Save Our Environment is located at 2331 Kingston Road, Unit B, Toronto, Ontario, M1N 1V1. The business is a sole proprietorship operated by A K M Saiduz Zaman. Save Our Environment operates within the Engineering Services sector as determined by the North American Industry Classification System. The services offered include site plans, architectural plans, structural plans, mechanical plans, electrical plans, stormwater management, functional servicing and environmental site assessments. Financial institutions, owners and developers of housing and small buildings are the potential clients of these services. Save Our Environment is the approved Environmental and Building Condition Assessment Company for some of the major financial institutions in Ontario. Unlike many of its competitors Save Our Environment creates solutions that must integrate the client’s goals, draw on only the appropriate technologies and be firmly based within the economic and time limits set by the client, community and regulators. Toronto is at the centre of Ontario's and Canada's design economy with the largest number of design workers and design establishments in the province and the nation. Toronto's design labour force grew by 3.7% from 1991 to 2006, while the overall labour force grew by 1.6% in the same period.
To protect man and the environment from each other.
By the fifth year of operations Save Our Environment will be the preferred building, civil and environmental engineering company as well as one of the largest employers in the Greater Toronto Area. Providing a comprehensive, multi-disciplinary engineering service able to match almost all construction and environmental project needs with an eye toward saving time and money will enable Save Our Environment to become known and respected in the industry. Save Our Environment is always looking toward the future, trying to account for the next set of regulations or the next level of services that it can provide to clients. That’s what its continuous quality improvement process, called Leadership through Client Satisfaction, is all about. Save Our Environment knows that its best day is tomorrow and the best service it can offer is the one its clients will need in the future.
Save Our Environment was registered on September 05, 2012. On January 10, 2013, Save Our Environment was granted the authorization to engage in the business of providing services that are within the practice of Professional Engineering in the Province of Ontario in accordance with the provisions of the Professional Engineers Act. Save Our Environment offers a wide range of engineering services including but not limited to Architectural and Engineering Design for all types of buildings, Building Materials Assessment, Property Condition Assessment, Functional Servicing Assessment, Storm Water Management, Environmental Site Assessments, Environmental Remediation, Water and Wastewater Engineering, Industrial Waste Management, Hydrology, Hydraulics, Hydrodynamic Modeling and Civil Engineering. Save Our Environment retains a high number of repeat clients (over 85 percent) because its knowledge and resources are delivered in a client-focused manner.
Save Our Environment is located at 2331 Kingston Road, Unit B, Toronto, Ontario, M1N 1V1. The primary contact is A K M Saiduz Zaman who is available at the above address and reachable at 647-294-8243 or Saiduz.Zaman@SaveOurEnvironment.ca. The business is located in a commercial building and clients are always welcome to visit this location for occasional meetings. But the nature of the business requires more on-site activities and desktop studies than general meetings. When frequent meetings and conferences are required Save Our Environment considers affordable down town virtual offices.
Save Our Environment is a sole proprietorship. The biggest advantage of a sole proprietorship is that setting up and administering the business is comparatively easy and inexpensive. Another of the big advantages of the sole proprietorship is the tax simplicity. Save Our Environment will eventually incorporate federally in about two years from now. It will give the ability to do business all across Canada and abroad.
Save Our Environment is managed by a sole professional with many years of experience in the Engineering Services sector. Save Our Environment creates solutions that must integrate the client’s goals, draw on only the appropriate technologies and be firmly based within the economic and time limits set by the client, community and regulators.
A
K M Saiduz Zaman, Ph.D., P.Eng., Director and Chief Executive
Officer
A K M Saiduz Zaman is the owner of Save Our Environment. He received
his PhD in Civil Engineering degree from the Concordia University.
