Mohamed Hanafy

Associate Principal Engineer

Mohamed Hanafy is an Associate Principal Engineer at Dar with 18 years of experience in geotechnical and heavy civil engineering across the Middle East, Africa and Europe. His experience covers deep foundations, high-rise developments, tunnels and underground structures, marine works, ground improvement, retaining systems and major transportation infrastructure. He specialises in advanced numerical modelling, soil-structure interaction and the design of pile, piled-raft and raft foundations under complex ground and loading conditions. His work includes developing, managing and reviewing geotechnical design packages, as well as calibrating and verifying numerical models through the back-analysis of pile load tests and field-monitoring data. His major foundation projects include several towers in Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Egypt. He has also contributed to Dar's in-house numerical modelling guidelines and completed advanced training in computational geotechnics and PLAXIS applications.