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AE Prime studio and commercial architecture
About

We have a client-focused culture. We know that success comes from providing our clients with the very best value and service, each and every time.

The Practice

5 studios and +500 people. One standard.

AE Prime is an international architecture and engineering firm with an established track record in large-scale development and mixed-use projects.

We have spent years delivering for clients across the Middle East, and that experience has shaped a disciplined approach to the pressures of real estate development — programme, cost, regulation, and the distance between an approved design and a built one.

Our in-house team blends design capability with local market knowledge and established relationships across the regulatory authorities, and we scale it to each work stage so the right expertise is in place at the point it is needed.

We engage early. Working with clients from the first stage, we express their needs as design guidelines, employer’s requirements, tender documentation, and leasing obligations — the strategy that governs every subsequent design stage and the construction process itself. Throughout, we are committed to meeting our clients’ sustainability objectives and to designing responsibly.

We are an award-winning consultancy, recognised for innovation and high-value delivery, and our contribution extends past our own projects into industry practice — including work on the development of the Egyptian BIM Code.

Where We Operate

Local expertise, international standards.

Each branch is independently licensed, tax-registered, and structured to deliver the full scope of consultancy services, backed by group-wide resources and professional indemnity cover — so we engage local authorities directly while holding one standard across every market.

Gulf

United Arab Emirates

Studios in Dubai and Abu Dhabi, covering federal and emirate-level authority requirements across the seven emirates.

Gulf

Saudi Arabia

Serving the Kingdom’s development programme with design and engineering delivered to local regulatory frameworks.

North Africa

Egypt

A regional base extending the practice into North African markets and their distinct approvals landscape.

Our Principles

Inspired projects.

We have client focused culture, know that success comes from providing our clients with the very best value and service each and every time

Vision

To give clients the best design, project management, and supervision services we can offer — integrated solutions that meet their needs, operate effectively and on time, and make them more competitive by adding value in ways that consistently exceed expectations.

Mission

High-quality service and unconditional personal attention on every project. We focus on executing our clients’ goals: each project is reviewed individually and in advance to reduce downstream risk, and our grounding in the build-and-design approach compresses both programme and cost.

Goals

Consistent quality from pre-design through to project shutdown and commissioning — acting as a partner across the whole consulting mission rather than a supplier at one stage of it.

Philosophy

We plan and design with you, and for you. Committed to building working relationships that outlast any single project.