Meet this feature’s Unsung Hero: Ruairi Magee, the Pre-Construction Manager at Khansaheb Civil Engineering
Role & Responsibility
In Khansaheb Civil Engineering, I spearhead the Pre-Construction Department, overseeing work winning and integrating Business Development efforts. My role is multifaceted, encompassing strategic decision-making to target opportunities that align with our revenue goals and secure profitable projects for the company’s future workload.
Conquering Challenges
The UAE market is highly competitive, with many local and international companies competing for projects. At Khansaheb Civil Engineering, we aim to set ourselves apart from the competition by encouraging innovation and ingenuity into each tender opportunity. We consolidate our strengths and experience within our divisions; Construction, Interiors, MEP, Joinery and Roads and Infrastructure to ensure we submit an offer to the respective client that meets or exceeds their needs.
Our capabilities across our divisions provide our clients with a complete service. Recently we have managed to secure multiple large projects through direct single sourced negotiation. Clients have approached us at the concept stage of their projects, and we have worked with them reviewing buildability, value engineering, quality, and providing cost certainty and surety of delivery. We are seeing more negotiated work becoming prevalent in the market which benefits the Clients and Contractors.
Future Aspirations
At Khansaheb, we always aspire to continue developing and refining our processes to ensure we are at the forefront of the market. We recently have adopted a digitized solution for our project delivery teams and we are developing the potential of incorporating digitization into the Pre-Construction Department. This would provide the ability to utilize a unified platform which allows us to bid, track, win, deliver and handover a fully operational and maintainable digital twin of a built asset to the Employer.
Along with refining our processes internally we wish to continue early engagement with Clients to support their projects through risk mitigation, enhancing design and constructability, efficient project delivery, value engineering and cost savings. The early engagement supports a collaborative environment that combines the expertise of all parties to ensure a successful delivery for the Client.