Dr. Zaman has over twenty two years professional experience working
in civil, building and environmental engineering, hydrodynamic and
water quality studies, water and wastewater engineering. Dr. Zaman’s
interests and expertise include six problem areas: (1) Hazardous
Waste Management (2) Treatment and management of metal-contaminated
waters and wastes (3) Physical, chemical, biological and tertiary
treatment of wastewater (4) Urban waste waters– treatment for use in
steam and power generation (5) Bioremediation and (6) 3D Structural
Analysis & Design Engineering for steel, concrete, timber, aluminum,
and cold-formed steel design of virtually any structure including
residential, commercial, and industrial buildings, culverts,
petrochemical plants, tunnels, bridges, piles, and much more. He
worked for about four years with URS Corporation Tallahassee, Fl, as
a civil engineer. His ties with URS date back to 1995 when he worked
with Woodward-Clyde International. Dr. Zaman has alternated work and
academic pursuits. In 2006, his dissertation at Concordia University
dealt with the treatment of groundwater contaminated with arsenic
and organic material. Dr. Zaman has been applying his expertise to
numerous projects including surface water and deep sea Geo-hazard
modeling amongst others. He has used programming languages FORTRAN
and MATLAB for implementing numerical methods. He is also
experienced in the application of standard process-based transport
models including the SMS models FESWMS, RMA2 & 4, ADCIRC, M2D,
StormNET, XPSWMM, PCSWMM, the HEC suite of models, as well as CAD,
GIS, STAAD Pro, STAAD Foundation Advanced, Mathcad and Microsoft
Office programs. Dr. Zaman is a licensed professional engineer in
Ontario. He is a certified Associate Project Manager. He is
experienced in both academic and work place curriculum development.
He has been responsible for delivering various work-related subject
specific, technical and job specific training.
Dr. Zaman has been applying his expertise in a wide range of areas
such as Water Supply and Sewerage, Storm Water Management,
Environmental Engineering, Hazardous Waste Management, Engineering
Aspects of Chemical and Biological Processes, Engineering Aspects of
Site Remediation, Fate and Transport of Contaminants in the
Environment and Design and Analyses of Experiments. Designing
experiences (complete design of a wood structure) included: (1)
Vertical design loads and lateral forces, (2) Design for vertical
loads (beams and columns), (3) Design for lateral forces (horizontal
diaphragms and shearwalls), and (4) Connection design (including the
overall tying together of the vertical and lateral force resisting
systems). Dr. Zaman has planned, directed, coordinated, and budgeted
a wide variety of construction projects including commercial,
industrial and residential buildings. Conducted preliminary phase 1
& 2 Environmental Site Assessments for the owners of commercial
buildings. These studies provided quantitative risk assessment
involving hazard identification, exposure assessment, toxicity
assessment, and risk characterization. Developed work place
curriculum that included setting goals for learning, based on needs
assessments, selecting subject matter and methods appropriate to the
construction workers, developing materials and activities for
learning, evaluating the results. Delivered environmental and health
and safety training
One of the closest associates of Save Our Environment is Sakanashi and Associates Inc. Mr. Richard Sakanashi is the overall Business Development Consultant. Save Our Environment is almost always in contact with the Concordia University professors and some of the URS Corporation senior engineers and managers. Professor Mulligan Catherine at the Concordia University continues to be a mentor since 2000. Dr. Alan Niedoroda, vice president and senior manager at URS Corporation, Florida has been helping and assisting Save Our Environment with invaluable suggestions in engineering, management and financial issues.
Save Our Environment operates within the Engineering Services
sector as determined by the North American Industry Classification
System. 541330 is the code assigned by the NAICS. As defined by
NAICS, this industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in
applying physical laws and principles of engineering in the design,
development, and utilization of machines, materials, instruments,
structures, processes, and systems. The assignments undertaken by
these establishments may involve any of the following activities:
provision of advice, preparation of feasibility studies, preparation
of preliminary and final plans and designs, provision of technical
services during the construction or installation phase, inspection
and evaluation of engineering projects, and related services [1].
Among the services practiced by Save Our Environment are civil
engineering services, environmental engineering services,
construction engineering services and mechanical engineering
services.
Save Our Environment operates in the Greater Toronto Area. The
engineering services sector in the city of Toronto is among the
largest in North America and is growing at the same speed or level
as the city's highly diversified economy.
There are more than 80,000 engineers that hold licence and
certificate issued by the Professional Engineers Ontario. These
engineers are committed to enhancing the quality of life, safety and
well-being in the province of Ontario. Architectural, engineering,
and related professional service firms in Toronto make up 11% [2].
Although the size of the market in Toronto in terms of dollars is
not readily measurable, it is obviously very significant.
