Arul Nathan has over 40 years of experience in infrastructure projects across three continents. He currently serves as the Commercial/Contracts Director for the RM 23 billion Klang Valley MRT project in Malaysia. Previously, he has held senior roles managing rail, metro, highway, urban development, and oil and gas projects. He possesses strong skills in contract management, commercial risk assessment, and claims negotiation.

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1. POSITION : PROJECT DIRECTOR
2. NAME : ARUL NATHAN
aruln2003@yahoo.com
3. NO. OF YEARS EXPERIENCE : 40 years in total, started on current
Project, 1st May 2011
& PROJECT DATES
4. NATIONALITY : British
5. EDUCATION : B.Sc (Hons) in Civil Engineering, University of
London (1975)
MBA National University of Singapore (1986)
Post Graduate Certificate, University of
Westminster, UK. (1993) (Advance Structural
Analysis, Steel Structural Design and Structural
Dynamics).
Chartered Civil Engineer - Institute of Civil
Engineers, London U.K 1979
6. LANGUAGE AND DEGREE : English Written : Very Good
OF PROFICIENCY Spoken : Very Good
7. SELECTION CRITERIA :
 Good Communicator
 Experience in Rail & Transit Projects
 Key Skills from Major World Leading Infrastructure Projects and dealing with
Multinational clients.
 Change Management & Commercial Programmes
 Working knowledge of FIDIC form of Contracts as practiced in the Gulf
 Multidisciplinary Project Coordination and Delivery capabilities
 Cost Effective Design and Procurement strategist
 Programme, Project Controls & Risk Management capabilities
 Variation and EOT Claims and Negotiation of Final Account capabilities
 Knowledge of the Market, Key Players and competitive building strategist.
8. SUMMARY OF EXPERIENCE :
Arul Nathan, has forty (40) years of broad based but "Hands -On " International experience
across three continents, Europe, Asia / Middle East and Africa involving major infrastructure
projects, including 12 years in railway related projects . Most recently over the past 4 years, he
is holding the position of Independent Consulting Engineer’s (ICE) Director of Contracts &
Commercial for KVMRT project, worth RM 23 Billion / USD 6.7 Billion.
A Chartered Civil/Structural Engineer by profession with a strong commercial knowledge in
design and build contract environment (FIDIC) combined with MBA training in Finance. Having
worked for leading international companies in international turnkey contracting, consultancy
and development fraternity, in a fiercely competitive lump sum, fast track environment, he has
firsthand experience and strong knowledge of Design, Construction and Contract
Administration of multibillion US dollars Railway/Metro projects.

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Besides, his international experience, has equipped him with the ability to handle and motivate
multi-national work force and liaise closely with clients, at times in challenging environments,
cutting across linguistic and cultural barriers - "People's Skill". He is an effective
communicator, in both, written and spoken English and able to handle complex commercial
and contractual claims and final accounts negotiations.
Broadly categorized discipline by discipline, work experience to date:
Over fifteen (15) years, were spent in railway and highway related projects both in the UK and
Malaysia. In the UK, where he started his career in Eastern Road Construction Unit, he
designed and supervised a section of the M11 Highway, London to Cambridge, which led to
his achieving Chartered Engineer's status.
In Malaysia firstly he started as Senior Consultant on KL Sentral, Transportation Oriented
development, worth over RM1.0 billion (USD300 Million), employing over 3,500 personnel.
This was followed by more senior assignment as Chief Operating Officer and Commercial
Manager of the Project Management Company (PMC) handling brownfield construction of
Electrified Double Track Railway Project between Rawang to Ipoh (180km). The lump sum
awarded price of the contract was RM3 billion and at peak, employing over 6,000 personnel
and nearly 100 main and sub-contractors were deployed.
Apart from day to day commercial management and execution, he successfully
formulated and pursued, Circa RM700 million worth of EOT/ Prolongation Claim with a
final settlement of RM425 million.
Currently as Director of Contracts and Commercial, Design & Build in the Independent
Consultant Engineer’s (ICE) team, he has the crucial oversight role and responsibility for
reviewing contract documentation, progress payment, and variations / EOT claims verification,
commercial risk assessment, mitigation and final account for RM 23 Billion (USD6.7 Billion)
worth Klang Valley MRT project (Line 1).
Prior to this, he had spent fifteen (15) years in urban infrastructure development works in
Malaysia, South Africa, India, UAE and Libya, involving Roads and Drainage, Integrated
Township, complete with a Golf course and Modern Technology Park. As Director of Projects,
based in UAE, he was leading multi-disciplinary design and construction management teams,
(over 150 Professionals), involving AED 6 Billion worth of projects for clients such as: Dubai
World Group of Companies (Nakheel, Technopark, JAFZA Properties), Al Harty Group in
Muscat, Oman and Alekleel Group in Benghazi, Libya. All these projects were administered
under FIDIC form of contract.
His initial ten (10) years, were spent in the oil and gas industry involving design, fabrication and
installation of heavy offshore steel topsides /platforms in the UK, Middle East and South East
Asia, mainly working for leading Turnkey Design and Build Contractors in the fortune 500
league.

