SUMMARY OF CAPABILITIES
An enthusiastic, self-motivated, and adaptable Land & Civil Engineering Surveying with 26 years of experience gained in a range of Project supervision, Site Inspection, Construction Management, and Project Management in Civil Engineering Construction Industry such as Housing, Heavy industry, Infrastructure projects(Under MOI & Aramco), bridges & underpasses (pre & post-tensioned) & Water retaining structures, Commercial cum Residential Bldgs., Oil & Gas Projects, Star Hotels, Shopping mall & various types of Multistory Bldg. projects (High-rise Towers 30 to 50 plus). I have operated with diversified domain projects in Civil Engineering construction activities in Surveying ranging from medium to large-scale industries which gave me an in-depth understanding of handling various domain areas in Civil Engineering work. I have handled various critical and challenging projects from the Foundation stage to the implementation stage and ensured that the projects were implemented as per specification in the stipulated time with quality. Equipped and expertise with various latest Surveying tools and techniques.
EXPERIENCE SUMMARIES
- The Iconic Tower in Lusail, Doha (Katara Twin Tower) is an Architectural Translation of Qatar’s national seal, representing the traditional scimitar swords.
- Execute and supervise huge equipment foundations like Rafts, Combined footings, isolated footings, Piling/Rock piling works, and all kinds of infrastructure work, etc
- Supervise Construction of Road 300KM, Tunnels/Box Culverts 164 (1 cell to 26 cells), Fiber Optic Cable Network (300 KM), Border Front Welded Mesh Fence (486 KM), Border Rear Welded Mesh Fence (829 KM), Concertina Fence (343 KM), Road Fence Guard Rail (1792 KM), and Utility and Water Pipeline and other associated works, etc.
- Complex Buildings – Border Control Centers (D14-32 No), Sector Head Quarters (D15-03 No), Rear Gates Building (RG-04 No), Check Point, Rapid Response Station Include Workshops, Clinics, Mosques, Car Parking and Heli Pads (HP-11 Nos).
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
I often oversee and manage surveying projects from start to finish. This involves
coordinating with clients, assessing project requirements, developing Survey Plans,
and ensuring that projects are completed within specified timelines.
CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT
Controlling site construction activities as per technical specifications and providing inputs for methodologies as per Project plan, cost, and time parameters, reporting to the Resident Engineer/Project Manager.
SITE SURVEY INSPECTION
Building works - Structural and Architectural including all kinds of finishing works- earthworks, Piling and pile head preparation works, diaphragm walls, Rafts foundations, underground water retaining structures, controlling of all horizontal and vertical concrete/mass concrete activities, and all civil activities within the allowable tolerance as per design, managing of the precast hollow core slab and other precast elements, structural steel installations, BMU and other assembly installations, Electrical sub stations, etc.
Infrastructure Works - Road works, Landscaping, Pavements, Car parking lots, Shade structures, Utilities, Water mains, high pressure HDPE pipelines, Stormwater lines, Electrical Cable networks, Telephone and Tele communication lines, etc.
Verifying contractor’s shop drawings as per IFC drawings, method statements & implementation, setting out surveying, carrying out daily inspections of contractor’s construction works, and signing off the relevant IR-Inspection requests in a timely manner and reporting to the Resident Engineer.
The project starts with handing over to the Client etc., Maintaining all records for the work done and documented in electronic form, and Reporting to the Resident Engineer (RE).
COUNTRY OF WORK EXPERIENCES
- Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
- Dubai
- Qatar
- Republic of Sudan.
ORGANIZATIONAL EXPERIENCE
August 1995 to Date
November 2018 to Date
Company: Dar Al Handasah (Share and Partners)
Senior Land Surveyor
Client: Katara Hospitality
Project: Katara Twin Tower Hotel Project, (6Star Hotel)
Lusail District, Doha Qatar. (Project Cost—5.0 billion QR) & Jordanian
and KSA Pavilions for DOHA Expo 2023.
