Karim Naghi

Department: Head Office - Commercial Department
Position: Commercial & Contracts Manager
Reporting to: Managing Director

Responsibilities:
- Contract Management: Contract administration, contract negotiations, subcontract agreements, letters of acceptance, settlement agreements, change management, extension of time claims, contractual correspondence, performance bond, bank guarantees, insurances, management of disputes and disputes resolution;
Well experienced in FIDIC forms of Contract and Subcontract.
- Legal Affairs: Liaison with lawyers in lawsuits, drafting legal memoranda and reports to the court, lead meetings with assigned engineering experts, managing subcontractors' legal disputes, and liaison with Abu Dhabi Reconciliation and Settlement Committee.
- Commercial Management: Negotiation of Proposals with the Client, variations & claims, value engineering, payment applications (billing), subcontractors’ invoices, Budget preparation, Cost Control (using Dolphin ERP), final account settlements, Cash flow and Bank Facilities.
- Planning Management: Oversee the preparation of tender programmes, baseline programmes, resources, programme updates, EOT claims, periodic reporting, progress dashboards and presentations.
- Projects Support & Handing Over: Support projects in critical stages, strategic decision making, lead projects close-out & handing over requirements (Initial / Final H.O.), maintenance and defects liability, DNP close-out & final account.
- Project types: Schools, Hospitals, Commercial & Residential buildings, other facilities.

Department: Head Office - Tendering & Contracts Department
Position: Contracts & Procurement Manager
Reporting to: General Manager

Responsibilities:
- Contracts & Procurement: Contract Negotiations, drafting of Subcontract Agreements, Letters of Intent, Purchase Orders.
- Legal Affairs: Liaison with lawyers in lawsuits, arbitration procedures, subcontractors' disputes, and Reconciliation Committee.
- Tendering & Estimation: Quantity Take-Off, Request for Quotations, evaluation of quotations & Comparison sheets, Cost build-up and pricing, Planning, Presentations, Technical Submittals, Tender Submissions, Post-tender support.
- Projects Support: Supporting Projects in critical stages, Variations & Claims, Final Account settlement, Planning, finalization of pending items, decision making, Testing & Commissioning, De-snagging, Handing Over.
- Project types: Mosques, schools, multiple storey buildings, sports facilities, military facilities and other general Service buildings for public sector (ministries, administration buildings, hospitals, cultural centres, etc…).

Contractor: MCM Group (Main Contractor)
Project: General Administrations Building - Ministry of Interiors, Abu Dhabi - U.A.E. (AED/ 250 M)
Client: Ministry of Interiors (MOI), PM: Ministry of Public Works (MOPW)
Consultant: Al-Bayaty Architects
Position: Project Manager
Reporting to: General Manager

Responsibilities:
- Liaison with Client, Client Representatives & the Engineer: progress meetings, technical coordination meetings, contractual correspondence, reporting.
- Liaison with Head Office Senior Management: internal progress meetings, Construction progress reports, strategic decision making, finalization of commercial / financial matters.
- Commercial & Contracts Management: Variation Orders, Claims, Extensions of Time, Procurement, Monthly Billing (payment applications), Cost in-progress reports, Sub-contractors' Progress payments & Final payment certificates, commercial reports, cost control.
- Management of Sub-contractors: performance monitoring, contractual correspondence, sub-contract agreements, coordination meetings.
- Planning: construction schedules, progress monitoring & reporting, extension of time claims, mitigation plans, look-ahead schedules.
- Staff Management: internal meetings, distribution of responsibilities (action plans), performance monitoring, internal memos.

Contractor: MCM Group, JV with China State Construction Engineering Corporation (as Main Contractor)
Project: Abu Dhabi Ladies Club, U.A.E. (AED/ 190 M)
Clients: Musanada (ADGSC), Abu Dhabi Sports Council; PMC: Mace intl.
Consultant: Urbanism Planning Architecture (UPA)
Position: Project Engineer / Planning Engineer
Reporting to: Sr. Project Manager

Responsibilities:
- Site construction & management: site supervision, subcontractors monitoring & coordination, manpower & equipment allocation, coordination with Consultant & Client representatives, progress meetings, quality control (inspections, NCR’s…), day-work management, evaluation of employees.
- Planning: Baseline program, Extension of Time claims (Program + substantiations + contract compliance), mitigation / recovery programs & acceleration schedules, procurement schedules, program updates & monitoring against target programs, manpower & equipment schedules, cash flow (histogram & S-curve), delay analysis, progress curves & analysis, weekly & monthly progress reports, weekly & monthly look-ahead schedules, review of sub-contractors’ schedules logic in coordination with Master Schedule.
- Cost control: Budget vs. Cost analysis, Payment applications to Client, payment certificates of sub-contractors, comparative statements & procurement.
- Dealing with local authorities: Building permit, fence permit, building completion certificate, entrance permit, no-objections & clearances, temporary/permanent utilities connections (electricity, water, telephone, internet…), coordination with services departments (sewerage, storm water…), Municipality inspections…
- Presentations & reports: Construction progress reports, cost in-progress reports,
presentations & reports to management and/or to Client, daily / weekly / monthly
reports.
- Contracts & correspondence: review of main construction contract & subcontract agreements, Joint Venture and financial agreements & coordination, letters to Consultant and Client, letters to suppliers and sub-contractors.

Department: Head Office - Estimation & Engineering Department
Position: Quantity Surveyor / Planning Engineer
Reporting to: Chief Estimator
Tenders:
- Food Control Authority Center, Abu Dhabi - U.A.E. (AED\ 800 M, awarded but funding cancelled)
- Abu Dhabi Ladies Club, Abu Dhabi - U.A.E. (AED\ 140 M, awarded)
- Sheikh Khalifa Specialist Hospital, Ras Al Khaimah - U.A.E. (AED\ 550 M, awarded)
- General Administrations Building, Ministry of Interior, Abu Dhabi - U.A.E (AED\ 230 M, awarded)

Responsibilities:
- Technical submittals for both Pre-Tender and Post-Tender stages (Method statements, Quality Plans & Safety plans, Drawings…)
- BOQ preparation, Quantity take-off, Requests for Quotations, Estimation & Pricing.
- Price comparisons, Technical & Commercial evaluation of subcontractors’ offers.
- Project Planning: Preliminary schedules using Primavera for the above mentioned tenders, and detailed schedules for awarded contracts.
- Review of Construction contracts and related documents.