Senior Structural Engineer
Osborne Edwards
Total years of experience :16 years, 9 Months
Responsible for working closely with architects, and clients on various structural and civil engineering programmes, creating detailed plans, ensuring that all activity meets both internal company standards and external regulatory requirements with respect to Health, Safety and Environment to ensure the Company's obligations and policies in these areas are fully complied with.
Duties:
• Day to day basis of refurbishment works to Victorian and Georgian properties where the practice offers the complete service of project management, structural engineering, building surveying and their details.
• Subsidence work from housing association to private clients, most being in the order of front elevation foundation works, although several have required underpinning of large Victorian properties using traditional as well as piled foundation techniques. Liaising with clients and their representatives, other professionals within design teams and contractors' representatives during construction.
• Ensuring that building regulations, NHBC and any other regulatory body sign off is achieved.
• Ensuring that all assigned work is completed on time and within agreed budget.
• Attending meetings and competently communicate with clients, architects and contractors.
• Setting out project works in accordance with drawings and specification.
• Carrying out site visits, surveys and preparing visual structural reports.
• Preparing Specification of Works, assessing tender returns and liaising with Loss Adjusters for subsidence works.
• Working on a wide range of projects, including building structures and retail and office developments.
Senior Engineer dealing with the design of Permanent and Temporary Works. Responsible for working closely with architects, and clients on various structural and civil engineering programmes, creating detailed plans, ensuring that all activity meets both internal company standards and external regulatory requirements with respect to Health, Safety and Environment to ensure the Company's obligations and policies in these areas are fully complied with.
• Managing part of the technical aspects of the Mangolia Cement Plant (Khukh Tsav) including reports, calculations and drawings in accordance with FLS procedures using American Codes.
• Supervising and assisting CAD technicians.
• Checking and controlling work outputs during the progress of the project and identify and agree any addition work with the lead engineer.
• Ensuring areas of projects within own responsibility is completed in a timely way.
C & R Design Role: Structural Engineer 2010 - 2012
Responsibilities: • Undertaking projects from Architects and Developer. All including concept design, preparing calculations and
CAD drawings.
• Structural Calculations submitted to Building control approval.
• House conversions including lofts, extensions and chimney removal.
• Design of a composite structure consisting of 3 storey offices and a basement floor. I prepared all GA drawings,
super structural calculations and connection details. Also included a RC Basement. This was designed on Robot
Structural Analysis and QSE frame analysis package, also with wind posts inside the masonry wall.
• Meeting clients directly and discussing the design conception with structural solutions.
Brian Page & Associates Ltd Role: Assistant Structural Engineer 2007- 2009
Responsibilities: • Site visits to check the structural elements of the building.
• Loading assessment for building structure.
• Checking and designing concrete floor slab for a residential block of flats.
• Preparing Architectural Drawings for planning permission Evaluations & Sections.
• Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Access and Outlook) Autodesk AutoCAD 2013
• Autodesk Robot Structural Analysis CSC (Tedds and Fastrak)
University Of East London (UK) MSc Civil Engineering - Distinction 2008-2009 • Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering Design in Steel and Concrete • Hydraulic Structures, Coastal and River Engineering Soil Structure Engineering • Thesis: "Investigation of FRC Beams Subjected to Pure Torsion".
University Of East London (UK) BEng (Hons) Civil Engineering - Firs Class 2005-2007 • Analysis and Design of Structural Elements Geotechnical Engineering • Construction Management and Integral Design Engineering Surveying • Water and Environmental Engineering Research Skills • Professional Practice Hydraulics • Geo-Mechanics • Thesis: "Behaviour of Plain and RC Model Beams Subjected to Pure Torsion".
Hamar Secondary School Secondary School - 85% 1985-1989 • Mathematics 92% Physics 90% • English Language 82% Chemistry 88% • Arabic Language 80% History 82% • Somali Revolution and Education 78% Biology 89% • Geography 84%