DOI: 10.17605/osf.io/apcuk
title: NCACI vs Conventional Consultancies: A Humanity-First Framework under Radhika BuildScience

description: The National Centre for Applied Civil Innovation (NCACI) has been developed as a pioneering institutional framework under Radhika BuildScience, in association with the International Board of Research and Innovation (IBRI). Traditional consultancy models across the world are largely profit-driven, often treating consultancy as a purely transactional service. While such models succeed in delivering technical solutions, they frequently fail to integrate ethical responsibility, transparency, or broader societal benefits. At the same time, purely academic research centres generate knowledge but often struggle to translate their findings into field applications. This dual gap — profit-focused consultancy on one side and disconnected research on the other — has motivated the creation of NCACI as a hybrid solution that bridges both worlds.

Core Framework of NCACI

NCACI integrates three pillars into a single operational model:

Knowledge Creation – Developing original frameworks and models tailored for real-world civil engineering challenges. These include:

StructoPlast™: Plastic-based reinforcement systems for sustainable structures.

PhytoCivils™: Plant-integrated bio-structural models for slope and soil stabilization.

Reflective Pavement Systems: Heat-mitigation surfaces for urban and rural roads.

Slope Stabilization Models: Innovative hybrid retaining wall techniques for hilly terrains.

AeroPlast™ Shelters: Lightweight hybrid cabinets and modular shelters for disaster relief and low-resource regions.

Knowledge Dissemination – Ensuring that every project output is converted into an open-access, DOI-assigned publication. This guarantees transparency, global visibility, and long-term replicability. NCACI rejects the closed-report model of conventional consultancies and instead treats each technical outcome as a contribution to the global academic commons.

Knowledge Application – Translating research into consultancy services, training workshops, and community awareness programs. This ensures that NCACI’s innovations are not confined to papers but actively improve infrastructure resilience and community well-being.

Ethical and Financial Model

The distinguishing feature of NCACI is its humanity-first financial framework. The centre operates on a no-profit-no-loss principle, ensuring that only essential operational costs and sustainability reserves are maintained. Importantly, up to 90% of surplus income is reinvested into charity, education, and social development projects.

This approach means that:

Clients receive competitively priced consultancy services.

Surplus funds strengthen society by supporting scholarships, disaster relief shelters, rural training, and sustainable pilot projects.

Each client, knowingly or unknowingly, becomes an indirect donor — their project fees generate dual outcomes: a technical solution and a humanitarian contribution.

This reinvestment framework transforms consultancy from a profit-oriented service into a social contract, making NCACI a comparative alternative to profit-driven consultancies worldwide.

Comparative Advantage

To highlight NCACI’s uniqueness, comparisons can be drawn with conventional profit-based consultancies:

Profit Consultancy: Delivers a 10 km highway retrofit, earns a 20% margin, retains surplus.

NCACI: Delivers the same highway retrofit, documents findings in open-access form, reinvests surplus into road safety workshops for nearby villages, and funds AeroPlast™ Shelters for travelers.

Hypothetical data shows the contrast clearly:

Profit consultancy → ₹50 lakh surplus retained.

NCACI → ₹10 lakh surplus generated; ₹9 lakh redirected to charity, ₹1 lakh reserved for research sustainability.

Such comparisons illustrate how NCACI’s dual model achieves both technical impact and social transformation.

Global Collaboration Potential

NCACI’s framework is designed for international scalability. Its transparent outputs and DOI-assigned publications allow universities, governments, NGOs, and industries worldwide to adopt or replicate its models. Potential collaborations include:

Academia: Joint research on reflective pavements and bio-integrated infrastructure.

Governments: Policy pilots for humanitarian consultancy frameworks.

Industries: Ethical consultancy partnerships aligning with corporate social responsibility (CSR).

NGOs: Deployment of AeroPlast™ Shelters and slope stabilization systems in disaster zones.

By offering a replicable, ethical, and transparent consultancy model, NCACI aspires to become a global reference point for applied civil innovation.

Socio-Economic Impact

The socio-economic implications of NCACI’s 90% charity model are significant. Hypothetically, if NCACI executes 100 projects over ten years with a cumulative revenue of ₹100 crore, even a modest surplus of ₹10 crore would mean ₹9 crore redirected into social good. This could translate into:

5,000 students receiving rural engineering training,

500 AeroPlast™ Shelters deployed in disaster-affected zones,

Multiple pilot projects in reflective pavements and PhytoCivils™ systems across rural India.

Thus, NCACI not only addresses immediate infrastructure challenges but also strengthens long-term community resilience.

Vision and Long-Term Roadmap

The vision of NCACI is to become a globally recognized centre where engineering, ethics, and humanity converge.

Short-term (Years 1–5): Establish frameworks, publish open-access outputs, initiate rural-focused projects.

Medium-term (Years 5–10): Build national and international collaborations; expand training and certification programs.

Long-term (Years 10–20): Function as a global benchmark for ethical consultancy, inspiring institutions worldwide to adopt humanity-first principles.

Conclusion

The National Centre for Applied Civil Innovation (NCACI) demonstrates that consultancy can evolve beyond transactional models into a dual-purpose mechanism that benefits both clients and society. By integrating innovative research with transparent dissemination and a 90% charity reinvestment model, NCACI establishes itself as a comparative and humanity-first framework.

This OSF project records the conceptual foundation of NCACI, its operational model, comparative case studies, and future research directions. It provides an open and replicable blueprint for how applied civil innovation can align technical excellence with social accountability.