Heba Bahaaeldin, Quantity Surveyor Engineer

Heba Bahaaeldin

Quantity Surveyor Engineer

WSP in the Middle East/ Gulf Consult

Location
Kuwait - Hawali
Education
Master's degree, Professional Master Degree of Negotiation and Contract Drafting
Experience
20 years, 4 Months

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Total years of experience :20 years, 4 Months

Quantity Surveyor Engineer at WSP in the Middle East/ Gulf Consult
  • Kuwait - Hawali
  • My current job since March 2019

Project: Construction and Maintenance of Roads, Bridges, Storm Water Drainage, Sewer, and Other Services for Cairo Street
Client: Public Authority for Roads and Land Transportation
Project Value: 109, 660, 256 K.D. approx.

Key Roles & Responsibilities:
• Claim Management:
o Verify and Check the Main Contractor’s claim on contractual basis
o Analyze, investigate, and report on claims submitted by contractors including negotiations to settle claim, prepare claims for contractors including all negotiations on behalf of client.
o Assess variation and prepare the BOQ for variations
• Commercial Management:
o Prepare Take off and Site Measurement Quantities.
o Verify and certify contractor’s cost loading
o Prepare consultant’s payments.
o Verify and certify contractor’s payments
o Validate payment applications prepared by QS team
• Contract Management:
o Provide contractual advice on ongoing project contractual requirements
o Prepare contractual correspondences for employers and contractor where appropriate
• Team Management: Communicating and cooperate with site supervision team members to deliver the project in a successful manner
• Data Management: Establish data management procedure to collect, collate, store and analyses.
• Prepare value engineering proposal: advising its suitability and potential cost benefit.
• Contract Administration: Contractual correspondences for Employer, Engineer, and interface coordination. Prepared Interim Payment Applications (IPA), Certified Contractor’s Interim Payments, Final Account and Final Turnover Documentation, etc.
• Cost plan and Cost control: Ensure that designs as well as construction cost within clients' budget. Undertake cost planning and cost checking during supervision periods and establish and implement cost control system throughout construction period.
• Contract Administration: Contractual correspondences for Employer, Engineer, and interface coordination, notices for EOT & Claims. Certified Contractor’s Interim Payments, Final Account and Final Turnover Documentation, etc.
• Post Contract Administration: Monitor financial and contractual aspects of projects during construction including cost reports and cash flow projections on behalf of clients, certificates of interim payments to contractors and measurement of variations and agreement of final accounts with contractors.

Project Quantity Surveyor at Louis Berger Group, Inc (WSP International LLC) In Association with Pan Arab Consulting Engineers W.
  • Kuwait - Al Kuwait
  • March 2020 to March 2023

Project: Construction, Completion and Maintenance of Roads, Overpasses, Storm-water, Drainage, Sewer, and other Services for Jahra Road
Client: Public Authority for Roads and Land Transportation (Ministry of Public Works, Roads Engineering Administration, Motorways and Bridges Department Previously).
Project Value: 267, 815, 075.000 K.D. approx.

Key Roles & Responsibilities:
• Claim Management:
o Verify and Check the Main Contractor’s claim on contractual basis
o Analyze, investigate, and report on claims submitted by contractors including negotiations to settle claim, prepare claims for contractors including all negotiations on behalf of client.
o Assess variation and prepare the BOQ for variations
• Commercial Management:
o Prepare Take off and Site Measurement Quantities.
o Verify and certify contractor’s cost loading
o Prepare consultant’s payments.
o Verify and certify contractor’s payments
o Validate payment applications prepared by QS team
• Contract Management:
o Provide contractual advice on ongoing project contractual requirements
o Prepare contractual correspondences for employers and contractor where appropriate
• Team Management: Communicating and cooperate with site supervision team members to deliver the project in a successful manner
• Data Management: Establish data management procedure to collect, collate, store and analyses.
• Prepare value engineering proposal: advising its suitability and potential cost benefit.
• Contract Administration: Contractual correspondences for Employer, Engineer, and interface coordination. Prepared Interim Payment Applications (IPA), Certified Contractor’s Interim Payments, Final Account and Final Turnover Documentation, etc.
• Cost plan and Cost control: Ensure that designs as well as construction cost within clients' budget. Undertake cost planning and cost checking during supervision periods and establish and implement cost control system throughout construction period.
• Contract Administration: Contractual correspondences for Employer, Engineer, and interface coordination, notices for EOT & Claims. Certified Contractor’s Interim Payments, Final Account and Final Turnover Documentation, etc.
• Post Contract Administration: Monitor financial and contractual aspects of projects during construction including cost reports and cash flow projections on behalf of clients, certificates of interim payments to contractors and measurement of variations and agreement of final accounts with contractors.

