Where Our Engineers Built Their Careers
More than 140 years of combined engineering leadership across some of the world’s most demanding industrial organizations.
Applied across the Americas.
WES helps governments, municipalities and industrial owners make better engineering decisions before major capital is committed, and stays with the project through commissioning and start-up.
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More than 140 years of combined engineering leadership across some of the world’s most demanding industrial organizations.
Independent feasibility studies and realistic cost estimates before capital is committed.
Objective evaluation and selection of the process and technology that fits the site and the goals.
Practical waste-management, energy-recovery and resource-recovery strategies for growing volumes.
Evaluation of existing facilities and operational improvements to raise efficiency and reliability.
Chief Executive Officer
& Co-Founder
Forty years leading owner's engineering and capital projects for Exxon, Mobil, Merck, Pfizer and Amgen.
Chief Technology Officer
& Co-Founder
Former Director of Engineering at General Dynamics Electric Boat and named inventor on 21 U.S. patents.
Director, Environmental Infrastructure
Nearly thirteen years with EPM followed by decades delivering municipal water, wastewater and solid waste infrastructure across Colombia.
Director, Civil & Process Engineering
Licensed Professional Engineer with more than forty years delivering pharmaceutical, industrial and municipal infrastructure projects.
WES knows the technology suppliers and introduces clients to the right ones for a project — but no technology supplier pays WES. Our only obligation is to the client's outcome.
That distinction is the core of how the firm works: objective engineering judgment, on the client's side of the table, from the first feasibility question through start-up.
Process and mechanical engineering for chemical manufacturing and petrochemical facilities.
Facility engineering, construction management and validation for pharmaceutical and biological systems.
Environmental, wastewater, waste-management and resource-recovery engineering.
Energy infrastructure, power generation and industrial process engineering.
The same engineers who help evaluate a project can remain involved through design review, procurement, construction, commissioning and startup. WES represents the owner’s interests from the first engineering question until the facility is operating.
When landfills fill up, disposal costs climb and emissions rules tighten, the question becomes what to do with the waste. WES evaluates and engineers the answer — assessing where waste-to-energy, gasification or other proven technologies fit, and where they don't. These are tools we apply on the client's behalf, one part of a broader engineering practice, not a product we sell.
WES's engineers have led capital projects for some of the world's largest energy and pharmaceutical companies, and have engineered gasification and waste-to-energy studies on two continents. That track record — not any single plant — is what clients rely on.
Understand the problem, the site and the objectives; test technical and economic feasibility.
Define scope, budget and the right technology; develop the project concept.
Preliminary and detailed engineering, process design and specifications.
Vendor evaluation, procurement support and coordination of equipment and trades.
Construction management, installation oversight, start-up, commissioning and validation.
Operational improvement, maintenance support and ongoing performance tuning.
WES focuses on South America, Central America, North America and the Caribbean — regions where growing populations and industry create real, solvable engineering challenges. Our founders' roots in Colombia and their U.S. careers let the firm work with both public institutions and private developers across the Americas.
The firm brings Colombian engineering leadership and full bilingual (English and Spanish) capability to its work across the region, and takes on international work where our experience adds value.
WES International is a multidisciplinary engineering and consulting firm formed in 2010 and incorporated in 2011 by U.S.-trained, Colombian-born engineers. We help governments, municipalities, utilities, developers and industrial companies evaluate, design, engineer and implement infrastructure, energy, environmental and waste-management projects. Technology such as waste-to-energy and gasification is one of the tools we apply, not the whole of the practice.
Senior engineers — the people shown under Engineering Leadership. WES is intentionally led by experienced engineers who stay directly involved in client work rather than handing projects to junior staff. When you engage WES, the founders and their senior colleagues work on the engineering itself.
WES is an engineering and consulting firm, not an equipment vendor. We work on the client's side of the table, assessing feasibility, selecting the right technology and engineering a solution that fits the site and the goals, rather than selling a single product. That independence lets us recommend what actually works for a given project.
WES focuses on South America, Central America, North America and the Caribbean, backed by Colombian engineering leadership and full bilingual (English and Spanish) capability. Its founders' roots in Colombia and their U.S. engineering careers position the firm to work with both public institutions and private developers across the Americas. WES has also provided engineering support on gasification projects in Europe and Asia.
