MEng CEng MICEE
ASSOCIATE, GEOTECHNICS, UK

Realising an engineering career offered a good mixture of the two, she studied civil engineering at Imperial College, becoming a chartered engineer and working on projects around the world.

Mona describes the added bonus of collaborating with diverse and talented people, as “pooling ideas and experiences to achieve a common goal, creating something amazing from scratch and seeing it all come to fruition and reality.”

With experience predominantly in the building sector, Mona works with multidisciplinary teams, clients and stakeholders, focusing on the technical delivery of projects from concept to completion. Her expertise in mixed-use urban development schemes covers foundation, retaining wall and substructure design, deep and shallow foundation reuse assessment, third-party asset protection management and impact assessment, damage category and ground movement assessments, and ground investigation. She is also skilled at numerical analyses, using finite element and non-finite element methods.

Mona sums up her philosophy by saying, “I find the idea of building something that will last for a relatively long time, in different parts of the world, quite rewarding. Being able to visually see the progress and outcome of your collective creation and years of efforts is very fulfilling.”

Mona’s international projects include Port Baku Towers II in Azerbaijan, high rise tower with four-storey excavation adjacent to a retained 50m historic chimney structure and double-curved glazed façade, also the Qatar 2022 Al Rayyan World Cup Stadium and adjacent precinct structures.

Her wide range of previous UK projects comprises 79-81 Grosvenor Street six-storey new office building with retained façade and existing basement extension adjacent to multiple party walls and two Thames Water sewers, Adidas Flagship Store Oxford Street substantial refurbishment with existing foundation reuse and restrengthening via mini piling, 199 Westminster Bridge Road 20-storey student accommodation adjacent to Network Rail assets, 77 South Audley Street new-build high-end residential development in Mayfair with retained façade and three-storey basement adjacent to multiple party walls, King’s Cross Regeneration, Southampton New Arts Centre and De Beers London Headquarters.