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9. EMPLOYMENT RECORD :
9.1
Period Employment
Organization/ Position
Summary of Project
May 2011
Till date
HSS Engineering Sdn Bhd
Position:
Commercial / Contracts
Director
Mass Rapid Transit Lembah Klang – Kuala
Lumpur (RM23 Billion/USD6.7 Billion).
Currently, as Director of Contracts and Commercial, in the Independent Consultant Engineer
(ICE) team, he has the crucial oversight role and responsibility for reviewing contract
documentation, progress payment, variation /EOT claims verification, risk assessment and
mitigation for RM 23 Billion worth Klang Valley MRT project (Line 1).
His responsibility, include reviewing procurement and pre-tender documentation, post award
progress payments and claims verifications, leading up to final account, all under JCT / FIDIC
forms of contract. Of the 80 work packages, some packages involve build only local
contractors, while others are for design and build international contractors for systems related
works.
Participated in preparing proactive mitigation plans, which makes a significant and valuable
contribution to the project, both in terms of physical progress and minimizing contractual
claims.
To date the project is on schedule and well within the budget, with manageable EOT / VO and
acceleration related claims. This is due in no small measure to the spirit of collaborative team
effort, with ICE playing a crucial “check and balance” role.

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9.2
Period Employment
Organization/ Position
Summary of Projects
May 2007-
May 2011
HSS Group (Operating as
Consultant HSS).
Position:
Director of Projects
(FIDIC)
i. Multipurpose Shopping Mall &
Residential Complex, Oman
ii. Mass Housing, Libya
iii. JAFZA Properties &
Technopark, Dubai
9.2a
AL HARTY,
Muscat, Oman (Project Value AED 850 Million)
Multipurpose Shopping Mall and Residential Complex
Leading a team of Designers, Construction Supervisors and Contract Administrators to
design, value engineer, estimate, procure and execute this multiple-use shopping / residential
complex, along with contracts and claim Management.
9.2b
ALEKLEEL CONSTRUCTION COMPANY
Benghazi, Libya. (Project Value – LD 380 Million).
Mass housing projects - Leading a Construction Management Team, executing multimillion
Libyan Dinar, Mass Housing Project consisting of 1,262 Villas and associated infrastructure
Works in Benghazi, as part of the Libyan Government Housing Board initiative.
9.2c
DUBAI WORLD GROUP OF COMPANIES
NAKHEEL, JAFZA properties & Technopark – MPW (Project Value – AED 4.0 Billion).
Leading a team of Designers, Construction Supervisors and Contract Administrators to
design, value engineer, estimate, procure and execute:-
a. Vast infrastructure, roads and utilities, work (including district cooling) for the Technopark
of approximately 4,400 square acres.
b. 775 High end Villas and associated services for Waterfront, Plam Jabel Ali;
c. 500 Fully integrated Factories and Office Premises.
Ras Al Khaimah, Gateway City Development – Infrastructure Detail Design for a total
development area of 1,150 hectors, inclusive of design of roads, earthworks and utilities.
9.3
Period Employment
Organization/ Position
Summary of Project
Jan 2004
Apr 2007
Prestige Shanthi Niketan.
Position:
Project Director
Mass Housing Developments
Prestige Shanthi Niketan
Bangalore, India.
This is a self-contained township of 3,200 dwellings, with India’s IT corridor. As Head of
Construction, he lead a team on 500 men, building, twenty (20) story high, ten (10) high-rise
apartment blocks, using in parallel. Two-streams of proprietary Mivan formwork system. He
achieved a nine (9) days cycle per floor, consisting of eight (8) number apartments, complete
with walls, slabs and lift core.

