Advanced Design Innovation LLC is a subsidiary of BSB Design, a firm which is entering its 5th decade in business as one of America’s leading architectural design and community planning firms. BSB Design is headquartered in Des Moines, Iowa, and operates offices in 15 locations across America. Advanced Design Innovation has partnered with Barclays Bank, ABSA, and a top engineering project team from Africon to create the Abōd demonstration site. 
                                                             *Learn more at www.bsbdesign.com 

Founded in 2001, Blessman Ministries is a non-profit organization that provides medical outreach to impoverished nations throughout the globe. Currently operating primarily in Africa, the group provides health and eye care to South African citizens through missionary trips of volunteers. Also, by partnering with the Reaching a Generation group, Blessman Ministries is serving thousands of children orphaned by AIDS in Africa.
*Adapted from www.blessmanmedicalministries.org

 

Africon began 50 years ago as a conventional civil and structural consulting engineering company. From humble beginnings, the firm has become a dynamic, leading-edge consultancy ranked among the world’s top 200 international design firms and among South Africa's top five companies in the consulting engineering sector. Africon provides both core engineering services and other related services to customize or completely integrate solutions across the full infrastructure life-cycle. 
                                             *Adapted from www.africon.com

 

Barclays is a UK-based financial services group with a large international presence in Europe, the USA, Africa and Asia. It is engaged primarily in banking, investment banking and investment management. In terms of market capitalization, Barclays is one of the largest financial services companies in the world. It has been operating for more than 300 years with 25 million customers and 118,000 employees in over 60 countries.
*Adapted from www.barclays.com

Absa is one of South Africa's largest financial groups offering a complete range of banking and wealth management products and services. Absa primarily conducts business in South Africa and throughout the African continent, where it has equity holdings in banks in Mozambique, Angola, Tanzania, Namibia and Zimbabwe. As of June 2006, Absa had more than 720 physical outlets, over 8 million customers and 34, 688 permanent employees. Absa has been a subsidiary of Barclays since July 27, 2005.
                                             *Adapted from www.absa.co.za