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A Management Consulting Firm Facilitating Project Partnering
Aiding Project Managers to Proactively Build Project Teams that Excel
One Project – One Team!
The project owners, users, designers and contractors jointly team for a successful project. ATI Systems facilitates these stakeholders in developing commitments to cooperation, open communications, and rapid resolution of issues - uniting around shared goals for excellence in project delivery – Truly Partnering for Success.
Caltrans Awards for Partnering Excellence
The California Department of Transportation is a strong proponent of Partnering because it delivers successful projects. Caltrans recognizes their best performing project teams with Excellence in Partnering Awards. The teams of 16 of their 552 construction projects completed in 2020 received awards. Why does Caltrans celebrate these projects? Because of the excellent return they receive for each dollar invested in partnering – the 16 projects honored in 2021 yielded $23.7 million in savings and beat their schedules by 868 working days; overall a return of $69.97 on each dollar invested in partnering.
ATI Systems received Caltrans Excellence in Partnering Awards for the partnering facilitation services on the six 2020 and 2021 projects shown below:
ATI Systems' Experience
ATI Systems has facilitated partnering for projects a variety of construction segments. We also take pride in helping to introduce project partnering to the facilities support services, heavy manufacturing, and defense acquisition industries.
Roadways
By partnering the I-10 Santa Monica Freeway earthquake repair team reopened the nation’s busiest thoroughfare 74 days early against a 140-day schedule; the contractor received a $14.8 million incentive. By partnering the Craig Road Project was named Nevada’s Best Transportation Project for 2009 by Southwest Contractor Magazine.
MILCON
A sample of many military construction projects we have supported include the Global Support Squadron Facility at Travis AFB for the Air Force, the Army Reserve Center Phoenix for the Army, the Air Traffic Control Tower NAVST Rota Spain for the Navy, and the Applied Instruction Facility at MCAS Yuma for the Marine Corps.
Heavy Civil
Successful projects supported include the Spillway and Dam for San Sevaine Basin, the West State Street Storm Drain, and the Los Angeles MTA’S Red Line North Hollywood to Universal City Tunnel which during a particularly litigious series of projects was the only major Red Line project that avoided litigation and resolved all issues within the team.
Community Infrastructures
The Culver City Senior Center Construction, the El Monte Airport Lighting Rehabilitation, the Antelope Valley Courthouse Off-Site Improvements, the San Joaquin Valley Agricultural Sciences Center, the Los Osos Wastewater Collection System Pump Stations Project, and the Culver City Police Department Expansion are samples of successful projects.
Health Care
Projects supported include 1994 and 2018 renovations of the centerpiece building at the Tibor Rubin Long Beach VA Medical Center, the construction of the Fort Irwin Ambulatory Care Clinic, and the demolition of the Information Resources Management Building & Building 3 at the VA Medical Center Sepulveda.
Education
Projects supported include Rowland Hall Improvements at the University of California Irvine, the Central Plant Addition at California State University Long Beach, the Electrical Telecommunications Infrastructure Upgrade at California State Fullerton, the Recreation Center and Aquatics Complex at University of California Santa Barbara, and the Ventura College Math & Science Complex.
Facility Support Services
The maps above show the CONUS and world-wide installations where ATI Systems has supported partnering on Facility Support Service Contracts. These US Navy, US Army, US Air Force, US Marine Corps, and NATO installations have benefited by the owners, users, contract managers, & contractors teaming for success.
Heavy Manufacturing
Partnering on rail car design and manufacturing projects for the Washington Metro and the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority have improved project interactions and results with US, French, Japanese, and Chinese manufacturers.
Defense Acquisition
Taking a lesson from the Corps of Engineers successes, the defense acquisition community has applied ATI Systems’ partnering to bring government/contactor teams together for aircraft and electronics manufacturing programs and for anti-viral vaccine clinical trials.
About Partnering
In the late 1980’s the construction industry had become adversarial, with disputes, claims and litigation. These were wasting vast amounts of time and money. The Construction Industry Institute created and challenged a task force to develop a more effective project management model. They developed the basic precepts and methods of partnering. The successes were immediate and so significant that that partnering became the primary project team building method in construction. Seeing these improvements, a broad array of industries has joined in its use to create project teams committed to cooperation, open communications, jointly addressing risks and opportunities, and to rapidly resolving differences – Truly Partnering for Success!