Services

We help clients plan for future infrastructure investments by combining the Nordic know-how and experience with due consideration toward local conditions in terms of culture, demography, appropriate technology, sustainability, financial and economic consequences, and safeguarding aspects such as environment, social, resettlement, gender, and climate. We prepare projects and compare the feasibility of different solutions, enabling development partners and other financing agencies to appraise and assess the projects for future financing.

As we conduct the study of a project’s feasibilities, we help our clients to have necessary documentation to provide a solid basis in decision-making and prioritization of infrastructure needs.

Whenever possible, we aim to virtualize the plans and projections using GIS, interactive story-maps, and other digital tools to make the concepts of the projects easy to understand and easy to communicate. This gives our clients a concise and instant overview of the planned infrastructure development and perspectives, and provides the same feelings as if they were on the project site.

We prepare designs comprehensively and according to the corresponding stage of the project, and the form of contract selected for the enterprise. We seek to understand the technical and safeguarding issues, the client’s expectations and traditions, as well as the contractor’s abilities when preparing the designs, to minimize any complications during the construction phase, both from the client’s and from the contractor’s side.

We bring innovative and established practices from all over the world and integrate our norms and standards to the context specific needs. We aim to avoid adopting a typical bias in the design of water, sanitation, and urban infrastructure to circumvent quick wins. Instead, we take a more progressive stance, adopting long-term views and supporting a progressive management of the assets to be designed and implemented.

We offer design services based on the requirement of the projects, For example, FIDIC Condition of Contract or according to the specific standards of the development partner. Our management team has extensive experience in managing design projects following the guidelines of the World Bank, Asian Development Bank, European Union, DANIDA, KfW and JICA.

At NIW, we have an incontestable ability to manage projects. With over sixty years of amassed experience between our management team, our ability to implement infrastructure projects across a range of countries and continents is undeniable.

We strive to be respectful toward the numerous cultures and traditions of project owners we interact with and aim to ensure that projects are completed within the allotted timeframe and to the greatest standards.

Professional project and contract management is essential for the successful implementation of developments. Whilst traditional project management tools are useful, they are not sufficient to guarantee a successful project. Working on IFI financed projects where the owner is often the national authority, requires a profound knowledge and respectful behaviour towards the project owner and national partners. At NIW, this is the key to the successful implementation of numerous large scale infrastructure projects implemented under the overall control and responsibility of the founding members of NIW.

Depending on the form of contract, the complexity, and the geographical spread of the project, the construction supervision can be structured in many ways. Our team at NIW has experience managing contracts and supervising construction of both plants and networks.

In most contracts, the international team leader and the international supervision team only provide part-time input to the project and manage a large team of national resident engineers, assistant resident engineers and field engineers. In such situations, it is of utmost importance that the supervision team follows well-defined and structured methodologies for site visits, physical inspections, approvals, instructions, and the flow of data.

Our team leader and resident engineers are proven performers in supervising and overseeing construction works; we always strive to deliver projects on time whilst adhering to the budget without compromising quality standards, and with maximum attention to safety. We provide a coordinating role between the client, the contractors, and the suppliers where we offer our skills and broad experience acquired through managing medium to large scale projects across Europe, Asia, and Africa. At NIW, we equip our engineers and specialists with the most advanced toolbox to ensure they can supervise the construction works appropriately and maintain the highest quality.

Moreover, we ensure that all staff involved in supervision from the team leader to field engineers are given adequate training in compliance and anti-corruption to enable them to take a firm position against any wrongdoing during the implementation of the projects.

We help our clients to avoid, minimize, or mitigate adverse environmental and social impacts, including protecting the rights of those likely to be affected or marginalized by the development process. Our “pre-emptive” approach to avert or diminish involuntary resettlement and land acquisition helps clients reduce project costs and adverse impacts on the community and environment.

We implement a structured proactive process of impact assessment, planning, and mitigation to address adverse effects throughout the project cycle and thereby inform and consult the affected people. We aim to integrate technology into a participatory approach, both during surveys and investigations to keep documentation and information accessible and transparent, and for dissemination and disclosure purposes. This enables us and our clients to better engage with communities and affected people as they are informed and consulted on potential impacts, their rights and obligations, as well as where and how they can lodge grievances.

At NIW, we have vast experience with the requirements of ADB, WB, DSIF, IFC, EBRD, EIB and many countries in Europe, South/East Asia, and Africa; we are familiar with most specific requirements from both the development partner financing the project and the country in which the project is undertaken.

We provide institutional, organizational, and capacity needs assessments, including mapping the present structure of institutions, as well as the tasks and roles which are expected to be impacted during the implementation of the projects. For example, this could be the available human resources within an organization, and the training needed to enable the organisation to take full ownership of processes and to operate and maintain the new infrastructure.

We follow a strategic and analytical framework, powered by data-driven insights that are required for institutional capacity strengthening through change management processes. As a result, our clients receive our services in a range of ways – from PowerPoint presentations made for executive decision making, extensive reports and evaluations, to data generating surveys, training and capacity building, group processes, on-the-job-training and one-on-one sparring.

Our capacity building process starts with rigorous training needs assessments where the highest priority is on-the-job training. Our counterpart employees receive direct guidelines on how to efficiently perform their jobs whilst on the actual worksite. This way, employees learn the skills that are required to be performed in real-life work conditions and they become accustomed to the working in the environment.

At Nordiq International Water we believe in the concept of “Knowledge is power – share it”.

Our focus is to share knowledge through involving experts across our industry and young scholars from the region in our projects. Our team has extensive experience in knowledge management and transfer using new tools and technologies. In today’s age, it is becoming even more important, also for government agencies and public/private utilities, to reach out to people and communities.

We help to connect the dots between people and organizations so that everyone is on the same page and in a better position to build a future together.

We are at the forefront of utilizing web/GIS based knowledge sharing platforms and have vast experience in the preparation of consumable knowledge products such as, brochures, leaflets, bulletins, videos, and short interviews. We also guide our clients to share their expertise using social media (e.g. LinkedIn, Facebook, YouTube) to reach a large audience within a short time.