Design Manager – Western Area KSA
AAW Consulting Engineers & Parteners (Dr. Ahmed Abd El Warith)
Total years of experience :28 years, 10 Months
My responsibilities are:-
• Follow up and lead the branch design team.
• Insure that the design work according to scope and project requirements.
• Attending the monthly and biweekly meetings with clients
• Liaise with clients for smooth implementation of projects ensuring completion on time, within budgets and satisfying all client expectations
• Coordinate and ensure on time completion of all design work meeting the required quality standards.
• Monitored and ensured adherence to project schedules and coordinated design work with clients and different in-house departments.
• Evaluate and motivate designers toward continued growth and leading design solutions.
• Participate in design meetings and provide continual input to optimize design and minimize futile work.
• Prepare the technical offers for new proposals
- Detail design of output of Jeddah Sewer Master plan, the project include detail design of the following:-
1. Main sewer tunnel to serve the east of Jeddah with length about 14 km and diameter 3500mm to convoy 2.2 million m3/day of waste water, the expected construction cost is about 800 million SR.
2. Sewer networks for un-serviced areas with area 3800 hectare including main, branch networks with diameters 300mm to 1400mm and 6 pump stations, the expected construction cost is about 2000 million SR.
3. Main pump station no. 2 in Al Matar site, capacity about 2 million m3/day with depth about 50m and diameter 65m, the expected construction cost is about 1700 million SR.
4. Outfall pipe with diameter 3000mm from El Matar STP to Red sea with length about 13 km.
- Study and design of water and sewage networks for Bahra & Hada cities and El mahamed district, total area about 13500 hectare, the project include water transmission pipeline diam. 1600mm with length about 35km, main and branches water networks diam. Between 100mm and 1400mm with total length about 800 km, reservoirs 100, 000 and 50, 000 m3 and pump station, the expected construction cost is 1400 million SR. Main and branches sewage networks diam. between 300mm to 1800mm with total length 600 km, force mains with diameters 400mm to 700mm with total length 2.5 km, 2 pump stations and STP, the expected construction cost is about 1500 million SR.
- Study and design of water and sewage networks for Kholis city, total area about 300 hectare, the project include water transmission pipelines diam. from 200mm to 600 mm with length about 60km, main and branches water networks diam. Between 100mm and 300mm with total length about 600 km, strategic reservoirs 30, 000 and 15 area tanks between 200 m3 and 2000 m3 and pump stations, the expected construction cost is 750 million SR. Main and branches sewage networks diam. between 300 mm to 800mm with total length 360 km, force mains with diameters 100mm to 400mm with total length 25 km, 5 pump stations and STP, the expected construction cost is about 1000 million SR.
Group Head and design manager for Water/Wastewater projects, my duties are:-
• Participate in design meetings and provide continual input to optimize design and minimize futile work.
• Assist in developing Design Delivery Schedule along with client, Project Manager, Design Managers and consultants.
• Ensuring that all necessary inter-works and other communication are being effectively accomplished at all levels.
• Develop comprehensive scope-of-work and contract document deliverables list for each related discipline.
• Verifying that all works designs, drawings and documents are to current codes and standards
• Checking the design criteria and basic designs of works
• Support the design team
• Reviewing the specifications
• Lead with effective supervision an experienced design team toward greater creativity.
Also I participate in preparing the technical part and estimate the budget hours of the proposals.
- Water supply project for un-serviced areas of Jeddah (KSA), the total project contracts is 33 contracts with total area is about 22, 000 hectare. the project is comprised from about 3750 km pipes with diameters ranging from 110mm to 2000 mm, tow ground reservoirs capacity is 32, 000 m3 and 55, 000 m3 also P.S. with capacity 340, 000 m3/day and transmission lines diameters 1600mm and 1400mm.
- Hydraulic Design of Tabuk pipeline (KSA), the project comprises of about 160km diam. 500mm including breakers tanks.
