Building & Civil Engineering Design

The built environment is a predominant tangible result from development programming. This includes retrofit and maintenance of the aging physical infrastructure linking and existing within communities and cities around the world. We see tackling this latter challenge as an opportunity to adapt to more economical and sensible ways for providing and managing public infrastructure. In these regards, our team has worked on the design and construction supervision of a range of physical facilities in the areas of education, environmental protection, water and sanitation, health care, transportation, ICTs and agriculture development. Many of these projects were at the national scale, funded by leading international and regional development agencies. Our approach to physical design starts with ease of use and maintenance of physical infrastructure while ensuring the least negative impact on the natural world. We look at the availability and performance of new materials and building components in the context of practical considerations around procurement and local resources to install and maintain the same after construction. We have seen the economic burden poorly designed physical infrastructure place on communities, in terms of maintenance and operation. For this reason, our design recommendations are climate specific and solutions accompanied by training of infrastructure maintenance managers to keep innovations, such as green building technologies, functional into the future.