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ABOUT US

Thirty years of building sites,
two generations of engineers

Our history, the people behind it, and the meaning of the emblem that signs each of our projects.

Our history

A family business founded in 1993, now led by two engineers: engineering consultancy, construction and site services under one single responsibility.

  1. 1993
    The founding
    The company is created by its founders in Antananarivo.
  2. 2001
    Official registration
    Registered as a sole proprietorship.
  3. 2013
    The next generation
    Leadership passes to two engineers of the next generation.
  4. 2027
    FANAMBINANTSOA SARL
    Modernised governance, to the standards of international partners.
Portrait of Hajaharivelo Lionel ANDRIANANTENAINA
Hajaharivelo Lionel ANDRIANANTENAINA
Co-Managing Director · Chief Executive Officer
  • Engineer in urban development and urban engineering (MSc, IST-T)
  • Member of the Ordre des Ingénieurs de Madagascar (engineering council) · past president of APUM
  • Water and sanitation (WEDC, Loughborough University) · public procurement (ENAM, ININFRA)
  • Individually certified ISO 9001, 14001 and 45001
Portrait of Naivoarivelo Noël ANDRIANANTENAINA
Naivoarivelo Noël ANDRIANANTENAINA
Co-Managing Director · Technical Director
  • Civil engineer, engineering structures and geotechnical engineer (MSc, IST-T)
  • Member of the Ordre des Ingénieurs de Madagascar (engineering council)
  • Advanced geotechnics (LNTPB) · structural design to Eurocodes
  • Individually certified ISO 9001 and 14001

Two engineers sign off every project. ISO certifications are held individually by our directors and guide our management system.

A WORD FROM THE FOUNDERS

Building with honesty, to last

In 1993, we started with few resources and one conviction: a well-built structure begins with well-understood ground and a promise kept.

For more than thirty years, we built for families, municipalities and businesses, always with the same standards of reliability and respect for the client.

Seeing our children, now engineers themselves, carry the torch with the standards and tools of their time is our finest achievement.

Ranaivoarimanana Dieudonné ANDRIANANTENAINA
Founder · Public works engineer, geotechnical expert
Sabine RAVELOARIJAONA
Founder · Led the company until 2013
A WORD FROM THE CO-MANAGING DIRECTORS

An inherited standard, a new ambition

We grew up on our parents' building sites. We kept what matters most: rigour, transparency, and respect for the people we build for.

As engineers, we added international standards, the major projects we have led in Madagascar and across Africa, and an organisation that gives every client one single accountable point of contact.

Our commitment is simple: structures that are sound, useful and beautiful, tailored to each client, and designed to last in a changing climate.

Hajaharivelo Lionel and Naivoarivelo Noël ANDRIANANTENAINA
Co-Managing Directors · CEO and Technical Director
The full FANAMBINANTSOA emblem
Sound ∴ Useful ∴ Beautiful

Our emblem

Every line has a meaning: building well means holding together every dimension of a project so that it suits the people who live in it.

The plumb lines
The two tall vertical strokes are the setting-out lines of the site: plumb, rigorous calculation, compliance with standards. They extend beyond the building, like the grid lines of a plan that come before the structure.
Two interlocking volumes
A tall building and a house leaning against it: the engineering consultancy and the construction company, two trades brought together in one project, from major facilities to homes.
The level and the slope
The horizontal orange line is the level, the reference for every setting-out. The diagonal is the slope of the natural ground, the soil we study first. Their colour is that of the laterite of the Red Island.
Solid and void
The grey areas are matter, concrete and stone; the white is space, light, use. To build is to balance the two.
The Vitruvian Man
Leonardo da Vinci illustrates the proportions of the human body described by Vitruvius, the Roman architect for whom a structure must be sound, useful and beautiful. The circle and the square remind us that everything is measured at the scale of the person who will live in the building.
The seal
The pentagram inscribed in the circle brings together five dimensions a project must keep in balance: technical, human, environmental, economic and regulatory. Placed behind the man, it reminds us that a structure's harmony comes from their agreement.
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