Quantity Surveyor Engineer at Dar Al-Handasah/ Dar SSH International Engineering
  • Kuwait - Al Kuwait
  • October 2014 to February 2019

Project: Design, Build, Completion and Maintain Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah Causeway Project (Main Link).
Client: Public Authority for Roads and Land Transportation (Ministry of Public Works, Roads Engineering Administration, Motorways and Bridges Department Previously).
Project Value: 739, 689, 106.788 K.D. approx.

Key Roles & Responsibilities:
• Claim Management:
o Verify and Check the Main Contractor’s claim on contractual basis
o Analyze, investigate, and report on claims submitted by contractors including negotiations to settle claim, prepare claims for contractors including all negotiations on behalf of client.
o Assess variation and prepare the BOQ for variations
• Commercial Management:
o Prepare Take off and Site Measurement Quantities.
o Verify and certify contractor’s cost loading
o Prepare consultant’s payments.
o Verify and certify contractor’s payments
o Validate payment applications prepared by QS team
• Contract Management:
o Provide contractual advice on ongoing project contractual requirements
o Prepare contractual correspondences for employers and contractor where appropriate
• Team Management: Communicating and cooperate with site supervision team members to deliver the project in a successful manner
• Data Management: Establish data management procedure to collect, collate, store and analyses.
• Prepare value engineering proposal: advising its suitability and potential cost benefit.
• Contract Administration: Contractual correspondences for Employer, Engineer, and interface coordination. Prepared Interim Payment Applications (IPA), Certified Contractor’s Interim Payments, Final Account and Final Turnover Documentation, etc.
• Cost plan and Cost control: Ensure that designs as well as construction cost within clients' budget. Undertake cost planning and cost checking during supervision periods and establish and implement cost control system throughout construction period.
• Contract Administration: Contractual correspondences for Employer, Engineer, and interface coordination, notices for EOT & Claims. Certified Contractor’s Interim Payments, Final Account and Final Turnover Documentation, etc.
• Post Contract Administration: Monitor financial and contractual aspects of projects during construction including cost reports and cash flow projections on behalf of clients, certificates of interim payments to contractors and measurement of variations and agreement of final accounts with contractors.

Site Quantity Surveyor Engineer at Rizzani De Eccher-OHL-Boodai-Trevi Joint Venture (ROBT JV)
  • Kuwait - Al Kuwait
  • October 2012 to September 2014

Project: Construction, Completion and maintenance of Roads, Overpasses, Storm-Water Drainage, Sewer, and other Services for Jamal Abdul Nasser Street.
Client: Ministry of Public Works, Roads Engineering Administration, Motorways and Bridges Department.
Project Value: 242, 420, 000 K.D. approx.

Key Roles & Responsibilities:
• Claim Management:
o Verify and check the subcontractor’s claim on contractual basis
o Investigate for evidence to validate the claim by coordinating with relevant parties
o Prepare claims including narrative, keep track and update Claim log and management
• Commercial Management:
o Site Measurement and prepare interim payment applications.
o Monitor all ongoing project regularly and make sure process in-line with the Contractual requirements
o Provide cost reports and Cost control advise for ongoing project
o Prepare the contractor’s payment with the QS team.
o Verify and certify subcontractor’s payments
o Assess Variations and prepare the BOQ for variations.
• Contract Management:
o Provide contractual advice on ongoing project contractual requirements
o Remind the Chief Quantity Surveyor to issue notices in a timely manner for the claims, delays, variations, or any other circumstances which requires notices under the Contract
• Data Management:
o Make sure that all contractual data secured from unauthorized access and stored in different geological location in a regular basis by coordination with IT department
o Maintain regular backups of soft and hard copy of Contract documents.
• Contract Administration: Prepared Interim Payment Applications (IPA), Certified Sub Contractor’s Interim Payments, Final Account and Final Turnover Documentation, etc.
• Post Contract Administration: Monitor financial and contractual aspects of projects during construction.
• Cost plan and Cost control:
o Prepare Cost report including variation orders and Pending Claims.
o Prepare Data base for prices of material and cost.

