Ziad Abou Mansour

 Senior Landscaping Engineer - Generic Engineering Technologies W.L.L - Doha - Qatar March 2017 - Present

Al Messila Resort and VIP SPA
Responsible for all the Softscape, Irrigation and Xeriscape activities regarding the project landscaping.
The project footprint is 132000 sqm, with a total built-up area of 60000 sqm. Al Messila resort is designated to become Qatar’s premier health and wellness resort. The state of the art facilities have been erected in order to cater a 5 stars hotel and 30 guest villas, fine dining restaurant, wellness SPA, fitness center, kids club, small mosque and first aid clinic. The project consists of different kind of plantation distributed all over the area: palm trees, trees, shrubs, ground cover and grass areas, in addition of planted terraces and roof top at SPA and Hotel areas.

Above Car Parks project (ACP) - Al Bidaa Park
The project consists of a 2, 400, 000 sqm park, surrounded with eight car parks. The above car parks surface and all the surrounding areas are planted with grass, ground cover, shrubs, trees and palm trees. My duties & responsibilities were with all the Softscape and Irrigation activities concerning the project with respect to the site and office works. These activities include communication with clients, representatives, consultants, sub-contractors and government authorities. Moreover, daily inspections that all the landscape and irrigation drawings are completed according to the requirements. Supervising and managing the planting process according to the approved drawings which included the design and on-site installation of automatic and manual irrigation networks.

 Project Manager - Nesma Trading Co. Ltd -- Jizan - Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
May 2015 - December 2016

Jazan Refinery SAPMT
Responsible for all the Softscape and Irrigation activities for the project with respected to site management and office work. This residential camp and site offices project consists of 640, 000 sqm residential units and site offices for Aramco’s staff including landscape areas between the portable cabins, along the internal roads, large landscape terraces & sports areas.

Phase 1: Execution phase: Installation of the irrigation network (main line and lateral lines) and plantation of palm trees, trees, shrubs, ground cover and grass (2 soccer fields and terraces).

Phase 2: Maintenance phase: Managing all the necessarily maintenance.

 Head of Landscaping and Irrigation Department - Almabani General Contractors - Al Riyadh - Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
February 2013 - March 2015

Senior Landscape and Irrigation Engineer - Extension of the Roads in Arriyadh Old Airport (ERAOA)
Responsible for the supervision of all daily operations consisting of the landscape and irrigation activities on site while coordinating with drawings. One major operation included monitoring the SCADA (MOTOROLA RTU MDLC), IRRINET-ACE and IRRINET-M system.
This project consists of two highways (Al Oruba Road 9 km and Abu Bakr Al Siddiq Road 4 km) in Riyadh and includes median, middle islands, palm terraces, patrol roads planted by palm trees, shade trees, shrubs and ground cover.

Phase 1: Execution
Phase 2: Managing the maintenance service

Senior Landscape and Irrigation Engineer - Prince Sultan University (PSU)
The duties of the project included installation of the irrigation network for palm trees and shrubs.

Senior Landscape and Irrigation Engineer - Development of the Eastern Part of King Abdullah Road (DEPKAR)
This project consists of King Abdullah highway in Riyadh City 11 km and includes medians, middle islands and walkways planted by palm trees, shade trees, shrubs and ground cover.

Phase 1: Execution
Phase 2: Managing the maintenance service

 Site Landscape Engineer - Lebanon Mountain for Agriculture and Landscape - Sulaymaniah - Kerdestan el Iraq
June 2011 - December 2012

Malek Mahmoud Circle
This project consists of 22 km highway in Sulaymaniah City (Malek Mahmoud Circle) and includes median, middle islands for the side roads, middle islands for the double side roads and 6 large parks.

Phase 1: Execution
Phase 2: Managing the maintenance service.

Title: Technical and Sales field officer:

o Extension services for farmers at North and South Lebanon.
o Follow-up of sales of products (seeds, fertilizers and pesticides) with dealers.

Title: Senior Irrigation Officer

o The project aimed to increase rain water harvesting by increasing farmers water storage capacity and infrastructure for irrigation and water supply.

o Implementing irrigation activities and follow up with the beneficiaries of the Southern area subdivided into three cazas: Hasbaya, Bint Jbeil and Marjeioun.
This program was funded by the AECID (Agencia Espanola de Coopercion Internacional parra el Desarrollo).

Title: Sustainable Agriculture Officer

o Assessing farm sustainability by using a French model in the "Increasing Lebanese Agriculture Competitiveness" project across Lebanon. Project funded by USDA - MOET (Ministry of Economy and Trade).

o Economic, Social, and Environmental sustainability assessment, proposition of sustainable interventions, and monitoring progress in 2 projects:

 Preserving Hima Kfarzabad while Initiating Sustainable Agriculture. Project funded by GTZ under GEF program.
 Initiating Sustainable Agriculture in the South of Lebanon: Project funded by FPSC - AECI (Spanish Government)

o Providing weekly extension services with new agricultural techniques for the Damour area, where farmers specialized mainly in vegetables and banana production.

• Managing a vegetable crop production project including: Planning, fertilization, pest management, harvest, and sales.

• Managing organic vegetables production under greenhouses using integrated pest management method