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Introduction

AECOM transforms how we work to drive faster results, smarter solutions and better outcomes. From pioneering digital design to developing innovative digital solutions that increase engagement and streamline processes, we bring the best minds together to solve our clients’ biggest challenges.

Digital innovation is essential to enable a modern, efficient and accessible planning system. Digital AECOM provides digital analysis, reporting, consultation and engagement solutions, to help clients achieve better, more sustainable outcomes for projects and communities; including: 

Plan Engage – a digital engagement platform making reports and data accessible, interactive and visual for better, faster plan-making, consenting and engagement.

EcoUplift –a platform supporting policymakers, landowners and developers to understand and plan for the improvement of the biodiversity and natural capital value of assets.

Virtual Consultation Platform – bringing people together via an interactive web-based tool that replicates an event space in a 360-degree, accessible format.

Stakeholder Management Platform – a bespoke, cloud-hosted solution for effective management of stakeholder information and communications.

UK Planning Database – in-house National GIS Planning tool providing an interactive map of planning data to inform plan-making and planning decisions.

Site Assessment Toolkit – automated toolkit developed to identify and assess land to understand multiple development constraints and opportunities at all scales to inform individual site appraisals, neighbourhood plans, local plans and regional/sub-regional growth studies.

Mobile Data Capture Technology – using Survey123, geospatially-referenced data is captured in the field and directly uploaded to project databases.

Our products

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    Virtual Consultation

    AECOM's Virtual Consultation platform brings people together on an interactive web-based tool; providing an opportunity to engage and consult a wide audience, anytime, from their computer or mobile device. Since launching in April 2020, the platform has helped reach hundreds of thousands of people during a global health crisis. https://digital.aecom.com/solution/virtual-consultation/

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    EcoUplift

    EcoUplift supports policy makers, landowners, and developers to understand and plan for the improvement of the biodiversity and natural capital value of their land interests. EcoUplift is helping users across the UK to uplift nature in the ways that matter to them, through efficient natural capital and biodiversity accounting.

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    PlanEngage

    PlanEngage makes technical reports and data easily accessible, interactive and highly visual for improved engagement, faster project permitting, and better environmental and social outcomes. PlanEngage allows you to create, access, and share project materials in a collaborative, dynamic online environment, making those complex technical reports easier to digest.

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    Sustainable Markets Initiative Nature Risk Tool

    The Sustainable Markets Initiative Nature Risk Tool is forward-looking and decision useful. Developed by AECOM, it allows developers and investors to optimize nature-positive elements at the optioneering and site selection stages of infrastructure projects.

Case studies

UK-wide
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Geographical information systems (GIS) and mapping Planning and urban design services Plan-making, planning application and data management systems
Global
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Geographical information systems (GIS) and mapping Environmental and sustainability services Organisational digital transformation

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Digital AECOM is how we’re solving our clients’ challenges in smarter, faster ways — with the best-in-class digital expertise it takes to unlock their true potential.