October 2017 to October 2018
Company: Al Kifah Contracting Company
Chief Surveyor
Client: Saudi ARAMCO
Project: City Commercial Port & Infrastructure Project
Jazan Economic City, Gizan, KSA. (Project Cost—1.20 billion SAR)
March 2012 to September 2017
Company: Archen Ellis Don Engineering & Consultants (Design & Supervision)
Chief Land Surveyor
Client: Ministry of Interior (MOI)
Project: Mega Infrastructure/Complex Buildings Project on behalf of Planning & Development Security Agency Border Guard Development Programme - Jizan – KSA. (Project Cost--14.0 billion SAR).
June 2009 to January 2012
Company: Dar Al Riyadh Consultants (Engineering & Architecture)
Chief Land Surveyor
Client: Rayadah Investment Company (PM-Hill International)
Project: 8 No's High-rise Towers (30+) at King Abdullah Financial District,
Riyadh, KSA. (Project Cost--8.0 billion SA
January 2008 to April 2009
Company: Bouygues Batiment International Co. Dubai (Main contractor)
Chief Land Surveyor
Client: Union Properties
Project: Formula-1 Theme Park in Motor City, Dubai, UAE.
Consultant: Burt, Hill
February 2006 to January 2008
Company: Multiplex- Medgulf Construction WLL. Doha-Qatar (Main Cont.)
Chief Surveyor/Surveying Leader
Project: High-rise Tower (35+), W Hotel (5 Star) & Residential Building
Client Representative: White Young Qatar
Consultant: MZ & Partners
October 2000 to February 2006
Company: Al Habtoor Engineering Enterprises L.L.C., Dubai.
Senior Surveyor
Project: No's of High-rise Towers (55+ Stories, JBR Project), Airport, Stadiums, Commercial and Industrial Buildings, Low-cost Housing Projects, etc.
Consultant: Dar Al Handasah Consultants & Others
March 1999 to August 2000
Company: Techint-Saipem J.V. Co. Mug lad Basin Oil
Development Project, Sudan.
Senior Land Surveyor
Client: Greater Nile Petroleum Operating Company
Project: Pipeline, Terminals & Tankage EPC Project
October 1997 to February 1999
Company: Modern Arab Construction Co. Ltd. Riyadh (KSA).
Land Surveyor.
Client: Saudi Consolidated Electric Co. (SCECO)
Project: (1200 MW Combined Cycle Power Plant - PP 9 Project)
October 1995 to August 1997
Company : STACO, Jeddah & Retsers - Saudi Arabia Engg. &
Contracting Co. Land Surveyor
Project: Jeddah Airport Aviation Hangar, Building, and Private
Villas Project, Jeddah Yanbu Cement Plant extension – Yanbu.
JOB RESPONSIBILITIES
Boundary Determination:
- I am responsible for accurately determining property boundaries. Directing or conducting fieldwork to locate and measure boundary points, verifying the accuracy of survey data, analyzing legal documents and historical records, and applying relevant laws and regulations to establish precise boundary lines including measurements and calculations conducted.
Land Measurement and Mapping:
- I used advanced surveying equipment and techniques to measure and map land features. This includes conducting topographic surveys to determine elevations, creating contour maps, and generating accurate survey drawings and maps using computer-aided design (CAD) software.
Geodetic and Control Surveys:
- Involved in geodetic surveys, which involved establishing a network of control points and benchmarks with accurate coordinates, and monitoring construction progress. These control points are reference points for other surveys and mapping projects, including construction layouts and geographic information systems (GIS).
Data Analysis and Interpretation:
- Checking all Survey Processed Data on CAD, which is taken at the site by the Total
Station through Software. Analyzing survey data, performing calculations, and interpreting results to ensure accuracy and reliability. Mathematical and statistical methods are used to process data, identify errors or discrepancies, and make necessary adjustments to survey measurements.
Compliance and Documentation:
- Ensure compliance with legal and regulatory requirements for surveying activities. They maintain records of survey data, prepare survey reports, and provide expert testimony in legal proceedings related to property boundaries or land disputes. Supervising the preparation of all data, charts, plots, maps, records, and documents related to surveys.
- Reviews all survey crew documentation, and supplemental and electronic data for completeness and accuracy and transmits qualifying deliverable items in accordance with Company procedures.
Client Relations:
- Often interact with clients, including individuals, businesses, government agencies, and other stakeholders. They communicate project updates, address client concerns, provide expert advice, and establish positive working relationships to ensure client satisfaction. For the as-built drawing to submit the Client and Consultant find out the coordinates and elevation of all the existing facilities.