Quantity Surveyor Engineer at Burhan International Construction Company
  • Kuwait - Al Farawaniyah
  • September 2012 to September 2012

Project: Construction, Completion, and maintenance Interchanges on Main Highways, 6th & 7th Ring Motorways Connecting to New Housing Area at West of Jleeb Al-Shuyoukh
Client: Ministry of Public Works, Roads Engineering Administration, Motorways and Bridges Department.

‎Key Roles & Responsibilities:
• Claim Management:
o Verify and check the subcontractor’s claim on contractual basis
o Investigate for evidence to validate the claim by coordinating with relevant parties
o Prepare claims including narrative, keep track and update Claim log and management
• Commercial Management:
o Site Measurement and prepare interim payment applications.
o Monitor all ongoing project regularly and make sure process in-line with the Contractual requirements
o Provide cost reports and Cost control advise for ongoing project
o Prepare the contractor’s payment with the QS team.
o Verify and certify subcontractor’s payments
o Assess Variations and prepare the BOQ for variations.
• Contract Management:
o Provide contractual advice on ongoing project contractual requirements
o Remind the Chief Quantity Surveyor to issue notices in a timely manner for the claims, delays, variations, or any other circumstances which requires notices under the Contract
• Data Management:
o Make sure that all contractual data secured from unauthorized access and stored in different geological location in a regular basis by coordination with IT department
o Maintain regular backups of soft and hard copy of Contract documents.
• Contract Administration: Prepared Interim Payment Applications (IPA), Certified Sub Contractor’s Interim Payments, Final Account and Final Turnover Documentation, etc.
• Post Contract Administration: Monitor financial and contractual aspects of projects during construction.
• Cost plan and Cost control:
o Prepare Cost report including variation orders and Pending Claims.
o Prepare Data base for prices of material and cost.

Quantity Surveyor Engineer at Aktor-Copri Joint Venture
  • Kuwait - Al Kuwait
  • June 2009 to August 2012

Project: Construction and maintenance of roads, bridges, drainage, sewer, and other services for completion of First Ring Road- Jahra Gate Roundabout (Package1)
Client: Ministry of Public Works, Roads Engineering Administration, Motorways and Bridges Department.
Project Value: 28, 716, 326.083 K.D. approx.

Key Roles & Responsibilities:
• Claim Management:
o Verify and check the subcontractor’s claim on contractual basis
o Investigate for evidence to validate the claim by coordinating with relevant parties
o Prepare claims including narrative, keep track and update Claim log and management
• Commercial Management:
o Site Measurement and prepare interim payment applications.
o Monitor all ongoing project regularly and make sure process in-line with the Contractual requirements
o Provide cost reports and Cost control advise for ongoing project
o Prepare the contractor’s payment with the QS team.
o Verify and certify subcontractor’s payments
o Assess Variations and prepare the BOQ for variations.
• Contract Management:
o Provide contractual advice on ongoing project contractual requirements
o Remind the Chief Quantity Surveyor to issue notices in a timely manner for the claims, delays, variations, or any other circumstances which requires notices under the Contract
• Data Management:
o Make sure that all contractual data secured from unauthorized access and stored in different geological location in a regular basis by coordination with IT department
o Maintain regular backups of soft and hard copy of Contract documents.
• Contract Administration: Prepared Interim Payment Applications (IPA), Certified Sub Contractor’s Interim Payments, Final Account and Final Turnover Documentation, etc.
• Post Contract Administration: Monitor financial and contractual aspects of projects during construction.
• Cost plan and Cost control:
o Prepare Cost report including variation orders and Pending Claims.
o Prepare Data base for prices of material and cost.

