Dar Al-Handasah

**Dar Al-Handasah**

Type	Private Partnership
Founded	1956
Founder	Kamal A. Shair
Headquarters	Beirut, Lebanon
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Talal K. Shair (Chairman), (CEO)
Services	Multi-disciplinary architecture and engineering consultancy
Number of employees	6900 (2014)
Website	www.dargroup.com

Dar Al-Handasah (Shair and Partners) (Arabic: دار الهندسة‎) is an international project design, management and supervision consultancy and founding member of the Dar Group. It is a multidisciplinary consulting organization for architecture, engineering, planning, environment, project management and economics. Dar Al Handasah has served over 950 different clients in 63 countries with a staff of 6900 operating from 45 offices in the Middle East, Africa, Asia and Europe with five design centers in Beirut, Cairo, London, Pune and Amman.

History

Dar Al-Handasah was established in 1956, and initially given an Arabic name دار الهندسة Dar Al-Handasah which means in Arabic "the house of engineering". It was founded by four professors in Engineering from the American University of Beirut (AUB) Engineering School: Kamal A Shair, Samir Thabet, Khalil Maalouf and Nazih Taleb.

Corporate affairs

Dar Al-Handasah has its headquarters in Beirut, Lebanon with clients all over the world. Also, its principal design head offices and technical support facilities are located in Cairo (Egypt),Amman (Jordan), Pune (India) and London(United Kingdom) with a network of permanent local offices throughout the Middle East, Africa, Central-Eastern Europe, CIS and parts of Asia.

The company operates in a number of business lines like Architecture, Building Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Construction Services, Design & Planning, Economics, Energy, Resource & Environment, Mining, Oil & Gas, Project Management, Cost, Consultancy, Transportation and Water.

Awards

In 2006 the firm won the IStructE Supreme Award and the Award for Transportation Structures for the design of Sungai Prai Bridge.^[1]

References

↑ 2006 IstructE awards

External links

IStructE Supreme Award laureates

Year	Winning organisation	Winning structure

2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015	Gifford Dewhurst Macfarlane & Partners / Goldreich Engineering PC Not Awarded Dar Al-Handasah Consultants Buro Happold & engineers Haskins Robinson Waters Arup Expedition Engineering Arup Expedition Engineering Flint & Neill and Sinclair Knight Merz Jiangsu Provincial Comms Planning and Design Institute & AECOM Eckersley O'Callaghan Arup	Gateshead Millennium Bridge, Gateshead, England David L. Lawrence Convention Center, Pittsburgh, United States Not Awarded Sungai Prai Bridge, Perai, Malaysia Savill Building, Surrey, England Heathrow Terminal 5, London, England Infinity Footbridge, Stockton-on-Tees, England Stonecutters Bridge, Hong Kong, China London Velodrome, London, England West Gate Bridge strengthening, Melbourne, Australia Taizhou Bridge, Taizhou, China Glass Lantern, Apple Store, Zorlu Center, Istanbul, Turkey Singapore Sports Hub, Singapore

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