Akram Youakim
Doha, Qatar
e-mail: ********@*******.*** - Cell: (+974)
33937285
Date of Birth: 16/07/1974 -
Nationality: Canada
Senior Structural Engineer
Objective:
Remarkably experienced Structural Engineer with 14 years of experience
seeking professional environment where my skills and loyalty will be
rewarded with career advancement and guidance.
Profile:
Experienced in preparing and reviewing structural calculation sheet, tender
drawings and shop drawing for several high profile industrial, commercial
and residential projects with budge up to $900 million.
Experienced in issuing bar bending list of concrete buildings and BOM of
steel structures.
Monitored and supervised various tasks and maintenance in sites during
ongoing construction.
Provided leadership and gaudiness to civil engineering team to make sure
that all their calculations and drawings are economic and safe as per
standard codes and as per project specifications.
Familiarity with concrete and steel standards (Such as: ACI, BS, EU code,
Canadian Building Code, ASTM, AISC, ASCE& Egyptian code).
Ability in using software such as AutoCAD, StruCad, Sap2000, Prokon, Etabs,
ROBOT, Safe, STAAD Pro & Microsoft Office.
Closely collaborated all tasks with other construction team and coordinated
structural drawings with MEP and architectural drawings to avoid any
discrepancies and provided structural solution in case of any.
Approved material delivery submittals, rebar mill test, concrete tests and
made sure that all material used is as per project specifications and BOQ.
Generated and maintained up-to-date engineering documentation in hard copy
and electronic job file.
Ability to communicate effectively with employees and other business
contacts in a courteous and professional manner and exercised a strong
sense of priority and time management.
Personal Skills:
Hard worker, Motivated, Reading text, Document use, Writing, Oral
communication, Good mathematical skills, Working with others, Problem
solving, Critical thinking, Job task planning and organizing, Computer use,
Continuous learning.
Training
o Ontario Building Code. (Legal part & Structure part)
o European concrete code.
o AutoCAD
o StruCAD
o Sap, Etabs, STAAD, Robot, Safe& Prokon
o Microsoft Office.
References
Available upon request
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Akram Youakim
Doha, Qatar
e-mail: ********@*******.*** - Cell: (+974)
33937285
Professional Experience:
1. 2012- Present "Senior Structural Engineer" (Louis Berger Group),Qatar:
As consultant engineer my responsibilities were to review the structural
shop drawings transmittals submitted by the contractor of Media College in
Qatar Foundation Project.
I inspected all structural tasks in site during ongoing construction.
I was responsible to give the approval for the contractor submittals of
concrete crushing test, water test, mortar test, material delivery and
rebar mill test.
2. 2011- 2012 "Senior Structural Engineer" (Consolidated Contractors
Company -CCC),KSA:
I was responsible to check structural design provided by Fichtner
Engineering for combined cycle plant 2700 MW buildings to make sure they
are safe and economic and conducted value engineering concepts for
overdesigned piles, raft foundation, pipelines foundations and tray
bridges.
Visited the Fichtner office in Germany to ensure that the drawings progress
is as per schedule and in line with the construction schedule requirements.
Supervised and guided engineering team while preparing shop drawings before
submitted for final approval.
Liaised with the site team and procurement department for construction
requirements, design changes and raised SCR's to clarify any discrepancies
between drawings.
Coordinated structural shop drawings with the MEP drawings and
architectural drawings to ensure that all openings, embeds and other
requirement details are achieved.
1. 2010- 2011 "Senior Structural Engineer" (BTCC), Qatar:
Guided engineering team while preparing detailed shop drawings, bar bending
lists and As Built drawings for National Guards building.
Assisted in preparing the detailed structural shop drawings for the above
project and inspected tasks in situ.
Coordinated structural drawings and work with other construction team to
check for discrepancies and raised RFI's to clarify any.
Came up with structural solution for any discrepancy during progress of
construction.
3. 2009- 2010 "Senior Structural Engineer" (Orascom Construction Industries-
OCI) Cairo, Egypt:
o Supervised engineering team preparing detailed calculation sheet and
shop drawings of Abu Qir Thermal Power Plant buildings.
o Coordinated structural drawings and work with other construction
team and manufactures to check for discrepancies to avoid any
problems during rebar installing, concrete casting and during
installing of equipment's.
o Raised RFI's to clarify any discrepancies.
. 2005- 2009 "Structural Engineer" (The Canadian Engineers) Mississauga,
ON, Canada:
o Generated set of detailed drawings of pre-fabricated steel members
showing the proposed material, shape, size, and assembly of the parts.
Examples of these include: steel frames, trusses, stairs ladders and air
handling unit frames.
o Prepared 3D model using StruCAD for a steel head frame used in
mining industry:
. Generated detailed erection drawings and BOM of steel members.
. Generated detailed DXF files that showed the exact dimension, thickness
and the location of the holes to be drilled in shop of each
plate.
o Issued detailed drawings of an old Skip used in salt industry that showed
the exact location of holes to be drilled, their sizes and tolerances and
generated the 3D model of the new one.
o Monitored and inspected construction of steel buildings and concrete
buildings for commercial, residential industrial, hotels and
educational institutes.
o Prepared BOM of steel structure members.
o Inspected construction of various built-up asphalt roofing insulation and
inspected installation of dry walls.
o Made sure that Fireproofing and Fire-stopping work is within the standard
specifications.
o Performed shear test of welded studs and inspected steel weld in various
projects.
o Checked wooden buildings during construction.
o Prepared daily activity records and reports.
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Akram Youakim
Doha, Qatar
e-mail: ********@*******.*** - Cell: (+974)
33937285
o 2002-2003 "Structural Engineer" (Civitech) Cairo, Egypt:
o I issued detailed shop drawings and bar bending list using AutoCAD and
Excel sheets for Al Shura Council
Building in Bahrain.
2002. (Structural Engineer" (Hamza Association) Cairo, Egypt:
o I Carried out structural calculation and related IFC drawings of the
following projects:
1. Ala'mrya Thermal Power Plant.
2. Cairo North Thermal Power Plant.
3. El Gouna new distillery factory.
4. Tea packing factory.
5. The Children's Oncology Hospital.
o I Reviewed shop drawings of the following projects:
1. City Stars Mall.
2. Nile City Towers.
1999. "Structural Engineer" (EGEC) Cairo, Egypt:
o I Prepared detailed shop drawings and bar bending list of concrete
building for the following projects:
1. Dreamland, Golf Community.
2. El Bostan Community.
3. Grain Silo & Flour Mill in Sweden.
I Issued structural calculation sheet and IFC- drawings of the following
projects:
1. Al Azhar educational institute building.
2. Private residential villa.
3. Residential Building.
I Inspected formwork, rebar work and monitored cast of concrete during
construction for the following projects:
1. Dreamland, Golf Community.
2. Residential building.
3. Worked as quality control engineer in Suez Canal Bridge Project.
Education:
o B.Sc. Of Civil Engineering, Cairo University 1998
o Concordia University, Montreal (2004-2005)
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