Problem territory · Water risk
Water risk made legible, defensible, and reliable.
ASE was founded on pharmaceutical water. Twenty-three years on, the same discipline runs through every system we design — industrial plant, institutional supply, private estate, rural source. One partner, one written scope, one accountable house from diagnosis to stewardship.
- Practice founded
- 2003
- Validation grade
- WFI
- Operating offices
- 6
- Vendor posture
- Independent
Representative delivery posture. Scope, validation depth, and retained coverage are set per mandate in the written brief.
Mandate fit
Source analysis before treatment.
Water work is only premium when the source, demand, discharge, and documentation burden are known before equipment is selected.
- 01
Verified source
Sampling, pressure, yield, and demand are recorded before design starts.
- 02
Written treatment train
The system is selected from the analysis, not from a vendor catalogue.
- 03
Defensible handover
Validation, maintenance, and escalation records are retained with the site.
Delivered against
- USP <1231>
- EP 0169
- WHO GDWQ
- ISO 22000
- HACCP
Capabilities
Six water programmes under one partner.
Each programme runs to the same standard of documentation. The scope decides the treatment train — not the vendor catalogue.
01
Purified + ultra-pure water
USP, EP, and WFI-grade systems for pharmaceutical, biotech, and laboratory clients. Hot-loop sanitisation, validation packs, and long-term qualification support.
02
Industrial process water
Cooling tower make-up, boiler feed, CIP water, and process reuse loops. Sized against the plant data, not against a vendor datasheet.
03
Institutional supply + treatment
Hospitals, schools, hotels, and mixed-use estates. Safe-drinking compliance, Legionella control, hot-water redundancy, and metered accountability.
04
Residential + estate water
Principal residences and private estates: filtration, softening, pressure management, irrigation isolation, and silent redundancy.
05
Rural + off-grid supply
Borehole development, solar-driven pumping, storage sizing, and point-of-use treatment for sites without reliable municipal supply.
06
Wastewater + reuse
On-site treatment and greywater reuse engineered to the discharge standard the site actually has to meet — not the generic brochure one.
Every water system we sign for has a written source. The incoming analysis decides the treatment — not the brochure train.
Evidence
A practice, not a proposal generator.
Four declarations drawn from the firm’s own record. Stated in writing before any equipment is specified.
Record of practice
i — iv · as at 2026
- ILineage
2003
Year ASE was founded on pharmaceutical water — the practice the firm grew from
- IIStandard
USP / EP
Compliance standards delivered end to end with validation support
- IIIFootprint
6 offices
Vienna · Lisbon · Bucharest · Lagos · Abuja · Accra
- IVStanding
Independent
No equipment-vendor rebates or resale margin on specified kit
Signed by the senior engineer of record at the close of every engagement. Kept on file, reissued on request.
Asset class
The water we commission.
Representative images of the treatment, filtration, and production-integration assets ASE specifies, installs, and stands behind — the asset class, not specific client sites.
Pharma + process
Treatment-skid commissioning.
Pretreatment, RO, EDI, and storage loop commissioned under our lead engineer — not a vendor contractor.
Filtration
Polishing and filtration.
Multi-stage filtration engineered to the incoming water analysis — not to a generic brochure train.
Quality + validation
Documented water quality.
TOC, conductivity, bioburden, and endotoxin monitoring built into the handover pack, not bolted on later.
Production integration
Point-of-use integration.
Loop take-offs, sanitisation valves, and CIP sequences designed around the line that will actually draw the water.
Delivery
Survey. Design. Build. Steward.
Four stages, one partner across all of them. The baseline analysis is always written down before any equipment is proposed.
Engagement cadence
i — iv · single partner
- IListen
Survey
Sampling, demand modelling, and site walk. Written baseline of what the site draws, produces, and discharges before anyone proposes a solution.
1 – 2 weeks
- IIWrite
Design
P&IDs, equipment selection, and control philosophy issued as a stamped package. Independent of any single equipment vendor.
2 – 4 weeks
- IIIDeliver
Build + commission
Installation, FAT, SAT, sanitisation, and handover under the name of the partner who signed the scope.
8 – 16 weeks
- IVHold
Stewardship
Quarterly reviews, trending, and planned replacements. A retained line back to the engineers who built the system.
Retained
One partner signs across all four stages. No subcontracted handovers, no throw-over-the-fence handovers.
Next step
A partner-level water review.
Thirty minutes with a senior partner. You leave with a written summary, a realistic view of what the work would require, and a direct line back to the partner.