At present at Save Our Environment, much attention is concentrated
on the design of architectural, landscape architectural, structural,
mechanical, electrical and industrial plans. Save Our Environment is
NOT a builder in and of itself, it designs engineering plans. It is
noteworthy in this regard that "Toronto is unquestionably at the
centre of Ontario's and Canada's design economy with the largest
absolute and relative number of design workers and design
establishments in the province and the nation" [3]. According to the
same source, 71 % of Ontario's architects, landscape architects,
industrial, graphic and interior designers are located in Toronto.
Particular attention has to be paid to the fact that Toronto's
design labour force grew by 3.7% from 1991 to 2006, while the
overall labour force grew by 1.6% in the same period.
Engineering services are indeed a very well established industry.
The history of structural engineering dates back to at least 2700 BC
when the step pyramid for Pharaoh Djoser was built by Imhotep, the
first engineer in history known by name. However, Building Services
Engineering has its origins in the final years of the Victorian Era
when technical solutions to building comfort were emerging.
Until recently, civil engineering has been in a very privileged
position, but investigations carried out elsewhere suggest that the
outlook for the economy in the long term reflects downward trending
growth in Ontario’s major trading partners and weak growth in
government current spending. The construction industry shows weak
growth averaging 1.6 percent in the medium term, consistent with
weak residential investment growth and negative growth in government
capital spending [4].
In another study, consideration was given to the overall expansion
of this industry. It shows that the Engineering Services industry
has expanded overall in the five years since 2010. In the beginning
of the period, increased public spending on transportation
infrastructure boosted demand for related industry services;
however, revenue growth has been inconsistent because government
spending slowed in 2013 and 2014. Investor fears of high household
debt and a potential real estate bubble have also tampered
investment in commercial and industrial construction projects, upon
which engineering services firms rely [5].
The same source reports that “engineering industry is in the mature
phase of its life cycle. Industry value added, which measures an
industry's contribution to GDP, is projected to increase at an
average annual rate of 2.7% during the 10 years to 2020. In
comparison, GDP is expected to grow at an annualized rate of 2.2%
during the same 10 year-period. Growth is expected to be slightly
faster over this period as the industry is recovering from a dip in
demand caused by anemic private investment during the recession.
Industries that grow at a similar rate as GDP are considered to be
mature. In addition, downstream businesses have widely accepted and
adopted the industry's services” [5].
Analyses concerning the causes and costs of the seasonal cycle in
new home production are vital. It has to be said that there exist
seasonal fluctuations in housing markets. Seasonal fluctuations are
still a spreading throughout characteristic of housing markets in
nearly all of Canada. This seasonal gradual decrease in activity
leads to fairly large unemployment in winter periods. As a result
this reduces the efficiency of housing construction. As a
consequence it adds to cost pressures in the housing market.
The perceptions of critical success factors (CSFs) in a
multi-disciplinary engineering practice such as Save Our Environment
can have great diversity or variety. At Save Our Environment,
project success is seen to be related to five dimensions of work:
individuals, teams, process, project and product. Understanding
these factors and their interdependence may enable Save Our
Environment to identify strengths and weaknesses in its present and
future work practices.
Some of the key factors that impact civil engineering services in
general include interest rates, increase or decrease in public and
private investment, taxes, youth labour market and migratory balance
(international and interprovincial immigrants minus emigrants).
These factors seem to have direct or indirect impacts on Save Our
Environment as well.
New Ontario Building Code seems to have significant impacts on
designs. For example condos will no longer be allowed to have
windows that exceed 40% of the exterior wall. This will
fundamentally change the look of building designs in this city. New
rules are always welcome since they provide more safety and cost
reduction often times. In addition, changes in the OBC make people
redesign some of their construction plans. It should give more
business opportunities to designers like Save Our Environment.
Economic downturns or spurts, interest rates, changes in
discretionary spending ability – they all affect Save Our
Environment directly and significantly. For the reason that these
are the key factors that account for the success of the construction
industry. During economic downturns or when the interest rates are
too high, people cannot afford to buy new homes or apply for a new
building permit and start a new renovation project. Save Our
Environment highly depends on the budgetary limits of its present
and future clients.
