Viable, Sustainable Building Solutions
Our sustainable construction branch is dedicated to bringing life into our clients' visions. We put the client first and take the time to know and understand them well, thus allowing us to start each project with a clear picture of a particular vision and expectation. Whether the project is a traditional bid, guaranteed maximum price, or a design-build we are committed to making sure our clients are satisfied with the process, the outcome and the value for their construction dollar. We deliver results by employing an integrated approach to every construction project combining technical expertise as a general contractor with the best management and tools. Each professional on our team bring years of experience, predictability, accountability, and control to the construction process.
Your needs and your point of view drive every decision we make on your behalf from pre-construction through the close-out. We combine this client-oriented approach with comprehensive construction and management expertise, innovative problem solving, continuous communication, advance scheduling, a safety first attitude, and timely close-out services. Our reputation and diverse client base have accounted for steady, well-managed growth as a solid mid-sized firm.
We work as a team with the architects, engineers, labors and administrative staff to bring your project in on time and within budget. To accomplish this goal, we employ expert staff beginning with the estimating team and continuing with the project manager, and superintendent teams. Our proficient client-oriented administrative staff works diligently behind the scenes to keep the paperwork moving as efficiently as the project itself.
The success of each project is based on our extensive experience and go-getting spirit, backed by our substantial resources. We have the practical knowledge required to make cost-effective planning and operational decisions. We have a highly skilled workforce that sees every obstacle as a challenge. Our comprehensive inventory of vehicles, machinery, tools and state of art technology gives us the means to get projects completed to the highest international standards.
Our specialty is the ability to formulate well designed and carefully thought out schemes; where alternate sustainable design concepts are explored, and integrated into the clients requirements. This ability to think outside the box and supply innovative solutions to complex problems is one of 3E’s specialties. This concept is well appreciated by many of our clients and this rapport developed between the clients and 3E means that clients tend to return again and again.
Our Goal is to be The Best Builder in Afghanistan:
At 3E Group, we believe that being a builder first makes all the difference. It's who we are, and how we work. Our passion for this perspective is so strong that it guides everything we do. We are here to champion respect for our trade, the art of craftsmanship, and the advantage of self-reliance.
How do we achieve this commitment? At the end of the day, it's our people who make the true difference. Each person's commitment to excellence, willingness to work in a team environment, desire to do whatever it takes. By emphasizing and providing the following:
- Tools, training and opportunities for growth
- An environment that encourages and recognizes innovation
- Challenging career opportunities
- Exceptional financial rewards
- Sense of family
- A zealous commitment to safety and quality
- Dedication to six core values
When all is said and done, our ultimate mission is a lofty (and never-ending) quest to be The Best Builder in Afghanistan. There are innumerable facets to this goal—but rest assured—it's one that is shared by every 3E Group employee and brought to bear on every 3E Group project.
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Sustainability:
As green building continues to receive more and more attention in the construction industry, we recognize this issue is becoming of greater importance to our clients. We believe in doing our part to make the communities in which we live better. As such our goal as a company is to incorporate sustainable design and construction practices into each project while maintaining an awareness for the needs, desires and available resources of our clients.
We strive to work with the other members of the project team to strike that delicate balance of project cost versus environmental impact. With a growing portfolio of projects that include sustainable building elements, our success in this area stems from our client-friendly approach to green building. We promote a collaborative process with the owner, architect, and our own project consultants, working toward green building solutions that meet our clients’ objectives for sustainability as well as their financial goals.
Realizing a sustainable design is about more than simply utilizing specialized materials and systems—it requires a fundamental shift in thinking from start to finish. The key to successfully integrating green elements into any design is early involvement. Important decisions regarding systems and finishes must be carefully considered during the planning phase of a project to maximize the available options for the completed space. Integration is another key factor—it is critical that all systems in a building work together smoothly, and changing one will likely require a change in the others. But if such concerns are taken into account during the design phase, green elements can be easily incorporated into any facility with only a small increase in cost. They can save money in the long run through improved efficiency and lowered maintenance costs. Combine this value with innovation and technology, the result is one-of-a-kind approach to sustainable site development which is a specialty of 3E Group.
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Commitment to Green Construction:
Our commitment to green building construction revolves around four basic principles:
- Weave sustainability into the fabric of all company operations to reduce our carbon footprint
- Encourage all clients and partners to incorporate sustainable design and construction methods regardless of project goals
- Bring viable, green building construction solutions to the table
- Educate and train our employees in sustainable construction best practices and provide the tools for them to lead the way
Construction Management:
Our team acts as your representative for the duration of the project, working hand-in-hand with the architect and engineer to provide the best possible project outcome for the client. We provide comprehensive management at every stage of the project beginning with the original concept through pre-planning, design, engineering, procurement, construction and closeout
Our Proactive Approach to Safety:
Simply put, nothing we do is more important than ensuring our employees and team members return home safely to their loved ones each night.
Our formal and proactive safety program is actively managed by a trained and dedicated staff of safety professionals and is best summarized in four words: Communication, Training, Motivation and Monitoring. These points are reinforced in the following ways:
- A safe work environment is provided by preplanning and by minimizing and eliminating hazards. Where existing hazards cannot be eliminated, their harmful effects are minimized through environmental controls, training in safe work methods, and by providing and requiring the use of personal protective equipment.
- Each 3E Group team member is trained to develop and maintain the skills required to perform their work safely.
- Communications between E3 team members and supervisors are an important part of our program and are used to expedite handling of suggestions for the minimizing and elimination of work hazards.
