Specialized Hospital for Women’s Health
January 26th, 2022
Profiles in Achievement
Many fascinating and important projects are worked on by members of APEGS.
It is important that we tell these stories to amplify awareness of what Saskatchewan engineers and geoscientists are contributing to the province and the world.
In late 2021, members of APEGS were asked to share details and photos of their projects from that year for the annual Profiles in Achievement issue of The Professional Edge.
Photo courtesy Nesma & Partners Contracting Co. Ltd.
Specialized Hospital for Women’s Health under construction in Riyadh.
The organization
Sheraz Khan, Engineer-in-training, and Mir Abid Ali Khan, Engineer-in-training, work for Nesma & Partners Contracting Co. Ltd.
Nesma & Partners is a contracting company in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia specialized in engineering, construction, electro-mechanical, infrastructure, oil and gas and hospitality.
Known for incorporating the latest and most advanced industry technologies, Nesma & Partners provides plant expansion and ground-up construction services for Lump Sum Turnkey (LSTK), Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EPC), and Lump Sum Building (LSPB) projects.
Considered a major contributor to Saudi Arabia’s industrial and infrastructure sectors since 1981, Nesma & Partners is responsible for major construction work in the Kingdom and the Gulf Cooperation Council.
The achievement
Both Sheraz Khan and Mir Abid Ali Khan worked on the Specialized Hospital for Women’s Health in Riyadh, the capital city of Saudi Arabia, where they live. The hospital is in the final testing and commission phase.
This hospital is part of the Saudi Arabian National Guard Health Affairs Specialized Hospitals project by Nesma & Partners Contracting Co. Ltd. that took place between 2014 and 2021. That project was to build five new specialized Saudi Arabian National Guard Health Affairs hospitals. The hospitals will serve an additional 1,400 citizens per day in facilities specialized in women and children care and neuroscience and trauma.
The Specialized Hospital for Women’s Health is a reinforced concrete structure constructed adjacent to King Abdullah Specialized Children’s Hospital and connects through a multi-storey linking bridge to connect services between both facilities.
This 300-bed hospital will provide a full range of health services for women with units for obstetrics and fetal medicine, gynecology, endocrine and fertility, prenatal and postpartum care, deliveries, surgeries, X-rays and newborn care. It includes an 11-storey main building, electromechanical services buildings and a multi-storey parking facility. This hospital is a LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) building that is meeting the international standards for sustainability design.
Building this hospital required geotechnical investigations, complete engineering (civil, architectural, electrical, mechanical, plumbing, environmental and medical), contract management, procurement and construction.
The team
Sheraz Kahn was assigned to this project as senior contracts administrator at the time that excavation for the construction began in January 2015. He remained on the project until March 2021, doing contract administration, change orders management, contractual correspondence, subcontract agreements administration, negotiations with suppliers and vendors as well as co-ordinating meetings.
Mir Abid Ali Khan joined the project in 2020 for the testing and commissioning phase and continues to work on it. He is working on testing and commissioning of low current, IT and data networks and co-ordinating with suppliers, vendors and third parties for testing and commissioning works.