Wijdan Hussein Al-Najjar

Highly motivated chartered structural engineer with over 16 years of experience in structural design of various types of projects including Residential, Commercial, Retail, Educational, Health Care, Data Centres, and others. Led structural design teams successfully on several high profile projects including high rise, mid and large scale low rise buildings, competent in offering creative and cost efficient structural solutions through all stages of design from concept to detailed design. Adept in training and mentoring structural engineers with emphasis on producing high quality and innovative design with a focus on meeting the programme deadlines and control the design cost. Extensive experience working within multi-disciplinary consultancy organizations collaborated proficiently with Architects, M&E Engineers and Authorities to coordinate the structural design through all stages of the project. Adept in communicating the design issues and requirements with the project design team to achieve the maximum cost saving solutions without compromising the architectural design intent, functionality and aesthetics. Strength and Areas of Expertise ➢ Providing efficient and cost effective structural solutions for high rise buildings that comply with the international design codes requirements and meet the architectural design intent ➢ Worked on many multi-disciplined mega scale projects with leading architectural practices and worked closely with external and in house mechanical and electrical design teams to produce fully coordinated projects design Strength and Areas of Expertise ➢ Providing efficient and cost effective structural solutions for high rise buildings that comply with the international design codes requirements and meet the architectural design intent ➢ Worked on many multi-disciplined mega scale projects with leading architectural practices and worked closely with external and in house mechanical and electrical design teams to produce fully coordinated project design ➢ Successfully represented the structural design team as structural project team lead responsible for delivering quality structural design for various projects including residential, commercial, educational and health care. ➢ Experienced in 3D modelling using structural design software including ETABS, STAAD PRO, SAFE, RAM Concept, S-CONCRETE and Prokon as well as manual structural calculation. ➢ Significant experience in scheme and detail design of the applications of post tensioning.