- Transmission pipeline from River Nile to mine site in Sudan, the project comprises of about 170km steel pipe diameter 500mm including booster station.
- Infrastructure design for Dahiat Semu, the scope of work is deign water, sewer, Irrigation and storm water networks.
- Study and design of water and sewage networks for Torba and Khorma cities.
My duties include:-
• Attending, hosting or coordinating department meetings
• Guiding and motivating fellow employees
• Creating innovative designs, drafts, or presentations
• Meeting customer expectations
• Ensuring design quality and that design directives are followed
• Reviews deliverables prepared by team before passing to client.
• Directing, organizing and controlling the Water and Wastewater works design activities
• Checking the design criteria and basic designs of works
• Providing information and/or assistance to project groups
• Reviewing and approving the technical quality of all work performed within the department
• Ensuring that all necessary inter-works and other communication are being effectively accomplished at all levels
• Planning the manpower of the department among the yearly projects needs
• Controlling the corrective actions of negative findings in attitude of the personnel department
• Reviewing unusual or complex design problems and provide guidance for solutions.
Also I assigned as a Project Manager or Design Manager for some mega projects as follow:-
- Life Style Estate Oriana Phase 2 and 3 Development: Oriana Phase 2 and 3 shall include combination of standalone villas and twin houses with total GBA of 122, 541 m2. This phase lies within the Oriana villas gated community. The scope of work is design water and wastewater networks.
- Detail design of infra works for Abu Qir Thermal Power Plant: Abu Qir Thermal Power Plant 2x650 MW steam turbines generators units. The plant is located at the East of the existing Abu Qir Power Plant on the Mediterranean coast 20 km of Alexandria. The works include design of water, wastewater and storm drainage networks.
- Hydraulic study and detail design of water networks for Mashtool Elsouk, Sharqia: Mashtool El Souk is one of the biggest cities in the Sharkia governorate, the project is to study, prepare the detail design and tender documents for the water supply system including tanks, transmission lines, pump stations and main network to serve towns and main villages. The project components are more than 40 km of pipelines diameters between 200mm and 800mm and 3 tanks with volume 2000 m3 for each.
- Hydraulic study for Elobour Water Networks, Cairo
- Infrastructure Master Plan for Soba, Soba Real Estate Development Co, Sudan: Detailed design and preparation of tender documents for SOBA Golf Course, Sudan, The project is situated south of Khartoum and divided into two main phases; Phase-1 (133 acres) including a 9-hole Golf Course (out of scope) and Residential enclaves of villas and apartment buildings. And the second phase (151 acres) of the residential community which is planned to include another 9-hole Golf Course (out of scope).
- AlShabab Power Plant: Detail Design and workshop drawing for underground utilities for Elshabab power plant (Ismailia-Egypt), capacity of 1000 MW (8 Gas Turbine Units*125 MW for each) Simple Cycle Gas Turbine . The utilities is include water, wastewater, storm drainage, services water and desalination water in addition to coordinate with other utilities such as high voltage cables, medium voltage cables and gas pipes.
- Working as project manager for projects.
- Working as a team leader to follow up and supervised the design team work for the following activities:-
- Design of Water networks
- Design of wastewater and drainage Networks
- Design Irrigation networks
- Design fire fighting networks
- Site visits and data collection
- Prepare Projects proposals
- Provision for Consultancy Services for Head Works GTC189/2007 - Kaharmaa - State of Qatar
Working as a project manager of the project GTC 189/2007. My responsibility is overall management and coordination of the project activities include design review and construction supervision, the total budget of the project is about 2 billion QR.
The project comprises of three packages as follow:-
-GTC 158/2007 - Name of Contractor is HBK - the project comprises of major D.I. water pipeline diameter 1600mm and length is about 80 km to supply water from Ras Laffan power and desalination plant to various water stations in the south of Doha (Ras laffan pipeline C). Budget of the project is about 900 million QR.