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9.4
Period Employment
Organization/ Position
Summary of Projects
Jan 2000
Dec 2003
Rockridge Golf Estate
Parys.
Position: Director
Golf course, Luxury Villas and related
infrastructures.
Rockridge Golf Estate.
Parys, North West Province, South Africa.
As the Director he was responsible for overall technical and commercial matters of the
development of 1,250 hector land, along the River Vaal, North West Province. The
development consisted of an integrated Golf Estate with USPGA standard golf course, 350
Luxury Villas on 350 hectares of land along the waterfront and exclusive private lodges
located across the other side of the Games Reserve property.
Under his leadership, the team achieved design and construction of roads, infrastructure and
utilities installation on a fast tract basis within a limited budget.
9.5
Period Employment
Organization/ Position
Summary of Projects
Sep 2000
2003
HSS Integrated Sdn Bhd.
Position:
Chief Operating Officer /
Commercial Director for
PMC (Special Project)
Electrified Double Track – Rawang to Ipoh
Railway Track
Rawang to Ipoh (RM 2.6 Billion + RM 425 Million / USD1.0 Billion).
Main features of the project included value engineering, design, procurement, construction
and commissioning on a fast track basis to handle high-speed trains on a metre gauge track,
built on a brown field, right next to operational tracks. This was a “first” of its kind in Malaysia
and in South East Asia, executed under a lump sum contract.
- Project Management, Commercial & Contract Administration
- Value Engineering
- Contract Management, Commercial & Sub contract negotiations.
- Project risk assessment and management
- Establishing of variation tracking systems to assess potential opportunity and exposure
for claims
- Setting up and implementation of overall budgetary and quality controls
- Accountabilities include the proactive management of all contractual, commercial and
technical aspects of the Agreement.
- Responsible for complete project Management for Electrified Double Track project.
- Successfully managed and controlled all aspects of Project Contract management and
administration, legal affairs, program development, deeds of variation, claims, Project
payments, formal correspondence and disputes.
- Successfully formulated and pursued, Circa RM 700 Million EOT / Prolongation
claims with as final award of RM 425 Million.

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9.6
Period Employment Organization/ Position Summary of Projects
1997 –
Aug 2000
T Y LIN (SEA) Sdn Bhd
(Part of T Y Lin International leading Structural
Solution providers, San Francisco, USA.
Position:
Senior Consultant for Special Projects (Senior
Commercial Manager – KL Sentral)
Transportation Hub
and associated
Railway and
Development Works
- KL Sentral
Project Value RM 1.00 Billion
- On secondment as Senior Project Consultant for MRCB Group, one of the leading
Government linked property and infrastructure development companies.
- In-charge of technical & commercial matters related to civil/structural and associated
Railway infrastructure works for the prestigious fully integrated transportation hub cum
commercial precinct in the heart of KL City. The project is situated in a 75-acre land. At
peak, deployed a workforce of 3,500 and more than 50 specialist sub-contractors, all
under the Design and Build (D&C) umbrella, FIDIC form of contract.
- Initially, he was responsible for vetting D&C Contractor’s proposal for consultants and
sub-contractors and verifying design in terms of temporary works, safety, permanent
works and constructability in a high congested area and over electrified operational
tracks.
- During the construction phase he was responsible for monitoring, tracking and
troubleshooting in order to ensure timely completion of the works. He has been
successful in meeting target deliverables, on behalf of KL Sentral, the developer of ERL,
PUTRA & KTMB, the rail operators.
- He was also responsible for monthly valuation, evaluation of variations and
contractual claims, including EOT for infrastructure works.
9.7
Period Employment Organization/ Position Summary of Projects
1995-
1997
MIVAN International Ltd UK.
Position:
Country Manager, responsibility for Commercial
& operational matters in Indian Sub-Continent, a
system build technology provider out of UK.
Urban & Residential
Development.
- Responsible for setting up a new operational base in India, which included in terms of
coverage, a wide range of South Asian countries, developing business plans and
strategies,-
- Bidding and securing new contracts worth over £5 Million,
- Implementing the same for the rapid erection of multi-storey residential complexes.
- Responsible for more than 500 construction workers, as different sites throughout India,
while working closely with established local property developers.
- Delivered over 1,500 units of high-rise apartments

