Ahmed Zaidan is currently leading an international team of consultants for the master planning and complete re-design for Abha Regional Hub Airport, in Abha, Saudi Arabia. A few years ago, he led an international consortium to master plan and design a greenfield airport in Jazan, Saudi Arabia,

the King Abdullah Airport. Ahmed Zaidan was lead designer on all major landside project components. Prior to that, Ahmed Zaidan led and designed the King Fahad Specialist Hospital Oncology Center in Dammam, Saudi Arabia. He is currently leading the design for Taif Children Hospital,

a 300-bed hospital in Al-Taif, Saudi Arabia, and winner of the Best Hospital of the Future Award.
On the line of healthcare facilities, Ahmed Zaidan lead and designed the expansion to the Saud Al-Babtain Cardiac Center in Dammam,

Saudi Arabia, and as well as overseeing the office progress for the
Tower Expansion project for the International Medical Center in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
In addition to Ahmed Zaidan’s leadership in aviation related projects such as King Abdullah Airport and Abha Regional Hub Airport, Ahmed Zaidan oversaw the designs for Al-Baha Airport, developed the designs for Saudi Arabia’s first economic airport in Al-Qunfutha, and has collaborated with One Works, Italy, to put together a design concept for the new terminal facility in Prince Mohammed Bin Abdulaziz (Madina) Airport for the Saudi- Malaysian Consortium bidding on the BTO project.
On the line of educational and research facilities, Ahmed Zaidan lead and designed the College and Deanship for Distance Learning at King Abdulaziz University, a 48,500 square meter facility in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The first of its kind facility in the country shall house exam facilities for more than 4,000 students as well as various high-tech labs and curriculum preparation studios. He is currently leading the designs for King Saud University Advance Manufacturing Institute Building and the Sustainable Energy
and Technology Center, both facility are the first of their kind high-tech research facilities.

Additionally, Ahmed Zaidan is leading a consortium between Edge and Architecture Studio, Paris, France, to design King Abdulaziz University Convention and Media Center which contains an Exhibition and Conference Center, a Media Center and Studios, and two office towers of 15 floors, at a total project built area of 56,000 square meters.

Ahmed Zaidan has led many other types of projects such as residential, cultural, and diplomatic projects such as the competition winning contract with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to design the Saudi Arabia Consulate, Residence, and School Complex in Karachi, Paksitan. Prior to returning to his home country, Ahmed Zaidan had returned to work with the firm Rogers Bergun Shahine and Deschler (RBSD), NY, from 2003 to 2004, a firm he had previously worked for many years as an intern architect. During that year, Ahmed worked as Project Architect on the residence of the Emir of Qatar in New York, led a competition design team for the master planning of Hamad Medical City in Doha, and prepared various designs for Hospitals. From 2000 to 2003 Ahmed Zaidan worked as a Project Architect and a Project Manager for the firm Rafael Vinoly Architects, NY. As Project Architect he worked on one of the most prestigious and major research institute projects in the world, The Howard Huges Medical Institute headquarters and research campus in Virginia, USA. He also participated in the design and production of large scale projects such as the Pittsburgh Convention Center and the competition for the Oslo Opera House, Norway.

In his current role of President of edgearch, Ahmed Zaidan is in charge of contractual, administrative, and financial aspects of the firm.
As Lead Designer, he oversees all aspects of design and engineering, and personally leads edgearch management team in any international consortium or joint venture.

Raed is Managing Partner of edgearch Jeddah’s Headquarter and he is Vice President for Operations & Contracts. He has an Architectural and Construction Management background and has experience with the firm working on Aviation Healthcare, Educational, and Residential projects. His responsibilities include managing design operations for the firm and managing the management team to deliver projects on time with its requirements in professional form.

Also his responsibilities include monitoring the scheduling and coordination with sub-consultants and the department of design from schematic design through construction documents, including drawings, BOQ and specifications, and review/preparation of drawings prior submission. He also contacts and finalizes contractual agreements with sub-consultant.

