18-storey office tower
Post-tensioned flat slab structure with a transfer level over a three-level basement car park.
Civil & Structural Consultancy
Every structure begins as a line.We make sure it holds.
AMU Consultants provides structural design, geotechnical investigation, project management and construction supervision for buildings and infrastructure — from concept drawings through to final handover.
14+Years in practice
320+Projects delivered
2.4Mm² designed
Designing to
QCS 2014
BS EN 1992
ACI 318
ASCE 7
BS 8110
ISO 9001
About the practice
An engineering consultancy built on calculations, not claims
AMU Consultants was founded on a straightforward principle: a design is only as good as the checking behind it. We are a multidisciplinary civil and structural consultancy serving developers, contractors, government entities and private clients across the built environment.
Our engineers work across the full project lifecycle — feasibility and site investigation, concept and detailed design, statutory approvals, tender documentation, and supervision through to handover. Every drawing that leaves our office carries a named engineer's check.
- Chartered and accredited engineering staff across all core disciplines
- Independent design verification on every structural package
- Direct experience with local authority submission and approval routes
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| Discipline | Coverage |
|---|---|
| Structural design | RC / Steel / Composite |
| Geotechnical | Investigation & foundation |
| Infrastructure | Roads & drainage |
| Project management | PMC / Supervision |
| Cost consultancy | BoQ / Valuation |
| Digital delivery | BIM to LOD 400 |
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What we do
Thirteen services, one practice
Everything a project needs between the first sketch and the completion certificate. Appoint us for one service or for all of them.
Service 01
Structural engineering design
Reinforced concrete, steel and composite design, analysed, detailed and independently checked.
Read more Service 02Geotechnical investigation
Borehole programmes, testing and foundation recommendations before a single pile is driven.
Read more Service 03Corporate structuring
Procurement route, risk allocation and package interfaces settled before tender.
Read more Service 04Infrastructure, roads & drainage
Highway geometry, stormwater networks, earthworks and utility corridors.
Read more Service 05Project management
Programme control, cost monitoring and one accountable point of contact.
Read more Service 06Construction supervision
Resident engineers verifying that what is built matches what was designed.
Read more Service 07BIM & digital delivery
Federated models to LOD 400, clash detection and drawings issued from the model.
Read more Service 08Quantity surveying
Bills of quantities, tender analysis and valuations that track the real position.
Read more Service 09Project financial planning
Development budgets and cash flow modelled against the construction sequence.
Read more Service 10Risk management
A live register with named owners and triggers defined before they are needed.
Read more Service 11Regulatory compliance
Design checked against governing codes before submission, not after comments.
Read more Service 12Documentation support
Registers, revision control and transmittals that keep everyone on the current drawing.
Read more Service 13Government & authority liaison
Submissions lodged, comments answered and permits tracked through to issue.
Read more Not sure?Tell us what you are building
Describe the project and we will tell you which of these it actually needs — including the parts it does not.
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Reason 01
Checked twice
Every structural package passes through an independent verifier who did not produce it.
Reason 02
Approval literate
We know what reviewers look for, so submissions clear on the first pass more often than not.
Reason 03
On the ground
Our supervision engineers are on site, not reporting from a distance.
Reason 04
Buildable design
Designs are tested against real site constraints and contractor capability.
Why AMU
The difference shows up on site, not in the brochure
Design quality is easy to promise and hard to evidence. Ours is evidenced by what does not happen: fewer rejected submissions, fewer site queries, fewer variation orders traced back to a drawing error.
We keep our project loads deliberately manageable so that senior engineers stay involved beyond the kick-off meeting. The engineer who sealed your drawings is the engineer who answers the phone when a question arises at the pour.
Service 01
Structural design and analysis
Structural work begins with load path and ends with a detail a steel fixer can actually build. We model in ETABS, SAFE and STAAD, but the model is the beginning of the argument, not the end of it — every critical element is verified by hand calculation before it is issued.
