Including: Complexes - Retirement Community - Luxurious Villas and more

2. DESIGNERS Consultants & Associates"
Is a Consultancy Firm for Architecture and Interior Design since 1994
DCA is owned by:
Consultant Arch. Raef A. Azouz & Consultant Arch. Emad R. Khouzam
They both have an engineering experience in Architectural and Interior Design as consultants and overseers
the implementation of construction in a wide variety of projects
OUR MISSION IS:
TO BUILD A SUCCESSFUL LASTING RELATIONSHIP WITH OUR CLIENTS WHICH IS BASED ON
TRUST IN OUR PROFESSIONALISM, OUR QUALITY OF WORK, AND OUR INTEGRITY

3. SCOPE OF SERVICES
DESIGNERS
Office is a well-equipped establishment capable of rendering a wide scope of quality
engineering services, thanks to its highly qualified and experienced staff, in addition to state - of – the - art
computer software used in designing, drafting as well as presentations. SCOPE OF SERVICES
Services performed by DESIGNERS included, but are not limited to:
• Architectural Design
• Interior Design
• Furniture, Fixtures, Fabrics and Equipment Packages
• Project Studies
• Cost studies
• Specifications, General and Special Conditions
• Bills of Quantities and Schedules
• Working Drawings
• Complete Site Supervision including approval of Materials and Shop Drawings
• Project management
• Technical Reports and Projects Follow-Up
• Information Architecture Services

4. PROJECTS PERFORMED
1- TOURISTIC PROJECTS:
• HOTELS AND RESORTS
• FLOATING HOTELS & DAHABBEYA CRUISES
• RESTAURANTS AND FLOATING RESTAURANTS
2- RESIDENTIAL PROJECTS:
• IN EGYPT
• ABROAD
3- ADMINISTRATIVE PROJECTS:
 COMPANIES HEADQUARTERS
4- HEALTH& INDUSTRIAL PROJECTS
5- RETAIL PROJECTS

6. 2.
RESIDENTIAL PROJECTS
PROJECTS IN EGYPT:
Sunny Days Retirement
Community
 Location: New Heliopolis, Egypt
 Client: Sunny Days for Touristic Villages
 Value: 40ML.E.
 Services provided: Architectural & Interior
design for the whole building(basement- ground
floor and 3 floors)- Landscape area
 Completion: 2013
 Description: Sunny Days is a place where the building
is embracing the landscape and all rooms viewing it. That
creates an enormous enjoyment to the surrounded
nature and keeping healthy climate for the old people.
The Architecture and Interior Design fulfilled an
atmosphere where they can be entertained and achieve a
perfect social life.
A special proposed design to join the Sunny days with
the Club house through private path-away from trafficto and fro. Having good use of the club House project
opposite sunny Days creates an additional activity for
them, where they can enjoy another social entertaining
club apart from their accommodation.

7. - Thinking of the special feeling of comfort and keeping
good memories of the past when designing the Hotel
rooms and providing an area inside each room for a
private piece of furniture.
All handicapped standards indoor and outdoor are
fulfilled.
The Library, the Nursing Room, Lounges, Gymnasium,
and all other areas have participated in making this place
really special as a Retirement Community place
 Total built area: 3623 m2
 More information:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WietBD7dNYY
http://community.sunnydayslife.com/media-gallery
Compound Villas
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Location: ElMontazah, Sharm Elsheikh
Six attached Villas
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Location: Om Elsid Hill, Sharm Elsheikh
Private Villas & Apartments:
Samples of private Villas:
Private villa (A)New Cairo
 Location: New Cairo - Banafseg city
 Area: all Floor areas:1000 m2
 Services provided: Architectural design for the
whole building
 Description: basement- ground, 1st and 2nd
floor: 2 apartments and 1 duplex-roof)

