Taha Shahid - Civil Engineer Abu Dhabi, UAE

Key duties and responsibilities * Execution of site activities as per IFC Drawings * Inspection of steel reinforcement of various structural elements (columns, retaining walls, lift walls, shear walls, ramp, stairs & flat slab) as per approved bar bending schedule and issued for construction drawings * Monitoring cast-in-situ mass concrete activities * Submission of work inspection requests prior to setting out layout, steel reinforcement erection, formwork closing, & concrete pouring etc. and keeping record of WIRs * Supervision of various site activities * Handling manpower i.e. laborers, masons, scaffolders, steel fixers, carpenters along with their foremen * Conduction of various tests such as field dry density test by sand replacement, compressive strength tests of concrete (for 4000 & 6000 psi concrete), tensile strength test and bend test of grade-60 steel reinforcement rebars, non-destructive tests of failed concrete structures (like schmidt hammer test and ultra sonic pulse velocity test) followed by testing of sample cores (core cutting test) * Submission of daily progress report (DPR) to reporting officer * Performance of quality assurance & quality control (QA QC) tasks * Closure of site observation reports (SORs) & non conformance reports (NCRs) issued by consultant company * Guiding role for steel fixers & formwork sub-contractors as per IFC drawings * Estimation of quantities from drawing (using AutoCAD) * Provision of work inspection requests to quantity surveyor & senior lab technician that are to be used in upcoming interim payment certificate (IPC) * Submission of various method statements * Drafting letters and managing official correspondence on behalf of contractor * Generating planning schedules by the aid of software engineering tools i.e. Oracle Primavera P6, MS Project & MS Excel * Documents Preparation of engineering documents for consultant's approval * Keeping all record of concrete pouring from the start to end

Six high rise residential buildings of Askari Tower-III under construction yielded me an extravagant learning of various civil engineering practices being executed while concreting and steel reinforcement placement by engineers and contractor's site team.

MCE, NUST holds the distinction of being one of Pakistan's oldest military institutions. The initial goal of this college was to train combat engineers for the Pakistan Army; however, because the Corps of Engineers was also tasked with nation-building, the College began offering civil engineering degrees in 1951 in partnership with UET Lahore. Now, it's a campus of NUST located in Risalpur, KPK. Since then, the institution has progressed. Now it has the privilege of graduating over 4200 BE and over 300 MS students, including 61 graduates from friendly nations. Over 1000 MCE graduates have earned master's degrees and over 100 doctoral degrees from prestigious universities around the country and abroad.

Cadet College Hasan Abdal, Pakistan's first of its kind, has established the standard for high-quality boys' boarding schools. Throughout the school's sixty-year history, its graduates have made significant contributions not just in the national mainstream, but many have also crossed borders and are now playing roles on a global scale. Above all, as a trailblazer, the institution has served to lay the groundwork for a slew of other institutions to follow in its footsteps.