Architecture, Engineering, and Project Management
Tetra Tech provides lifecycle architect-engineer (A-E), technical design, and project management services to defense agencies worldwide to meet their missions.
We leverage global resources to provide appropriate solutions, design sustainable and resilient infrastructure, and protect and restore environments. Our military portfolio comprises buildings, utilities, airfields, and ports, including in remote, austere, and hostile locations. Our engineers, planners, and facility management experts collect and leverage data to consider seismic, security, and sustainability factors in design and project execution.
We bring extensive military experience and expertise on high-security and classified projects. Our quality management processes and sustainable design experience help clients build mission-critical facilities that meet today’s needs and anticipate future needs.
Pre-Design Services
Our military clients must identify and mitigate technical risks, achieve stakeholder consensus, make mission-critical decisions, and maximize available resources to meet operational requirements. Our defense specialists understand international design standards and host-nation norms and approval processes, master planning guidelines, and strategic business case and detailed business case preparation. We help clients address business and technical risk through engineering investigations, maximize operational efficiency through optimized space and land planning, and validate early decision-making through parametric cost estimating and scheduling. We also provide innovative solutions for procurement integrity (probity) management, funding, stakeholder management, and delivery management.
Design Services
We guide defense clients through all phases of project design, prepare engineering studies, assessments, and concept-through-full design of facilities and infrastructure. We use the latest tools and technologies to support new construction and sustainment, restoration, and modernization initiatives across a portfolio of expeditionary, temporary, and enduring facilities and infrastructure.
Our designers consider the full range of project factors, including lifecycle costs, operations and maintenance (O&M) needs, environmental sustainability and resilience, and advanced security measures to deliver responsive solutions that meet end-user needs. Our work management plan promotes project success through proven quality, schedule, and cost management; effective subcontractor management; and coordinated document control and communication protocols.
Sustainable and resilient design
- Acoustics
- Building information modeling (BIM)
- Communications, controls, and integration
- Mechanical, electrical, and plumbing
- Fire protection and engineering
- Lighting
- Security
- Vertical transportation
- Historic preservation
- Virtual design
- Value engineering
Specialized defense expertise
- International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR)/Export Administration Regulation (EAR), Secret/classified compliance
- Weapons effects on buildings and blast resilience
- Specialized training facilities
- Unified Facilities Criteria (UFC), including anti-terrorism/force protection (AT/FP)
Engineering Services during Construction
Tetra Tech provides construction oversight, commissioning, and handover to support sustainable operations and maintenance. We help drive on-schedule, on-budget, and high-quality performance by monitoring construction activities and holding contractors accountable for following design plans and specifications. Our solution-focused oversight teams respond quickly to resolve issues to reduce performance delays and cost overruns.
We verify that facilities and infrastructure yield optimum results and achieve desired outcomes. Our commissioning experts provide management services for testing, maintenance instruction, design review, and environmentally sustainable design for various project types.
- Shop drawing review approval for extension of design
- Coordination of design changes and validation of field changes
- Quality assurance and quality control
- Document control and progress reporting
- Construction surveillance, witnessing, inspection testing, and submittal review
- Substantial completion observation and documentation
- As-built plan and O&M manual approval
- Re-commissioning and retro-commissioning
- Commissioning to meet environmental design standards, including LEED, BREEAM, and Green Star
Project and Program Management
Our management is based on well-defined and executed processes, supported by strong leadership. These skills are critical to establishing a culture focused on strategic objectives and aware of key risks. Our quality assurance framework sets out a comprehensive approach to project management, tailored to specific requirements.
Asset Management
Tetra Tech helps defense clients optimize the built environment to allocate scarce resources to the right asset at the right time. We have state-of-the-art data collection and analytical tools to collect, compile, review, and interpret data; analyze lifecycle costs; and define asset performance requirements. Led by accredited asset management experts, our teams design approaches to maximize asset value in accordance with business objectives, stakeholder requirements, legislation, and monetary benefits.
- Inventory and condition assessments
- Facility management consulting
- Energy resilience and optimization
- Industrial control system cybersecurity
- Infrastructure optimization plans
- Capital investment strategy
- Geospatial services and visualization
- Petroleum system services
- Preventative maintenance program analysis and optimization
- Real property inventory assessments
- Space utilization studies
- Stormwater inventory analysis
- Strategic asset management planning
Our Approach
Military background
We have a reserve of technical staff with military service backgrounds and first-hand knowledge of operational needs and constraints, augmented by our Tetra Tech Delta suite of technologies. In the UK, we hold the Employer Recognition Scheme Gold Award for our commitment to support the Armed Forces Covenant.
High-security projects
Tetra Tech manages high-security projects using Defense Assurance and Information Security (DAIS)-accredited and Intelligence Community Directive (ICD) 705-compliant management systems for protectively marked material and classified information. We have experienced design and project management staff with security clearances, and more than 1,450 professionals with current Five Eyes clearances.
Quality management
Tetra Tech holds International Organization for Standardization (ISO) certifications for the United States (ISO 9001:2015 Quality Management Systems Standard), United Kingdom (ISO 440001 Collaborative Working Standard with Defence Infrastructure Organisation), and Australia and New Zealand (AS/NZS ISO 90001 and ISO/IEC 17025). We also comply with the Defence Estate Quality Management System for the Australian Department of Defence.
Sustainable design
We have experience applying the suite of tools used to influence sustainable development by departments of defense globally. We sit on sustainability panels and take part in peer reviews, supporting teams to apply best practice in each country where we work. Our specialists are experienced using ratings tools and applying these to defense projects.
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