8. Private
Villa(B)
New
Cairo
 Location: New Cairo - Swan Lake compound
 Area: all Floor areas:
 Services provided: Interior design for the
whole building & Landscape area.
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Description: The project consist open green
areas, kid's playground, pool area, guests living
and accommodation, apart from other sleeping
and living areas.
Private Villa (C)
( Luxurious Residence )
 Location: Kattameya Heights, Egypt
 Area: all Floor areas: 4200 m2 divided in
2000m2 basement & 2 floors * 1000m2
 Services provided: Architectural Design for the
facades- Interior Design for master bedroom, children
suite and the residential suites- all detailed working
drawings.
 Description: The project consists of basement and 2
floors.
The basement has the area of: piano Bar on 480m2
in the addition of the main pool- Gym- Saunaresidential suites- main kitchen and staff rooms.
The ground floor: main Entrance- art galleryreception- saloon- dining room- office- special
guest's suite - master bedroom
The first floor: 2 children's suites- children's living
room- study room- large living room- guest suite
Façade Design concept: it has been designed on the
Roman Classic Style taking into consideration all element

9. ratios such as in the Columns & crowns- Arch trimscrossheads & Headers – Cornice- Pediments- Balustrades
System- Niches-Finials and all Sculptures.
The great residence area and the luxurious design
helped applying this concept.
Private villa(D)
New Cairo
 Location: New Cairo City, Egypt
 Area: all Floor areas: 2240m2
 Services provided: Architectural and Interior
Design for the whole building
 Description: (basement- ground floor, first
floor, second floor and roof)
Private villa( E)-Mirage City
 Location: Mirage City, Cairo
 Area: all Floor areas: 660m2
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Services provided: Architectural and Interior
Design for the whole building
 Description: (basement- ground floor, first
 floor, and roof) - Landscape area
Private villa( F)
6th Oct.
 Location: Gardenia Compound, 6th of
October City
 Area: Area: All floor areas: 3000m2
Landscape area: 2600 m2
 Services provided: Architectural and
Interior Design for the whole building and the
Landscape area
 Description: Basement: Gym-Billiard- Home theatre

10. Ground floor: reception-dining-office- First floor: Living
room- private suite with dressing room-kids rooms
Private villa( G) ElObour
City
Location: ElObour City, Egypt
Area: all Floor areas: 960m2
Landscape area: 250 m2
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Services provided: Architectural and Interior
Design for the whole building- Landscape Design
 Description: (basement- ground floor, first
floor, and roof) - Landscape area
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PROJECTS ABROAD:
Residential
Administrative
Commercial Compound
 Location: Chad – Africa
 Client: DAMA For Engineering and Technology
 Services provided: Architectural& Interior design for
the whole Compound- Urban planning- Working drawings
 Completion: current
 Description: A Residential Commercial and
Administrative Complex with the concept design of a
group of departed buildings attached together through
the landscape. While the Commercial Building as a
curvature embracing the landscape, the administrative
buildings are in less floor area and vertically extended,
and so the balance between both horizontal and vertical
extension was achieved.

11. So lovely having the residential compound urban design
giving a huge open green area seen from the main
entrance and through the whole land.
Privacy and security had a strong impact in designing
all entrances and service roads.
 Total Land "A" area: 30,320 m2
Total Land "B" area: 27,970 m2
Niger Complex
 Location: Niger, Africa
 Client: DAMA For Engineering and Technology
 Services provided: Architectural& Interior
design for the whole Complex
Urban Planning &
Architecture Design of
Residential District
 Location: Guinea Bissau, Africa
 Client: DAMA For Engineering and Technology
 Services provided: Architectural& Interior design for
the whole Residential District
Urban Planning &
Architecture Design of
Residential Compound,
Uganda
 Location: Uganda, Africa
 Client: FBW ( Uganda) LTD
 Services provided: Architectural& Interior design for
the whole Residential District

12. Samples of private Villas:
Private villa in Libya
 Location: Libya, Africa
 Area: All floor areas: 570m2
 Services provided: Architectural&
Design
Interior

