Making sustainability accessible, digital-first and future-ready
A core driver at the heart of the Saudi Vision 2030 program, the client is a Saudi Public Investment Fund (PIF) company.
The developer’s team needed to demonstrate that environmental excellence could be achieved without significant cost premiums, in a region where data accessibility and availability posed hurdles.
In designing and building a sustainability-fostering digital tool that would balance environmental impact with costs, the Egis project team faced several key challenges:
- Working with limited access to local construction/environmental data and data-processing infrastructure
- Bridging the language barriers inherent to working with documentation in Arabic
- Managing a complex stakeholder landscape across construction, design, procurement and sustainability teams
- Proving financial viability in the context of sustainable design choices
Egis won the project by proposing an innovative approach that would make sustainability both measurable and manageable through an intuitive, innately user-friendly digital tool spearheaded by project lead Alfonso Ponce Alvarez, whose track record in delivering state-of-the-art sustainability solutions proved invaluable. “Saudi Arabia has its national sustainable building code, of course – their LEED/BREEAM equivalent,” he explains. “But this PIF-backed company goes beyond that. We worked with their sustainability, architecture and design teams to pinpoint exactly what they needed: a tool to demonstrate that they can achieve very high levels of performance at no or little marginal cost.”