Tendering and Contracting Engineer at Najeeb Al-Humaidhi Engineering Consultancy
  • Kuwait - Al Kuwait
  • May 2007 to June 2009

Projects: Private Projects such as
• Residential Buildings
o Private Villas, Kuwait
o Al-Mahboula Residential Building, Kuwait
o Layan Residential Villas, Egypt
• Commercial Buildings: Iveco Workshop, Kuwait
• Administration Buildings: Cairo Served Offices, Egypt
Clients:
• Investment Dar, Kuwait
• Efad Holding, Kuwait
• Manazel Development, Egypt
• Efad-Misr Holding, Egypt

Key Roles & Responsibilities:
• Commercial Management:
o Take-off Quantities (POMI Method) and BOQ preparation
o Prepare Tender documents and tender floating, Tender evaluation, and reporting
o Prepare Contract Documents
o Prepare Data base for prices of material and cost
o Draft Subcontract agreements in a very clear and concise manner to avoid any possible conflicts in future
o Provide advices on new contract agreements by doing risk and opportunity analysis
o Carryout tendering and tender evaluations to select subcontractors
• Team Management:
o Manage QS team
o Communicating and cooperate with design team members to submit the project documents in a successful manner.
• Tender Evaluations and Recommendation: Prepare the scoring matrix and check list for technical evaluation. Involve in commercial evaluation while technical team being involved in technical evaluation. Assist in the preparation of tender evaluation report. Provide recommendation on a suitable sub-contractor.
• Value Engineering: Prepare value engineering proposal advising its suitability and potential cost benefit.
• Cost plan: Ensure that designs within clients' budget. Undertake cost planning during design period.
• Financial Feasibility Study: Participate in feasibility studies, including assessment of building costs and formulation of budget estimates.

Tendering and Estimating Engineer at Ahmad Sulaiman El-Fahed and Brothers General Trading and Contracting Company
  • Kuwait - Hawali
  • March 2004 to April 2007

• Governmental Sector, like:
o Construction Works: Building of MOD Mosque
o Maintenance and renovation of Governmental Offices
o Renovation of Hospital Rooms
• Private Sector, like:
o Waterproofing Works for Safat Home Showroom
Clients:
• Government Sector (Ministry of Defense, Kuwait National Guards, Ministry of Heath, Ministry of Information)
• Private Sector (Al-Ghanim Industries)

Key Roles & Responsibilities:
• Commercial Management:
o Take-off Quantities
o Prepare Data base for prices of material and cost
o Draft Subcontract agreements in a very clear and concise manner to avoid any possible conflicts in future
• Team Management: Manage QS team
• Tender Evaluations and Recommendation: Prepare the check list for technical evaluation. Involve in commercial evaluation. Assist in the preparation of tender evaluation.
• Commercial Management:
o Site Measurement and prepare interim payment applications.
o Monitor all ongoing projects regularly and make sure process in-line with the Contractual requirements
o Prepare the contractor’s and subcontractor’s payments with the QS team.
o Verify and certify subcontractor’s payments
o Assess Variations and prepare the BOQ for variations.
• Contract Management:
o Issue notices in a timely manner for the claims, delays, variations or any other circumstances which requires notices under the Contract
o Prepare contractual correspondences for employers, engineers, subcontractors, suppliers, and the interface coordination purpose where appropriate
• Data Management: Maintain regular backups of soft and hard copy of Contract documents.
• Contract Administration: Contractual correspondences for Employer, Engineer, Subcontractor and interface coordination, notices for EOT & Claims. Prepared Interim Payment Applications (IPA), Certified Sub Contractor’s Interim Payments, Final Account and Final Turnover Documentation, etc.

Civil Engineer Trainer at Arab Contractors Company
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • July 1999 to August 1999

Training period in Tahrir Garage Project

Education

Master's degree, Professional Master Degree of Negotiation and Contract Drafting
  • at American Arabic Academy of Science and Technology
  • November 2016
Higher diploma, Negotiation and Contract Drafting
  • at Justice Academy for Legal and Economic Studies
  • October 2016

Course includes: * General theory in contracts * Language skills of equal legal authority in Arabic and English * Contract negotiation skills in Arabic and English (20 training hours) * Principles of legal drafting of contracts in Arabic and English * Legal and technical aspects of banking contracts * Specialized contracts and drafting in Arabic and English * Administrative Contracts / Bot / FIDIC / Franchise / Petroleum and Energy Contracts / International Trade Contracts / Corporate Contracts / Maritime Contracts / Investment Contracts / Arbitration Agreement.

