ATP architects engineers - Integrated design for the food industry

Coherent and orderly layouts, flexibly usable structures, lean processes, and lifecycle-oriented construction and operation: Buildings for the food industry have very specific requirements. These begin with the planning of individual operations – but they also go far beyond the design of a tailor-made building. The more unique your needs, the more important it is for you to have an experienced design partner with all the necessary expertise at your side. With over sixty years of food sector experience, ATP architects engineers is precisely such a partner.

Sustainability and value retention
The ability of production plants to retain their value is determined by much more than just the cost of construction. Energy use and operational maintenance and repair costs have key impacts on the lifecycle costs of a building. It is for this reason that we also integrate the work of our in-house research ­companies into our design process in the search for the optimal solution for our clients.

Innovation and improved performance
With our integrated design approach we make a fundamental contribution to enhancing the efficiency of your food production operation. Thanks to our technological developments such as the “SPINE principle”, hygienic roof, service galleries or special clean room applications in the slicing and packaging area, operations are demonstrably improved and the production process rendered more efficient.

A unique package of know-how
With over 1000 employees at its eleven offices in the DACH and CEE Regions, ATP is the leading integrated design company in Continental Europe. A team of around 80 interdisciplinary food consultants and the experience gained in newly designing, expanding, or revitalizing over 200 food production facilities creates the perfect package of user-oriented and constructional know-how that has established ATP as Europe’s market leader. One key to this success is the close- knit, company-wide network of experts, who bring together operating technology and building design at the highest level with the help of state-of-the-art design methods such as building information modeling (BIM).

Everything for your success
Our integrated design process looks at your building holistically. We are particularly careful to constantly balance the interests of the user and of the building itself – with a focus on the quality of the overall solution. To achieve this, someone must tightly hold the reins on your behalf and operate at the interface between consulting, planning, and building. At ATP, this role – as the meeting point of all processes – is played by the “Project Director”. He or she enjoys an overview and coordinates all service providers in your name and in the interests of your success.
In this process, the experienced food consultants of the ATP Group take responsibility for planning material flows, machinery layouts, logistics, and operating technology as well as monitoring assembly and operational starts. Hence, the building design process is both integrated and digital. The digital twin of your building isn’t produced on the basis of conventional plans but, rather, through the simultaneous cooperation of all design disciplines in a digital building model (BIM). As a result, the entire lifecycle of your building project is addressed in ATP’s integrated design studios on the basis of our over 60 years of food industry experience.