Mr. Abdelsayed is a professional engineer with twenty years of experience in project management and consulting to the construction industry.

From 1986 to 1990, Mr. Abdelsayed managed construction projects in Egypt for a European firm. Initially, he directed the construction and site management activities for large multiple storey residential buildings. On later projects, he represented his firm in Egypt and coordinated all schedule monitoring and project handover aspects of the firm’s mechanical turnkey projects. These projects included pumping stations and power generation and water treatment plants.

In 1990 and 1991, Mr. Abdelsayed monitored all project control activities for three multimillion dollar mechanical projects in Quebec for Procedair Industries Inc. He developed integrated time and cost control systems, detailed cash flow analyses and acceleration schedules.

Mr. Abdelsayed has been a member of the TMA core group since 1992 and has offered consulting services to the construction industry on project management, information management and claims related issues. During that time, he has played a lead role on a number of major assignments which included the preparation, analysis and defence of construction claims. He also provided assistance to our clients during negotiation and mediation processes for the settlement of construction claims. Mr. Abdelsayed has considerable expertise in the areas of delay analysis, productivity analysis and the analysis of the impact of changes on the execution of the work. He has extensive knowledge in the application of state-of-the-art project management and information management software. He has also acquired specific knowledge in the area of Internet based information technology for the construction industry.

Mr. Abdelsayed has testified as an expert witness on the subject of labour productivity analysis in the United States. He has published papers and presented seminars on related topics.

Mr. Abdelsayed holds a Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering and a Diploma in Project Management from Ain Shams University, Cairo, and a Master’s degree in Engineering in Project Management from Concordia University, Montreal. Mr. Abdelsayed is fluent in English, French and Arabic.

You may reach Mr. Abdelsayed by email at 'abdelsayedm@tardifmurray.com' or by telephone at (514) 937-3150 ext. 224