Panagiotis Karlaftis

RACE Consulting Engineers LP

AT A GLANCE: 1. Race is a regional boutique firm on transportation design, headquartered in Athens, Greece. 2. We are an independent professional services firm specializing in designing and Scrum design management. 3. We are engaging in PPP and public sector projects in the EMEA region. FOR CLIENTS & PARTNERS: 1. Race is positioned to serve large construction and SPV companies with various corporate cultures, who face high project ambiguity. 2. We are doing our best to earn our clients trust; with an emphasis on the word earn. 3. We prefer long-term engagements in Early Contractor Involvement projects. 4. Our challenge is to disruptively reduce the capital investments (money * time) to what is required only. 5. Our strategy to this challenge is to meet clients' need for speed - need for informed decisions at the earliest responsible time. 6. Our non-discretionary design leadership, to implement this strategy and to deliver an advantage to our clients, focuses on: 6.1 Spending our imagination ahead clients' money 6.2 Early value delivery and rapid prototyping 6.3 Taken into account project assets' whole life costs 6.4 Performance-based over criteria-based designs 6.5 Design To Value - minimise the elements that drive up costs 6.6 Minimal Technical Solution - design to deliver only the necessary requirements 6.7 Designing in modules for fast rush-required changes in the design components 6.8 Providing CIM-ready content FOR TALENTED PROFESSIONALS: 1. We exist to experience the joy of advancing transportation design. 2. We define ourselves in terms of values, not services. 3. Our culture: Novelty, Practicality, Fast; we like to experiment on the periphery. 4. Our 2-faceted operations: Design Thinking for the What & Why; Scrum & CCPM for the How & When. 5. We are interested in transportation designers and business people gifted with synthetic abilities & abductive reasoning, and in talented engineers with analytic intelligence.