This is true whether the organization is a Fortune 500 corporation, a major university or a governmental body. PGAL has positioned itself as a design and management firm which is poised to assist clients to articulate their strategic vision and implement facilities development programs that align with their vision in a creative and cost-effective manner. The Team and Its Role PGAL has assembled a team of diversified design professionals that has specialized expertise in data collection, analysis, consensus building, planning, design, documentation, communication, project implementation and program management. As such, PGAL serves as facilitator, designer and planner. But more importantly, PGAL knows how to assist clients analyze their strategic plan and uncover their unique facilities planning issues, both qualitative and quantitative.
Any architectural firm can tabulate numbers, calculate staffing projections and space requirements.
What PGAL does is vastly different. Through an intense series of carefully orchestrated interactions with key client representatives, the PGAL team extracts an organization's culture, mission statement and philosophy, constantly searching for the linkages between the organizations operation and the required facilities. The PGAL team is trained in group dynamics, information management and consensus planning, skills which are critical for project delivery into the new millennium. Today's clients need a creative interpretation of the physical requirements of their business objectives. They want to be involved at every juncture and are better informed than clients have ever been in the past.