Every load finds a path to the ground.
A civil engineer trained at UET Lahore, working where analysis meets execution — from the frame in the model to the pour on site. I care about the path a force takes, and about the details that decide whether a structure behaves the way the drawing promised.
The ground is read, then the load is given somewhere to go.
A structural grid is set out from the datum, and a raft spreads the whole building across the soil rather than concentrating it under each column. Bearing capacity decides the foundation, and the foundation decides everything above it.
Four things, done properly. Analysis that reflects how the structure will actually behave, execution that protects the design on site, and the commercial and drawing work that lets both happen without surprises.
Modelling a building, loading it the way the code says the real world will, and sizing members so the result is safe, buildable and not wasteful — in either material.
Trusses, support frames and gantries, where the connection is usually the real design problem — and where getting it wrong is expensive to discover late.
Everything that has to resist the ground or the water behind it — where the load finally leaves the structure, and where the assumptions are hardest to check afterwards.
Making sure what leaves the drawing arrives on site intact — setting out, checking steel before the pour, and catching the deviation while it is still cheap to fix.
Site execution, design-office work and research — buildings, substations and gantry structures, on projects where the analysis had to survive contact with a real drawing, a real pour, or a structure that already existed.
Structural design of electrical infrastructure in STAAD.Pro and Excel: transmission tower foundations, gantry steel structures, substation buildings and manhole design. Infrastructure like this is loaded differently from a building — wind and conductor pull govern rather than occupancy, and the foundation is sized for overturning rather than bearing.
Substation design from the Lahore office, taken end to end: gantry foundations and their steel structures, and tower foundations and steel structures. Design-office work rather than site work — the drawing has to be right before anyone pours anything.
Site engineer on the interior construction of two Crumble branches: supervising joinery, tiling and electrical layout, calculating materials, handling billing and labour, and coordinating between client and contractor. Fitting out a space that already exists is its own discipline — you inherit the structure, verify what is actually there against what the drawing claims, and check every alteration against the load path already in place.
Roads and services with the Phase 8 Maintenance Branch on the CCA 3 development near Barki Road: material estimation, road surveying, testing the individual pavement layers, pressure-testing water supply and sewer lines, and calculating work progress. Infrastructure inside a live, occupied scheme, where access and existing services constrain the work as much as the design does.
Site execution on a ten-storey parking structure with two basement levels in Lahore’s Central Business District — inspection under the site engineer, daily progress reports, non-conformance reports and machinery usage records. On a job like this the basement sequence and the deep excavation set the pace for everything above.
Research with a team on fly-ash based geopolymer concrete — concrete with no Portland cement in it at all. Fly ash from several different sources was tested while varying the alkaline-activator-to-fly-ash ratio and the sodium hydroxide molarity, and the resulting beams were compared against ordinary Portland cement beams. The question underneath it: can you remove the most carbon-intensive ingredient in concrete and still get a member that behaves the way a designer needs it to.
University of Engineering & Technology, Lahore — Main Campus. Coursework across multistorey building design, water-retaining structures, truss and bridge design, pavement and foundation design, quantity estimation, project planning and surveying.
Behaviour of cementless recycled-aggregate concrete beams — fly-ash based geopolymer concrete tested against ordinary Portland cement beams.
Registered with the Pakistan Engineering Council — the statutory licence to practise engineering in Pakistan.
Superior College, Lahore.
Dar-e-Arqam School, Sargodha.
Load calculation for the roof truss of a school building in the Chitral region, analysed for several load combinations by both determinate and indeterminate approaches, then members and connections designed.
Locating the beams and establishing what each one carries, then designing the beams and slab panels.
Modelling the building, assigning its load cases, then analysing and designing it.
I train seriously. It is not a separate hobby from the engineering — it is the same idea running twice.
A structure has a capacity. You find it by understanding how load moves through it, you respect its limits, and you strengthen it deliberately over time. Progressive overload is just a loading schedule. Failure is what happens when the demand exceeds the capacity you actually have, not the one you assumed.
The habits transfer: measure honestly, add load gradually, never skip the boring foundational work, and know the difference between a number you calculated and a number you hoped for.
A structure and a body obey the same physics. Both fail where the load path is weakest.
Open to structural design and site execution roles, and to freelance design or drafting work. WhatsApp is the quickest way to reach me.
