OUR HISTORY | PEOPLE BEHIND THE NAME | OUR PHILOSOPHY
Erga Group, founded by Elie and Randa Gebrayel in 1980, thrived and succeeded in becoming one of the leading engineering & consulting firms in the country. Erga was established in Beirut, but quickly expanded to include offices in Paris, Riyadh, Jeddah, Dubai, Fujairah, Abou Dhabi, Bahrain, Qatar, Morocco, Algeria, Syria, Egypt and Nigeria, with projects spanning across an even wider horizon, stretching from the Gulf region, to North Africa and all the way to Eastern Asia.
During the Lebanese civil war, it moved some of its activities to Europe, mainly Paris - France. Instead of succumbing to hardships, it gained a wide range of experience. Now, in synergy with Lebanon’s rebirth, Erga Group is as active as ever, broadening its horizons and scope of activities while remaining at the forefront of architectural design and maintaining a high level of technical expertise. From its earliest days, Erga adopted the latest and most advanced technologies and is considered as a pioneer in Architecture and related fields.
The company’s growth has brought it large-scale prestigious projects in Lebanon and the Middle East Region. Its projects have required the company to acquire Master planning and other specialist skills such as Urban Design, Transportation, Traffic Planning and Medical Consultancy. The Group’s founders are well aware of today’s realities and complexities while they pursue their objective of leadership, they strive to make their homeland the most attractive in the area.
Erga has consolidated its position through a team of experienced from Architects to Designers, Structural, Mechanical and Electrical Engineers, from Interior Architects to Planners, Project Managers, Quantity Surveyors and Contract Administrators. All working in conjunction to produce a high level of technical expertise, to offer each and every client solutions that are dynamic, flexible and efficient, stressing on quality, value and profitability.
With over 3,000 projects to date, Erga has transformed into a regional exporter of Lebanese professional skills with more than 500 staff. Its projects range from urban scale developments and cities to the design of residential, commercial, and offices towers, hotels, hospitals, mixed-use complexes, resorts, palaces, as well as individual habitats, with collaborations that include local and international specialists and cooperative ventures with International Signature Architects.
Inspired by a common vision and a talent combining efficiency and imagination, functionality and beauty, ERGA's design team has established a name in first-class architecture & engineering.
Providing personal involvement in every project, Elie & Randa Gebrayel are the guiding inspiration that keeps ERGA team growing forming an impacting creative force. With three decades of dedication and integrity, Elie & Randa Gebrayel continue to improve their standards of performance with every project.
ELIE GEBRAYEL
Chairman and CEO of ERGA. In 1980’s, along with Randa Gebrayel, he founded ERGA based on a commitment to design excellence. As founder and principal of ERGA, he has developed a global strategy and has shaped the firm into one of the best in the region.
RANDA GEBRAYEL
Vice Chairman and Co-Founder of ERGA. She also founded other companies related to ERGA Holding SAL such as ERGA Group SAL, ERGA Management SAL, ERGA Group Overseas, ERGA FGAD...
VISION
Seeking to be a leading sustainable architecture firm, enriching cities around the world with state-of-the-art design and technology.
MISSION
Creating from space a lifestyle, focusing on a sustainable development to meet present and future needs relying on creativity, comprehensive solutions, professionalism and commitment to quality.
VALUES
- Creativity
- Agility
- Ethics
- Honesty & Integrity
- Social Responsibility
ARCHITECTURAL & ENGINEERING | MASTER PLANNING & URBAN DESIGN | INTERIOR DESIGN | LANDSCAPE DESIGN | CONSTRUCTION SUPERVISION | PROJECT MANAGEMENT
At Erga, we offer a multidisciplinary design service aimed at raising the quality of the built environment. We provide a full range of architectural services related to the planning, programming, design, drawings, document production, cost estimation, bidding and maintenance and refurbishing projects.
Our experienced architects, structural, mechanical and electrical engineers, landscape designers and master planners complement our wide range of construction consultancy services by providing holistic design solutions that reflect an understanding of the full project lifecycle.