-GTC 177/2007 - Name of contractor is QBC - the project comprises of replacement, extension and construction of new rising main D.I. water diameters ranging between 400mm to 1200 mm by total length is about 70 km. Also construction of two ground reservoir volume 9 and 6 MIG (40, 000 and 27, 000 m3). Budget of the package is about 500 million QR.
-GTC 182/2007 - Name of contractor is SinoHydro - the project comprises of a group of various constructions works involving replacement and extension of D.I. water pipelines diameters 900mm and 600mm length is about 14 km also construction 6 ground reservoir volumes 6 MIG (27, 000 m3) in addition to one pump satation in Al Khour area. Budget of the package is about 600 million QR.
-Master Plan of Water system for Greater Cairo
That’s large project to prepare the master plan of water projects for Cairo, Giza cities, new cities and Giza Villages, The project comprises four stages as follow:
Stage (1): Preparation of the Primary Report for the existing facilities including 16 major surface water treatment plants of average production 6.87 million m3/day, 21 compact units and 589 water wells of average production 534, 000 m3/day, 100 major pump stations, 119 water reservoirs and elevated tanks, 40 water networks zones, 19, 000km pipe lines networks of diameter 200mm to 1600mm
Stage (2): Preparation of Final Report based on the social, population, development and water demand studies, hydraulic studies for water distribution system, prepare the alternative for the proposed project to improve the services every 5 years and identification of the high priority projects which will be implemented in the first 5 years plan.
Stage (3): High Priority Projects
Stage (4): Preparation of Master Plan (2007-2037): recommendation of the best viable alternative and proposing the annual project construction and its cost.
-Asab camp and Bu Hasa camp Drainage system - Gasco Company -(Abu Dhabi)
-Study the drainage system including sewers and storm water system and design the new systems.
-El kurimate II and III Power Stations
That’s two large power stations plants (750 MW for each, Value of the project is L.E 500 million) located at El Kurimate town in Egypt, the responsibility is:-
Prepare the shop drawing and as built drawings for the utilities of El Kurimate power station.
Design the Water, Sewage, irrigation and drainage systems for the site layout of the plant.
-Madinty Air Mall
Design the Water, Sewage, irrigation, Fire Fighting and drainage systems for the site layout of the plant.
-International Maadi Call Center
That’s international call center at Maadi area in Cairo, the responsibility is:-
Design the Water, Sewage, irrigation, Fire Fighting and drainage systems for the site layout of the Cal center.
- Working as project manager for projects.
- Working as a team leader to follow up and supervised the design team work for the following activities:-
- Design of Water networks
- Design of wastewater and drainage Networks
- Design Irrigation networks
- Design fire fighting networks
- Site visits and data collection
- Prepare Projects proposals
- Provision for Consultancy Services for Head Works GTC189/2007 - Kaharmaa - State of Qatar
Working as a project manager of the project GTC 189/2007. My responsibility is overall management and coordination of the project activities include design review and construction supervision, the total budget of the project is about 2 billion QR.
The project comprises of three packages as follow:-
-GTC 158/2007 - Name of Contractor is HBK - the project comprises of major D.I. water pipeline diameter 1600mm and length is about 80 km to supply water from Ras Laffan power and desalination plant to various water stations in the south of Doha (Ras laffan pipeline C). Budget of the project is about 900 million QR.
-GTC 177/2007 - Name of contractor is QBC - the project comprises of replacement, extension and construction of new rising main D.I. water diameters ranging between 400mm to 1200 mm by total length is about 70 km. Also construction of two ground reservoir volume 9 and 6 MIG (40, 000 and 27, 000 m3). Budget of the package is about 500 million QR.
-GTC 182/2007 - Name of contractor is SinoHydro - the project comprises of a group of various constructions works involving replacement and extension of D.I. water pipelines diameters 900mm and 600mm length is about 14 km also construction 6 ground reservoir volumes 6 MIG (27, 000 m3) in addition to one pump satation in Al Khour area. Budget of the package is about 600 million QR.