Demographics are the data that describes the composition of a
population, such as age, race, gender, income, migration patterns
and population growth. These are significant factor that affects how
houses are priced and what types of properties are in demand. There
are a number of ways a demographic shift can affect the civil
engineering market, but for a business like Save Our Environment,
some key factors include the effect of this demographic shift on the
demand for second homes in popular vacation areas as more people
start to retire, the effect on the demand for larger homes if
incomes are smaller and the children have all moved out. Studies of
these and other factors can help Save Our Environment narrow down
the type and location of potentially desirable clients for
engineering services. Interest rates also have a major impact on the
construction markets. Changes in interest rates can greatly
influence a person's ability to purchase a residential property.
That is because as the interest rates fall, the cost to obtain a
mortgage to buy or renovate a home decreases, which creates a higher
demand for residential properties. Accessory Dwelling Units in a
basement or any other modification and renovation are among the
popular ways to boost house value.
Technological advances impact almost all industries and all
businesses. Save Our Environment is not any exception. Learning new
and emerging technologies is priority at Save Our Environment. The
business is closely associated with research laboratories at
Canadian universities. Building information modeling (BIM) and
virtual design and construction continue to evolve. Save Our
Environment continues to use emerging software applications to
satisfy its day to day technical needs. Autodesk and Sefaira have
developed applications that allow designers to perform energy
analysis of early concepts on the fly. Also it is interesting to
note that computer-aided manufacturing is on the horizon. But
traditional processes are unlikely to be obscure any time soon.
Homeowners, owners of small commercial, institutional and
industrial buildings, property managers of such buildings, builders
and developers of housing and small buildings are the potential
buyers of the services that Save Our Environment is offering today.
The key benefits the customers are seeking are saving time and money
while creating technically sound solutions. Save Our Environment
knows that all of its clients are different. So it tailors solutions
to meet the specific technical problems at hand to satisfy the
unique needs of the clients. Customizing solutions to meet clients’
needs with an eye toward saving time and money are the hallmarks of
Save Our Environment’s services.
As mentioned above Save Our Environment is targeting both individual
and business customers. Homeowners are essentially individual
customers that are the direct users of the services. These are
typically young couples and new immigrants from around the world.
Both young people and new immigrants are usually faced with budget
reduction challenges.
Business customers are the owners of commercial buildings such as
small plazas, multifamily residential buildings etc. and the
developers of new housing and small buildings. Individual business
owner that runs his business such as a restaurant in a commercial
building can also seek engineering services. Sometimes the landlord
himself hires a designer to get a building permit issued for his
tenant. It depends on the rental agreement. Any business located in
the city of Toronto is required to obtain a proper Building Permit
approved by the city of Toronto before it can operate. Business
customers are typically faced with the challenge of saving time,
getting a Building Permit issued as soon as possible.
Based on a competitive analysis, Save Our Environment has
developed the following policies for its customers:
1) The need for an all-embracing design work including
architectural, structural, mechanical and electrical plans,
functional servicing and storm water management must all be
satisfied by Save Our Environment itself or under its direct
supervision
2) In pursuing unique technologies, Save Our Environment also
creates a valuable by-product: a true partnership with each client.
Save Our Environment draws together the talents of clients,
regulatory authorities and itself to focus on a common goal. This
helps forge among these players a new, empowering relationship that
yields a more successful solution. This partnership means that Save
Our Environment works closely with clients to carry out their wishes
within their time frame and budgetary limits. Save Our Environment
works shoulder to shoulder with regulatory authorities to satisfy
their objectives. And Save Our Environment works hard to anticipate
technological developments in its and its clients’ industries, and
to foresee clients’ upcoming key issues and changing regulatory
requirements.
While 'One-Stop Shop' may not be a good idea for one kind of
business, it can be perfect for the other. Save Our Environment is a
business that offers a multitude of services to its clients. It has
a policy to provide convenient and efficient services while creating
the opportunity to sell more products and services to its clients.
As can be seen from a S.W.O.T analysis Save Our Environment can very
realistically take advantage of the opportunities to engage in a
subcontract with its competitors. A true partnership with a
competitor by itself can reduce or eliminate the competition
eventually. The other thing that has to be considered is that the
majority of the customers of engineering services are non-technical
people. In most cases they have no clear idea about their own needs.
