Alvi Associates, Inc.

OUR QUALITY ETHOS

QUALITY is the central concept which captures the essence of what Alvi Associates is all about.  Quality unifies all of our values and aims:

• Technical expertise
• Creativity and innovation
• Flawless deliverables 
• Meaningful relationships
• Responsible service to you and the community

OUR STORY 

Founded in 1979, during the 1980s Alvi Associates became established as a respected local bridge engineering firm.  Through the 1990s and 2000s, we have expanded our services to include integrated structural, water resources, transportation, and geotechnical engineering for a diverse range of infrastructure projects.  Most recently, our technical expertise and innovation have been recognized by numerous awards in recent years, including a major national award in 2010, and we are also involved in various engineering research projects.

Why We Are Different

Quality requires that we continually strive for both individual and collective excellence.  In this regard, we are different in many key ways:

• All of our engineers who have at least four years of experience are licensed Professional Engineers.
• Our technical staff are highly experienced.
• All of our technical staff are cross-trained.  This pays major dividends in terms of expertise, efficiency, and integration of services.
• As part of our culture of learning, all of our technical staff routinely receive in-house continuing education, covering both theory and state-of-the-art professional practice.  These sessions include reviews of failure case studies, so that we learn best practices for preventing failures.
• Our technical library is constantly kept up to date and is one of the largest among engineering firms.
• We have been able to build a cohesive and highly efficient team because our turnover is low.
• We manage our projects very carefully.  In addition to maintaining long-term and intermediate-term workload forecasts, our technical staff meet every week to review the status of every project.
• In line with our Quality ethos, we take quality control very seriously.  As part of this process, all of our deliverables are rigorously reviewed by our Project Managers using both client and in-house checklists.  And the proof is in the pudding: we have never faced a single claim during our history of over 35 years!