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About

We design green buildings around the people who use them

ECOnsult custom-makes green buildings that meet the beneficiary's needs.

We have worked with almost every global and local rating system and are the highest awarded green building consultant in Egypt. Our aim is to create affordable, equitable and accessible green buildings that are both economical and ecological.

Sustainable design is at the core of what we do — bridging the gap between climate responsiveness and solutions people can actually afford and reach.

Our focus

Climate action in the building sector is no longer optional

Design, build, certify

Green building design, construction and certification across every major rating system — handled together rather than bolted on at the end.

Circular & low carbon

Accelerating circular and low-carbon solutions: material strategies that cut embodied carbon and keep value out of landfill.

Education & advocacy

Education, advocacy and action for the climate emergency — working with government and industry to move the whole sector.

Recognition

Nominated for the Earthshot Prize

2020 Ashden Awards shortlist, with the UNFCCC
1st carbon-neutral residential project in North Africa
10°C of cooling achieved without mechanical assistance
30 projects, from single villas to city districts

Policy & advocacy

Architecture for better livelihoods

Alongside the project work, ECOnsult contributes to national policy and development programmes — because a sector moves faster through standards than through one building at a time.

Decent Life (Haya Karima) Initiative

Policy, development and national projects, with Egypt's Ministry of Planning and Economic Development.

Green Guidelines

A roadmap of strategic interventions adapted to rural communities across Egypt's geographies — consolidating practical measures that prepare existing villages for future climatic disasters while saving cost, damage, waste and biodiversity loss. Written and illustrated to be usable by professionals and non-professionals alike.

COP27 — Tiny Low Footprint House

A zero-emissions demonstration house built for COP27 in Sharm El-Sheikh: rammed earth envelope, upcycled timber, solar power and hot water, rainwater harvesting, greywater reuse, biogas sanitation and a hydroponic edible garden. A call to rethink consumerism and waste.

Why clients work with us

Local expertise, international standards

A partner with real knowledge of the local market.

Climate action genuinely built into the project, not appended to it.

Experience across industrial, farming, retail, commercial and residential work.

Social, environmental and economic impact that is measured, not asserted.

Costs less than hiring international consultants, for the same standard.

A trusted partner to local government.

In the press

Our work and our founder, covered internationally.

Reuters 2021

Cooler, greener, cheaper: Egyptian architects seek antidotes to rising heat

Financial Times

Building homes for a heating planet

The Economist

How to cool a warming world

Wallpaper*

Sustainable Egyptian desert campus offers model for green building

Wallpaper*

Sustainable architecture: innovative and inspiring building design

DW

Climate emergency: Keeping homes cool on a warming planet

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together?

Office

Cairo, Egypt info@econsultdesign.com

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