It would be unfair to pass the task of selecting and coordinating
the right professionals for the multi-component and complex design
work to the non-technical customer alone on his own. Save Our
Environment will differentiate itself from the competition by
offering to create technically sound, economically reasonable
solution in an atmosphere of budget reduction challenges. In
addition, Save Our Environment involves its clients in the process
by identifying their needs and educating them about the problems.
Customers will consider buying the services for many reasons
outlined above including the fact that with Save Our Environment a
customer becomes one of the key players. Save Our Environment is not
just a company that solely aims at big money, to provide the society
with safe environment is its responsibility.
Outsourcing is right in the core of Save Our Environment’s business policies. It has learned to draw together the talents of different professionals and businesses to focus on a common goal. The design of a single small building may require over ten different professionals. The most common services that the business obtains from an outside supplier include numerical analysis of surface run-off, digitizing of engineering drawings, CAD drafting and topo-bathymetric data acquisition. Save Our Environment selects its suppliers carefully considering price, terms of payment, delivery, reliability, quality, and their insurance policy.
For owners and developers of housing and small buildings in the city of Toronto Save Our Environment is the Building, Civil and Environmental Engineering Consulting Company that assists property owners and developers, which are faced with the challenge of creating technically sound, economically reasonable solution in an atmosphere of budget reduction challenges.
To generate 10 to 20 leads (potential sales contact: an
individual or organization that expresses an interest in services
offered) by posting an Effective Ad for 30 days every month.
To generate prospects by blogging once or twice a week during the
next 12 months of business operations.
To generate prospects by hosting a meetup event once every two weeks
during the next 12 months of business operations.
Save Our Environment provides a comprehensive, multi-disciplinary
engineering service able to match all construction project needs,
including architectural, mechanical, electrical, structural, civil,
plumbing and HVAC specializations, storm water management,
functional servicing and environmental site assessments. Save Our
Environment is in the business of creating solutions, most of which
depend a great deal on state-of-the-art-technology.
But technology isn’t enough. Problems don’t go away if you simply
throw enough technology at them. A sound solution integrates the
client’s goals, draws on only the appropriate technologies and is
firmly based within the economic and time limits set by the client,
community and regulators. Save Our Environment saves its clients
money and time, makes them feel better, and enables them to realize
cost savings. A client pays at least 2.8 times less than he would
pay retaining other companies. At Save Our Environment the overhead
multiplier is only 1, it means the clients pay 0 dollars for the
expense of maintaining Save Our Environment property and utilities
and insurance etc. Save Our Environment has a spotless track record
in getting government approvals for its work projects and it is
willing to beat the legitimate, written estimates of all other
competitors offering professional engineering services. It’s not
about selling exactly the same amount of work cheaper than the
competition; it’s about customizing, making according to
requirements and according to the clients’ budgets. In many cases
many competitors of Save Our Environment offers a seemingly low
price for inadequate amount of work to the clients. As a result a
client would end up with paying twice. In such cases Save Our
Environment asks for the written estimates of the competitors and
explains everything to its clients. This is how Save Our Environment
beats the estimates of other competitors.
Save Our Environment is a problem solver, not a troublemaker.
Save Our Environment is located at 2331 Kingston Road, Unit B,
Toronto, Ontario, M1N 1V1. The business is located in a commercial
building and open to clients during regular business hours between 9
am and 5 pm from Monday to Friday. The place is conveniently located
within reasonable distance from Scarborough Civic Centre, where most
of its design work is examined by the City authorities.
The commercial building, called Terry Town Plaza is a radically
distinctive mix of retail, office, business and consumer services,
education providers and recreation facilities. The plaza has become
one of the Scarborough’s most vigorous and active centres.
From dawn to dusk to dawn, Terry Town Plaza never sleeps – Eggsmart
greets Torontonians while serving delicious breakfast every day as
early as 7:00 in the morning whereas Tara Inn is a Pub that serves
Irish food and alcohol till midnight and beyond. Save Our
Environment has taken advantage of these facilities for business
breakfasts and dinners.
Terry Town Plaza is also the de facto headquarters of Professional
Engineers and Architects in the area. Save Our Environment and H & H
Mathematical Modeling are the building, civil and environmental
engineering companies, which also maintain their offices here.
Transportation efficiencies such as access to major public transit
and ample parking at Terry Town Plaza have also been considered in
the site selection decisions.
