About

Dr Mohamed Sami Kassem

ChE, MSc, PhD, DBA, PE, C.Eng, MICE · Doha, Qatar

I have spent over thirty years on the project and construction management of large infrastructure and industrial developments across the Middle East, Africa and Pacific Asia — as a consultant, as a contractor, and on the client side.

The core of the record is water: sewerage, storm water and TSE networks, pumping stations, wastewater treatment from municipal works to refinery effluent plants, water supply and desalination, and the marine structures that serve them. Around it sits a second body of work in energy — a 300 MW power plant in Vietnam, district cooling at national scale in Qatar, and more recently hydrogen, biogas and low-temperature waste heat recovery.

Since 2013 I have worked independently from Doha as a technical specialist and expert witness. The work is expert reports, dispute resolution, due diligence and design review, mostly on design-build-operate-and-maintain water and energy contracts. I am a Chartered Engineer, a Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers, and a registered Professional Engineer.

I administer contracts under FIDIC, NEC (ICE), JCT and GCWorks1 forms, used with FEED, EPIC, design-build, BOT and partnering agreements, and I am conversant with claim negotiation and resolution from both sides of the table. Hydraulic modelling in PCSWMM, STORMCAD and WALLRUS.

Areas of expertise


Water & wastewater

Water & wastewater treatment
Desalination — RO and thermal
Industrial, nuclear & municipal wastewater
Sewerage, storm water & TSE networks
Pumping stations
Projects in this field →

Energy

Hydrogen energy
Biogas energy
Low-temperature waste heat recovery
Solar generation
Writing on energy →

Civil & marine

Marine & port works
Breakwaters & harbours
Micro-tunnelling

Contracts & claims

FIDIC, NEC/ICE, JCT, GCWorks1
FEED, EPIC, Design-Build, BOT, partnering
Claim negotiation & resolution
Tender documents & contract procedure
Writing on contracts →

Career


2013 — Independent — Technical specialist & expert witness Doha, Qatar
2005–2010 Qatar Petroleum / ASTAD — Senior Project Manager, Education City Doha, Qatar
2002–2005 Technital S.p.A — Project Manager / Resident Engineer; Senior Design Manager Doha, Qatar
2000–2002 Italconsult S.p.A — Senior Project Engineer, highway interchanges Doha, Qatar
1999–2000 Pacific Consultants International — Design Group Leader, Jakarta wastewater Jakarta, Indonesia
1996–1999 Campenon Bernard SGE (VINCI) — Project Manager; Deputy Project Manager Vietnam
1995–1996 Acer Consultants Vietnam (Hyder) — Resident Engineer, Crown packaging plant Hanoi, Vietnam
1990–1995 Acer Consultants Ltd (Hyder) — Senior Project Engineer / Resident Engineer United Kingdom
1985–1990 Ronald Leach & Associates — Design Engineer; secondments to BNFL & Knowsley MBC United Kingdom