Ahmed
Elhabashy

Four structures, one programme: the South Terminal (78,000 m²), West Parking (27,000 m²), East Parking (9,500 m²), and a new steel Baggage Handling building with five roof areas re-engineered inside the terminal envelope.

The contract scope was written from condition assessments prepared by two specialist firms. Once the ceilings came down, the real structure told a different story — half a century of sea air off the Red Sea coast, and decades of undocumented alterations. The issued scheme could not be built as drawn.

Rather than stop the site, our own design team re-engineered the solutions during construction. Roughly 90% of the strengthening standing today was engineered by AT-JV as the work proceeded, in parallel with every other trade working the same bays.

Early Contractor Involvement puts the builder’s engineers inside the design room while the design can still be changed cheaply. On Terminal 6, I lead the structural side of AT-JV’s Stage 1 scope as sub-consultant to WGT-JV — in parallel with the KAIA delivery on the previous page.

The structure is a repeating family of vaulted roof modules on arched ribs and a triangulated lattice — a geometry that would take weeks to rebuild member-by-member in an analysis package, and would have to be rebuilt again at every design revision.

So it isn’t rebuilt by hand. I built an AI-assisted automation that reads the Revit design model and generates the ETABS analysis model directly — one geometry in design and analysis, no transcription, and a model that can be regenerated as the design moves. That speed is exactly what ECI-stage engineering exists to exploit.

MASAR sits at the western threshold of Al-Haram Mosque — a masterplan reshaping how pilgrims move from the transit nodes toward the holy site. Package A is the gateway: the hub connecting the public transport networks serving the district.

I held full technical authority across eight concurrent structures in a dense, access-restricted environment where the working window is set by the pilgrimage calendar, not the programme.

Delivered on time and within budget, with a ~20% efficiency improvement against baseline through value engineering and optimised sequencing, and zero safety incidents across the reporting period.

Twelve years delivering structure in the densest tower market in the region, on the plots immediately around Burj Khalifa and the Opera House — where the site boundary is the kerb and every lift, pour and closure is negotiated with a live city.

At TAV Construction I ran structural engineering for Il Primo and the Address hotel and hotel-apartment towers. At Arabian Construction Company I directed structural delivery over nine years across Fountain View Towers, Boulevard Point and the Mashreq Bank Headquarters.

Consistent across all of them: design coordination and package review for code and buildability before release to construction, and coordination processes that cut RFI turnaround and the design-related delay that follows it.