Business Description
Azar Design Co is a caring, innovative, and trusted architecture, landscape architecture, engineering, and surveying services leader with offices throughout New York State. A Hispanic-owned Certified NYS MBE/DBE, our award-winning multidisciplinary team consistently delivers successful projects with a values-based approach that nurtures our collaborative, entrepreneurial culture. Founded as Foit-Albert Associates in 1977, we rebranded as Azar Design Co in 2024 to reflect our rapidly growing business’ diversified clients, geography, and services, while upholding our commitment to being a trusted consultant.
Azar Design Co is proficient in leading projects from large to small, for both private clients and public agencies. We are renowned for our ability to deliver successfully through a process that prioritizes collaborative problem-solving and honest communication. We integrate with clients as an aligned team, leveraging our agile, flexible approach that makes our partners successful.
We take great pride in our reputation as trustworthy change-agents who bring to life projects that are sustainable, beautiful, functional, and which make a difference in the communities they serve. We are committed to supporting our industry colleagues and other businesses owned by underrepresented groups, to grow opportunities for all. We are:
• Professional Architects and technical staff with a diverse range of expertise, from designing new buildings to rehabilitating and renovating existing facilities. Our team also includes historic preservation specialists, LEED-accredited personnel, and certified code-enforcement officials.
• Landscape Architects who specialize in designing engaging and equitable public spaces like parks, trails, waterfronts, and streetscapes. Our team combines artistic vision with scientific principles to design environments that enhance the quality of life, adapt to the present, and prepare for the future.
• Professional Engineers with expertise in transportation, site/civil, building systems, and structural engineering who provide elevated solutions for public and private clients in all aspects of infrastructure design, development, and sustainability.
• Transportation Engineers prioritize the conditions of local, county, and state roads and bridges, enabling our communities to function and commerce to move safely and efficiently on our roadways.
• Site/Civil Engineers focus on environmentally sustainable yet programmatically efficient site designs for stormwater management, circulation, parking, and building services.
• Mechanical, Electrical, Plumbing, and Fire Protection Engineers design building systems that integrate seamlessly into new and renovated spaces, with special attention given to delivering long term cost effectiveness, efficiency, and sustainability while meeting or exceeding energy codes and safety mandates.
• Professional Land Surveyors provide detailed data, capable of addressing the needs of each client’s project from start to finish. Our survey teams utilize the most current, state-of-the-art equipment supported by CADD graphic workstations, with field crews available to all areas of New York State.
• Environmental Team versed in hazardous material assessment, abatement design, and abatement project monitoring, Phase I Environmental Site Assessments, preparation of NYSDOT Draft/Final Design Reports (environmental sections), SEQRA/NEPA documentation, wetland assessments and mitigation, environmental permitting, noise assessments, and indoor air quality monitoring for LEED Certification.
