Ahmed El-Orabi, Geotechnical Design Manager

Ahmed El-Orabi

Geotechnical Design Manager

Menard vibro Middle East

Location
Egypt - Cairo
Education
Master's degree, Geotechnical and Building Engineering
Experience
13 years, 9 Months

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Total years of experience :13 years, 9 Months

Geotechnical Design Manager at Menard vibro Middle East
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • My current job since March 2018

Leading design department of Menard Vibro Middle East in Egypt, Saudi and Bahrain

Geotechnical Engineer at Dar Group - Dar Al-Handasah ( shair and partners )
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • August 2014 to February 2018

Geotechnical Engineer
Participates in the preparation of geotechnical investigation programmes, review of campaign results and providing geotechnical recommendations and reports, and design of geotechnical and foundation systems, including coordination with other trades and preparation of specifications and other technical design documents.

Technical Manager/Senior Geoetchncial Engineer at Arab Center for Engineering Studies (ACES)
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • January 2014 to August 2014

- Implementing policies, goals, objectives, and procedures and providing support during their development as needed.
- Overseeing the implementation of operation plans, policies, procedures and transition/migration plans.
- Preparing daily drilling work programme, and issuing work orders to drillers in accordance with project specifications and contractual agreements.
- Ensuring Clients' requirements are carried out in accordance with contract specifications, policies and procedures.
- Conducting offsite inspection visits and preparing site inspection reports.
- Collecting data by utilising various types of field instrumentation such inclinometers, piezometers and settlement monitoring devices.
- Conducting visual inspections of obtained soil rock and rock samples.
- Preparing laboratory testing programmes for geotechnical investigations.
- Preparing geotechnical reports in compliance with related standard test methods and Clients' requirements.
- Organising records and files for plans and ongoing projects, including incoming and outgoing correspondences, project specifications and drawings, laboratory test forms and all related ISO forms.
- Preparing technical and financial proposals.
- Performing laboratory analyses and field tests using computer programmes.
- Following-up on the implementation of safety regulations and protection measures on site.
- Following-up on the implementation of field and laboratory plans and programmes.
- Producing maps (subsurface profiles) of soil types and their distribution.
- Design, analysis and conducting calculations for various shallow and deep foundation systems for various types of structures
- Design and analysis of various permanent and temporary earth retaining systems such as concrete gravity, soldier beam and lagging and sheet pile walls, along with associated slope stability analysis utilising several computerised solution techniques.
- Instructing the drillers on the drilling methodology and tools.
- Planning and programming site investigation works, taking into consideration any related obstacles such as accessibility and existing structures.
- Preparing Project Quality Plan (PQP) for large scale projects, and following-up on project expenses.

Geotechnical Engineer at Prof. Dr. Abdelsalam Salem Consulting Engineering Office
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • August 2010 to December 2013

Geotechnical Engineer
Feasibility and desk studies, computer analysis, ground investigation planning and supervision, technical reporting, engineering design, completion of other technical tasks as suitable, carrying out site visits and acting as liaison with Stakeholders, Contractors, Clients, and other professional bodies. Projects comprised:

Education

Master's degree, Geotechnical and Building Engineering
  • at Cairo University
  • January 2016

Evaluation of Inverted U-Shaped Retaining wall, using PLAXIS 2D, and Limit Equilibrium approach.

Specialties & Skills

Seismic Design
Finite Element Analysis
Geotechnical Engineering
Soil Science
Retaining Walls
seismic analysis
Deep foundations
Soil/structures interaction
Retaining walls and diaphragm
Risk assessment
Plaxis 2D and 3D
Dewatering and ground water control
Numerical modeling
Earth works and geo hazards
Land slide

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Languages

English
Expert

Memberships

Egyptian Syndicate of Engineers
  • Civil Engineer
  • August 2010
Saudi Syndicate of Engineers
  • Civil Engineer
  • February 2014
International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering ISSMGE
  • Geotechnical Engineer
  • March 2015
Egyptian Geotechnical Society
  • Geotechnical Engineer
  • March 2014

Hobbies

  • Playing football