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02·About the firm

A consultancy of senior people
who stay on the work.

Archeve is a professional civil engineering consultancy specialising in water infrastructure, environmental engineering, and sustainable design. Two offices — Bangalore and Dubai — and live projects from Saudi Arabia to South India.

02 / Vision & Mission
What we're building toward

Creative, comprehensive, sustainable engineering — for a future where society can thrive.

Our vision

Long-lasting solutions to uniquely complex problems.

Most sites we're handed have already been through two or three consultants who got the brief, the budget, or the ground conditions wrong. We start by figuring out what's actually buildable here — the soil, the access, the regulations a city actually enforces versus the ones on paper — then design around that, not around a template. Knowing a place this well takes years, which is why our team has stayed in the same region long enough to have seen how their own designs perform once built.

Our mission

Future ready — and at the heart of delivering it.

We'd rather a client spend a little more upfront on a study that catches a problem early than find it during construction, when it's ten times the cost to fix. That's the trade we make on every project: more rigour at the front end, fewer surprises later. It's a slower way to start, but it's cheaper — and far less stressful — by the time the building is standing.

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Innovation

Pioneering advanced engineering techniques for complex infrastructure challenges.

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Sustainability

Designing for long-term environmental resilience and minimal ecological impact.

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Excellence

Uncompromising quality in every deliverable — from concept to IFC documentation.

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Collaboration

Working in close partnership with global leaders like AECOM and BIM Masters.

“We wanted a firm where senior people stayed on the work. Where the principal who signs the proposal reviews the drawings.”
— Founding statement · 2020
05 / Team
Our strength is our individuality

Bringing together the best talent across engineering and design disciplines.

Sooraj M — Principal Consultant
Principal Consultant

Sooraj M

Leading civil infrastructure strategy and project delivery with over a decade of expertise in water systems design across the GCC and South Asia.

Civil 3D Strategy Water systems
Noble Paul — Architect & Urban Designer
Architect · Urban Designer

Noble Paul

Sits between the architects and the engineers on residential and civic projects — making sure the design that looks right on paper still works once structure, services, and site constraints are layered in.

Urban design Architecture Civic typologies
Shahid Muneer — Consultant, Water
Consultant · Water

Shahid Muneer

Specialist in wet utility systems, stormwater management and water-supply network design for large-scale stadium and civic projects.

SewerGEMS Stormwater Wet utilities
06 / Presence
Where we work from

Two offices. One delivery team.

Bangalore office — urban infrastructure at dusk

Bangalore

HQ · India

Registered head office. Civil and water engineering design, modelling, and IFC documentation for South Asia and inbound regional work.

+91 95624 81371
Dubai office — Middle East practice

Dubai

Regional · UAE

Regional office for Middle East projects and client relations — primary contact for active work in Saudi Arabia and the wider GCC.

+971 563 812 073
Active markets
Saudi Arabia United Arab Emirates India Wider GCC inbound
07 / Credentials
Memberships & standards

Chartered. Cross-jurisdictional. Audit-ready.

Our engineers hold professional memberships of the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) and the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management (CIWEM) in the United Kingdom — and are actively working towards full Chartered Engineer status.

— Memberships ICE · CIWEM Institution of Civil Engineers · Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management, United Kingdom. Engineers working towards Chartered status.
— Academia

IIT Research

Hydrological modelling of the Pamba river basin in collaboration with the Indian Institute of Technology.

Design codes & standards The codes our deliverables are reviewed and signed off against — by jurisdiction.
MOMRAHSaudi Arabia · municipal & environmental
Abu Dhabi DMTUAE · municipalities & transport
ADQCCAbu Dhabi stormwater manual
OHDS 2017Oman highway design standard
HEC-18 / FHWABridge scour evaluation
TR-55 (NRCS)Urban hydrology, small watersheds
USACE EMEngineering manuals · hydrology
IPCC AR6Climate change scaling
CIRIA C753UK · SuDS Manual
BS EN 752UK · Drain & sewer systems
DMRBUK · Design Manual for Roads & Bridges
ICEUK · Institution of Civil Engineers
CIWEMUK · chartered water & environmental
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