- Scheduled and surprise inspections are conducted regularly to identify potentially unsafe conditions and to provide immediate correction.
- Before any employee takes to the field their supervisor meets with them in the jobsite office to explain how important their safety is to him/her and to the company.
- All new hires are identified so that our seasoned employees can mentor them while working on site.
Perhaps it's because we're employee owned, but safety is the most important thing we do every day. We've made safety a key tenet of our company and take a decidedly proactive approach to it-including monitoring and tracking subcontractor safety performance (which very few companies in Afghanistan do).
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Quality:
Becoming Afghanistan’s Best Builder takes a company-wide passion to deliver certainty for each and every client. Inherent in this result is an expectation of quality. For 3E Group, quality is standard practice every day. Built into our work product. Fundamental.
3E Group is the first commercial construction company in Afghanistan to have a fully integrated quality culture. Like our vigilant approach to safety, the commitment to quality on 3E projects stands equally as high. All 3E Group employees and trades people are provided the training and tools to produce results. More than a program, ours is an approach focused on identifying and eliminating potential issues together, so the quality standards achieved on each and every KW project are truly Quality Without Question.
The Culture of Quality at 3E Group:
At 3E Group, "quality" is not a single activity but a series of many linked activities integrated into our day-to-day commercial construction and project management process. These are proactively planned, performed and tracked from the earliest stages of a project during preconstruction, thro ugh construction and past final completion. By embedding quality activities into our process, we focus on building the project right the first time, not adding layers of departments and management.
At 3E, quality comes to the fore front and therefore we strictly follow International Standards i.e. ISO, DIN, ASTM, BSS, IEC etc, depending upon projects and its requirements; this has translated in Zero failure rate to date.
The Value of 3E Group Quality:
Our integrated approach to Quality Without Question results in real value to all team members. Here's how:
For Owners: Value through clear design documents resulting in lower bids, integrated construction quality activities eliminating rework, earlier completion schedules, tested and verified system and assembly performance eliminating operational issues, and ultimately reducing operating costs.
For Architects and Engineers: Value through clear design documents reducing requests for information and eliminating change orders, an integrated punchlist process, and reduced efforts on your part to have to review and approve project components.
For Subcontractors: Value through clear design documents resulting in lower bids, integrated construction quality activities eliminating rework, earlier completion schedules, tested and verified system and assembly performance eliminating operational issues, and ultimately reducing operating costs.
For End-Users: Value through a project that meets your needs without delays or nuisance issues during your first year of use, positive impressions of the project and your productive use of the owner's investment.
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Quality Processes
3E Group’s Quality Without Question Program is truly about a quality culture. Establishing this takes more than adopting a slogan or a canned quality program. We believe success requires the integration of critical quality characteristics into everything we do. Every day!
At the foundation stand those leading quality characteristics that span all quality processes, across all industries:
A defined end goal -Clear definition of the end goal of the quality process and project is imperative to success.
Work done right the first time -Rework is costly and a waste of material and manpower. All 3E Group quality processes focus on how to do work right the first time and eliminate rework.
Individual responsibility for quality -The individual doing the work can only do it right the first time if they are given the right information and tools when they need them. Therefore, our quality processes focus on providing these to the individual and then holding them responsible for achieving the expected level of quality.
Assurance, not control -Inspection/control finds problems already made. On the other hand, the assurance process identifies and resolves issues before they are systemic and additional work occurs over them. Therefore, our quality processes focus on the on-going assurance of quality achievement and not only inspection at the end.
Long-term focus -All 3E Group quality processes look beyond the creation of a product to how it is used and its long-term success.
Improved quality results in lower costs - The bottom line of all quality processes is to provide value to all stakeholders. If the process does not provide value, then it will not be embraced and maintained.
Technology:
The tools of our trade are ever-evolving—in the field and in the office—with technology playing a greater role in the design, coordination, analysis and building processes. Our builders are on the leading edge, integrating tools such as Building Information Modeling (BIM) and Virtual Design and Construction, to maximize results for our clients and partners. But even the most forward-thinking technology is all but useless in the wrong hands. At 3E Group, these integrated tools work in concert with the good judgment and strong business sense that comes from being a better builder.
Understanding the requirements of your project, knowing how to choose the right tools to ensure success and, then effectively putting these to work for you is the 3E Group’s difference.
Model It. Coordinate It. Build It.
At 3E Group, utilizing BIM technology provides our builders, at every step in the delivery process, the ability to model it, coordinate it, estimate it, plan it and then virtually build it before we put a shovel in the ground.
From collaborating and coordinating in design, estimating in preconstruction, to detail planning at the project level, 3E Group builders integrate the right technology into our process so the entire project team, including designers and subcontractors, can continually improve efficiency, constructability and ultimately predictability on our projects.
The final act of the delivery process has been rehearsed in virtual space but still needs something technology cannot substitute... a front-line builder to make it happen.
Construction Services:
- Residential and Commercial complexes
- Educational and Recreational facilities
- Hospitals, clinics and hotels
- Warehouses
- Large water supply and sewage disposal networks
- Boreholes
- General maintenance
- Flat pack and Connex
- Infrastructure Engineering & Construction Management
- Facility and Equipment Maintenance & Operation
- Water & Wastewater Systems
- Electrical Power Production / Distribution
- Telecom & Internet Communications Infrastructure
- Workforce Management, Support & Sustainment
- Comprehensive Security Solutions
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