STRUCTURAL ENGINEER
AL JAZIRAH ENGINEERS AND CONSULTANTS
Total years of experience :20 years, 2 Months
Company Profile: AJEC is a leading engineering consulting company in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and is registered with all major local institutions including governmental and semi-governmental authorities.
Projects: Design and Project Management of Siemens Projects around Saudi Arabia
Responsibilities:
• Lead the structural design team workflow in assuring compliance to Saudi Standards and International Standards (ASCE-7 2010, IBC 2012, ACI 318M-2011, UBC, British Standards, Eurocode, AISC, AWS, and AS).
• Proficiently developed 3D model for effective analysis and design of structures by appropriately utilizing company-licensed international structural software like Staad.pro, ETABS, SAP2000, SAFE, Bentley RAM, Prokon, RAPT and SPACEGASS capable of analyzing both static and dynamic analysis.
• Accurately prepared and professionally detailed structural calculations and provide specific reference clause from international manuals and codes for subsequent element design of foundations, piles, pile cap, columns, beams, slab, steel, steel connections, joist and other complex structural members.
• Prepared challenging detailed design for irregular buildings, substations, compounding plant, silos and machine foundations according to acceptable international codes and practice through finite element analysis, static and dynamic analysis method.
• Cross-checking calculation by resourcefully adapting manual step-by-step verification using own made structural spreadsheet and flexible in creating calculation as per project requirements.
• Efficiently adhered value engineering to structural design and evidently resolved constructability issues in design and tender phase.
• Comprehensively organized project drawings and specifications as per CSI current master format in generating Bill of Quantity (BOQ), Bill of Materials (BOM), and Construction Cost Estimate (CCE).
• Effectively coordinating other disciplines like Electrical, Mechanical, Geotechnical and Architect to reach agreement about safe, efficient and economical designs and the aesthetic concept of the construction.
• Applied sound knowledge of the latest international code and make use of engineering software like STAAD.pro Steel Design, RAM Connection, Staad Foundation Advanced and in-house spreadsheet to calculate member stresses.
Highlights:
• Successfully entrusted multiple projects from conceptual, bidding to issue for construction stage and finally from construction to completion stage with quality optimized design and management meeting client expectations cost, duration and project wise.
• Determine cost effective solutions to structural design and full support technical queries of client
• Productively delivered completed projects on time and within allocated budget.
• Demonstrated ability to build long-term client relationships resulting in continuous awarding of projects by clients.
Projects: Design of High-Rise Buildings, Residential and Commercial Buildings
Responsibilities:
• Lead and guide junior engineers and detailers in planning, analyzing and designing effectively, safely and economically defining each role in the better development of design and partitioning the work to achieve best outcome.
• Performed complex calculations on High rise buildings using ETABS, complex structures using SAP2000 and SAFE for foundations and floor system (post-tension analysis) and prepared estimates of time and material costs.
• Analyzed full project lifecycle and design to identify improvements and cost saving strategies.
• Responsible for direction, coordination of all activities of the tender basic design services. Undertook and reviewed design input parameters like structural loadings, earthquake, wind, temperature, fluid loads and geotechnical parameters.
• Made a recommendation on design review.
• Oversaw compilation of drawings and structural reports. Prepared tender documents.
• Responsible for coordinating all inputs to all reports as required for their timely preparation.
• Contributed to cross-functional team meetings for value engineering purposes.
• Facilitated smooth execution of projects by attending regular progress meetings with clients and visiting construction sites.
• Conceptualized, identified, and resolved field problems quickly and diplomatically thus saving time and money for both parties.
• Review detailed work plan, progress reports and implementation schedule prepared by the contractor, covering all stages of the implementation process for each project to ensure effective project monitoring and timely project outputs.
Highlights:
• Successfully proposed innovative solutions and cost saving alternatives to meet clients' satisfaction and to establish mutual beneficial relationships.
• Highly directed technical projects with short time frames and crucial deadlines
• Finished multiple projects ahead on schedule due to excellent planning, coordinating and expertise involved.
Projects: Design of High-End Residential Bay, Industrial Plant, Irregular Shaped Schools, Residential Compound-Royal Commission (Saudi Government Projects)
Responsibilities:
• Designed and prepared engineering designs, plans, drawings, specifications, and detailed cost estimates
• Presented effectively design analysis report and collaboratively attended regular meetings and discussing the basis and design parameters used.
• Analyzed and designed irregular shaped schools with 3D truss using advanced features of Staad.pro for frame design, staad foundation for mat, pile, isolated and combined footing, ram connection for steel, ram concept for floor system and own spreadsheet for manual calculation and verification.
• Adopted Building Information Modeling (BIM) like Tekla Structures, Revit, Autodesk Robot and Autocad to highlight building clashes of structural members to other disciplines providing reliable basis of design.
• Create code-compliant, easy to build and cost-effective structures
• Achieved optimized design of civil infrastructures like culverts, pump stations, underground tanks, manholes, duct banks, trenches, roads and bridges.
• Prepared tender documents and contracts for construction
Highlights:
• Successfully completed multi-million development projects of Saudi government like major commercial, industrial and residential structures from conceptual design to its implementation.
• Overcome work pressures, problems and difficulties encountered through exercising better engineering judgment and quality time management by finishing the structural design works ahead of schedules
• Highly credited for continuous awarding of task order/ project by royal commission for excellent structural design
Responsibilities
• Demonstrated excellent skills in teaching the theory and importance of reinforced concrete, structural steel and pre-stressed concrete in relation to actual industry practice and standards.
• Lead and teach engineering students in major subjects like Reinforced Concrete design, Pre-stressed design, Steel design Theory of Structures and Geotechnical design.
• Integrate computer applications like Staad.pro 2004 to major subjects as a motivation for student engineer towards goal of universal advancement and competitive engineering design.
• Organized refresher course for graduating engineering students to help them in the preparation of licensure exam.
• Conducted Autocad 2D & 3D Certification Training for professional engineers aiming to go abroad and for industry practice.
• Research on solid waste management/sanitary landfill published in Ateneo de Davao University
• Design and supervise various medium to complex building structures and warehouse.
Highlights:
• Successfully demonstrated skills in design, supervision and management
• Successfully established design and build firm in managing and supervising projects in Philippines
• Successfully achieved increasing number of civil engineering licensure passers.
Thesis: Assessment of Solid Waste Management