VISION
The company envisages growing and becoming a partner in the development of sustainable human settlements through design–be it in commercial and social infrastructure, housing, urban space etc. We see ourselves become the key pioneers of the concept of responsible designing for our time and the future.
Our mission is threefold:
•Visionary: to promote designing approaches that allow the participation of stakeholders and leading the stakeholders to their future;
•Inspirational: to be part of the dream of our clients and other stakeholders and inspire them to dream beyond the imaginable;
•Leadership: to be strategic partners to our clients in the planning the roadmap to achieving their endeavours
•To be part of the service delivery machinery that contributes in overcoming current and future planning and development challenges and set new target/strategies to create a sustainable landscape for the country.
Raising capital within a market environment while driving asocial agenda with a view of achieving:
•Compliance to the built environment regulations and legislatures in the countries we engage for our prosperity;
•Leadership in the transfer of skills in our field of practice to ensure continuity;
•Professionalism and ethical behaviour in all our engagements.
•Maintaining a strategy of capacity building among our employees
•Adopt a partner approach with Small, Medium and Micro Enterprises that will both promote the development of smaller entities and add to the much needed skills required in market place.
KEY PERFOMANCE AREAS
Although not restricted to these functional areas and can collaborate with other entities to ensure achieving the mandate, Friends Architects and Project Management (Pty) Limited is focussing on the following key performance areas:
• Architectural services: leading in the designing of commercial, education, health, housing and other building infrastructure;
• Urban Design and Management: leading in the designing of urban spaces–housing neighbourhoods, street spaces, parks and modelling of street furniture;
• Upgrading of the poorly designed urban human settlements to meet the stipulated best practices;
• Programme and Project management: provide strategic leadership in the planning, execution and controlling of the programmes and projects; and lead in the evaluation of such programmes and Projects to ensure that he key challenges identified are factored into the policies.
• Pavement Management system: The practice is able to undertake the visual analysis of all pavements so as to eventually implement a solution that will be suitable to the road.
• Municipal services: Feasibility studies, strategic and master planning, design, documentation, contract administration and construction supervision for infrastructure in residential, commercial and industrial developments.
• Water services: Strategic and master planning, design, documentation, contract administration and construction supervision for water treatment works, sewage treatment works, catchments and outfalls sewers, onsite sanitation systems.
• Roads: Planning, evaluation, geometric and pavement design documentation, contract administration, consortium monitoring for parking areas, development sites, minor and major roads, mass earthworks and road rehabilitation
• Stormwater: Flood line studies, flood forecasting, flood management, road drainage systems analysis, catchments stormwater management and planning.
• Structural and Building: Planning, evaluation, analysis and design, inspection of buildings and facilities related to schools, health, sports and recreation, community, commercial, industrial, residential and roads infrastructure. Detailed design of ware houses, office buildings shopping complexes and apartment buildings.
• Development Management: Funding facilitation, technical and administrative support, municipal support, feasibility studies, project planning and management emerging contractor development, institutional development, community facilitation and liaison.