Two sets of eyes
Every critical member is checked independently by a second engineer before it is issued. No exceptions, no matter the deadline.
The firm
A structural office that still signs every calculation by hand.
Qaws was founded on a plain idea: the engineer who stamps the drawing should be the one who understands the load. Fifteen years on, that has not changed.
We opened in 2009 with two structural engineers and a single licence, taking the projects larger firms found too awkward — the irregular plan, the retrofit, the span nobody wanted to stamp. We built the practice on being the office that reads the calculation, not just the software output.
Today Qaws is twenty-six engineers working across the Kingdom — structural, BIM, geotechnical and inspection — but the rule from the first day holds: nothing leaves the office until a named engineer has re-run the critical case and put their name on it.
2009
Established · Riyadh
How the office works
We model what gets built
The analysis model tracks the construction sequence and real connections — not an idealised frame that only exists in the software.
On the site, not just the screen
Our design engineers visit their own projects during construction. The person who drew the connection watches it get welded.
Plain answers
Clients get the reasoning, not just the result — a one-page load story an architect or owner can actually follow.
The engineers who sign
FQ
Faisal Al Qahtani
Principal · Structural Engineer
HO
Huda Al Otaibi
Head of BIM
TN
Tariq Nasser
Seismic & Retrofit Lead
MZ
Mona Zahrani
Inspection Director