Projects Director
CEG International
Total years of experience :42 years, 0 Months
Working closely with CEO in an cross-department leading role.
Close liaison with: Clients and project stakeholders in winning and delivery of high-end and VIP all-discipline projects with concept and engineering design, leading CEG project management and engineering supervision team of 300 staff including US$2bn Msheireb Downtown Doha.
Projects Manager, directly employed by the College reporting to the School Director and Board I lead an in-house team responsible for review and implementation of an 8-year 5-phase facility master plan including construction, completion and fully fitted and furnished handover of a $12m new Middle School with future planning for a $13m High School redevelopment scheme.
Projects Manager/Director leading Business Development and cross-discipline proposals/ design/supervision/QS teams in a mix of $15 - $140m new build/upgrade high-end Mansion, Palace, Ministry projects for VIP/Royal Family and Corporate/Bank clients across Qatar.
Regional role, visiting country HQ, regional offices and project sites across Southern Sudan, liaising with client, international donor organisations and stakeholders for schools projects.
Engineering Manager, leading in-Egypt Engineering & Temporary Works at $400m Cairo Festival City: Deep excavation/slope stability, falsework/formwork, crane/plant support works.
July 2007 - April 2008 Pell Frischmann Limited - Bucharest, Romania
Engineer (FIDIC) for Bucharest Municipality Historic Centre - refurbishment of streets, utilities and commercial/historic buildings; lead local engineering team; coordinate support from UK & UAE.
April 2007 - July 2007 Pell Frischmann (Conseco) Limited - Project Engineer, Abu Dhabi
Resident Engineer and Engineering Manager for US$400m high-end residential development (www.alrahabeach.ae). Engineering checks and monitoring for Central Market, landmark 5-storey deep basement project. Close client/contractor and inter-discipline liaison.
Promote and manage CWC services: procurement support, staff development, change management & process review. Managed collaborative innovative project for sustainable manufactured housing.
April 2004 - July 2005 Pell Frischmann (Europe) Limited - Project Engineer, Iraq
Security & Justice Program ($900m projected), Program Office, Baghdad.
Lead in-Iraq team on a wide range of strategic and sensitive facilities; Police Training centres, Military Bases, Correctional Facilities, Courts, Border Control points.
Client: Parsons Corporation for US DoD and Iraqi Govt Depts (MoI, MoJ)
Scope review, design brief, coordination of UK and Iraq Design teams.
July 2002 - April 2004 Pell Frischmann Group - Project Engineer, London.
East London Line Rail Extension, for London Underground Ltd. Engineer’s Representative; structural supervision and technical advice; demolition and alteration of railway structures, strengthening of Listed buildings and temporary works; reports, risk assessments and method statements.
Chief Engineer, Special Projects Division. Design and Project Management;
Piled, underpinned and RC substructures, structural jacking, retro-fit basements for commercial and private building. Technical marketing and exhibition presentation.
Client and design team liaison. Bid preparation and submission.
Pre-qualifications and tender proposals.
Managing consultants for Design & Construct projects.
Risk Assessments and Method Statements.
Projects: CTRL; Hungerford Millennium Bridge: coffer dams, earthworks supports, plant bases, bridge jacking schemes. Liaising closely with Site Project Engineers and Clients in development and implementation of schemes.
Training. ICE Supervising Civil Engineer.
Senior Project Engineer on new design works, investigation and repairs for the Insurance market. Planning Supervisor and Party Wall Surveyor for commercial and domestic projects.
Temporary works design for contractors. Party Wall training seminars.
Technical Management
Design & Construct projects from pre-qualification/tender presentations to project implementation.
Liaison with engineering consultants for permanent works designs and with in-house Technical Services Department for Temporary Works.
Included Civil, M & E and Process design for various Water & Waste Water treatment works.
Temporary Works and engineering design/construction methods for building projects to £16m;
• Earthworks & underpinning schemes
• Deep basements/Top-down construction
• Piled retaining walls & Soil Grouting
• De-watering & groundwater control • Façade retention & Party Wall shoring
• Tower crane, hoist and plant bases
• Office gantries
• Post-tensioned/ Slip-forming schemes
Tender proposals and presentations; technical and costing information for tender submissions. Develop working proposals with site management, specialists, consultants, and third parties.
Organised geotechnical and structural investigations and reports. In-house technical training.
Engineering and Temporary works design and management for Tender and working contracts.
Client submissions and implementation of working schemes in construction methods and temporary works for London region building projects from £4m to £47m.
Graduate Recruitment and training as ICE SCE.
Site: £1.7m Chelmsford Sewage Treatment Works:
Programming/organising site work and setting-out engineers. Coordinating Design-Build pumping station.
Design and management of shuttering, falsework, scaffold and temporary works.
Liaison with specialists, subcontractors and client's representatives.
Site procurement of materials and plant.
Sites £27m A12 Chelmsford Bypass
£15m A406 North Circular Road, Barking, Essex.
£2.5m Hastings Hospital substructure.
Responsible for Section Foremen, Assistant Engineers and subcontractors. Management of the Section. Material orders. Liaise with Resident Engineers/specialists.
Coordinating sheet piled wall installation, bridge falsework (over road and river), placing pre-cast bridge beams over main railway lines.
Railway works in overnight railway 'possessions'. Planning, drawings and calculations for this work. Survey, technical report and remedial works following impact damage to a new bridge.
Work for both the above consultants included:
Site surveys,
Investigation and reports on condition of existing buildings;
Design and detailing;
Site supervision of building construction in reinforced concrete, structural steelwork, timber and masonry;
Design using computer analysis software.
With Sibley Robinson Partnership I was also Resident Engineer at the Huntingdon Research Centre.