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9.8
Period Employment Organization/ Position Summary of Projects
1990-
1995
AMEC Engineering Ltd UK
Position:
Lead Structural Engineer
Principal Structural Engineer
Off-Shore Oil & Gas
Airport Concourse
steel roof
Project Value Euro 1.5 Billion
Being an international turnkey contractor, AMEC had diversified interest.
- Responsible for design supervision and construction coordination of multi-disciplinary
teams, involving other AMEC group of companies, both in the UK and abroad.
- Responsibilities included detailed design and supervision of off-shore topsides and
specialist structure, engineering co-ordination, fabrication and bid preparation.
- Projects involved range from the relatively shallow water wellhead steel platform of the
2,200 South Asian fields to over 38,000 fully integrated gas production platforms in the
North Sea’s hostile deep waters.
- Involved in chairing AMEC study groups to cut down capital investment cost of O&G on
future and existing off shore platforms.
- Led a Team of Engineers to convince Health & Safety inspectorate of UK that integrated
Platforms can be safe, by analyzing progressive collapse of the entire structure, under
extreme operational conditions (Fire & Explosion), ensuring the survival of the structure
for 1hr.20minutes, such that operational personnel can be safely evacuated. First of its
kind in The UK.
Hong Kong International Airport
- Responsible for the design fabrication and supervision of alternate “super modules” of
steel structures.
- Carried out feasibility study for the implementation, involving detailed study of
modularized construction and shipment of prefabricated concourse building in steel, from
various Far Eastern fabrication yards to Hong Kong. With minimum on-site hook up in
mind for a fast tract project.
ONGC Project, India:
NQP & Neelam Platforms Compression Modules, Arabian Seas, India.
In this fast tract design assignment, he was responsible for preliminary to detailed engineering
design and co-ordination with fabrication yard, in Korea and internationally based suppliers
such as Hyundai & Nameshmann.
Total Dunbar Topsides Integrated Deck, North Sea:
Responsible for detailed to detailed engineering analyses of various secondary structures,
such as, life safety boat launching platform, flare tower and helideck and support frame.
ELF Claymore Accommodation Platform, North Sea: Responsible for preliminary pre
tender engineering followed by lump sum bid preparation for an EPIC contract involving
procurement, fabrication and installation aspects of construction.

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9.9
Period Employment Organization/ Position Summary of Project
1985 –
1990
SOMEC (Building Contractors) Ltd. India.
Position:
Country Manager / CEO
Urban Buildings
Project value RM 28 Million.
Mainly responsible for setting up new offices in Singapore, Malaysia and Sri Lanka, business
development, tendering and negotiation of contracts with clients and sub-contractors, up to
the point of award. Upon award of contract, organizing and deploying task force based
construction teams, monitoring progress and negotiating facilities with banks and suppliers,
serving contractual notices, concluding contractual claims and final accounts and finally was
responsible for bottom line profit.
Among the leading projects secured and executed were:-
- 28 storey Headquarters Building for NLFCS – Kuala Lumpur. Built on a design, finance
and build basis.
- AGIO Cigar Factory with associated infrastructure in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
- Multi-purpose Hall, Katong, Singapore.
9.10
Period Employment Organization/ Position Summary of Project
1981 –
1984
MCDERMOTT Engineering, Singapore
Position:
Senior Structural Engineer / Project Engineer
Offshore Oil & Gas
Working for leading Oil & Gas Contractor, he was involved initially in the conceptual to
detailed design, followed by Project Engineer's role, co-coordinating with clients and in-house
multi-disciplinary teams as well as outside sub-contractors and vendors. Responsibilities
included preparation of preliminary to detailed design, budget planning and scheduling, bid
preparation and review of bids, fabrication and offshore installation support services. Project
value ranged from US$300 Million to US$100 Million for clients from Indonesia’s Pertamina to
Kuwait Oil.
9.11
Period Employment Organization/ Position Summary of Project
1980-
1981
MCDERMOTT Engineering, London
Position:
Structural Engineer
Offshore Oil & Gas
Responsible for the detailed design and preparation of technical specification for bidding
packages relating to Port of Yanbu Development, Saudi Arabia. Structures designed
included steel industrial buildings and concrete bridges, viaducts, culverts and roads, all to US
codes of practice, including earthquake design. STRUDL and other proprietary space frame
analysis software packages were used.

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9.12
Period Employment Organization/ Position Summary of Project
1979-
1980
PRC Harris International Consultants, London
Position:
Senior Civil / Structural Engineer (Bridges)
Port Development
He was responsible for the detailed design and preparation of technical specification for the
bid packages relating to Port of Yanbu Development, Saudi Arabia. Structures designed
included steel industrial buildings and concrete bridges, viaducts, culverts and roads, all to US
codes of practice, including earthquake design. STRUDL and other proprietary space frame
analysis software packages were used.
9.13
Period Employment Organization/ Position Summary of Project
1975 -
1978
Eastern Road Construction Unit of Transport,
Bedford
Position:
Graduate Engineer / Chartered Engineer
Highways & Bridges
Started career under a structured professional training program, leading to Chartered Civil
Engineer status.
Experience included design and site supervision of national highways, drainage, culverts and
bridges with specific responsibility for the design and construction of Duxford Airfield Section
of M11 Motorway. Computer software, 'Grid Analysis' were used for structural analyses of the
bridge superstructure along with department of transport (UK) design guidelines on bridges,
while for Moss Suite of programs were used for Highway Alignment Design.