Fazlullah Hakeem

Buildings and areas covered

• Thirty eight luxury villas and villa suites in single and double key layouts, each treated as an individual guest environment with its own room control and network provision.
• Aman hotel keys with the associated guest corridors, lobby and arrival sequence.
• Spa, dining outlets and guest amenity areas.
• Utility and services buildings, plant rooms and central plant.
• Housekeeping, back of house and staff areas.
• Parking structures and external site infrastructure.
• Security control room and main equipment rooms.

ELV and ICT systems in scope

• Fire alarm NFPA 72
• Voice evacuation
• BMS with BACnet
• Guest room management
• Access control
• CCTV and IP surveillance
• Public address and background music
• Structured cabling
• Fibre backbone
• IPTV
• Wi-Fi and IP network
• IP telephony
• Intercom
• Car park management
• Telecom rooms
• Lighting control

What I am responsible for

• Consultant lead for the whole ELV and ICT package from design review through to client handover.
• Reviewing and approving contractor shop drawings, containment layouts, riser diagrams, device layouts and cable schedules against the issued for construction package.
• Reviewing material approval requests and technical data sheets, and checking compliance with the specification, Diriyah standards and Saudi Civil Defense requirements.
• Verifying issued for construction drawing revisions against approved design intent, and controlling change through field change requests and requests for information.
• Approving method statements, inspection and test plans and commissioning procedures before any installation or testing starts.
• Witnessing factory and site acceptance tests, verifying structured cabling certification and fibre OTDR results, and signing off systems integration testing.
• Issuing site observation reports and non conformance reports, keeping the register current and driving corrective actions to close out.
• Leading ELV and ICT engineers and site inspectors, setting team KPIs, and reporting progress daily, weekly and monthly to senior management and the client.
• Coordinating with MEP, civil and architectural teams so containment routes, telecom room layouts and equipment room power and cooling are protected early.
• Evaluating vendor technical offers to support procurement of ELV and ICT packages.

Buildings and areas covered

• Twenty nine buildings across the avenue, split between Ministry of Culture assets and commercial or residential buildings.
• Cultural assets in the district include a digital art museum, a theatre academy, a poetry institute, a Najdi architecture academy, an Arab music school, a mud brick cinema and a culinary institute.
• Mosque building with its own address and life safety requirements.
• Mixed use buildings combining boutique offices, retail and residences.
• Two basement levels throughout for parking, plant, services and back of house circulation.
• District wide external infrastructure and pedestrian avenue services.

ELV and ICT systems in scope

• Fire alarm NFPA 72
• Voice evacuation
• BMS and BACnet integration
• Access control
• CCTV and IP surveillance
• Public address
• Structured cabling Cat6A
• Fibre backbone
• Telecom room distribution
• IP network architecture
• Digital signage
• Museum and theatre AV interface
• Car park management
• Lighting control
• Utility metering

What I was responsible for

• Preparing and reviewing the ELV and ICT basis of design covering system architecture, device density, riser strategy, telecom room distribution and cabling topology.
• Producing design packages including block diagrams, riser diagrams, containment layouts, device layouts, cable schedules and technical specifications for tender.
• Designing structured cabling and fibre optic backbone to TIA-568 and ISO/IEC 11801, with telecom room sizing, rack elevations, patching schemes and pathway coordination through the basements.
• Reviewing contractor shop drawings, material approval requests, method statements and technical submittals, and issuing consolidated technical comments for Diriyah compliance.
• Reviewing BMS points schedules and BACnet interface matrices between BMS, fire alarm, lighting control and metering systems.
• Witnessing factory acceptance tests and site testing and commissioning across all ELV and ICT subsystems.
• Issuing site observation reports and non conformance reports and tracking corrective actions through to close out.
• Reporting progress, risks and KPIs to senior management and the client in structured weekly and monthly reports.

Buildings and areas covered

• Five housing blocks, six residential buildings in each block, five floors per building with four flats on every floor.
• Dormitory buildings for single staff accommodation.
• Mosque building.
• Stadium and sports facilities.
• Medical centre.
• Mini mall and retail units.
• Utility and services buildings including central plant.
• Large scale external infrastructure covering roads, ducting networks, external lighting containment and site wide telecom distribution.

ELV and ICT systems in scope

• Fire alarm NFPA 72
• Voice evacuation
• Access control
• CCTV and IP surveillance
• ANPR
• Structured cabling
• Fibre optic OSP backbone
• Telephone and data networks
• Public address
• MATV and SMATV
• Nurse call in medical centre
• BACnet metering
• Intercom
• Stadium PA and scoreboard interface
• Site wide telecom infrastructure

What I was responsible for

• Supervising contractor installation of ELV and ICT systems across the housing blocks, community buildings and site infrastructure, zone by zone.
• Leading technical review and approval of ELV and ICT submittals covering equipment data sheets, shop drawings, material approval requests and method statements.
• Verifying structured cabling installation and certification, fibre optic termination and testing, rack build up, labelling and telecom room readiness against TIA-568.
• Scheduling and allocating ELV manpower, materials and equipment across multiple zones to hold the programme and control cost.
• Directing field testing and commissioning including insulation resistance, continuity, polarity and loop impedance checks.
• Carrying out site acceptance tests for access control, video surveillance and vehicle access systems.
• Reviewing integration of BACnet metering and monitoring devices with the building management platform and verifying the points list and alarm mapping.
• Managing progress reports, work inspection requests, snag lists and as built redlines, and reviewing final operation and maintenance manuals, warranties, asset registers and client training at handover.
• Running HSE briefings and enforcing Saudi Civil Defense compliance across all ELV installation teams.

