Racha  Rachwan, Design management director

Racha Rachwan

Design management director

Ace project management

Location
Egypt - Cairo
Education
Master's degree, Architecture - environmental design
Experience
22 years, 8 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :22 years, 8 Months

Design management director at Ace project management
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • My current job since August 2019
Design Manager at Al Futtaim Group
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • October 2015 to August 2019
Consultant at ACE Project Management
  • Egypt
  • December 2010 to October 2015

* Assist the design, construction team and owner in attaining GPRS/LEED certification
* Administer, review and verify all documentation and submittals to the GBC-Egypt/USGBC
* Establish a regular communication channel with all project team membersrequired to participate. Provide action items/agreement notes
* Provide point tracking in all project phases.
* Provide the owner with updated scorecard at a minimum of every two months and/or every time the scorecard changes.
Projects

Head of variation order department at The United company for real estate development
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • July 2007 to November 2010
Senior Architect at ACE Consulting Engineers (Moharram – Bakhoum)
  • Egypt
  • August 2001 to June 2007
Design Manager at Sabiduria Resor
  • United Arab Emirates
  • to

* Assist the Contracts group to develop the list of acceptable consultants during
the contract formation process.
* Prepare RFP documentation for issue to the approved consultants.
* Communicate instructions/directions to the Owner to review.
* Hold design coordination meetings as required and prepare meeting minutes and
inform Area Manager/Architect/Engineer when they are required.
* Monitor design consultants’ action items.
* Evaluate the deliverables and give formal comments.
* Assist in review of consultants’ invoices and provide information to the Contracts
Group to certify payments.
* Evaluate and recommend contract variation(s) for additional compensation to
consultants and Co-ordinate with Area Manager and the Contract
administrator(s)/Contracts Manager.
* Review and accept final documents for tender and for construction as requested
by the Area Manager, and Owner through

Team leader at Touristic & Real Estate
  • United Arab Emirates
  • to

Head of the Variation Orders department.
Job responsibilities:
* Responsible for the variation orders requested by the clients, calculations for the
quotations of the variations, delivering the drawings to the site and pursuing the
construction process.
* Responsible to make the design and the calculations for the swimming pools
following the clients requirements delivering the drawings to the site and
pursuing the construction process.

Education

Master's degree, Architecture - environmental design
  • at Faculty of Engineering, Ain Shams University
  • January 2008

On going Registered for the Sustainability Management Certified Professional Tier, 2014 2014 Energy Modelling Workshop, DesignBuilder 2014 Sustainable Building Design 2013 Passive Design in Hot Climate – Cairo 2013 Energy Efficient Construction - Sustainable Construction - Germany 2012 Associate Value Engineer, SAVE International 2012. 2012 LEED AP BD+C, USGBC 2012. 2008 Master degree in the environmental study – thesis “The Use of the Renewable Energies in the Urban Design of the University Buildings”

Specialties & Skills

LEED AP
Modeling Tools
Value Engineering
Design Management
Sustainability
ADMINISTRATION
AP STYLE
ARCHITECTURE
CONSULTING
DOCUMENTATION
ENGINEERING
LOTUS NOTES
PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert
French
Expert

Training and Certifications

Energy efficient construction - Green construction (Training)
Training Institute:
Berufsförderungswerk e.V. Des Bauindustrieverbandes Berlin-Brandenburg e.V.
Date Attended:
August 2013
Duration:
80 hours

Hobbies

  • Fantasy Sports
    I love sports and I am a seasonal triathlete participating in races to achieve my dreams and goals