Mohammed Al Hobail

Started as a site Architect and promoted to Assistant resident Engineer and later to Senior Architect.

Managing finishing works in two high profile metro station on the orange line; The Court Complex underground station and the iconic Qasr Al Hokm station, the largest intersection station in Riyadh Metro Project.

Managing finishing and landscaping works and ensuring delivery of works in high quality, as per specifications and designer intent.

During years of the project I covered different roles from site engineer to design reviewer to team leader

My responsibilities are and not limited to the following:

• Managing a team of 10 engineers and coordinate between them and ongoing site activities
• Technical coordination; between Architecture and other disciplines, design team and construction team and client and contractor
• Knowledge transfer and communicate with team the method statements, testing procedures, project updates and provide conflict resolutions
• Supervise site activities, attend and close inspection requests, witness and review tests and receive materials
• Support Resident Engineer with drawings and documents and report the daily progress, site issues and updates
• Review shop drawings, method statements and inspection and test plans and produce comment resolution sheets
• Attend mockup invitations and share comments and concerns related to the execution, engineering and look and feel
• Raise technical issues and attend and manage work shops and meetings
• Produce field non-conformance reports, daily progress reports, finishing log sheets, site surveillance reports and MoM
• Revising monthly PVRs
• Assist in revising and breaking of Project schedule
• Participate in safety walks and produce weekly safety report and reported safety issue

Successfully manged a team of 10 engineers on two metro stations that have two different designers and different requirements.

During this period I oversaw starting and finishing of many activities such as epoxy and terrazzo flooring, wall painting, rendering, tiling cladding, doors and glazing works and stations canopy fixations and cladding.

Also during this time the landscaping works started between the two stations and I managed the work from Madinah Road starting from Al Bathaa road intersection until King Fahd road junction at around 1.5KM in length.

Joined in the early stages of Riyadh Metro Project as a Site Architect during the 60% architectural design drawings stage. My input and reports during project design have successfully translated to on site execution for major elements of Qasr al Hokm station such as the design of Fair Face Concrete walls and Cone wall Render.

During early construction, I started following up with Civil engineering works such as excavations, utility relocation, piling and anchoring, concrete casting. As project progressed and finishing works started with Blockwork, plastering and painting I carried forward to finishing works as more fronts opens

This project took place on the Empty Quarter desert as part of Saudi Aramco Shaybah development program, it included building two residential accommodations and expanding and renovating other Aramco facilities in the area