Azad Ayub Profile

About Me

Azad Ayub is a civil engineer with an MSc & DIC from the Imperial College, London. He has worked on and led numerous design and construction projects both within the United Kingdom and overseas. He now focuses more on his property ownership, management and development business, which was established over 40 years ago and has been operating successfully since, catering to the niche student and young professional accommodation market and employing around 20 people, with assets in the UK, USA, Spain and Pakistan. Azad continues to maintain strong associations with well-known local and international professional organisations and regularly supports charities and engages in charitable projects both locally and abroad. Over the years, both Azad and his business have won numerous awards for their continued commitment to green issues, staff training and talent development.

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Achievements

Since starting operations in 1980, Azad and his company have won numerous accolades for their commitment to sustainable accommodation, green issues and staff training and development. ‘Our longevity in the sector enables us to provide continuity to our tenants, landlords and staff, whilst continuing to provide sustainable services’ says Azad.

‘Some of our property maintenance professionals are second generation employees, meaning we share a common purpose and values.’

‘Those values are to provide good services to everybody at affordable prices, which means maintaining our properties to a very high standard in the most sustainable way possible,’ adds Azad, who also directly supports education and poverty alleviation projects at home and abroad and actively campaigns for promotion of sustainability within business operations, supporting organizations such as Able Child Africa, The Citizen’s Foundation, Lord Mayor’s Appeal Charity, Television for the Environment and many others.

2019 Best Landlord for Student Housing

2016 Best Green Landlord Award

2013 Winner of Inspire! Award

2016 Able Child Africa Recognition Award

2018 Featured in The Parliamentary Review

2000 Member of American Society of Civil Engineers

Business & Health

Azad has always had a strong passion for civil engineering and property development. An investor, entrepreneur with an international civil engineering background and founder of a multi-national award-winning property management and development company, Azad is now focusing on helping companies drive efficiencies in their business and design systems that will lead to better productivity and help develop talent. He delivers this via non-executive board positions as well as through different chambers of commerce. Azad is also interested in sharing his expertise at local and national government level.

Azad enjoys staying in shape and actively follows all major sport. ‘I religiously believe in the words that ‘physical fitness is not only important for a healthy body but it also forms the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity’, says Azad.