 Ahmed Raai is a 36-year-old married Syrian national currently working as a MEP Construction Manager for Jacobs International Holdings Inc. in Abu Dhabi, UAE.  He has over 12 years of experience managing MEP construction projects in the UAE and GCC regions.  A recent project he managed was the Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi hospital project with a value of $1.9 billion, where he oversaw MEP installation, testing, and commissioning.

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Ahmed M. H. Raai
(MEP Construction Manager)
MEP CM
Apr. 2014
United Arab Emirates
Last Update: 01/04/2014
AHMED M. RAAI Mobile: +971 551 55 955 37 31
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ahmedraai@yahoo.com
Abu Dhabi, UAE
SUMMARY
 Profile: Male, 36 , Married
 Nationality: Syria
 Current Location: UAE
 Current position: MEP Construction Manager / MEP CM
 Company: JACOBS International Holdings Inc.
(Reporting to: Operations Director)
 Preferred Locations: UAE, All GCC Countries, All Middle East Countries
WORK EXPERIENCE
Dec. 2012 - Present JACOBS International Holdings Inc. Abu Dhabi, UAE
MEP Construction Manager
Jacobs, with 2013 revenues of nearly $12 billion, is one of the world's largest and
most diverse providers of technical, professional, and construction services.
Building strong, long-term relationships with our clients is the key to our success
as a company.
Achievements:
Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi:
With $ 1.9 billion is a world-class multispecialty hospital being built on Al
Maryah Island in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
The hospital was designed and developed by Abu Dhabi’s Mubadala Healthcare
and leading US-based hospital, Cleveland Clinic, to address a range of complex
and critical care requirements unique to the Abu Dhabi population. Mubadala
Healthcare is helping to address the region’s most pressing healthcare needs
through the creation of specialist healthcare facilities, building regional capability
and stimulating the overall development of the sector.
Client: Mubadala – Abu Dhabi
Consultant: AEDAS / AECOM / KEO
Main Cont: Samsung – SIX Construction
On this project, Cleveland Clinic – Abu Dhabi I held the position of MEP
Construction Manager, My Scope was Managing, supervising the installation,
Testing and Commissioning of all MEP Works in the Patient Tower which
consists of 13 Floors as follows:
• 7 Floors Ordinary Patient Rooms (36 Rooms each)with Medical rooms
• 2 Floors for VIP Patient Rooms (18 Rooms Each)
• 1 Floor for VIP Patient Suites (6 Nos.) with Services.
• 3 Mechanical Floors.
My Responsibilities were:
- Planning, Managing and supervising the installation of 1st and 2nd fix
of all electromechanical activities (which were done on time) by
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3. coordinating the services with RLOS drawings and with the site
conditioning in order to have the final product functional, useful, fits for
purpose and accessible for future maintenance above false ceiling, And
by solving all the problems related to that with the designer and the
architect and the installation team without affecting the overall design.
- Managing and supervising FIREM (Final Fix) installations and approvals
by the engineer, this is also done on time as per the planned targets, by
having the final product with the best condition ready to be tested.
- CIR, ICDR Follow up.
- Testing and commissioning for all MEP Services Like (Fire Alarm,
MSFD, Central Battery, Emergency System, Lighting Control System,
Access Control, Nurse Call System, Pneumatic System, Medical Gas
System, Novac System, Fire Fighting System, PAS, CCTV, AVS, DB and
SMDB Life Test, EMCS, Air Proportional Test, Pressurization and
smoke Fans, Air Balancing, Water Balancing, Plumbing System, Drainage
System, PFT and FT for all systems. Assuring that all testing stages and
integrations between related systems with BMS and EMCS is in the best
condition exactly the way it meant to be in the specification and by
witnessing and signing off all the above systems by an third party
specialist. Up to the client expectation and satisfactory.
- Safety is always our first responsibility as we are a part of Beyond Zero
Program and behavior, by attending the safety issues once it happened
and reporting directly by Safety Observation report.
- Arranging daily, weekly and monthly meetings with all parties to monitor
and to make sure that the KPI’s targets were met on time.
- Repotting to the client.
- Safety.
Oct.2007 - Dec.2012 REMCO (Reliance Electro-Mech. Plumbing Contracting Co) Dubai, UAE
MEP Construction Manager
Remco is one of the leading electro-mechanical contracting companies in UAE,
The turnover of REMCO is reaching AED 1.5 billion handling large range of
high quality projects. I had joined REMCO as Senior Mechanical Engineer in and
had promoted to Asst. Project Manager.
Achievements:
1- Global Village Project – Dubai, Grand themed shopping mall with
residential phase
Value: AED 150 Million MEP Contract
Client of the project is Dubai Land (Tatweer Dubai)
Consultant: AECOM/CANSULT Mauncel Limited
Project Managers. TATWEER
2- Ajman Residential Complex , 12 high rise towers (G+5P+36 Floors)
in the gate of Ajman State with total MEP contract value of $ 0.5 billion.
The client is Ajman Ruler Sheikh Hmaid Bin Rashid Al Nuaemi and the
developer is M/s. Aqaar Properties.
