Dr Ahmed Faheem

Experience

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  Ministry of Tourism and Civil Aviation, Maldives

  Jul 2005 - Aug 2007

  Planning Officer, Quality and Construction

  • Daily travel to various resort islands, city hotels, guest houses, safari boats and travel agencies to perform routine structural and service quality inspections. • Preparing tourist facility condition reports for the Minister’s consideration.

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  Curtin University Sarawak

  Nov 2010 - Nov 2011

  Honours Research student

  Topic: • Mechanical Properties of Self-compacting Concrete (SCC) incorporating fly-ash.Key duties: • Fabricating all the equipment required to test the fresh-state properties SCC.• Optimising the use of fly-ash in SCC, focussing on preventing bleeding and segregation without compromising the fluidity essential for self-compactability. • Carrying out compressive and indirect tensile (splitting) tests to quantify the strength of the resulting concretes, and using the results to work out optimised SCC mix designs. • Securing of industrial funding for the SCC project, and continuing collaboration with them to produce 02 conference papers (in 2011) and 02 journal papers (in 2015 & 2016). Show less

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  Gedor Consulting Pvt. Ltd.

  Dec 2011 - Aug 2012

  Structural Design Engineer (Steel, Concrete, Timber)

  • Analysis and design of building structures and the preparation of engineering drawings for resort island structures (concrete and timber), residential buildings and commercial building complexes.• Coordinating and participating in meetings with clients in the presence of Gedor’s architectural, mechanical and electrical engineers, during which I made suggestions on structural design aspects of each project so as to facilitate the decision making process.• Performing site supervision, verifying on-site building measurements and providing collected site data to quantity surveyors for progress valuation purposes. • Assisting the management of Gedor’s structures laboratory for concrete and steel specimen testing (i.e. after being appointed as the second in-charge of the laboratory). Show less

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  Maldivian National University

  Jan 2012 - Jul 2012

  Lecturer (Civil Engineering)

  • Delivering of lectures and preparation of examination papers for the subjects ‘Statics’ and ‘Building Materials’ offered at Maldivian National University

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  Maldives Polytechnic

  Jan 2012 - Jul 2012

  Lecturer (Civil Engineering)

  • Preparing teaching materials (i.e. lecture slides, tutorial questions and examination papers) and subsequently coordinating, delivering and assessing the Structural Design subject offered at Maldivian Polytechnic.

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  University of Sydney

  May 2016 - Jan 2022

  • Weekly delivery of lectures for the subject Hydrology.• Unit Coordinator for Hydrology (including the preparation of the assessment tasks as well as handling the administrative aspects of the subject). • Weekly delivery of tutorial classes for the subjects ENGG1802 Engineering Mechanics (undergraduate), CIVL3235/5513 Structural Analysis (undergraduate and postgraduate) and CIVL5669 Applied Fluid Engineering Computing (postgraduate).• Demonstration of manual and computer analysis procedures for concrete, steel and timber elements (beams, columns, frames and complete buildings) as well as fluid flow problems, and marking of examination papers. • Numerical research work on Ventilated Hollow Core Slab applications, Phase Change Materials, turbulence modelling using CFD and experimental research on Self-compacting concrete.• Assisting the production of a text book focussing on Pre-stressed concrete design (authored by PhD supervisor).

  • Lecturer/Unit Coordinator

    Apr 2018 - Jan 2022

  • Civil Engineering tutor (for undergraduate and post-graduate courses)

    Jul 2012 - Jan 2022

  • Civil and Building Engineering researcher

    May 2016 - Jan 2018
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  Windtech Consultants

  Jul 2016 - now

  Engineering:• Project coordination and supervision.• Development of technical solutions, test procedures, and methods of analyses for unique scope items.• Member of the Australian Wind Engineering Society (AWES) committee for developing unique wind tunnel testing and reporting procedures.• Supervising the operation of Windtech's 3 boundary layer wind tunnels.• Continued project works and research contributions as per previous project engineer role.Business Development:• Preparation of project proposals (scope, fees, timelines and T&Cs).• Point of contact for new and existing clients, attendance to client meetings.• Maintenance of client database.• Design and technical write-up of marketing material and the management of periodic transmissions. Show less • Wind tunnel testing to determine pedestrian wind environment conditions, façade cladding pressures, structural loads and air flow patterns within/around existing and upcoming infrastructure developments, and the communication of findings via reports.• Carrying out of wind driven rain studies (via CFD), wind noise studies (analytical and self-planned experimental), wind entry and building door pressurisation studies, natural ventilation and thermal comfort analysis as well as the communication of findings via reports.• Active research on various techniques for the continuous improvement of the wind engineering services provided at Windtech (particularly for wind tunnel experiments). • https://windtech.com.au/remedial-wind-noise-studies/ Show less

  • Associate Director (Engineering and Business Development)

    Jan 2022 - now

  • Regional Manager - Egyptian Projects (Engineering and Business Development)

    Jul 2019 - Jan 2022

  • Senior/Supervising Engineer - Global Projects (Engineering and Business Development)

    Feb 2019 - Jan 2022

  • Intern Manager

    Jun 2021 - Dec 2021

  • Project Engineer - Global Projects

    Jul 2016 - Feb 2019