What We Do
Comprehensive solutions, methodological tools, and advanced training for the built environment.
One firm, three ways to work with you
We design solutions to integrate safety, inclusion, and a gender perspective into urban, architectural, residential, corporate, and institutional projects, accompanying our clients from planning to community management.
WUE Consulting
Diagnosis, design, and guidance
- • Urban and residential safety audits
- • Cost-effective urban-architectural guidelines
- • Commercial, social, and governance strategy
WUE Academy
Capacity transfer
- • Executive briefings for senior management
- • Executive programs and specialized courses
- • Workshops, innovation labs, and train the trainers
WUE Certification
Independent verification
- • Proprietary technical and social standard
- • Project evaluation and verification
- • Safe and Inclusive Environments Seal
WUE Methodological System
A set of registered methodologies that apply a gender perspective as an analysis, planning, and design tool to strengthen safety, inclusion, and sustainability across all stages of the urban, architectural, and residential project lifecycle.
Housing Equality Assessment ®
Urban and residential safety audits with a gender perspective.
Inclusive Built Environment ®
Urban-architectural design and evaluation of the built environment.
Inclusive Living Framework ®
Commercial strategies for inclusive real estate markets.
Community Living ®
Governance, coexistence, and social management for residential communities.
Five steps, verifiable results
Diagnose
Audits, fieldwork, data, and user perception.
Define actions
Urban, architectural, social, and commercial guidelines, prioritized by cost-effectiveness.
Train
Technical, commercial, and operational teams, and resident communities.
Accompany
On-site implementation, project handover, and launch of operations.
Measure
Safety, usage, coexistence, and post-occupancy satisfaction indicators.
Each phase delivers a tangible product: audit report, guidelines manual, training program, support plan, and indicator dashboard.
Services Portfolio
Urban and housing safety with a gender perspective
Diagnostics, audits, and violence prevention strategies.
Real estate development with a gender perspective
Integration of the perspective into planning, design, construction, delivery, and management.
Universal and inclusive urbanism and architecture
Cities, public spaces, and buildings that are accessible and people-centered.
Commercial strategies for inclusive housing markets
Expanding housing access to respond to diverse household profiles.
Safe senior housing
Design and management that promote autonomy, safety, and active aging.
Governance, coexistence, and social management
Community organization, participation, and co-responsibility in housing projects.
Certification and seal of safe and inclusive environments
Measurable recognition of compliance with the WUE technical and social standard.
Each service is delivered with documented products, client team training, and tracking indicators.
WUE-Academy
Specialized training to transform the way built spaces and urban and residential environments are designed, constructed, managed, and inhabited.
We develop technical and applied training programs to strengthen capabilities in organizations, professional teams, and communities, incorporating the gender perspective as a methodology of analysis and design to create safer, more inclusive, and sustainable environments.
Aimed at presidents, CEOs, boards of directors, and senior management:
- Strategic Leadership for Inclusive Real Estate Development
- The Business Case for Inclusive Housing
- Inclusive Cities as a Competitive Advantage
- New markets and opportunities for growth.
- Gender as an innovation strategy.
- Profitability and differentiation of the real estate product.
- Management of social and reputational risks.
- International trends, ESG criteria, and financing.
- Success stories in Latin America and Europe.
More in-depth programs for leadership teams. Programs designed to strengthen the capabilities of companies, public entities, and organizations linked to urban development, architecture, housing, and built environment management to incorporate gender equality, inclusion, and safety into their organizational culture and decision-making processes.
- Strategic Leadership for Inclusive Real Estate Development.
- Commercial Strategies for Inclusive Real Estate Markets.
- Innovation Management in the Built Environment.
For architects, urban planners, engineers, and social teams. Examples:
- Urban Planning with a Gender Perspective.
- Inclusive Architecture.
- Urban and Housing Safety.
- Housing for Older People.
- Universal design and accessibility.
- Commercial strategies for inclusive real estate markets.
- Governance and social management of residential projects.
- Implementation of the WUE Methodological System.
Highly oriented toward construction companies. Examples:
- Redesign of a real estate project with a gender perspective.
- Quick urban safety audit.
- Co-creation workshop with sales teams.
- Participatory design.
- Laboratory to develop a new real estate product aimed at women.
- Urban innovation laboratory.
- Laboratory to design an inclusive neighborhood.
- Senior housing laboratory.
This is not traditional training; it is an innovation space where the client works on their own projects.
For large construction companies, ministries, and international organizations. Examples:
- Training of internal multipliers.
- Training of instructors.
- Training of equality teams.
- Training of community facilitators.
Programs designed to strengthen citizen capacities for those who inhabit, manage, and appropriate the built spaces. Modules:
- Community leadership.
- Coexistence and civic culture.
- Violence prevention.
- Safe use of public space and workspace.
- Citizen participation.
- Right to housing and the city.
- Co-responsibility in care.
- Inclusion and diversity.
Ready to transform your urban project?
Contact our team of consultants and experts to discuss how the WUE system can bring rigor and equity to your architectural developments.