- Gravity, wind and seismic analysis to the governing code
- Foundation design coordinated with geotechnical findings
- Reinforcement detailing and bar bending schedules
- Value engineering reviews to reduce concrete and steel tonnage
Service 02
Geotechnical and site investigation
Foundation decisions made without data are expensive decisions. Our geotechnical team plans and supervises the investigation, interprets the results, and issues recommendations a structural engineer can design against directly.
- Borehole and trial pit programmes with continuous logging
- SPT, plate load and laboratory classification testing
- Bearing capacity, settlement and pile capacity assessment
- Groundwater, sulphate and chloride evaluation for durability design
Service 03
Project management and construction supervision
Design intent survives contact with the site only if someone is there to defend it.
Scope 01
Programme control
Baseline programmes, critical path monitoring and early warning on slippage — with recovery options rather than just red flags.
Scope 02
Quality assurance
Inspection and test plans, witness points, material approvals and a non-conformance register that is actually closed out.
Scope 03
Contract administration
Valuation of works, variation assessment, extension-of-time review and impartial determination between employer and contractor.
Service 04
Quantity surveying and cost consultancy
Cost certainty comes from measurement, not estimation. We produce bills of quantities from the model, price them against current market rates, and track the commercial position month by month so surprises arrive as early as possible.
- Preliminary cost planning and elemental estimates
- Bills of quantities and tender documentation
- Tender analysis and contractor recommendation reports
- Interim valuations, variation pricing and final account settlement
| Element | Share |
|---|---|
| Substructure | 14% |
| Superstructure | 31% |
| Envelope & finishes | 22% |
| MEP services | 24% |
| External works | 6% |
| Preliminaries | 3% |
Service 05
Infrastructure, roads and drainage
The works that sit below and between buildings, engineered with the same rigour as the buildings themselves.
Highway design
Geometric design, pavement build-up and junction layout to authority standards.
Stormwater
Catchment modelling, network sizing and soakaway or attenuation design.
Foul drainage
Gravity and pumped systems, chamber design and connection approvals.
Utilities coordination
Service corridor planning and diversion design across all utility providers.
LOD 400
Model depth
Fabrication-level detail where it earns its place.
ISO 19650
Information standard
Structured naming, revision and issue control.
Clash-free
Coordination
Resolved in the model before it becomes an RFI.
4D ready
Sequencing
Model linked to programme for staged construction.
Service 06
BIM and digital delivery
A federated model is worth having only if every discipline is genuinely in it. We coordinate structural, architectural and MEP models into a single environment, run clash detection on a fixed cycle, and issue drawings from the model rather than alongside it.
The practical result is fewer contradictions between the drawing set and reality — which is to say fewer site queries, fewer abortive works, and a shorter route from question to answer.
Service 07
Regulatory approvals and authority liaison
Submissions prepared in the format reviewers expect, tracked through to permit issue.
Building permits
Municipality submission packages, drawing sets and structural calculations.
Civil defence
Fire strategy coordination, escape route compliance and system approvals.
Utility connections
Water, drainage and electrical connection applications and NOCs.
Completion certificates
Final inspection coordination and handover documentation.
Sectors
Where our engineering is applied
Commercial & mixed use
Office towers, retail developments and mixed-use podium structures with complex transfer levels.
Residential
Apartment buildings, compounds and private villas, from concept through to completion certificate.
Industrial & logistics
Warehouses, factories and storage facilities with long-span steel and heavy floor loading.
Hospitality
Hotels and resorts where structure, services and finish tolerances are tightly interdependent.
Public & institutional
Schools, clinics and community buildings delivered under public procurement requirements.
Infrastructure
Roads, drainage networks, retaining structures and utility corridors.
Delivery sequence
How a project moves through our office
Five stages, each with a defined deliverable and a client sign-off before the next begins.
Stage 01
Brief & feasibility
We establish the scope, constraints and budget envelope, and test whether the intent is achievable on the site.
Stage 02
Investigation
Topographic survey and ground investigation produce the data the design will rest on.
Stage 03
Concept & scheme
Structural systems compared on cost, programme and buildability, then developed to scheme level.
