Draft:Hany Elsahooly
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Hany El Sahouly (born 15 December 1974) is a Yemeni businessman and engineering executive based in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. He is the founder and chief executive officer of HS Group and the founder of Infra Construction and HS Investment.
Early life and Education:
[edit]Hany El Sahouly was born on 15 December 1974. He is Yemeni and is based in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. He studied Architectural Engineering at Applied Science University in Amman, Jordan, where he obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in Architectural Engineering in 1997.[1]
Business career
[edit]El Sahouly has worked in architecture, urban planning, project management, and engineering consultancy for more than two decades. His professional positions have included project director, project manager, senior architect, senior urban planner, and planning expert.[2]
His work has included architectural design, design review, construction supervision, urban planning, feasibility studies, project planning, quality control, tender documentation, cost estimation, and coordination between clients, consultants, contractors, and project teams.[1]
According to his professional record, El Sahouly has worked with HS International and HS Group on projects in the United Arab Emirates, Yemen, Somalia, Ethiopia, Comoros, Jordan, and Canada. His listed country experience includes work in Yemen from 1990 to 2015, the United Arab Emirates from 2005 onward, Somalia from 2014 onward, Ethiopia from 2014 to 2016, Canada from 2012 to 2016, Jordan from 2011 to 2017, and Comoros from 2016 onward.[2]
HS international & HS Group
[edit]From January 2011, El Sahouly served as Projects Manager and Senior Architect with HS International in the United Arab Emirates. His responsibilities included project management, quality control, planning and administration, human resources management, marketing and public relations, financial management, and administrative management.[1]
From 2018, he served as Project Manager and Senior Architect with HS Group in Abu Dhabi. His professional record includes responsibility for the design review and construction supervision of healthcare, housing, infrastructure, and urban-planning projects.[2]
Major projects
[edit]Health care projects
[edit]El Sahouly's professional record includes several healthcare projects in Yemen and Somaliland. These include design review and construction supervision services for two 50-bed hospitals in Burao and Berbera, Somaliland, and the expansion and rehabilitation of Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan Hospital in Socotra.[1]
He also served as Senior Architect on the Sana'a University Educational Hospital project, a 90,855-square-metre development comprising a research center, housing and dormitory facilities, support facilities, emergency facilities, a nursing tower, a mosque, and an outpatient department.[2]
In Aden, he served as Project Manager for the design review and construction supervision of Al Amal Cancer Hospital and was involved in the design of a new emergency hospital at Al Gomhouria Hospital. The latter was planned as a 150-bed facility incorporating diagnostic, treatment, surgical, outpatient, inpatient, intensive-care, and supporting services.[1]
Urban planning and master planning
[edit]El Sahouly has also worked on urban and regional planning projects. In 2015–2016, he served as Project Director, Head of Quality Assurance and Control, and Senior Urban Planner for the Wadi Araba Integrated Master Plan in Jordan.[2]
The project involved the preparation of an integrated master plan for the Wadi Araba area, including infrastructure requirements, land-use development, investment potential, land management, and programs for future development.[1]
From 2017, he served as Project Manager for the Socotra Development Master Plan in Yemen. The project included technical feasibility studies, coordination with potential funding agencies, development planning, investment facilitation, and measures concerning living conditions and environmental preservation.[2]
Earlier in his career, from 2004 to 2005, he worked as an Architect and Planning Expert on the revision and updating of the Master Plan of Aden City. His responsibilities included feasibility studies, architectural services, analysis of the existing building stock, identification of areas requiring rehabilitation, and assessment of historically and architecturally significant buildings. The work was undertaken in association with Halcrow of the United Kingdom.[1]
Housing and development projects
[edit]From 2012 to 2014, El Sahouly served as Project Director and Quality Control specialist for the design of 1,600 housing units in Balbala, Djibouti. His responsibilities included reviewing feasibility studies, design, planning, and preliminary architectural and urban-planning services.[2]
From 2009 to 2012, he served as Project Director and Architect on housing projects in Yemen funded by the Emirates Red Crescent. These included 800 housing units in Tarim, Hadramout, and 200 stone and concrete housing units in Mukalla.[1]
Infrastructure and development projects in Somaliland
[edit]Between 2011 and 2017, El Sahouly served as Projects Director and Senior Architect/Planner on projects in Somaliland. His responsibilities included detailed design, design review, construction supervision, and technical, social, and environmental studies.[2]
One of the projects listed in his professional record was the technical studies, detailed design, and construction of a slaughterhouse in Berbera, Somalia. The project included the main slaughterhouse buildings, water-storage facilities, water-supply and wastewater systems, refrigeration facilities, and waste-collection and treatment infrastructure.[1]
Professional expertise
[edit]El Sahouly's professional experience encompasses architectural design, urban planning, landscape design, project management, construction supervision, design review, feasibility studies, tendering, contract documentation, quality control, scheduling, cost estimation, and financial management.[2]
His project-management responsibilities have included coordinating multidisciplinary teams, monitoring project implementation, communicating with clients, consultants, contractors, and authorities, reviewing tender documents, and monitoring project progress and costs.[1]