Dar Al-Handasah

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Dar Al-Handasah
Company typePrivate Partnership
IndustryEngineering
Consulting
Project management
Founded1956
FounderKamal A. Al-Shair
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Talal K. Shair
(Chairman & CEO)
ServicesMulti-disciplinary architecture and engineering consultancy
Number of employees
7,860 (2021)[1]
Websitewww.dar.com

Dar Al-Handasah Consultants (Shair and Partners; Arabic: دار الهندسة) is a privately-owned international consulting company active in engineering, architecture, planning, environmental consulting, project and construction management, facilities management, and economics, founded in 1956. Its principal design offices and technical support facilities are located in Beirut, Lebanon; Cairo, Egypt; London, United Kingdom; Warsaw, Poland; Pune, India; and Amman, Jordan, with 46 local branch offices located in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia.

Over the years, Dar has provided consultancy services to more than 950 clients in 60 countries and has handled over 4,000 projects involving a collective investment of over US$300 billion (construction costs for executed projects, excluding planning projects). With a permanent staff of 9,250 (including 6,300 professionally qualified engineers; architects; town planners; environmentalists; economists; finance, marketing and management specialists; quantity surveyors; and others) and over 4,000 successfully completed projects, Dar Al-Handasah does work in a wide range of engineering fields.

History[edit]

Dar Al-Handasah was established in November 1956, and given the Arabic name دار الهندسة Dar Al-Handasah meaning "the house of engineering". It was founded by Kamal Shair (1930-2008) and three fellow professors in Engineering from the American University of Beirut (AUB) Engineering School.[2] Later it was named Dar Al-Handasah Shair and Partners.

In 1986, the company acquired the United States-based design firm of Perkins and Will.[3]

The firm won the IStructE Award for Transportation Structures and the Supreme Award in 2006 for designing the Prai River Bridge in Penang, Malaysia.[4]

Subsidiaries and affiliations[edit]

  • Dar Al-Handasah is a member of Dar Group companies.[5] The Dar Group companies also includes:
    • T. Y. Lin International[6]
    • Introba (Merger of Integral Group and Ross & Baruzzini, Inc.)
    • Landrum & Brown
    • Maffeis Engineering S.p.A.
    • GPO Group
    • Perkins and Will
    • Currie & Brown
    • Penspen Group
    • R&H Railway Consultants Group
    • D2 Consult International GmbH

Selected projects[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "About". dar.com. Retrieved 2020-05-26.
  2. ^ "About - History". Dar. Retrieved October 5, 2016.
  3. ^ "BEIRUT-BASED ENGINEERING FIRM HAS DESIGNS ON PERKINS & WILL". Chicago Tribune. 5 June 1985. Retrieved 2022-05-24.
  4. ^ "IStructE - Structural Awards 2008". Archived from the original on 2011-07-16. Retrieved 2007-12-11.
  5. ^ "Dar Al-Handasah - Overview". www.dar.com. Retrieved 2023-04-25.
  6. ^ "Dar Al-Handasah - Overview". dar.com. Retrieved 2022-05-26.
  7. ^ "Sungai Prai Bridge Penang Malaysia Expert witness". bridgelab. Retrieved 2022-05-24.
  8. ^ "Haramain High Speed Rail (HHSR)". www.dar.com. Retrieved 2022-05-24.
  9. ^ "Hajj 2021 explained: Jamarat Bridge". Arab News. 2021-07-19. Retrieved 2022-05-24.
  10. ^ "The Abraj Al-Bait Towers in Mecca, Saudi Arabia". Retrieved 2022-05-24.
  11. ^ "Qatar 2022 stadiums continue to take shape despite pandemic". thepeninsulaqatar.com. 2021-01-04. Retrieved 2022-05-24.
  12. ^ "LUSAIL SPORTS ARENA". Maffeis Engineering (in Italian). Retrieved 2022-05-24.
  13. ^ "Iconic Tower: Tallest skyscraper in Africa rises from the desert in Egypt's New Administrative Capital". The National. 2021-06-29. Retrieved 2022-05-24.

External links[edit]

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