Deputy Technical Manager
Arabtec Saudi Arabia
Total years of experience :14 years, 1 Months
Saudi Arabia National Guard (SANG), AL-Hasa
Project definition:
The project value is 5 billion SR, Client is Saudi Arabia National Guard, and Project consultants are DAR Al-Handasah & DAR Al-Riyadh. The project consists of building 5000 villas with all infra-structure and facilities.
Senior Project Architect - Technical Coordinator
Duties and Responsibilities:
• Managing and directing the technical staff workload & progress to ensure that the required shop drawings & documents are provided to site on time.
• Reviewing all engineering designs and correct / amend where necessary.
• Perform review of tender drawings and raising RFI's / submitting proposals where needed and negotiating with the consultant to achieve the planned schedule of the site progress.
• Intensive follow up with the consultant for getting the shop drawings approvals and providing it with the site team on time.
• Work closely with the construction site team to update them with all of the upcoming variations might be occurred prior handing over the documents officially and to ensure that the variations on work are appropriate and claimed for.
• Review all of the materials and shop drawings before submission to comply with the project tender and specifications, and to ensure all design changes and solutions are implemented and coordinated into the project design documentation.
• Manage, co-ordinate and control all meetings in relation to the construction/design/ shop drawings of specialist contractors package to ensure the overall design requirements are integrated into the project.
• Effectively and accurately communicate relevant project information to the client and project team and ensure client’s needs are met in a timely and cost effective manner.
• Follow up all of the finishing works at site to comply with project requirement.
• Daily intensive follow up with consultant requirement to produce works which comply with project requirements.
• Utmost care to project specifications.
• To ensure all design changes and solutions are implemented and coordinated into the project design documentations.
• Supporting the project team to review and coordinate with the consultant and the client.
• Attend client, PM and consultants meetings and assist with determination of project requirements.
• Assist the project manager in the drafting and issuance of project proposals (request for proposal solutions) and to keep the project manager and others informed about project status and issues that may impact client relations.
• Maintain contract execution tracking log.
• Track and manage contemplated change notices and change orders in the database.
• Review and recommend the requirements for control samples and co-ordinate these with the client and the contractor.
• Review & following up all of the related issues regarding to the performance mock-ups to reach the client satisfaction.
Jerash & Ajloun Military Hospital
Project definition:
the project value is 85 million JD This Project contains the following buildings & Facilities:
Main Building (Hospital) with area 57, 000 m²
Sub Buildings (Nurse Dorms for Males, 1180 m² , Nurse Dorms for Females, 1180 m² , Junior Implies 780 m², Mosque 900 m² , Transportations 190 m² , Military Police Building 120 m², Main Gate 200 m²).
Landscape works (Helipad, Roads 17, 000 m², Parking’s 750 park green area’s 30, 000 m², Boundary & Retaining Walls).
Senior Project Architect
Duties and Responsibilities:
• Preparing and coordinating the architectural drawings with the civil and MEP drawings to avoiding conflicts in the layouts and mitigating it.
• Preparing and submitting all of the architectural shop drawings.
• Making and submitting architectural proposals shop drawings and solutions in site and solving problems that might occur during building.
• Preparing and submitting all of the architectural materials submittals.
• Preparing all of the shop drawings for site plan to start the construction level and that was given to me a high efficiency in coordinating forms with levels to create better landscaping for the project.
• Produce and revise drawings as and when required and resolve site queries on technical issues.
• Ensure drawings information's are available to allow procurement to calculate materials and quantities required for site.
• Highlighting and reporting to the consultant for any contradiction of the drawings with the other departments and submitting proposals.
• Attending record and distribute regular coordination meetings with all concerned parties.
• Supervising the work of relevant finishing contractors as a quality control engineer to ensure quality, specifications and local regulations.
• Preparing and submitting technical progress reports to the project manager on time.
Senior Site Architect for three large projects:
Ayla Park Project, ( total area about 14, 000 m²) This project contains two large offices towers, three restaurants, 34 retail shops, and Entertainment facilities: kid’s play area, international cafes.
Red Sea Resort, (total area about 147, 400 m²) This project consists of 260 villas with 4 different designs, Beach Club, Entertainment Center.
Gardens Villas, Orient City, (total area 69, 600 m²) This project contains 253 semi attached villas, commercial center (1000 m²), mosque (1200 m²), play grounds and school (11000 m²).
Duties and Responsibilities:
• Preparing all of the architectural shop drawings and carrying it out in site with least time & cost.
• Review method of statement to ensure that contractors achieve required results.
• Review approve contractors change order request and approve Contractors payment in line with estimated work completion.
• Preparing and submitting as built drawings at end of project.
• Collecting all technical information from subcontractors and suppliers and compiling them in a coordinates shop drawings.
• Assisting project managers and review technical drawings, specifications and all related documents.
Junior Site Architect for the following Projects:
Princes Salma Center for childhood, (total area 5200 m²)
Al-Firdaws Secondary School, (total area 11700 m²)
Duties and Responsibilities:
• Carrying out architectural finishes works and building accessories.
• Assisting in preparing architectural shop drawings.
• Coordinating with clients, consultants, and sub-contractors to ensure project implementation is in compliance with plans requirements.
• Managing sub-contractors and suppliers delivery at site and coordinating site activities between sub-contractors & planning next day site works. • Acting as a focal point the clients and advising them and keeping successfully managing projects on site within allocated time frames and budget.
• Assisting in preparing the bill of quantity.
• Preparing daily reports and advancing it to senior site architect.
Designer Architect
During this period of time I have worked as a designer and Supervisor architect with Architect’s staff for many Projects:
Islamic Irbid Hospital, (total area 5000 m²)
Labaneyeh & Smadi Accommodation Center, (8000 m²)
Many of Villas & Residential Buildings
Duties and Responsibilities:
• Creating buildings design and detailed drawings both by hand and by using specialist computer-aided design (CAD) applications.
• Develop ideas keeping in mind client's needs, buildings usage and complying with projects specs.
• Keeping design within budgets and timelines.
• Update existing design techniques with respect to latest design trends.
• Participate in team meetings to coordinate design options and ideas.
• Making site visits and meeting with the client's to ensure that the projects are running within the agreed and approved design.