Continuous Professional Development:
- I stay updated with the latest advancements in surveying technology, techniques, and regulations. They actively participate in professional development activities, attend seminars or conferences, and engage in lifelong learning to enhance their skills and knowledge.
Construction and Engineering Surveys:
- As a Survey Party Chief works primarily and exclusively in the field and is responsible for the organization, efficiency, precision, accuracy, integrity, and documentation of all fieldwork performed by a survey crew under direct supervision as required for a variety of survey projects. Preparing and maintaining sketches, maps, reports, and legal descriptions of surveys in order to describe, certify, and assume liability for work performed.
- The ability to work independently and play a crucial role in construction and engineering projects to solve problems with constructability and construction processes. Interact with the Manager during the planning, evaluating, execution, and completion of survey projects to ensure that assigned tasks meet and or exceed project requirements.
- Provide information to Inspectors for Maintaining As-built Records. Conduct Surveys for the Design of Changes to the Works and Ensure joint survey measurements are agreed upon with the Contractor for interim payments.
- Review the contractor’s proposal to resolve survey coordination conflicts at the existing facilities, coordinate survey grids and datum, and ensure joint survey measurement is agreed upon with the Contractor for interim payments.
- Checking of Contractor’s Established Control Points and Setting-out of Works for Lines & Levels. Reports to Project Manager/ Resident Engineer/Asst. Resident Engineer
where the as-constructed works are out of tolerance immediately for escalation. The Contractor will be given a Non-Conformance Report (NCR) that the work must be remedied or removed.
- Checking the contractor's survey instruments, methods, and accuracies are within
- specification requirements. Coordinating with the Contractor's surveyor on work priorities and schedules.
- Supervision of infrastructural networks such as Drainage, sewer, stormwater, potable water, and irrigation pipes laying, bedding, backfilling and testing, concrete works of manholes, inspection chambers, and Ground Water Tanks.
- Co-operate with heads of departments on any subject related to the project programs and maintain good relationships with all department managers to plan and supervise the programs of construction activities in coordination with joint venture staff and client representatives, on a daily basis.
- Coordinates with the entire project requirements and provides temporary control points on every floor for setting out the structural features such as columns, walls, etc. for the sub-contractors as required by the project.
- Supervising all the related activities done by sub-contractors for e.g., setting out all the foundations, Laying Pipelines, and elevations, and checking all complete structural superstructural and architectural works (Internal and external), landscaping works, Internal Roads, Services, Paving, Curbstones for the Commercial, and Hotel buildings.
- Setting out of concrete ring wall foundations for tanks and equipment pads like Foundations for Generators, Shipping Pumps, Booster Pumps, Boilers, and Sleeper foundations for piping according to coordinates and Elevation. etc.
- Setting out all the foundations for Steel Structures and shelters such as Like Generators, Booster Pumps, Shipping Pumps, Wax Processing Units, Metering Skid Shelters, and all foundations for Boilers, Turbine, Chimneys and Transformers, Access Roads, Lighting Poles, Underground Cable routing, etc.
- Setting out of foundations for water treatment System, switchgear systems, and construction for the Control room, Tunnel, and proposed route for Underground water storage facilities, underground pipeline onshore to offshore from Pig Launcher and
Scraper area. According to the location of the steel pipe pile, check the verticality and elevation of pipes for the small craft Harbor.
Team Supervision and Training:
- As part of the Chief of the survey party provides direction to all survey crew members and Rotating staff assignments to develop the skills & qualifications of the Surveyors. Carry out the work in fulfillment of its obligations, and maintain a safe working environment with high productivity.
- Supervises the activities of all survey crew personnel including the operation, maintenance, calibration, and configuration of survey equipment, total station instruments, digital (bar code) and differential levels, electronic data collectors, field computers, and handheld GPS devices.
- Performs administrative functions to ensure survey crew time/expenses are correctly tracked and documented in addition to completing daily reporting duties. Adheres to and enforces Company policies and procedural standards.
- As a Senior professional supervise and mentor junior surveyors and surveying teams. Providing guidance, reviewing work quality, and ensuring adherence to surveying standards and procedures, and also conducting training sessions to enhance the skills and knowledge of team members.