PARKING CONSULTING & NEW PARKING GARAGE DESIGN

The ever increasing pressure on today’s Urban and Institutional landscapes has made parking a critical component of any building facility development. It is important to address traffic flow and parking issues as part of the master planning, expansion or re-engineering of any development. O&S Associates has provided master planning, parking and traffic engineering consulting services to municipal, institutional and corporate clients. Our staff of planners, engineers and architects apply their specialized skills and broad experience to develop innovative and cost-effective solutions for our clients.

• Master planning (Big picture of parking plan for a facility)
• Parking demand and supply analysis (Parking needs, time variations, shortfalls etc.)
• Traffic Impact studies (Impact on site vicinity traffic. Often required by municipalities)
• Site selection
• Conceptual design of parking facility (Access/egress, layout, functional etc.)
• Parking facility acquisition due diligence
• Financial analysis (Market review, Rates and revenue analysis etc.)

• Existing operations review and analysis (Revenue maximization, streamlining)
• Parking operator RFP & contracts

• Feasibility & conceptual design
• Functional design
• Structural engineering & design
• Architectural design
• Graphics and wayfinding
• MEP design
• Construction documents
• Design/Build
• Bidding
• Construction monitoring and inspection

Building Engineering Management and Planning (BEMAP) is an online, software-as-a-service, multi-user and interactive application that O&S offers to it’s clients. BEMAP has been developed in-house by O&S and is used to manage an entire project from the initial design phase all the way to construction close-out. BEMAP is a comprehensive project communications tool and repository of all kinds of project documents. Effective and timely communication and collaboration with clients, vendors and suppliers etc. is made possible by BEMAP resulting in a head-ache free and well executed project. BEMAP features include:

• Management of the design process including posting, tracking and resolution of design comments.
• Version control of design documents through the design process to final bid documents and addendums.
• Project drawings repository
• Project specifications repository
• Project shop drawings repository
• Project submittals repository and tracking
• Repository of project documents (Folder and label based)
• Project photos (album based)
• Project Reports
• Meeting minutes including tracking of issues
• Schedule monitoring
• Scope monitoring
• Budget monitoring
• Project directory
• Robust user permissions and access control