While there are many consultancy service firms that focus on single verticals, a multi-disciplinary consultancy firm provides a more comprehensive service as it covers multiple disciplines. Communication and coordination between different consultancy firms often pose difficulty and companies with limited project management resources highly benefit from multi-disciplinary firms where they can act as a single responsible point that provides seamless and efficient collaboration.
A Diverse, Multidisciplinary Approach
Catering to this need is EQMS Consulting, a Bangladesh based multi-disciplinary firm that provides comprehensive and multidisciplinary engineering, project management and sustainability consultancy services. EQMS is in the forefront of infrastructure development in the world including power and energy, urban and rural infrastructure, roads and highways, bridges, water supply and sanitation, waste management, urban drainage, water resources management, flood control, irrigation, agricultural, socioeconomic and environmental studies, etc.
According to Kazi Farhed Iqbal, Executive Director, " We are the spearheading provider for consultation in Bangladesh, providing consultation services to nations all across the globe. Additionally, we are acclaimed for imparting expert consultation in the fields of environment and global action. The firm has been providing consultation in the mentioned fields for over two decades making EQMS the most experienced firm in Bangladesh. While being the most experienced sustainability consulting firm in Bangladesh, we have since augmented from just private sector environment and social consultancy to multidisciplinary sustainability consultancy.
To name a few, EQMS is spearheading environment and social impact assessment, social consulting, biodiversity conservation, engineering and industrial solution, sustainability related services”. EQMS is an ISO 9001:2015, ISO 14001:2015, and ISO 45001:2018 certified company and is also Bangladesh Accreditation Board (BAB) Accredited in the field of Environmental Inspection. EQMS ensures freedom of action, choice and helping singling out the best solutions concerning each project. EQMS believes that commitment, perseverance and responsibility are all key factors that cannot be disregarded in creating customer confidence, guaranteeing strategic and external technical support and EQMS follows that closely.
The Beginning of a Necessary Trend
Before EQMS, there was no company which worked on international standard environmental issues in the Bangladesh market. The company was a trendsetter who were the first to start international standard environmental study. Slowly, it also entered the market of social impact assessment and ESG. That onwards, a national company has developed its competency where EQMS plays a major role in different internationally funded projects. One of its other
objectives was to develop skilled manpower related to ESG, to which effect it has a team of more than 120 inhouse consultants who work in different projects for a big environmental social governance expert. Five years prior, the Government and the private sector did not trust any national company to meet the international standards to change that narrative, EQMS came in to showcase its expertise and its reports were accepted by ADB, World Bank, JICA, different IFIset al which completely changed the scenario and both the Government and private sector started trusting national companies.
Host of Services
The service umbrella of EQMS includes Advisory where it unlocks value and efficiencies, while developing effective strategies and meeting rising expectations from government, industry and society that requires environmental, financial, social and technical expertise; Engineering, where it develops innovative approaches while pertaining to all corporate values performing with the highest possible expertise. When it comes to power and Renewable energy EQMS is equipped with a team that is carefully curated with an incredibly reliable and competent team. Along with Power and renewable energy, the engineering department also specializes in oil and gas, infrastructure, port and jetty, agriculture and forestry, water, waste, and sanitation, and finally testing and certification; Environmental Assessment where it identifies whether an environment could be harmed by a scheme as well as how a scheme could be affected by its surroundings.
Before EQMS, there was no company which worked on international standard environmental issues in the Bangladesh market
It also looks for opportunities to enhance the environment; Financial and Economic Assessment where it is associated with consulting banking & insurance services in collaboration with corporations and projects. The firm oversees the risk management of credit, portfolios, and derivatives for assessment and control for various projects. For corporates and projects, EQMS establishes need-based assignments. Alongside Finance the firm also specializes in economic assessments which ensure the proper function of various research sectors for application; GIS and Remote Sensing where EQMS has amassed a significant amount of data and experience in all fields over the past decade.
This entails superior knowledge for optimization of information software and technology for the management and analysis of geographical data. EQMS also has equipment for remote sensing; IT and Software Solutions, where QMS has an excellent field of IT professionals and software solutions teams to handle projects of various complexities; Policy Development where EQMS was able to amass a solid portfolio of research and surveys for the past two decades and continues to expand more. With the knowledge gathered that spans across all aspects of the environment and social foresight, it is able to assess, plan, and provide expert consultations; Social Assessment, where the social assessment team ensures all aspects of a social community is kept in check and optimized.
Providing foresight and planning on all things significant to keeping a community thriving is made sure with research and surveying on gender, resettlement, rural economy, and community development Monitoring and Evaluation where EQMS attempts to cover all bases and fronts for optimal knowledge gathering through observation, research, and evaluation. It accumulates valuable data for mitigating any obstacle that an individual or an entity might face; and, Water Resource Management, where it provides efficient and sustainable solutions to the issues that are aimed at optimizing natural flows in rivers and groundwater sources to meet the various competing needs for water. In the future, EQMS is set to enter the global market more broadly and offer more exhaustive services that cater to the clients in the dynamically shifting markets.
Kazi Farhed Iqubal, Executive Director, EQMS
Kazi has about 20(Twenty) years' experience in the field of Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG) sector. He has experience in ESIA, Environmental Management Training, Environmental & Social Due Diligence and Compliance Auditing for International E&S Safeguards and Standards (WB, IFC, ADB, FMO, DEG, KFW, CDC, UKEF etc.) Mr. Iqubal has been working in EQMS Consulting Limited since 2011 as an Executive Director. He has been involved as an adjunct faculty in the Department of Environmental Science, Stamford University of Bangladesh.
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