Buildings and areas covered

• Three basement levels covering parking, plant rooms and back of house services.
• Podium and ground floor with lobby, arrival and retail interface.
• Sixty five floors of office and mixed use space with floor by floor telecom rooms and riser distribution.
• Data centre with power distribution under and above the raised floor.
• Main equipment rooms, security control room and BMS head end room.
• Vertical risers carrying the full low current backbone from basement to roof.

ELV and ICT systems in scope

• Fire alarm GST and Johnson Controls
• Honeywell BMS
• Honeywell CCTV
• Access control
• KNX and EIB intelligent lighting control
• Structured cabling
• Fibre optic riser backbone
• Data centre infrastructure
• Public address
• MATV
• Telephone and data
• Emergency lighting interface
• Car park management
• Head end integration

What I was responsible for

• Delivering installation, testing and commissioning of the full ELV and low current package across the tower.
• Developing and executing BMS data point schedules that gave centralised control of HVAC, fire detection and Honeywell lighting systems.
• Directing end to end installation and commissioning of Honeywell CCTV, KNX and EIB intelligent lighting control and multi vendor fire alarm systems.
• Managing data centre power distribution above and below the raised floor with redundant power and cooling coordination.
• Running structured cabling and fibre backbone installation across the tower risers, supervising termination, certification testing and test documentation.
• Acting as the technical liaison for client and consultant teams, managing work inspection requests, site instructions and submittals so approvals stayed ahead of the construction programme.

Buildings and areas covered

• College buildings across health, humanities and science faculties with lecture halls and teaching laboratories.
• Live broadcasting studio with the associated control room, sound treated technical rooms and equipment racks.
• Technical rooms, MDF and IDF rooms distributed across every zone of the campus.
• Central library, administration buildings and student centre.
• Auditorium complex and festival and exhibition halls.
• Student housing, dormitory and staff accommodation.
• Central kitchen, service buildings and electrical substations.
• Utility service tunnel and campus spine carrying the site wide backbone.

ELV and ICT systems in scope

• Honeywell BMS
• HVAC controls integration
• Master clock system
• Live broadcasting studio infrastructure
• Technical and control room fit out
• Fire alarm NFPA 72
• Voice evacuation
• Public address
• Access control
• CCTV
• Structured cabling campus wide
• Fibre optic OSP backbone
• Teaching laboratory AV
• Language laboratory
• Auditorium AV
• MATV and SMATV
• Telephone and data

What I was responsible for

• Delivering the ELV and ICT installation across academic, residential and service buildings on a live multi zone campus programme.
• Coordinating the Honeywell BMS and HVAC controls interface so plant, air handling and central plant monitoring came back to one head end.
• Setting out the master clock system distribution so lecture timing stayed synchronised across every college building.
• Overseeing the live broadcasting studio and technical rooms including rack layout, cable management, earthing and environmental provisions.
• Supervising structured cabling and fibre backbone through the utility tunnel and campus spine, with termination, labelling and certification testing.
• Coordinating teaching laboratory and auditorium audio visual provisions with the architectural and acoustic requirements.
• Reviewing contractor submittals and shop drawings and witnessing testing and commissioning across each handover zone.

Facilities covered

• Attock Oil head office, Islamabad. Corporate head office building with executive floors, meeting and conference rooms, server and telecom rooms and a security control room. Uptime is the whole job here, since a fault during working hours stops the business.
• International Islamic University, Islamabad. University campus covering academic blocks, lecture halls, laboratories, library, administration buildings and student facilities, with campus wide cabling and network distribution between buildings.
• Luxury hotel. Guest rooms, corridors, lobby and public areas, food and beverage outlets, banquet and conference facilities, back of house and plant rooms, with guest facing systems that have to stay invisible and silent.

ELV and ICT systems maintained

• Fire alarm
• Voice evacuation
• BMS with BACnet
• Access control
• CCTV and IP surveillance
• Public address and background music
• Structured cabling
• Fibre backbone
• Active network switches
• Wireless network
• IP telephony
• MATV
• Conference room AV
• Utility metering
• Server and telecom rooms

What I was responsible for

• Running operation, preventive maintenance and fault rectification across all three sites for fire alarm, BMS, access control, CCTV, public address, structured cabling and IP network infrastructure.
• Supervising the structured cabling backbone and active network upgrade including switch replacement, VLAN segregation and improved wireless coverage across guest, academic and back of house areas.
• Integrating BMS and metering data over BACnet to a central monitoring platform, which improved alarm visibility and energy reporting.
• Cutting critical downtime by twenty percent through a revised preventive maintenance programme, a spare parts strategy and a clear fault escalation route.
• Planning maintenance windows around occupancy, so corporate work happened outside office hours, campus work fell in semester breaks and hotel work avoided peak occupancy.
• Reviewing contractor submittals, method statements and as built documentation for modification works and keeping the asset register current.
• Enforcing permit to work and lock out tag out procedures for every intervention in a live operating environment.

What I was responsible for

• Supervising site activities across residential building packages and inspecting electrical and low current installations against approved drawings and specifications.
• Reviewing and approving contractor shop drawings, material submittals and samples.
• Witnessing testing and commissioning activities.
• Coordinating with DEWA and JAFZA for regulatory site visits and approvals.