Engineering & Design Firm System

Every project is a card that starts in “Requirements” by documenting the client's program, the municipality's requirements, the Saudi Building Code, and the budget limits, then moves to “Concepts”, where the first design alternatives are proposed and presented to the client for selection. Once the concept is approved, the card enters “Development” to produce the detailed drawings, elevations, and sections, then “Review” for internal checking and cross-discipline coordination — architectural, structural, and electromechanical — then “Approval” for submission to the official authorities and sign-off of the drawings, and finally “Supervision” to follow execution on site and answer the contractor's queries.

Every substantive design review is documented as a Forum topic: what was reviewed, what the comments were, and what was decided and why — so the record of design decisions is preserved for any later disagreement with the client or the contractor. Chat is for daily coordination between engineers and drafters: distributing sheets, deadline deliverables, and quick detail questions that need no documentation.

Announcements carries the firm's official circulars to clients: updates to municipal requirements or new building-code directives that affect their ongoing projects. Dues records the scheduled engineering payment certificates — upon approval of drawings and at the agreed supervision stages — and each project's expenses, so the financial position of every card is clear to the engineering manager without separate files, and no final approval is handed over before the dues of its stage are settled.