We take a comprehensive approach to design, working from inception to completion to turn an architectural vision into reality.
We, at Erga, thoroughly research, meticulously study and methodically develop our urban designs based on environmental concerns, social equity, economic viability, relationships between people and places, urban movement and form, nature and the built fabric with a view to creating places that work out perfectly and that are sustainable in the long term.
We strive for balance between the various stages of planning, transportation, architectural design, development economics, landscape and engineering, to conceive and ultimately achieve a good vision.
By establishing such connections, our clients can reach their investment goals and satisfy their aspirations, while we add up to the natural environment.
This experience forges and strengthens a permanent bond between a project and its surroundings.
Erga's interior design team delivers creative interior solutions that combine design and functionality, using the latest technology and its years of experience.
Our team works closely with the client throughout the creative process, exploring every possibility and assessing the best option.
We follow a collaborative and interactive process to create exceptional environments that meet clients' needs. We use traditional, custom and modern elements to create harmonious designs.
Our interiors have a distinctive, modern elegance inspired and informed by the client's needs and spirit.
Our team in landscape engineering, planning and urban planning are committed to design joining three factors similarly: creativity, sustainability and social well-being. Landscape architecture dealing with colorful spaces gives a charming spirit and touch to even the most beautiful architectural design. That is why we give this field a big importance in Erga.
Our concern is to create aesthetic spaces for large multi-functional site or small projects. We have a deep respect for nature, natural systems and insist on sustainability aligning our daily work with the philosophy of Erga and its vision designing for the present and for the future generations.
It's this approach and our passion for the business that allow us to consider each project as a whole with high end details.
Construction work supervision is a profession of experience, expertise, and know-how. Our team members who meet these requirements bring their knowledge, use their capacity in taking action and define an appropriate behavior in order to adapt the implementation plan and organization to the site characteristics. They manage interfaces with operational functions at each phase and identify security risks, health, environment and project-related control.
With a solid experience of over 30 years, Erga Management acts as client representative assuming with determination major project management and construction management tasks.
Skilled professionals supported by a qualified multidisciplinary workforce are the winning formula that distinguishes the company. Teams working in coordination, determine the needs, collaborate in developing plans in order to conceive appropriate solutions depending on the complexity of each term.
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2011 DSIP Dubaiat | May
the company started in 1982 in Lebanon and began working in dubai as a consultant company in 2003. This company has been invovled in more than 310 projects in Dubai. Their biggest projects include the Rolex tower and the Burj Al Salam...
2010 B'here | Annual Review Lebanon
ERGA
From Restoration to designing the tallest tower in Lebanon
Erga has been involved with Solidere from 1994 until present, working on the restoration and development of 40 projects, including Saifi Housing in collaboration with International Signature Arhitects
2010 El Binaa |
Al Hada Competition
Physical and architectural harmony
The first winner: Erga
Providing total harmony with mountain environment
2009 الإقتصاد والأعمال | آذار
2009 Real | October
ELIE GEBRAYEL
from a bird on a green board to a phoenix in architecture
"To begin with, creativity is a struggle for perfection and a never-ending process where one's experience never reaches a saturation level...
...So it is always a struggle and a challenge to bring in harmony the specific and the universal, the local and the global, the technological and the humanitarian...
...My vision is not enforced on the client but rather acts like a mirror transforming and even fine-tuning his or her dream-home or project into reality..."
2007 الراية الإقتصاديّة | مايو
2007 تحقيقات ومتابعات | العدد 522 - مايو
شارك المهندس ايلي جبرايل في ملتقى قطر الإقتصاديّ الثاني في الجلسة السادسة التي ناقشت التحديات التي تواجه قطاع الإنشاءات في الشرق الأوسط
2005 مجلة الخليج | العدد 9375 - يناير
2000 الإقتصاد والأعمال | نيسان
MS in Architecture | Corllins University, Kansas, United States, 1998
Joined Erga in 1996
Became Team Design Leader in 2012
ERGA | 2016 | ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