-Master Plan of Water system for Greater Cairo
That’s large project to prepare the master plan of water projects for Cairo, Giza cities, new cities and Giza Villages, The project comprises four stages as follow:
Stage (1): Preparation of the Primary Report for the existing facilities including 16 major surface water treatment plants of average production 6.87 million m3/day, 21 compact units and 589 water wells of average production 534, 000 m3/day, 100 major pump stations, 119 water reservoirs and elevated tanks, 40 water networks zones, 19, 000km pipe lines networks of diameter 200mm to 1600mm
Stage (2): Preparation of Final Report based on the social, population, development and water demand studies, hydraulic studies for water distribution system, prepare the alternative for the proposed project to improve the services every 5 years and identification of the high priority projects which will be implemented in the first 5 years plan.
Stage (3): High Priority Projects
Stage (4): Preparation of Master Plan (2007-2037): recommendation of the best viable alternative and proposing the annual project construction and its cost.
-Asab camp and Bu Hasa camp Drainage system - Gasco Company -(Abu Dhabi)
-Study the drainage system including sewers and storm water system and design the new systems.
-El kurimate II and III Power Stations
That’s two large power stations plants (750 MW for each, Value of the project is L.E 500 million) located at El Kurimate town in Egypt, the responsibility is:-
Prepare the shop drawing and as built drawings for the utilities of El Kurimate power station.
Design the Water, Sewage, irrigation and drainage systems for the site layout of the plant.
-Madinty Air Mall
Design the Water, Sewage, irrigation, Fire Fighting and drainage systems for the site layout of the plant.
-International Maadi Call Center
That’s international call center at Maadi area in Cairo, the responsibility is:-
Design the Water, Sewage, irrigation, Fire Fighting and drainage systems for the site layout of the Cal center.
- Working as project manager for projects.
- Working as a team leader to follow up and supervised the design team work for the following activities:-
- Design of Water networks
- Design of wastewater and drainage Networks
- Design Irrigation networks
- Design fire fighting networks
- Site visits and data collection
- Prepare Projects proposals
- Provision for Consultancy Services for Head Works GTC189/2007 - Kaharmaa - State of Qatar
Working as a project manager of the project GTC 189/2007. My responsibility is overall management and coordination of the project activities include design review and construction supervision, the total budget of the project is about 2 billion QR.
The project comprises of three packages as follow:-
-GTC 158/2007 - Name of Contractor is HBK - the project comprises of major D.I. water pipeline diameter 1600mm and length is about 80 km to supply water from Ras Laffan power and desalination plant to various water stations in the south of Doha (Ras laffan pipeline C). Budget of the project is about 900 million QR.
-GTC 177/2007 - Name of contractor is QBC - the project comprises of replacement, extension and construction of new rising main D.I. water diameters ranging between 400mm to 1200 mm by total length is about 70 km. Also construction of two ground reservoir volume 9 and 6 MIG (40, 000 and 27, 000 m3). Budget of the package is about 500 million QR.
-GTC 182/2007 - Name of contractor is SinoHydro - the project comprises of a group of various constructions works involving replacement and extension of D.I. water pipelines diameters 900mm and 600mm length is about 14 km also construction 6 ground reservoir volumes 6 MIG (27, 000 m3) in addition to one pump satation in Al Khour area. Budget of the package is about 600 million QR.
-Master Plan of Water system for Greater Cairo
That’s large project to prepare the master plan of water projects for Cairo, Giza cities, new cities and Giza Villages, The project comprises four stages as follow:
Stage (1): Preparation of the Primary Report for the existing facilities including 16 major surface water treatment plants of average production 6.87 million m3/day, 21 compact units and 589 water wells of average production 534, 000 m3/day, 100 major pump stations, 119 water reservoirs and elevated tanks, 40 water networks zones, 19, 000km pipe lines networks of diameter 200mm to 1600mm
Stage (2): Preparation of Final Report based on the social, population, development and water demand studies, hydraulic studies for water distribution system, prepare the alternative for the proposed project to improve the services every 5 years and identification of the high priority projects which will be implemented in the first 5 years plan.
