Team Leader Architect
Orascom Construction Ltd
Total years of experience :18 years, 3 Months
• Leading and managing the Architectural issues of project.
• Handle any unexpected costs that may exceed those agreed upon in the budget.
• Follow-up on the deliveries and invoices of the received Architectural materials.
• Review technical and material submittal submitted by technical office team.
• Coordinate with different teams to get project documents issued.
• Deliver construction project with the desired quality on time, within budget and resolve technical issues.
• Attend weekly progress meetings with projects’ clients/consultants to discuss project technical progress and any emerging technical conflicts or problems, to enforce contractual responsibilities and assist resolving disputes and tackling differences.
• Overview and revise all project’s documents, in coordination with relevant departments and the client/consultant, prior to final submission to ensure compliance with contractual responsibilities, and technical, legal and administrative standards.
• Knowledgeable of construction principles and problem solving techniques using rapid engineering analysis deriving required resolutions for field construction to implement.
• Coordinate between the construction and engineering teams ensuring that the construction requirements are conveyed to the engineering teams and that the engineering deliverable satisfy the construction requirements
• Review subcontractors' invoices
• Review detailed design drawings and last specification
• Full coordination with other suppliers, subcontractors
• Review of project documents/drawings for work scope received from consultant
• Shop drawing and detailing for all finishing trades.
• Reviewing and approving the as built drawings
• Coordination works between arch and civil and MEP drawings
• Responsible for all site interior and exterior finishing works and landscape Provides
• Quality control for all interior and exterior finishing
• Prepares budgets and purchasing orders
• Produces interior & exterior finishing documents and specifications
• Meets with suppliers and vendors
• Negotiating with contractors and other professional
•Review all Architectural Drawings submitted to Consultants, in addition to reviewing and verifying the contractors Shop Drawings
•Coordinates to the site engineers for the execution of the architectural works
•Reviews the contract drawing, project specifications and other related codes to be incorporated on the shop drawings
•Prepares the Request for Information/ Clarification when there is discrepancy from the contract drawings and other relative contract documents
•Manage and oversee the CAD staff
•Responsible for submitting finishes materials to approved by consultant
•Coordinating between site and design team for the landscape design issues.
•Reviewing and prepare landscape Shop Drawings.
•Review landscape design and provide recommendation and suggestions for improvements.
•Provides necessary detailing to simplify execution of Landscape drawings.
•Responsible for all technical offices works and duties.
•Review technical documentation to verify compliance with project requirements.
•Provide technical support in areas of planning, designing, choosing materials and construction management to the client
•Prepares and presents to the client the new proposal as per their requirements
•Discusses designs and cost estimates with clients and others involved in the project, including engineers
•Discusses requirements of clients or builders (to design a new structure or modify an existing one) and prepare a brief one.
•Receive and review completed design work from project design team and ensure compliance with client requests
•Hold meetings with clients as needed, gather project data for the design team.
•Reporting the progress of the project to owner
•Action the Client's instructions to modify the works in consultation with the Head Office if involving change to the design.
•producing sample boards for presentation to clients
•supervising work at the finishes stage on site
•Consult with client to determine materials and spatial requirements of villas
•Direct activities of workers engaged in preparing drawings and specification documents for the clients
•Reviews architectural shop drawings before submitting it to site team
•Review and process client's variation orders for villas
•Coordinating between site and design team for the design issues
•Assisted the sub-contractors in reference to construction drawings, and reviewing architectural documents for any problem with all disciplines.
•Reviewed shop drawings to match design
•preparation of shop drawings and conduct periodic on-site observation of work during construction to monitor compliance with plans.
•prepare progress reports to the Project Manager.
•Checking plans, drawings and quantities for accuracy of calculations
•Review Bill of Quantities (BOQ)
•Responsible for all technical offices works and duties (Prepare Variations order - Statements - Progress Reports - quantity survey )
•Submission of Monthly Invoices and follow with Sub Contractor
•Observes, inspects and monitors building work, to make sure that it is progressing according to the contract and specifications
•Reviews weekly schedules with site team; (material, equipment and manpower).
•Hands over all completed finishing item to QC engineer in site.
•Monitor and follow-up landscape construction related activities
•Monitors the site finishing progress day by day and ensure compliance with standards required by the client
•Allocates the available resources on site among the available activities on daily basis.
•Supervises on the construction site, the subcontractors, crafts people and other related workman on site