Bachar Kabalan

Head of Crowd Dynamics Engineering

Bachar Kabalan heads crowd dynamics engineering at Design Confidence, a fire, life safety and specialist engineering consultancy working across the Gulf. Crowd dynamics turns spectator movement into modelling: arrival and departure profiles, concourse and stair capacity, queue behaviour at gates and concessions, and evacuation times measured against code, so that the seating capacity a client wants can be defended against the exit routes actually available. The discipline has become a licensing requirement for major venues in the region, and crowd studies drawn from stadium disasters and from the Hajj remain a global reference for the field.