Stage (3): High Priority Projects
Stage (4): Preparation of Master Plan (2007-2037): recommendation of the best viable alternative and proposing the annual project construction and its cost.
-Asab camp and Bu Hasa camp Drainage system - Gasco Company -(Abu Dhabi)
-Study the drainage system including sewers and storm water system and design the new systems.
-El kurimate II and III Power Stations
That’s two large power stations plants (750 MW for each, Value of the project is L.E 500 million) located at El Kurimate town in Egypt, the responsibility is:-
Prepare the shop drawing and as built drawings for the utilities of El Kurimate power station.
Design the Water, Sewage, irrigation and drainage systems for the site layout of the plant.
-Madinty Air Mall
Design the Water, Sewage, irrigation, Fire Fighting and drainage systems for the site layout of the plant.
-International Maadi Call Center
That’s international call center at Maadi area in Cairo, the responsibility is:-
Design the Water, Sewage, irrigation, Fire Fighting and drainage systems for the site layout of the Cal center.
Work as a senior engineer for water and sewage projects, design or supervision works at different country as Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, Marco, Yemen, Syria and Uganda.
Water and Sewage Network senior Engineer
- Design water network
- Design sewage network
- Preparation of specification and tender Document
- Site visits And data collection
- Supervising the Implement of Water and Sewage Projects
- Thamar University (Republic of Yemen).
- Ma’abar City (Republic of Yemen).
- Dibba, Khasab and Madha Towns (Musandum Governorate Sultanate of Oman).
- Shobra Elnamala City (A.R.E).
- El Biwity City (A.R.E).
- El Frafra City (A.R.E).
- Prepare the single line Isometric shop drawings for the Greater Cairo wastewater project (Gabal El Asfar- Stage2/Phase 1)
- Green Beach Tourist Village At Northwest beach (Second Phase)
Senior Engineer with Dangroup / MCE Team
- Supervising the Implement of Water and Sewage project
- Technical assistance (T.A) for Local Authorities
- Management Information system
- Unaccounted for water Studies
- Leak Dedication Studies
Edfu Water Supply & Sanitary Drainage Project
Project Value was 40 million US$ Funded by Danish International Development Assistance (DANIDA), and comprised of: -
- 83 Km Sewage Network.
- 4 Pump Station
- S.T.P. (Sewage Treatment Plant), Capacity is 6000 m3/day
- 36 Km Water Network
- W.T.P (Water Treatment Plant), Capacity is 100 l/s
- Compact Unit at El Reqaqin Village
- Water Wells at El Fawaza Village
- Services building
- Technical assistance of Edfu Water and Sanitation Department (EWSD).
- Internal House connection
- Primary Health Care projects (PHC)
Responsibilities varied significantly during the above period. Some of the major responsibilities included the following :-
- Supervised the implementation of works
- Check of the Sewage Network by T.V. inspection
- Technical assistance (T.A.) of Edfu Water and Sanitation Department (EWSD) including the following activities: -
Management Information System (M.I.S)
Unaccounted For Water (U.F.W.)
- Management and supervision of implement of the internal house connection for 6000 houses at Edfu City.
- Studying, designing, and supervising the implementation of water and sewage for 4 rural villages in Edfu. These activities were implemented in co-operation with the local community development associations of these villages to upgrade their living condition.
- Studying the leak dedication for the above 4 rural village.
- Computer Works: -
Using Computer Programs to design and prepare drawings for Water and Sewage Project.
Planning and follow up the implement of the PHC projects using the Primavera program and Excel program.
Preparing the drawings of the PHC projects by Floor Plan 3 Plus program and AutoCAD program.
Using Micro soft Access program in the following activities:
1. Design Program for Inventory Plan of water network at Edfu city.
- Design a follow up Program for the implement of Internal Sewage House Connection to 6000 houses in Edfu city.