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Mahmoud Shouman, Head of Digital Advisory and Engineering, Dar

Mahmoud Shouman, Head of Digital Advisory and Engineering, Dar

Bio:

Mahmoud Shouman serves as the Head of Digital Advisory and Engineering at Dar. He brings a passion for innovative engineering solutions and a proven track record of thought leadership and successful deployments across world-wide airports, hospitals, commercial real estate and cities. Well-recognized for award-winning and high-profile designs, he was selected as an executive for the Building Intelligence Group and the Smart Airport Technologies Association. He served as the Chair of the CSA committee for Intelligent Building Systems, and is the founder of BIG-NYC and an Advisor with the Ascentis Strategic Group. He is also a regular speaker at industry discussions, including the Commercial Observer, BOMA, and WiredScore.
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Mahmoud Shouman serves as the Head of Digital Advisory and Engineering at Dar. He brings a passion for innovative engineering solutions and a proven track record of thought leadership and successful deployments across world-wide airports, hospitals, commercial real estate and cities. Well-recognized for award-winning and high-profile designs, he was selected as an executive for the Building Intelligence Group and the Smart Airport Technologies Association. He served as the Chair of the CSA committee for Intelligent Building Systems, and is the founder of BIG-NYC and an Advisor with the Ascentis Strategic Group. He is also a regular speaker at industry discussions, including the Commercial Observer, BOMA, and WiredScore.

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Dar’s Website and LinkedIn:
Dar is one of the world’s leading consultancies, providing design, planning, engineering, sustainability consulting, digital solutions and services, and project management for buildings, cities, transportation, civil infrastructure, water, and the environment. We are a global community of talented and innovative engineers, planners, economists, architects, sustainability specialists, digital experts, designers, project management specialists, construction management professionals, and multidisciplinary experts. Together, we take on the world’s most exciting and ambitious projects in order to nurture sustainable development, empower and connect communities, create more and better opportunities, and enhance lives. Dar has over 9,000 professionals in 54 offices across the Middle East, Africa, Asia, and Europe. Collectively, our teams have delivered over 4,500 projects, worth more than US$540 billion, for more than 950 clients around the world. Dar is the founding member of Sidara, a global collective of the world’s brightest and best planners, designers, engineers, and consultants who have come together on a shared mission: to advocate for the world as we would for our own home. For us, that means taking on projects with courage and resilience, bravely setting up a home where others won’t go, intertwining ourselves with the communities we create for, and navigating immense complexity and ambiguity to empower our clients, craft solutions for the world’s most critical challenges, and deliver projects that elevate how people live, connect communities, and inspire global impact, all while showcasing and honoring the unique cultures we serve. Dar and its sister companies under the Sidara Collaborative can offer a broad and integrated range of highly specialised and world-class services—from architecture and design, engineering, and project management to digital strategy, sustainability consulting, and energy innovation – under one umbrella.
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