Available for BIM Management & Senior Structural BIM roles

Islam RamadanShaker

BIM Manager | Senior Structural BIM Engineer

Twelve years turning design intent into buildable information across Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Kuwait and Egypt. I set the standards a project runs on, structure the environment its models live in, and lead the teams that turn those models into approved shop drawings.

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Profile

Information management, not just modelling

I work where design intent becomes buildable information. Over twelve years I have delivered on lagoon and water treatment works, hospitality and branded residences, university campuses, hospitals, urban parks and national infrastructure programmes — from the consultant's side, from the owner's technical office, and from the contractor's side.

That range is the point. Having produced the shop drawings, checked them as the owner, and now written the standards that govern them, I know which BIM rules survive contact with a site and which ones only look good in a document.

What I bring is the framework that keeps a multi-discipline model set coordinated, auditable and aligned with ISO 19650 — from the first federated model to the last approved sheet — and the team leadership to keep production moving while that framework is enforced.

Based inCairo, Egypt
Delivered acrossKSA · UAE · Kuwait · Egypt
Current roleBIM Manager, contractor side — all disciplines
CDEAutodesk Construction Cloud — Hub Admin
LanguagesArabic (native) · English
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Capabilities

What I am accountable for

Highlighted items are the ones I own outright on a project rather than contribute to.

01 BIM Management & Standards

ISO 19650 ImplementationBIM Execution Plan Model Segregation & Federation StrategyModel Register Naming ConventionClash Matrix Model Auditing & Model HealthVersion & Revision Control LOD / LOI 400–500Coordinate Management

02 Common Data Environment

Autodesk Construction Cloud — Hub AdminBIM 360 Folder Architecture & PermissionsWIP / Shared / Published / Archived Issue Tracking & ClosureTransmittals Cloud Worksharing & WorksetsEU & US region hubs

03 Authoring & Coordination

Revit StructureRevit Architecture Civil 3D — networks & surfacesNavisworks Manage ACC Model CoordinationIFC & COBie Dynamo for RevitAutoCAD ASDSOFiSTiK

04 Technical Office & Leadership

Shop Drawing Review & ApprovalRFI Management Quantity SurveyingCost Estimation Bar Bending SchedulesPrimavera P6 Technical Team SupervisionClient & Consultant Interface
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Delivery Framework

Every project runs on the same spine

Scaled to its size, in this order. Skipping a stage does not save time — it moves the cost to coordination. I have worked hands-on through every stage below, and led the teams that delivered them.

01 · STANDARDS

Agree the rules before the first model exists

BIM Execution Plan, naming convention, coordinate system and the LOD / LOI matrix — settled with the consultant and the client while changing them still costs nothing.

02 · STRUCTURE

Decide what gets modelled where

The model register and the segregation strategy: which models exist, what each one contains, who owns it, and how they federate into a single coordinated whole.

03 · ENVIRONMENT

Build the Common Data Environment

Folder architecture, permissions by role and by company, and the WIP → Shared → Published → Archived route every piece of information travels, on Autodesk Construction Cloud.

04 · PRODUCTION

Let the authoring teams work

Worksets assigned by zone, shared levels and grids locked, ownership enforced by the register rather than by convention — so a team of eighteen does not collide with itself.

05 · COORDINATION

Federate on a schedule, not on a problem

The clash matrix decides which discipline is tested against which, at what tolerance and at what point in the programme. Clashes become tracked issues with an owner and a date; closure is evidenced in the model, not declared in a meeting.

06 · DELIVERY

Reviewed sheets and an auditable history

Shop drawings reviewed before submission, progress reported model by model against the client's own format, and a revision history that can answer who changed what, and when.

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Case Study · King Salman University, KSA

Six thousand shop drawing sheets in six months

King Salman University is a multi-building campus in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The structural shop drawing package ran to roughly 6,000 sheets, and the programme gave us six months to issue all of it — a thousand sheets a month, sustained, with no quiet weeks to absorb a slip.

We held a 95% first-time approval rate across that package. On a programme this compressed, rejection is the only thing that can really break the schedule: a returned sheet costs the drawing twice and the review cycle twice. Protecting the approval rate was the schedule strategy.

~6,000Shop Drawing Sheets
6Months to Issue
95%First-Time Approval
18Engineers Led

How it held

  • One source of truth. Every sheet came out of the LOD 400/500 Revit Structure model, so a change to the structure changed every drawing that showed it — no parallel set of CAD files drifting away from the model.
  • Coordination finished first. The federated model was driven clash-free in Navisworks against architecture and MEP before drawing production ran at full rate, so the team was detailing a structure that had already been resolved.
  • The team split by zone. Eighteen structural BIM engineers, with worksets and model ownership assigned by zone rather than by convention, so nobody waited on anybody.
  • A review gate that never moved. Every sheet passed my own review — accuracy, code compliance, constructability — before it left the office. That gate is where the 95% came from.
  • RFIs raised early, not late. Missing, unclear or conflicting design information was queried as soon as the model exposed it, so the answer arrived before the sheet was drawn rather than after it was rejected.

What the approval rate is worth, in sheets: at 95%, around 300 of those 6,000 drawings came back for revision. At 80% it would have been 1,200 — four times the rework, on a programme with nowhere to put it. The six months would not have held.

