Project Development
Akra Group includes experienced project development professionals who have gone from concept to ribbon cutting on industrial facilities. We can develop your company's project from requirements, design, permitting and site development, construction and stand-up for operations. Our value-added is in developing complex projects in a time efficient, cost efficient manner.
Akra Group's focus is on agriculture, water and energy infrastructure projects. We are experienced developers in these industries.
As a first step, Akra Group works to evaluate your business needs and facility requirements. We recognize our relationship must be a win-win for both parties. If there are significant reasons to build a partnership between our companies, we will do our best to find a way to quickly and efficiently deliver the facility for your operating needs.
A facility for agriculture, water or energy must be modern, efficient, and environmentally secure. Whether moving inputs such as fertilizer or feed, or bringing grain, water or fuel to market, we seek to ensure that facility requirements are fully met. We are experts at minimizing environmental and operational risks.
Akra Group's project development services help our clients sustain and grow their core industrial infrastructure. We believe society's most important commodities -- food, water and energy – require modern, efficient, environmentally safe transportation, production and distribution facilities. If we help you develop your project, we will ensure it is designed and built to high quality standards. We believe our clients are our partners. We absolutely protect your confidential information. We will do our best to help you be successful in your core business.
Akra Group can develop your agriculture, water or energy industry facility to meet your specifications. Our consulting engineers and designers can work with your designs. However, we often find that starting with project requirements and concept, leading to schematic design and design development, creates the best conditions for success. Examples of projects where Akra Group can add value in moving from concept to design, construction and operations include:
| Grain elevators and feed mills Feed transload and distribution facilities Container loading facilities Soybean crushers, storage and loading sites Port or inland terminals Fertilizer transload, storage, blending operations Digesters Food/beverage production facilities Dairy and cheese processing facilities. |
Energy
| Pipelines Tank farms Transload and distribution sites Marine fueling facilities / bunker fuel |
Water
| Pipelines/distribution infrastructure Water treatment / purification facilities |
Once Akra Group works with your operating personnel to ensure their needs are met within the financial parameters set by the parties, we will "build to suit" the facility.
The soft costs of developing a project and the commitments necessary to successfully manage a design, development and construction process limit Akra Group to projects in the $2 million - $100 million range.
Akra Group will evaluate, design and build projects in any country. Our partners include a former U.S. Ambassador and business executives with experience throughout the U.S., Mexico and Canada, and in Asia and the Pacific, the Middle East and Africa. Our experience in obtaining permits and regulatory approvals, real estate leases or purchases, environmental due diligence, public liaison, design and engineering, and coordinating the overall development process forward in a time efficient manner adds value to projects wherever located.