Save Our Environment practices a combination of various methods for
pricing such as Fees Calculated on a Time Basis and Fees on a
Lump-Sum Basis. In addition there are Reimbursable Expenses and
Applicable Sales Taxes. Save Our Environment has adopted hourly
billing rates for various professionals determined by larger
companies. The significant difference is that Save Our Environment
does not use the applicable multiplier of 2.8. At Save Our
Environment the multiplier is 1.
The pricing strategy at Save Our Environment is quite flexible
mostly. But the business has been the most successful in its bundle
pricing, selling a set of services for a lower price than it would
charge if the customer bought all of them separately.
Save Our Environment plans to promote its offering by posting featured Top Ad in the internet, blogging once or twice a week(web log) and hosting meetup events once every two weeks.
A number of young people will be involved in the future in the business in relation to sales and marketing activities when the needs arise.
This step includes a series of interviews with the client to confirm and document the detailed requirements of the project. This usually includes two to three face-to-face meetings with the client of no more than one hour each over a period of four weeks. The Requirements Confirmation step results in a comprehensive report that confirms the assignment scope and deliverables. At this stage the inspirations of building a home is reviewed with the Designer (Save Our Environment) to consolidate the ideas into a cohesive design.
Save Our Environment works through several schematic design concepts to find the scheme that best fits the client’s needs. Design concepts can be freehand sketches or AutoCAD drawings to capture the essence of a plan under consideration. This can typically take about 1-3 weeks.
Now that all of the client’s ideas and dreams have been put to paper, it is time to get the project cost estimated. Save Our Environment coordinates the professional services of a Quantity Surveyor (QS) to estimate the construction cost and feasibility of the project financially. The QS produces a report that outlines all the trade categories for the project and what it costs to build each component of the building in today’s market. This report sets the budget for the project and how much it will cost to build before moving forward into more detailed drawings. This process should take about 2-3 weeks.
This is the phase of the process where dimensions are added to the drawing, zoning bylaws are reviewed to ensure everything fits. The schematic design will be developed into a dimensioned and professional drawing. With a conceptual design prepared in preliminary or sketchy form, scheme chosen, a theme decided upon and problems on the site settled, the final solution of the problems is made in this step. This stage should take approximately 2-6weeks.
The design drawings are now developed into a fully detailed set
of plans that can be submitted to the City for building permit and
used for pricing (Tendering). This should take 2-6 weeks.
The tender stage involves the client’s issuing the project out to several general contractors (GC) usually recommended by Save Our Environment to obtain pricing to build the project. It is typically recommended that the client receive quotes on the cost to build from several GC’s. The selection of the GC is usually based on price, references, and recommendations by Save Our Environment. This can take 4-6 weeks.
The Ontario Building Code requires that the project be designed and reviewed during construction or demolition by an architect, professional engineer or both that are licensed to practice in Ontario. This can be achieved with weekly meetings on site with the Client, Contractor, and Save Our Environment to work out problems that arise. A small investment of time will ensure all the design details are met.
The equipment and tools that Save Our Environment needs on a regular basis are a desk, a computer, a printer, and quite a number of expensive software applications. One would think that an engineer would just need AutoCAD to be able to design a building. But it’s far from the truth. Save Our Environment uses the following software applications on a regular basis: AutoCAD, standard process-based transport models including the SMS models FESWMS, RMA2 & 4, ADCIRC, M2D, PCSWMM, StormNET, XPSWMM, PCSWMM, the HEC suite of models, as well as GIS, STAAD Pro, STAAD Foundation Advanced, BENTLEY WATERCAD V8i, SewerCAD, Bentley GeoStructural Analysis, Hourly Analysis Program and Mathcad.
The materials and supplies Save Our Environment needs to deliver
its services are generally paper and printer toner to print
engineering reports. But Save Our Environment prints wide format
drawings from copy and print at Staples. Save Our Environment is
reimbursed at cost, plus an administrative charge of 14.94%, for all
reasonable expenses it incurs properly in connection with the
project, including applicable sales taxes. Reimbursable expenses
include, but are not limited to:
• vehicle use charges;
• travelling and living expenses;
• long-distance telephone and telecommunication charges;
• printing and reproductions;
• progress photographs;
• special or express delivery charges;
• overtime premiums;
• the cost of providing and maintaining a site office;
• supplies and equipment;
• chemical and physical tests;
• others.