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Experience

Twelve years, three sides of the table

Aug 2026 — PresentContractor

BIM Manager

Perfect Engineering & Constructions — Cairo, Egypt
  • Lead the full project engineering team across every discipline — structural, architectural, mechanical, electrical and infrastructure — review every shop drawing before submission, and run the coordination between them.
  • Own BIM delivery for the project: BIM Execution Plan and appendices, segregation strategy, clash matrix, naming convention and the multi-phase model register.
  • Administer the Common Data Environment on Autodesk Construction Cloud as Hub Admin — folder structure, permissions, WIP / Shared / Published workflow and issue tracking.
  • Model the subsurface drainage network in Civil 3D and federate it via IFC and NWC with exact coordinate preservation.
  • Control the project RFI register with the design consultant and PM, and issue the periodic model progress report against the client's format.
  • Represent the team in technical and coordination meetings with the consultant, the project manager and the client.
Jun 2024 — Jul 2026Consultant

Senior Team Leader — Structural BIM Engineer

Smart Engineering Consultancy — Cairo, Egypt
  • Led a team of 18 structural BIM engineers across six concurrent projects in KSA, the UAE and Kuwait, delivering approximately 15,000 LOD 400/500 shop drawing sheets.
  • Sustained a 95% first-time approval rate on structural submissions through a pre-submission review routine.
  • Ran full structural, architectural and MEP coordination in Navisworks, driving federated models to a clash-free state ahead of every milestone.
  • Represented the structural team in technical meetings with clients and consultants across four countries.
Jul 2021 — May 2024Owner

Senior Technical Office Engineer

Aqar Masr Developments — Cairo, Egypt
  • Structural engineer within the owner's internal technical office, accountable for the full structural shop drawing package.
  • Reviewed structural design packages to catch discrepancies and missing data before they reached site.
  • Secured consultant approvals and issued approved packages to the sister contracting companies for execution.
Dec 2019 — Jun 2021Contractor

Senior Technical Office Engineer

Giza Power Transmission & Distribution — Egypt
  • Managed a team of junior technical office engineers responsible for drawing production and submittals.
  • Produced quantity take-offs, cost estimation and material, labour and equipment breakdowns; prepared sub-contractor bills of quantities.
  • Coordinated between consultants, contractors, owners and utility authorities across national infrastructure sites.
Jul 2017 — Nov 2019Contractor

Site Technical Office Engineer

Solid Constructions — Egypt
  • Produced and controlled structural workshop drawings and bar bending schedules through consultant approval.
  • Acted as the coordination link between the site technical office and head office for architectural and MEP submissions.
Jul 2016 — Jun 2017Contractor

Site Technical Office Engineer

Al Shafar General Contracting (ASGC) — Cairo, Egypt
  • Prepared and revised structural shop drawings and reinforcement schedules against project specifications.
  • Coordinated with site teams and engineering departments to ensure drawing accuracy and buildability.
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Projects

Selected delivery

New Cairo · Egypt

Mountain View iCity — Crystal Lagoons

BIM Manager · lagoon, machine room, bridges, sub-surface and low-level networks · 2026 – present

Diriyah · KSA

Diriyah South District — Raffles Hotel & Branded Residences

Structural BIM lead · 202-key hotel and 90 residences, LOD 400 models and shop drawings · 2024 – 2026

Diriyah · KSA

King Salman University (KSU)

Structural BIM · multi-block campus in the King Salman Knowledge District, LOD 400 · 2024 – 2026

Riyadh · KSA

King Abdulaziz City Park — Green Riyadh

Structural BIM · pavilions, retail clusters, water tanks and pump stations · 2024 – 2026

North Riyadh · KSA

Almana New Riyadh Hospital

Structural BIM · 300-bed hospital with 11 operating theatres, coordinated against dense MEP · 2024 – 2026

Abu Dhabi & Al Ain · UAE

STEP Sewerage Network — Odour Control

Structural BIM · odour control works on the STEP deep-tunnel sewerage network · 2024 – 2026

Sabah Al-Ahmad City · Kuwait

Souk & Hotel

Structural BIM to LOD 400 · two-level souk, 110-room hotel and multi-storey car parks · 2024 – 2026

New Administrative Capital · Egypt

Anakaji Compound

Owner's technical office · full structural shop drawing package · 2021 – 2024

Egypt

Seashell Hotel · Seashell Units · Andrea Resort

Site technical office · workshop drawings and bar bending schedules · 2017 – 2019

Cairo · Egypt

Cairo Festival City Living

Structural shop drawings and reinforcement schedules · 2016 – 2017

Project names are listed for context. Shop drawings and project documentation remain the property of their clients and are not published here — available on request, in sanitized form, where the client permits.

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Model Gallery

Work I am proud of

A sample of my work: models I authored myself, and whose shop drawings I supervised from end to end — general arrangement and reinforcement detailing in Revit. Analytical views only, with no title blocks and no dimensions. Click any plate to enlarge.

Project views

Project views are the schemes as designed; the structural models and shop drawings behind them are my own work. Further views, clash reports and sanitized documentation samples are available on request.

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Credentials

Certifications & education

Four Autodesk course certifications completed in 2023. Click any certificate to enlarge.

2009 — 2014

Bachelor's Degree, Civil Engineering

Higher Technological Institute. Member of the student union.

Languages

Arabic & English

Arabic native. English used daily with consultants and clients across the Gulf.

Contact

Bring me in before the first model

The cheapest fix is the one made while the standards are still a document. Open to BIM Management and Senior Structural BIM roles.

eng.islam.ramadan@hotmail.com +20 111 129 5184 LinkedIn Cairo, Egypt