Our Company
INGENIAR is a company with more than 30 years of experience
About INGENIAR
INGENIAR was founded by Omar-Darío Cardona (UN Risk Reduction Sasakawa Price 2004) and David-Augusto Arango in Manizales, Colombia, in 1986 with the aim of offering specialized services in the fields of engineering, planning and public policy, with an emphasis on the assessment of natural hazards, modeling and management of disaster risk, adaptation to climate change, resilience, environmental management and development of specialized software for financial protection and risk transfer. In 1987 he started consulting work in Bogotá, D.C., being one of the pioneering firms in Colombia in these matters and offering CAD/CAE (Computer Aid Design / Computer Aid Engineering). INGENIAR since its creation provides specialized consulting services for insurance and reinsurance companies, and on occasions, in a strategic alliance with other national and international consultants, for other consulting firms, brokers, government entities and international organizations such as the World Bank, the IDB, UNDP, OFDA-AID, UNISDR (UNDRR), and other international agencies.
INGENIAR counts with a highly qualified work team, that has led various initiatives related to risk modelling at different levels of resolution in countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, Southeast Asia, Europe, and the Indian Ocean, seeking to contribute to the development and planning of a comprehensive approach to disaster risk management and climate change adaptation.
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Experience
INGENIAR is a company with more than 30 years of experience in specialized engineering, planning and public policy services, with an emphasis on natural hazard assessment, disaster risk modeling and management, adaptation to climate change, resilience, environmental management, and development of specialized software for financial protection and risk transfer. INGENIAR has led the development of multiple hazard and risk studies (due to drought, floods, landslides, tsunami, earthquakes, hurricanes and volcanic eruptions) for the agricultural sector and the built environment, at an international level (more than 170 projects executed in more than 20 countries), for the purposes of financial protection, insurance, land use planning, public investment and contingency plans. The development, in Joint Venture, of the CAPRA platform [Comprehensive Approach to Probabilistic Risk Assessment] stands out.
