Architect Coordinator and Quantity Surveyor QS
Private company
Total years of experience :13 years, 5 Months
• Review and analyze the Tender Documents of various Work packages to check for missing information, documents and discrepancies ensuring the completeness and accuracy of the Tender packages resulting in avoidance of any ambiguity and confusion.
• Create amended Bills of Quantities and Value Engineering options to meet the client's objectives and guarantee a Value Engineered Budget by reducing 2 million KWD from the original budget.
• Send RFQ (Request for Quotation) to Potential Bidders with the required documents as part of the Bidding Process and chase up the timely submissions of quotations within the deadline.
• Orchestrated pre-tender meetings and bidder conferences to proactively address inquiries and discrepancies, fostering transparency and ensuring an equitable bidding process.
• Assist Project Director by composing technical and financial comparisons for the received quotations to determine the best quote and the Contractor that satisfies the Project requirements.
• Pursued the contractors for their compliance with the design, contract procedures, and schedule to make certain the adherence with the Contract documents.
• Review payment requests, take appropriate action in line with site development, and confirm the accuracy of payment certificates.
• Successfully assisted the Project Director in constructing a realistic Budget and updating the budget, which enabled the PM team to keep track of the cost baseline.
• Create purchase orders as needed in accordance with project specifications.
• Develop and update the logs, registers, and other tables for tracking purposes (Project schedules, Budget tracking, documents, etc.).
• Write up monthly progress reports for the client to evaluate.
• Coordinate meetings and associated materials for discussion/presentation. Attending weekly progress meetings and putting together the Minutes of meetings, which helps the PD track the project.
• Support the Project Manager and Site Engineer in general management and coordination of the project.
• Coordination with the Designers directly regarding the design changes as per Client requirements and Value Engineering. Successfully managed a team of 5 draftspersons to produce the shop drawings based on the updated design.
• Detect and raise Request of Information (RFI) on time to get the proper solutions and implement the solutions in the drawings and at the site.
• Attend the Project Coordination Meetings and make inquiries about any pending items as per Project specifications.
• Liaise with the Main contractor, and multiple Contractors of different trades to resolve issues in relation to coordination.
• Checks shop drawings and create redlines for correction based on the Project Documents (drawings, Specifications and Bill of Quantities) and successfully guided the team in timely completion and approval of Shop drawings and As-built drawings of around 500 nos.
• Develop, maintain, and pursue Engineering and Architecture activity logs to track progress.
• Based on the design revisions and RFI (Request for Information) responses, prepare variations worth about 1 million KWD, present them, and get the consultant's approval.
• Verify and assess subcontractors' monthly payments and ensure payment certificates are accurate with site development.
• Prepare, submit, and track the monthly work-in-progress appraisal for timely payment receivables.
• Successfully finalized the VE (Value Engineered) Bill of Quantities equivalent to 1 million KWD based on the revised drawings from the Consultant as per the Client requirements.
Job Role: Design/Creative
8*Prepare Architectural drawings as per Principal Architects design and instruction.
* Prepare Municipality Approval drawings.
* Performs original design work utilizing specifications, sketches and ideas on developing designs.
As part of the training, underwent training on Architectural design concepts, development of concept designs with exposure to working details. Also was introduced to ongoing construction projects to get first hand information on construction procedures