Umar Farooque

Regional Delivery Director for Transportation and Director, Design and Build

Umar Farooque is Regional Delivery Director for Transportation and Director of Design and Build at the Egis group, and presents one of the case studies in this conference’s innovation session. Egis is a French engineering and consulting group working in transport, infrastructure and buildings, combining consultancy and design with operating assets after handover, an uncommon mixture since most engineering houses stop at handover. The design-and-build model his title carries means a single party takes on design and construction together rather than separating them, a model that compresses time and unifies responsibility, and is common in the region’s major port and transport projects.