Dar Al-Handasah
{{Short description|Engineering and architecture consultancy}}
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{{Infobox company
| name = Dar Al-Handasah
| logo = DarLogo2016.png
| foundation = 1956
| type = Private Partnership
| industry = Engineering
Consulting
Project management
| founder = Kamal A. Al-Shair
| hq_location = Beirut
| key_people = Talal K. Shair
(Chairman & CEO)
| area_served = Worldwide
| services = Multi-disciplinary architecture and engineering consultancy
| num_employees = 7,860 {{small|(2021)}}{{cite web|url=https://www.dar.com/about/overview|title=About|website=dar.com|access-date=2020-05-26}}
| homepage = {{URL|http://www.dar.com/}}
}}
Dar Al-Handasah Consultants (Shair and Partners; {{langx|ar|دار الهندسة}}) is a privately owned international consulting company active in engineering, architecture, planning, environmental consulting, project and construction management, facilities management, and economics, founded in 1956. Its principal design offices and technical support facilities are located in Beirut, Lebanon; Cairo, Egypt; London, United Kingdom; Warsaw, Poland; Pune, India; and Amman, Jordan, with 46 local branch offices located in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia.
Over the years, Dar has provided consultancy services to more than 950 clients in 60 countries and has handled over 4,000 projects involving a collective investment of over US$300 billion (construction costs for executed projects, excluding planning projects). With a permanent staff of 9,250 (including 6,300 professionally qualified engineers; architects; town planners; environmentalists; economists; finance, marketing and management specialists; quantity surveyors; and others) and over 4,000 successfully completed projects, Dar Al-Handasah does work in a wide range of engineering fields.{{Cite web |title=Dar Al-Handasah - Overview |url=https://www.dar.com/about/overview |access-date=2024-10-04 |website=www.dar.com |language=en-US}}
History
Dar Al-Handasah was established in November 1956, and given the Arabic name دار الهندسة Dar Al-Handasah meaning "the house of engineering". It was founded by Kamal Shair (1930–2008) and Dr. Nazih Taleb (1928–2020) and three fellow professors in Engineering from the American University of Beirut (AUB) Engineering School.{{cite web|url=http://www.dar.com/about/history |title=About - History |publisher=Dar |accessdate=October 5, 2016}} Later it was named Dar Al-Handasah Shair and Partners.
In 1986, the company acquired the United States-based design firm of Perkins and Will.{{Cite web |title=BEIRUT-BASED ENGINEERING FIRM HAS DESIGNS ON PERKINS & WILL |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1985-06-05-8502050322-story.html |access-date=2022-05-24 |website=Chicago Tribune |date=5 June 1985 |language=en}}
The firm won the IStructE Award for Transportation Structures and the Supreme Award in 2006 for designing the Prai River Bridge in Penang, Malaysia.{{cite web |url=http://www.istructe.org/StructuralAwards/2006/Supreme_Award.asp |title=IStructE - Structural Awards 2008 |accessdate=2007-12-11 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716072006/http://www.istructe.org/StructuralAwards/2006/Supreme_Award.asp |archivedate=2011-07-16 }}
Subsidiaries and affiliations
- Dar Al-Handasah is a member of Dar Group companies.{{Cite web |title=Dar Al-Handasah - Overview |url=https://www.dar.com/about/overview |access-date=2023-04-25 |website=www.dar.com |language=en-US}} The Dar Group companies also includes:
- T. Y. Lin International{{Cite web |title=Dar Al-Handasah - Overview |url=https://www.dar.com/about/overview |access-date=2022-05-26 |website=dar.com |language=en-US}}
- Introba (Merger of Integral Group and Ross & Baruzzini, Inc.)
- Landrum & Brown
- Maffeis Engineering S.p.A.
- GPO Group
- Perkins and Will
- Currie & Brown
- Penspen Group
- R&H Railway Consultants Group
- D2 Consult International GmbH
Selected projects
- Prai River Bridge – Penang, Malaysia{{Cite web |title=Sungai Prai Bridge Penang Malaysia Expert witness |url=https://bridgelab.com/sunggai-prai-river-bridge-penang-malaysia/ |access-date=2022-05-24 |website=bridgelab |language=en-GB}}
- Haramain high-speed railway – Saudi Arabia{{Cite web |title=Haramain High Speed Rail (HHSR) |url=https://www.dar.com/work/project/haramain-high-speed-rail-(hhsr) |access-date=2022-05-24 |website=www.dar.com |language=en-US}}
- Jamaraat Bridge – Saudi Arabia{{Cite web |date=2021-07-19 |title=Hajj 2021 explained: Jamarat Bridge |url=https://arab.news/jvuuc |access-date=2022-05-24 |website=Arab News |language=en}}
- Abraj Al Bait – Mecca, Saudi Arabia{{Cite web |last= |first= |title=The Abraj Al-Bait Towers in Mecca, Saudi Arabia |url=http://architectism.com/the-abraj-al-bait-towers-in-mecca-saudi-arabia/ |access-date=2022-05-24 |language=en-US}}
- Al Bayt Stadium – Al Khor, Qatar{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2021-01-04 |title=Qatar 2022 stadiums continue to take shape despite pandemic |url=https://thepeninsulaqatar.com/article/04/01/2021/Qatar-2022-stadiums-continue-to-take-shape-despite-pandemic |access-date=2022-05-24 |website=thepeninsulaqatar.com |language=en}}
- Lusail Sports Arena – Lusail, Qatar{{Cite web |last= |title=LUSAIL SPORTS ARENA |url=https://www.maffeis.it/index.php/portfolio-items/lusail-sports-arena/ |access-date=2022-05-24 |website=Maffeis Engineering |language=it-IT}}
- Iconic Tower – New Administrative Capital, Egypt{{Cite web |date=2021-06-29 |title=Iconic Tower: Tallest skyscraper in Africa rises from the desert in Egypt's New Administrative Capital |url=https://www.thenationalnews.com/arts-culture/2021/06/29/iconic-tower-tallest-skyscraper-in-africa-rises-from-the-desert-in-egypts-new-administrative-capital/ |access-date=2022-05-24 |website=The National |language=en}}
References
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External links
{{Portal|Architecture|Lebanon}}
- {{Official website|www.dar.com}}
{{IStructE Supreme Award laureates}}
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Category:Privately held companies of Lebanon
Category:Architecture in Lebanon
Category:International engineering consulting firms
Category:1956 establishments in Lebanon