Higher diploma, International Commercial Arbitration
  • at Justice Academy for Legal and Economic Studies
  • May 2016

The course is based on practical applications in both Arabic and English in the fields of arbitration through an intensive workshop for each course, as well as simulations of the arbitration sessions dealing with applications on specialized contract disputes, including: Arab and foreign investment disputes, capital market, letter of guarantee, , Petroleum contracts. Course includes: * General provisions in international commercial arbitration * Arbitration agreement and drafting rules * Arbitration Panel (Formation of Rights and Duties) * Arbitration procedures * Arbitration award and termination of proceedings * The invalidity of the arbitral award * Authentic and enforceable arbitration provisions * How to become a distinct arbitrator * Foreign terms * International Commercial Arbitration in English * Arbitration in specialized contracts * Research Hall

Bachelor's degree, Civil Engineering
  • at Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University
  • July 2003

Bachelor's of Civil Engineering

Specialties & Skills

Cost Control
AutoCAD
Payments
Engineering Drawings
SAP2000
WinWord
Power Point
Windows
Internet
Microsoft Project Manager 2002
AutoCAD
Primavera
Microsoft Excel
Civil Engineering
Quantity Surveying
Microsoft Excel
Microsoft Office
Cost Control

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert

Memberships

Engineering Syndicate in Egypt
  • Member of Engineering Syndicate
  • August 2003
Engineering Society in Kuwait
  • Member of Engineering Society
  • April 2004
Aladala Center for Arbitration & Legal Advice
  • International Advisor
  • June 2016
Egyptian Engineers Association
  • Member of Engineering Syndicate in Egypt
  • January 2017
Member of the Arab Society for Legal Science (ASLS)
  • Member of Justic Academy
  • August 2021

Training and Certifications

Fire Wardens Training (Training)
Training Institute:
WSP Site Office
Date Attended:
January 2019
Duration:
3 hours
PlanSwift (Training)
Training Institute:
Green Figure Techiques
Date Attended:
September 2023
Duration:
3 hours
Highfield Level 3 First Aid Training (Training)
Training Institute:
Induction Consultancy
Date Attended:
March 2023
Duration:
6 hours
Advanced Quantity Surveying Practice and Contract Management (AQS & CM) (Training)
Training Institute:
QS4QS
Date Attended:
December 2021
Duration:
2 hours
The Qualifying Program to become an MRICS (Training)
Training Institute:
Justice Academy
Date Attended:
August 2023
Duration:
96 hours
Tender Sum (Training)
Training Institute:
QS4QS
Date Attended:
June 2021
Duration:
2 hours
Introduction to Advanced Measurement and Construction Technology (Training)
Training Institute:
QS4QS
Date Attended:
June 2021
Duration:
2 hours
Effective and Efficient way of CV Writing for Quantity Surveyors (Training)
Training Institute:
QS4QS
Date Attended:
June 2021
Duration:
2 hours
The Sixth International Conference on Engineering Contracts, FIDIC (Training)
Training Institute:
Justice Academy
Date Attended:
August 2021
Duration:
12 hours
How to Advance in Quantity Surveying Career and Become MRICS? (Training)
Training Institute:
QS4QS
Date Attended:
September 2021
Duration:
2 hours
Advanced in Quantity Surveying Practice- Lesson 01 (Training)
Training Institute:
QS4QS
Date Attended:
September 2021
Duration:
2 hours
• AQS & CM- Type of Contract- Lesson No. 2 (Training)
Training Institute:
QS4QS
Date Attended:
December 2021
Duration:
2 hours
AQS & CM- Type of Contract- Lesson No. 1 (Training)
Training Institute:
QS4QS
Date Attended:
December 2021
Duration:
2 hours
How to Avoid the Failures during RICS-APC Interview (Training)
Training Institute:
QS4QS
Date Attended:
December 2021
Duration:
2 hours
Construction Claim Expert (Training)
Training Institute:
QS4QS
Date Attended:
January 2022
Duration:
48 hours
PLANSWIFT for Quantity Surveyor (Training)
Training Institute:
QS4QS
Date Attended:
January 2022
Duration:
3 hours
Contractor’s Claim- Lesson No. 1 (Training)
Training Institute:
QS4QS
Date Attended:
January 2022
Duration:
2 hours
Construction Payment Based on FIDIC 1999 Red Book (Training)
Training Institute:
QS4QS
Date Attended:
February 2022
Duration:
2 hours
AutoCAD, Primavera, SAP, ICDL, English Course (Certificate)
Date Attended:
July 2000
Valid Until:
December 2006

Hobbies

  • Reading, travelling, Brain Games