In the design, architecture and construction sector of leisure and tourism facilities, in which Amusement Logic is active, it was once common for developers to commission small firms, technical offices and architectural studios to design and build their large projects. Nowadays however, these developers are increasingly opting to entrust their projects and developments, be they water parks, theme parks, animal parks, hotels or resorts, campsites, shopping centres or others, to a single agent.
As a result, the design and construction of leisure and tourism projects is now in the hands of multidisciplinary engineering firms, capable of providing an integrated and coordinated solution with all the disciplines on which they depend. New collaborative work methodologies, such as BIM (Building Information Modelling) environments, which allow the centralisation and coordination of these project disciplines, undoubtedly contribute to this. Amusement Logic is precisely one of these multidisciplinary agents, and its team of technicians includes representatives of all these professional categories.
The main reason for adopting this strategy is that it reduces the investment required to develop such projects. This is due to a limitation in the number of actors involved, better coordination between teams, more accurate calculation and reduction of deadlines, as well as the exploitation of synergies and the optimisation and improvement of the efficiency of the processes. Ultimately, thanks to the cost reduction that all of the above entails.
Given that profitability is the relationship, usually expressed as a percentage, between the investment and the operating returns of a business (in this case, a water park, theme park, animal park, hotel or resort, campsite, shopping centre or other leisure and tourism facilities), Amusement Logic’s experience corroborates that this centralisation strategy considerably improves this relationship. Therefore, by developing the project from all perspectives, our firm is able to bring added value to the client.
By Jorge Laguna, head of the structures section of Amusement Logic’s Architecture Department.
