About Us

Our work strives to enhance our sense of surroundings, identity and relationship to others and the physical spaces we inhabit, whether feral or human-made.

Selected Awards
  • 2004 — Aga Khan Award for Architecture
  • 2009 — Mies van der Rohe Award
  • 2013 — AIA/ALA Library Building Award
  • 2015 — Best Interior, Designers Saturday
  • 2016 — AIA New York Honor Award

SERVICES

Construction Management + Quality Control + Health and Safety Coordination

Construction Management, Quality Control and all the responsibilities in the field of Health and Safety, services for which the PLAAT team has developed in its years of experience an exclusive work protocol to study, detect incidents and resolve them, always providing the optimum construction solutions for works from the first intervention in the design process. PLAAT contributes to this service in an unavoidable way, improving the background that has given it its extensive experience in Execution Management of those more than 1.890.000 m2 of built work, substantially improving the guarantees of success of any construction process.

Project & Construction Management

Coordination and management of construction work, control of planning and assumption of responsibility in tendering, contracting and coordination of the different industrialists involved in a construction project, in order to deliver the finished work to the promoter, both in the construction and administrative fields. In order to guarantee quality in the provision of this service, PLAAT’s team of technicians has created a strict professional protocol and with it offers its clients INTEGRAL MANAGEMENT IN THE CONSTRUCTION of all types of buildings, coordinating the management of works from the first administrative action to the complete legalisation of the same. Its experience in this field has allowed it to obtain a global vision of the life of a work and, consequently, to optimize its capacities also as Execution Management of all the works. In this exercise of its profession as Project Manager, our team has been profiling its portfolio of industrialists and construction companies of volume that operate with diligence, classified by specialities in each of the subjects involved in the work, and of which there is direct testimony of professional experience due to their satisfactory and profitable intervention in other works that PLAAT has coordinated.

Quantity Surveyors

PLAAT has forged a solid experience in providing Quantity Surveyor services (elaboration of STATEMENT OF MEASUREMENTS and preparation of BUDGETS, CONTROL OF COSTS in the project phase and in the work phase, PLANNING of work…), exercising this task in most of the construction processes it leads and for all types of buildings. The process of providing these indicated services gives PLAAT a more global vision of the project and a rigorous and exhaustive knowledge of all its aspects, consequently providing all the guarantees of success and effectiveness to the promoter’s investment.

Project Monitoring

The PLAAT team has consolidated its position in recent years as a specialist in Project Monitoring; as a result of the economic crisis that the sector has suffered, its technicians have drawn on their experience as economic managers of works to also specialise in providing PROJECT MONITORING services, feasibility audits and subsequent advice (control and technical monitoring in economic matters) on works for financial institutions, guaranteeing the optimisation of the capital that they have made available to their clients and allocating it to the effects and under the terms foreseen. In this area, since their first intervention, they have accumulated more than 70 monitored works.

Projects, Audits and Project Consultancy

PLAAT’s technical intervention in a project is not limited to the execution phase of the project, but it also provides its experience and background as a technical consultant in the early stages of project development, collaborating in the establishment of its objectives in terms of time, cost and quality to be designed. Likewise, PLAAT prepares PROJECT AUDITS that consist of an exhaustive study and analysis of the executive document with the aim of guaranteeing that it complies with all the regulations and contains all the mandatory documentation, is adapted to the needs of the promoter, is complete and defines the work in such a way as to minimise the possibility of unforeseen events arising. However, this team is also prepared to act as an independent PROJECTOR in all types of CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS of any type of building, REFORM or REHABILITATION of any type of building and even URBANIZATION and DRAWDOWN.