Handling the following activities:
• Managing and monitoring the Mechanical Activities with the MEP staff of
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4. engineers and supervisors to ensure that all works are executed as per
specification, consultant and client requirement and engineer's requirements
to meet their satisfaction and approval.
• Dealing and managing the project finance like payments, variation, etc.
• Handling the sub-contractors, Labor supply, Third Parties.
• Follow up and manage work team performance and site works, progress,
material delivery, ordering, etc.
• Handling all meetings with the client, consultant and other contractors such
as (Progress Meeting, MEP Meeting, Coordination meeting, Construction
meeting, Safety meeting etc.) and prepare all kind of reports required in the
meetings.
• All Method statements, ITP, Plans, Schedules and check lists required for
the inspections and tests, Third parties
• Quality control and quality assurance (QC/QA) and monitor all
correspondences, Transmittals, Workshop Drawings, etc.., and arrange the
records for that to evaluate and quality and progress comparing with base
line program.
Oct 2004 - Sep. 2007 Bhatia General Cont. Co.
Mechanical Co-ordinator
Bhatia Gen. Cont. is a member of Bhatia Group and an ISO-9000 well reputed
company dealing with construction activities for a lot of clients including Dubai
Municipality.
My Duty was Dealing with the following activities:
• Managing and all MEP works at the construction sites.
• Testing and commissioning and handing over the projects.
• Preparing the handing over documents and O&M Manuals.
Achievements:
Important Projects Executed are:
•B+G+10 Building at Dubai Marina (Consultant: Chawla Engg.)
•2B+G+4P+22 Building at Bur Dubai (Consultant: NEB)
•B+G+16 Building at Dubai Knowledge Village, Dubai (Consultant:
Team Cons.Engg.)
•B+G+14 Building at Al Barsha first, Dubai (Consultant: NEB)
•240 Nos. Villas for DM in Lahbab, Dubai (Consultant: Dar Al Khaleej)
Dec. 2001 - Sep. 2004 Sky Way Gen. Cont. co. Abu Dhabi, UAE
Project Engineer
Sky way is an electro-mechanical company and Dealing with the Mechanical
works (A/C, Fire fighting, Plumping & Drainage), we did a lot of a specific
projects for PWD (Public Works Department) in Abu Dhabi and some other
projects Fujairah and RAK.
Achievements:
• Blood Bank at Abu Dhabi & Al Ain (Consultant: James Cubbit & Partners)
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5. • G+6 Residential Building at Abu Dhabi (Consultant: CASSIA)
• 2 Nos. Schools in Fujairah & Ras Al Khaimah (Consultant : TAHEL)
• Al Rowad Model School in Abu Dhabi (Consultant: Al Ajami Engg.)
• G+M+14 Building at Abu Dhabi (Consultant: ECG Consultants)
Sep. 2001- Nov. 2001 Al Omran Transport co. Lattakia, Syria
Technical Engineer
I Worked as a Technical Engineer in the Maintenance department of Lattakia
Branch.
Responsible of inspections at all kinds of the company’s Mechanical equipments
(as AC equipments, Boilers, Heavy Equipment in the Workshop.)
EDUCATION
Oct 1996 - Jul 2001 Damascus/Teshreen Syria
Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor(BSc/BA), GPA 73.6%
Member of the Syrian Syndicate for Engineers
OTHER CERTIFICATES
2007 BA-H2S Safety Aware
Certificate
Venture Gulf Training Center - Qatar
2002 ICDL ILAF Computer Center - Syria
2010 Primavera P-6 Vision Training Institute - UAE
2010 PMP Vision Training Institute - UAE
IT Skills
Windows & Office tools
 Windows Expert
 Word, Excel, Power Point Advanced
Non-web programming languages
 Hourly Anlisis Program (HAP) Advanced
 Carrier E20-II Advanced
 AutoCAD Advanced
 Visual Basic Intermediat
e
• Primavera Program Intermediat
e
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6. OTHER QUALIFICATIONS
• AC Design for different types of buildings using Block Load and Carrier
E20-II programs as per ASHREA standards, Extract air system, Fresh Air
System, Ventilation, Duct designing, sizing and selection, Electric Load
Calculation, U Value Calculation and General AC Machines Selections.
• Fire fighting system (wet riser system, dry riser system, sprinkler system)
Installation & commissioning.
• Plumping & Drainage systems, design Knowledge.
LANGUAGES
 Arabic Native
 English Fluent
 Hindi Work Knowledge
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7. OTHER QUALIFICATIONS
• AC Design for different types of buildings using Block Load and Carrier
E20-II programs as per ASHREA standards, Extract air system, Fresh Air
System, Ventilation, Duct designing, sizing and selection, Electric Load
Calculation, U Value Calculation and General AC Machines Selections.
• Fire fighting system (wet riser system, dry riser system, sprinkler system)
Installation & commissioning.
• Plumping & Drainage systems, design Knowledge.
LANGUAGES
 Arabic Native
 English Fluent
 Hindi Work Knowledge
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