From residential developments and office buildings to hospitals and industrial facilities with complex processes — a range few firms can cover.

2 mil.+ sqm designed · 6,500+ apartments · 550,000+ sqm industrial · 23 years · 11 building types

Who we are

Since 2003, PPAE has designed buildings starting from the client's real business and from what the building actually needs to do. We are an independent firm, with a team of around 20 architects and engineers — large enough for the most complex projects, and close-knit enough that every project remains the direct responsibility of those who lead it. We don't set ourselves apart through spectacular gestures, but through something harder to match: the real breadth of our experience and the courage to take on programs that stop most firms in their tracks.

A rarely matched breadth

We have designed over 2,000,000 sqm of buildings, 6,500 apartments and 550,000 sqm of industrial space — residential developments, office buildings, hospitals, logistics and production halls, agri-food facilities with complex technological processes, transport and energy infrastructure. In Romania, very few firms cover such diversity with a matching built volume; most stay within one or two building types. This difference matters: experience across so many different programs gives us a deeper understanding of the profession and lets us transfer solutions between building types — unexpected and remarkably efficient combinations that a specialized firm never reaches.

The challenges others avoid

We constantly take on technical and technological challenges far outside our competitors' comfort zone: difficult sites, special foundations, high-rise buildings, large spans, seismic retrofits, interventions on old buildings and monuments, strictly regulated industrial flows. And we turn the constraint into an asset. An irregular plot, at the edge of a wetland, became the basis for a residential development overlooking the Văcărești Delta. A 1978 tower building is being brought simultaneously up to current seismic requirements, to the fire-safety standard for high-rise buildings, and to nZEB energy performance. A large-capacity slaughterhouse took on the image of a corporate headquarters. We don't work with recipes — we find the optimal solution for each individual problem.

A single responsible designer

We act as General Designer — the role in which we normally work. We take on the project in its entirety, from concept to completion, with architecture, structure and MEP carried out entirely in-house and the other specialties integrated under our coordination. This is where the firm's strength lies: a single designer responsible for the whole, with no weak links between specialties. We have designed in BIM since 2003, and specialist competences — energy efficiency and reducing the carbon footprint (nZEB buildings, energy recovery, renewable sources), as well as fire safety — are part of the project, not options added later. We don't just design beautiful and useful buildings; we see feasible projects through to the end.

Clients come back

The best proof of the quality of our work is that clients come back. We have worked with Romania's courier market leader for almost 18 years, on four successive projects; with industrial and agri-food groups such as Carmistin, on entire complexes of facilities; and we have designed for leading institutions and companies — the Ministry of National Defence, Nuclearelectrica, the Bucharest City Hall, Renault, Ford, Pirelli, Prada, Grupo Antolin, Mega Image, Regina Maria, Antibiotice, Biofarm, One United Properties, Forte Partners, E-Distribuție Muntenia, Altex. For each, the same approach: we understand the business, we take on the complexity, and we deliver a building that works.

Planning an investment in a complex building? PPAE takes your project from concept to completion. Contact us.