Since the launch, in March 2016, of the first edgearch European branch, based in Rome, Pasquale has always aimed to create a harmonious working place where young excellences could have the possibility to spread their creativity and talented skills on big project opportunities all over the world. Thanks to the international approach he has gained during his experiences in the most renowned architectural firms in London for Zaha Hadid Architects and Milan for OneWorks, he consolidated his cutting-edge background as formerly an architect and designer, and latterly as a project manager and charismatic leader of complex projects mainly in Saudi Arabia and GCC countries.

In 2016, he has completed the design development of the King Abdulaziz Exhibition Center in Jeddah, 80’000 sqm mixed used building hosting offices, media center and halls under a stretched roof surface designed by the French firm Architecture Studio. This has been his first challenge as project manager of a high-complex building that gave him the possibility to strengthen his relational abilities and management skills. In 2017, he has successfully performed the tender documentation for the Redesign of Abha Regional Hub Airport, 77’000 sqm aerodynamic roof feature Passenger Terminal Building, leading an experienced team of 20 architects, engineers and specialists over 3 countries.

In 2018, he has focused more on the interiors fit-out of office spaces through an innovative approach to the brand design concept. His main goal was to develop a standardized BIM workflow that makes an interior design concept suitable to many site-specific environments as result of time optimization and saving of resources. Pasquale has been assistant instructor of algorithmic design at the Politecnico di Milano School of Civil Engineering, before completing his Master.

As chartered Engineer in the UK, and a British Member of Electrical Engineering since 1986, Omar is a senior electromechanical Engineer graduated since 1975 from Lebanon with a post graduate study iat Toulouse ENSEEIHT. His experience ranges from a wide expertise in the consultancy engineering services for hospitals, hotels, commercial centers, offices, housing, infrastructural works, smart cities and buildings with international exposure (Europe, the Gulf area, Middle east and Africa ) and an adaptation to a wide range of local and international Standards. Since 1989, he engaged into the services of value engineering in order to align contracts with the Owners budget however without affecting the intent of the design.

Omar was the representative of the Lebanese order of Engineers at governmental commissiondealing with safeties issue and electromechanical engineering matters. He was also the party that discussed with WTO, assigned consultant, the order of engineer compliance with the prerequisites of national treatment issues that need to be secured when adhering to WTO. He was also the responsible of negotiating with IEC and CONSUEL (France) for a cooperation protocol between the order of Engineers and international organizations.

Salam is an up-to-date professional senior engineer with 25 years of experience with a great drive for performance. His present expertise is the result of the projects undertaken with large exposure to the Middle East, Gulf and African countries. In edgearch, Salam acts as Project Manager, leading a team of engineers for Electromechanical related services, achieving the requirements of sustainable and smart designs. Salam has a particular fondness towards technology and innovation like BIM and Virtual & Augmented Reality and hence initiated high-tech oriented teams who transmitted their talents into international recognized projects like Abha Airport and GACA Headquarter, both in Saudi Arabia. He has also successfully completed the design of other prestigious projects like the General Secretariat of Council Of Ministers in Iraq, Riyadh Metro Stations (Lines 5&6) in Saudi Arabia, EKO Tower in Nigeria and Princess Noura University Hospital in Saudi Arabia of which he is particularly proud. Salam earned his Bachelor of Science and Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from the Lebanese University. However, his learning process never stops. His slogan is to keep improving by focusing on quality and prompt delivery of construction documents.

Eugenio was graduated in 2019 in Architecture at “Roma Tre” University.
In his Master’s Degree Thesis he studied the relationship between buildings and mobility in urban areas. The aim of this study was to define a strategy of intervention to extend the lifetime of outdated buildings, in a context that is evolving towards an electrical, sustainable, and lightweight mobility. The case study was the “Metronio Market”, built in Rome in 1956. The purpose of the renovation was to make the building usable and useful to the new vehicles of urban micro-mobility. All of the aspects of the project, from survey to design, have been developed in a BIM environment.
Eugenio joined the edgearch team in 2018 as an intern in the Rome branch office. He starts working on the interior renovation of the Mawakeb Office building in Riyadh and Wataniya Insurance Co. in Jeddah, focusing on the improvement of BIM methodology.