Stage 04
Detailed design
Full calculations, drawings, schedules and specifications, independently checked and issued for approval.
Stage 05
Construction & handover
Site supervision, inspection and testing through to as-built records and completion certification.
Selected work
Representative projects
A sample of the work our engineers have delivered across sectors.
Logistics warehouse facility
42-metre clear-span steel portal frames with heavy-duty ground-bearing slab and dock levellers.
Access road and drainage network
1.8 km of internal roads with stormwater attenuation and full utility corridor coordination.
Case study
Redesigning a foundation and saving eleven weeks
A residential development had been designed on a piled foundation before ground investigation was complete. When the borehole logs arrived, competent rock sat far shallower than assumed across most of the footprint.
We re-analysed the foundation, replaced piling with pad footings over three-quarters of the site, and retained piles only where the rock head dropped away. The revised submission cleared approval without comment.
11Weeks saved
22%Foundation cost cut
1Approval cycle
What changed
- Ground investigation results reinterpreted against the original design assumptions
- Foundation type reselected zone by zone rather than applied uniformly
- Structural loads redistributed to suit the revised bearing strata
- Revised package resubmitted with a full comparison against the original
Client feedback
What clients say about working with us
The structural package was the only one on the project that came back from the authority without comments. That saved us a month we had not budgeted for.
Their resident engineer caught a reinforcement detail our subcontractor had misread before the pour. That single catch paid for the supervision scope.
What I value is being told early when something is going wrong. AMU flagged a programme risk two months before it would have hit us.
Leadership
The engineers accountable for your project
AM
A. Mahmoud
Managing Director
Structural engineer with two decades across high-rise and infrastructure delivery.
HK
H. Khalil
Head of Structures
Leads the structural design team and the independent verification process.
TR
T. Rahman
Geotechnical Lead
Specialist in foundation design and ground investigation interpretation.
NA
N. Abdulla
Head of Project Management
Oversees supervision teams, programme control and contract administration.
Mission
Engineering that can be defended
To deliver design and supervision work that stands up to scrutiny from any reviewer, at any stage, because the calculations behind it are sound and documented.
Vision
The consultancy clients return to
To be the practice developers and contractors call for their next project without running a tender — because the last one ran without incident.
Values
What we hold to
- Technical honesty over commercial convenience
- Early warning rather than late explanation
- Accountability attached to a named engineer
Common questions
Questions we are asked before appointment
As early as the concept sketch. Structural feasibility influences column grids, floor-to-floor heights and basement depth — all decisions that are cheap to change on paper and expensive to change once the architectural scheme is fixed.
Yes. We begin with a design audit of the existing package to establish what can be relied on and what needs re-verification. You receive a written position on the inherited design before we commit to continuing it.
It depends on scale and complexity, but a mid-rise residential building typically runs six to ten weeks from confirmed architectural drawings and ground investigation results to an issued-for-approval package. We give a programme with the fee proposal, not after appointment.
We prepare the submission package, lodge it, respond to reviewer comments and track it through to permit issue. You are copied on correspondence throughout rather than told the outcome at the end.
Yes — design and supervision are separately scoped and separately priced, so you can appoint us for either or both. Many clients appoint us for design and a reduced periodic inspection scope rather than full-time resident engineering.
Architectural drawings or a sketch layout, the plot area and location, the intended use, and any ground investigation already carried out. If none of that exists yet, a conversation about the intent is enough to start.
No obligation
Request a free project consultation
Tell us what you are building and where it stands. We will come back with an outline of the engineering scope required, an indicative programme, and a fee proposal — at no cost and with no commitment.
- Response within one working day
- Reviewed by a senior engineer, not a sales desk
- Written scope and programme with every proposal
Prefer to talk it through?
Reach the office
Contact information
Office
Office 000, Building 000
Street 000, Zone 00
Doha, Qatar
Working hours
Sunday–Thursday, 08:00–18:00
Saturday, 09:00–14:00
Friday closed