Our Mission

  To be a leading proactive company by servicing our clients with quality engineering solutions through constant growth in knowledge, skill, training and innovation.

   To deliver projects on time, within budget, properly designed and in complete compliance with the client's scope of project. Our goals are achieved by staff adherence to a principal managed quality control and quality assurance program (QA/QC).

   To promote the highest standards of professionalism and to protect the general welfare of the client, contractor and the consultant, to improve the practice of the professional construction consultant and to offer expertise and knowledge to the construction industry.

AEC has a dual mission: to help our clients make distinctive, substantial, and lasting improvements in their performance and to attract, develop, excite, and retain exceptional people.

Our Aspirations
Our mission is supported by four aspirations and enduring values that guide all of our work: Serve our clients as primary counselors on overall engineering needs deliver the best of the firm to every client using most advanced engineering solutions create an unrivaled environment for superior talent, experts and specialists in all engineering fields govern ourselves through a values-driven sense of service to the consulting profession

Our Enduring Values
As an introduction to AEC four core values, we offer excerpts from a recent internal interview with Agha Jafar Khan, the firm's Managing Director.

Impact-driven professional approach
"It's very important to us to combine the notions of impact and professional approach, because we could each be impeccable in our approaches yet not necessarily achieve the impact to which we aspire. We want to make a difference in the institutions we serve individually, while collectively serving enough leading institutions so as to have broader impact on the engineering community and society."

Being and delivering the best
"This is rooted in our drive to develop knowledge and technical expertise and to convey that those to every client, every time. I would argue that, in a professional services firm, if knowledge and being the best aren't part of our core values, then we're missing something."

Caring meritocracy, committed to people
"There's an interesting tension between those words. Without a true meritocracy, we won't be able to maintain our quality standards or attract the kind of people we want to attract. But at the same time, I think everybody here feels this is a collegial community, and one that is very committed to caring about our people." "Dedication to people development is essential to maintaining our long-term competitiveness. If you come here, we make the implicit promise that we're going to provide you with developmental opportunities rarely found by fresh graduates in the engineering industry."

Self-governing, experts council
"This is about how we manage ourselves and what kind of organization we want to be. This is not a firm of senior engineers and junior field followers; it is a firm of experts and leaders who want to have the freedom to do what they think is right for the engineering profession. From your very first day with us, you're not only expected to do your assigned task, you're expected to step forward and do something about the issues and opportunities you care about be it in civil engineering, public health, state of rural development or the internet economy. The only way we can keep such a large collection of outstanding experts and leaders is through self-governance - so that people feel that they can control their own destiny and that they can make a difference in this place. "Experts council" simply means that we're all in this together and that all our incentives, evaluation processes, and the like apply firm wide.

Approach & Methodology
We take a positive "hands-on" approach to all of our projects. We make available to our clients the experience gained from a variety of challenging facility and infrastructure projects.

At all levels, the work is subject to independent checking before final checking and approval by the Project Manager. Each project has a quality plan, and at every stage of the work there is a strong emphasis on analysis, communication and verification.

The assurance of quality begins at the proposal stage with a detailed analysis of the scope of work, the methods to be used, a detailed list of deliverables and an activity schedule to ensure that the work is properly planned and can be satisfactorily executed in the allowable time.

Studies are often split into two phases. The first phase enables an overview of the problem and identification of the most appropriate means of analysis. A Client Review at the end of the first phase provides further assurance that the overall objectives will be efficiently achieved.

The second phase ensures that the detailed investigations are properly focused and that the work can be completed with the optimum use of time and budget.

Before commencing the work, all specialist items that may be needed, (such as proprietary software programs), will have been identified and measures taken to ensure their availability according to the schedule. Only software, formulae and calculations that are proven and accepted by the industry are used. For most projects a schedule is prepared, which summaries the key personnel, activities and schedule milestones.

Our engineers are familiar with the standards that apply to engineering projects, and with the means to execute the work. For critical calculations, detailed checking is supplemented by independent calculations using alternative methods. Contact between the engineers, supervisors and clients takes place on a routine basis, with formal meetings at least once per week.

Prior to issue, all work is circulated for checking by at least a Principal Engineer. A review meeting is held to discuss all comments on the work.

The revised work is similarly checked prior to issue. Reports are normally issued in final quality format. By working to a well defined scope of work, client comments are normally minimal and the first issue of the report is usually accepted as the final issue.