Save Our Environment is generally quite self-sufficient, but it does involve sub-contractors when overloaded with work and at many times just for the sake of sharing work with fellow professionals to develop and maintain some kind of mutually beneficial partnership.
The premises Save Our Environment is using for doing its business
is quite satisfactory for its current needs. The operating cost of
this office is very basic and reasonable. Save Our Environment holds
a Certificate of Authorization issued by the PEO. The sole
proprietor of the business is also licensed by the PEO. Save Our
Environment pays PEO a total of $622.00 annually to maintain these
registrations.
Insurance is another major cost component to operate this office.
Since some clients do visit this office, no matter how infrequently,
it is a good idea to have some Comprehensive General Liability
insurance. Comprehensive General Liability covers physical damages
on a business’ property and more. And of course Professional
Liability Insurance plays a significant role in the clients’
decisions whether or not to do business with you. Professional
liability covers the business for liabilities that arise as a result
of its profession. These two are often bought by business owners who
provide professional services and also have a physical business
where clients come. It is recommended to insurance yourself with a
combination of a PLI policy & CGL if you are a business owner. Save
Our Environment is insured. Limit of liability per claim is $1,
000,000.00; Policy aggregate is $1, 000,000.00. Save Our Environment
does have a business account with CIBC.
Save Our Environment can produce a maximum of 4 units per month
with the above described process, resources and facilities. The
business will require additional resources and facilities expansion
as the clientele grows. These 4 units include a full package of
services beginning with the confirmation of requirements and ending
with successful general reviews of the construction. The services
cover site plans, architectural plans, structural plans, mechanical
plans, electrical plans, stormwater management report, and
functional servicing report.
The objectives intended to be attained are: 5 new customers a month
on average, at least 2 repeat customers a month on average, and 15
calls a month on average.
Save Our Environment stays in touch with all prospective and established customers as much as possible by calling, sending e-mails and visiting them in person. The first site visit plays an important role in demonstrating the value of the services that Save Our Environment is offering. For every problem there is a solution. Therefore, Save Our Environment guarantees the usefulness of its services.
While the first site visit opens a conversation about how to solve the problem, it requires between 5 & 12 contacts to convince the prospective customer that Save Our Environment is the right company to deal with the problem at hand and it is offering the most reasonable price.
This business plan does not attempt to cover the entire complex
of marketing, operations, economic and legal problems connected with
the running of a Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering
company in Toronto. This is because of the restricted size of the
document and the fact that, as it is the first written document that
describes how Save Our Environment is going to achieve its goals, it
had to contain a basic written plan from a marketing, financial and
operational viewpoint. The business has, on the whole, limited
itself to discussing the problems of the budget reduction for the
preparation of engineering work for housing and small buildings.
Save Our Environment saves its clients money and time, makes them
feel better, and enables them to realize cost savings. A client pays
at least 2.8 times less than he would pay retaining other companies
in Toronto. The venture will be successful also because Save Our
Environment has already developed a spotless track record in getting
government approvals for its work projects.
The goal of the business is not solely making a profit. Save Our
Environment upholds and advances the integrity, honor and dignity of
the engineering profession by using its knowledge and skill for the
enhancement of human welfare. Save Our Environment strives to
support the professional and technical societies of its disciplines.
Therefore it wishes to grow in the not too far-distant future. Save
Our Environment plans to find and hire underemployed engineers that
are not making full use of their skills. There are hundreds of
taxi-drivers for example with engineering background. With a little
training these people can return to their original profession and
play a bigger role in the economy of the country. But there are some
problems associated with hiring and making good use of these people.
In this regard, Save Our Environment is closely studying the
problems. Some of these problems have not yet been solved although
they are under study at the time of writing; some are still some way
from being solved even now, and some will only be solved in the
far-distant future.
By the fifth year of operations Save Our Environment will be the
preferred building, civil and environmental engineering company as
well as one of the largest employers in the Greater Toronto Area.
Providing a comprehensive, multi-disciplinary engineering service
able to match almost all construction and environmental project
needs with an eye toward saving time and money will enable Save Our
Environment to become known and respected in the industry.
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