effects in terms of resource and energy efficiency.”
Christoph M. Achammer, Konstruktiv, 7^th/8^th July 2009

“Life-cycle oriented building design regards buildings as systems and this method is a key aid in the calculation of the true costs – and particularly the energy costs – of buildings.”
Architektur und Bau Forum, 9^th February 2009

Learning

“The discussion of the new curriculum is not about learning more but about a basic change in the relationships between the individual disciplines.”
Christoph M. Achammer: Sustainable Designing and Construction – without learning?” Podium discussion of the Sustainability Committee of the Federal Chamber of Architects and Engineers. Vienna, 18^th May 2009

“Investing in employees – that was another of Christoph Achammer´s reactions to the crisis. And as well as expanding training, ATP decided to put more resources into acquisition and research.”
Architektur und Bau Forum, 27^th July 2009