Architect - Landscape Architect
HESCO Engineering Services
Total years of experience :4 years, 9 Months
The company acts as the primary engineering consultant for royal high-end big-scale projects, particularly in KSA. It oversees all engineering works by engaging various subconsultants:
•Creating IFC drawings internally, encompassing initiating projects with conceptual design presentations, progressing to schematic design presentations, and further developing technical design proposals. Overseeing site master planning and utilizing both 2D drawings and 3D renderings. Additionally, coordinating closely with various departments and subconsultants.
•Coordinating among all project stakeholders, including client representatives, PMC, LDCs, subconsultants, and contractors, through weekly meetings and regular follow-ups.
•Delivering face-to-face presentations to client representatives at KSA headquarters, summarizing project details.
•Reviewing and providing feedback on the subconsultants' landscape design packages, suggesting adjustments to ensure alignment with project feasibility and aesthetic standards.
•Providing feedback and comments on contractors' shop drawings, and responding to their queries and RFIs.
•Served as the BIM responsible and primary liaison from the landscape department for the ACC-BIM360 platform, managing file uploads, performing file checks, and ensuring proper clash detection procedures.
Worked as an Architectural Engineer overseeing various projects in KSA:
• Led a team of three architects, delegating the tasks and checking the work for accuracy and seamless coordination. Acted as the primary liaison between the architectural team, site team, project management, subcontractors, and project stakeholders. Thus, facilitating communication and collaboration across all project facets.
• Prepared architectural shop drawings and execution drawings for large-scale projects, including technical buildings such as water treatment plants.
• Coordinated technical aspects across multiple disciplines including Structural, Electro-mechanical, Environmental (civil / grading), and QS.
• Managed the initial design process of site grading and hardscape drawings surrounding buildings, ensuring coordination among landscape, roads, site grading, and architecture to ensure functional site implementation.
• Proposed architectural and structural solutions to ensure buildings’ alignment with other disciplines and maintain project cohesion.
• Actively attended meetings with project managers, technical engineers, consultants, and subcontractors, contributing to the decision-making process.
• Prepared preliminary drawings for suppliers and subcontractors.
• Reviewed subcontractors’ files to ensure alignment with project design.
• Effectively coordinated and engaged in negotiations with various stakeholders, including WSP, Diriyah Gate Development Authority, Greg Norman Architects, and ATKINS to finalize designs for the Wadi Safar Golf Project.
Designed various outdoor architectural elements, created 3D models, and produced CGIs for the Wadi Safar Golf Project.
• Managed production of shop drawings for various hardscape elements on the MISK Sports Park and Yunbu Al Baher projects.
• Designed underground water tanks and pump rooms for the Green Riyadh Highway project.
Tender Projects:
• Developed architectural tender drawings for projects by NEOM, ARAMCO and other clients.
• Prepared BOQs and supported the process with presentations, sketches, 3D models, renderings and 3D animations.
• Design optimization with the relevant needed specialists to ensure cost control and to secure successful bids.
Led the design and coordination of an upscale residential project from concept to execution.
• Coordinated closely with the client, presenting and developing design proposals during meetings.
• Prepared measurement statements for the building.
• Conceptualized and designed interior spaces and furniture, ensuring a cohesive and visually appealing aesthetic.
• Produced 3D modeling and renderings to provide clients with realistic representations.
• Produced detailed execution drawings for accurate execution.
• Supported Site Engineer during site visits, ensuring compliance with design drawings.
- Final year Project and Thesis were ranked 2nd in a class of 31 students: Combining fairy tales and fantasy stories with architecture, my thesis asked philosophical questions; if we removed the words from the tale to focus on spaces, rooms and landscapes, what would become the lesson of architecture? How can we push the limits of architecture to ignite our imagination? Do our imaginary worlds, then, help us to escape, not only from reality, but from our own limitations? Is it possible that we might bring back from our escapist adventures a renewed sense of our own power and creative potential as human beings? My project came, first as an escape from the real world, second as an architectural tool encouraging critical thinking and creativity. Combining an amusement parc with experimental spaces, museums and pavilions, that aim to explore the similarities between our Lebanese reality and fantasy through an experimental journey. - Honor Student for 5 consecutive years. - Honor of Academic Achievement from the president of the Lebanese University. - UN HABITAT competition winner: The competition was launched by UN-Habitat in collaboration with the OEA and the Municipality of Tripoli to design a public space in AbiSamra – Tripoli. Invited to present the project during the 9th session of the World Urban Forum (WUF9 2018: Cities 2030) held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, under three different panels (student team project).