Issue 11 2020

16 Acquisition International - Issue 11 2020 Motivated By Achieving Excellence As Rafiu Sadiku, Founder and CFO of RDS Consulting Engineers, looks forward to retirement after forty years of service in the building and construction industry, he can take great pride in all that he has accomplished in RDS Associates. A multi-disciplined firm that employs creativity and professionalism to find innovative solutions to even the most complex engineering and building design projects, RDS Associates is now looking to the future of the industry and how it will be shaped in the post-Covid-19 landscape. Rafiu and his team will be leading the way in the reshaping of their industry, living by the immortal quote of Peter Drucker: ‘In order to predict the future, we must create it’. stablished in 1996, RDS Associates Consulting Engineers Inc. is a full-service engineering and building design firm founded by Rafiu Sadiku in Newark, New Jersey, USA. The firm provides comprehensive services in mechanical and electrical engineering, plumbing and heating, fire protection and renewable energy for a diverse range of clients, predominantly within built-environments, including Public and Private Entities, Residential, Commercial and Institutional facilities. Rafiu successfully built RDS Associates from a small start-up into a nationally renowned leader of engineering and building services design that sees affordability and productivity existing in harmony. With over twenty years of experience, Rafiu can meet all the requirements of legal compliance, public welfare and customer satisfaction with positive results that are plain to see. Since 2012, the Better Business Bureau has awarded RDS Associates an A+ rating in business integrity, transparency, honesty and credit capability, whilst Engineering News Record and Corporate Live Wire have presented the firm with awards for the Industry’s Best Project, Innovation and Excellence within the last three years. Rafiu himself, as Principal and CFO of the acclaimed firm, has also received accolades for his work, being presented several ‘Who’s Who’ awards in the US and being listed in the United Sates Heritage Who’s Who Library of Congress. Rafiu did not enter into the industry lightly but has always been alert to the challenging and taxing nature of operating a business in the US. Perhaps the most common problem faced by businesses such as his is delayed payments, despite Government statutes that attempt to enforce prompt payments. However, for RDS Associates, their excellent credit ratings with major financial institutions in the United States has provided a guarantee of safety in their daily operations for the firm and its clients. Indeed, driven by a genuine love of the industry as well as communication skills, a positive attitude and a strong network of dependable clients, RDS Associates has been able to thrive, recognizing their limits where necessary but motivated by their simple mission; to provide clients with high-quality service in a timely and cost-effective manner. Accordingly, Rafiu and his team live and work by two Golden Rules; ‘Do unto others as you want others to do unto you’ and ‘let the greatest among the group be the servant’. Many firms within the industry do not share in this good will but skip over the laws and ethics within their profession to make business easier for them, but vastly unbalancing E the playing field. In almost twenty-five years, RDS Associates has avoided such discrepancies by evading involvement with public political commotions and complicity in every one of the projects they have taken on since the firm’s inception. The latter of RDS Associates’ Golden Rules is put into motion before a member of staff is even brought on. For Rafiu, directors should not be superior to their teams, but a teacher who is training each member to be an apostle of the organization’s mission statement. Using his forty years of experience, communication, respect and loyalty, Rafiu is leading the development of the company through its people, showing them how to evolve and stay competitive in order to maintain longevity in a notoriously ruthless economy. Consequently, alongside their various ongoing projects for both public and private organizations, RDS Associates is looking at how they and their industry will be affected by the current global pandemic. However, confident in their own determination and resilience to continue their thriving business activity, RDS Associates is even looking to the future of their business, as well as Rafiu’s retirement. Before that, however, he is fulfilling his role in guiding the next generation as they prepare to take on the responsibility, and Rafiu’s experience and industry knowledge will prove more vital than ever in an unpredictable but promising post-Covid-19 landscape. ‘In order to predict the future, we must create it’, and there is no doubt that Rafiu and his firm are shaping a brilliant and bright future for themselves. Contact: Rafiu Dada SADIKU Company: RDS Associates Consulting Engineers Inc. Web Address: www.rdsengineers.com Mar20273