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36. 8. Curriculum Vita for
DESIGNERS Consultants’
Managing Partners

40. 9. DESIGNERS Consultants’
Award from BD&C - year 2010

41. PERIODICAL
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7 Tips for Installing
Moisture Barriers
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AIA/CES Course:
Designing Public Libraries
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Testing the Limits of 3D Modeling
Maricopa County Court Tower
Phoenix, Arizona
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Expert advice on the proper selection and
installation of moisture barriers.
56 I 7 Tips for Installing
Moisture Barriers
Renters flock to a mixed-use project where
a 6,500-sf rooftop patio is paved with
bricks made from recycled tires and plastic.
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Las Vegas city hall; SOM’s Beijing
‘gateway’; Phoenix’s Musical Instru-
ment Museum; Georgia Aquarium’s
$110 million dolphin exhibit.
18 I On the Drawing Board
16 I Industry Data
Autodesk issues BIM deployment
plan; what ‘Generation Y’ wants
in its workplaces; office construc
tion decline nears end; insulation
industry council members meet
with Obama.
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COVER: The 695,000-sf Maricopa County Court
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will process up to 56,000 court cases a year when
it opens in 2012. BIM and integrated project
delivery have kept it on schedule.
While BIM can unlock process
efficiencies on any project, its benefits
are most pronounced in large projects,
such as the $339 million Maricopa
County Court Tower in Phoenix.
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CTLGroup, on the new ASHRAE
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standard 189.1.
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End the battle of FSC vs. SFI wood
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San Diego’s new Shakespeare
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rofessional development? Check 5
Generous benefits? Check 5
Team building? Check 5
Sustained growth? Check 5
Founded in 1994, Designers Consultants &
Associates is a 53-person design firm that specializes in hospitality (including luxurious floating hotels), restaurants, and retail—not to mention the occasional private villa.
During the judging process, it quickly became clear to the
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editors that Designers Consultants & Associates offers many of
the same benefits, education opportunities, and employee perks
as other leading firms that have won our “Best AEC Firms to
Work For” honor since the inception of the program in 2006.
With one big difference: Designers Consultants & Associates
is based in the ancient city of Cairo, Egypt, making the firm’s
forward-thinking, Western-style benefits and programs all the
more impressive, and earning Designers a spot on this year’s list
of top design and construction firms to work for.
Let’s take a look at how this progressive firm has brought fresh
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Under Egyptian law, employers contribute 26% of an employees’
salary to social insurance, while employees contribute 14%. At
Designers Consultants & Associates, the firm pays 100% of
employees’ social and medical insurance.
The firm also provides assistance in overcoming one of the
more arduous and expensive tasks of everyday life in Egypt—
opening up a bank account.The firm helps employees open such
accounts, affording them the opportunity to get personal ATM
cards as well as corporate credit cards. As a result of having this
relationship with a bank, employees have been able to obtain
personal loans to purchase housing, furniture, and vehicles.
The firm’s offices are a shade of green, offering natural daylighting and two large outdoor spaces. Air conditioning—
something American white-collar workers take for granted, but
by no means a guaranteed amenity to those working in offices
in sweltering Cairo—cools the Designers office, thus enhanc
ing employee productivity.
Other Western-style benefits are also offered. Monetary
bonuses are given in recognition of outstanding project work.
And flex time—hardly a common practice in Egypt—is also
UNUSUAL EMPLOYEE BENEFITS
The firm’s in-house educational programs—the equivalent of
American-style lunch-and-learns—include a monthly event
hosted by the firm’s information architect that touches on new
materials and products, sustainable design and construction,
and new design and policy issues influencing the firm’s work.
A second series of monthly programs (as many as four per
month) are hosted by outside experts within the local AEC
industry, to discuss issues of importance to the design and en
gineering fields.
In addition to in-house education, employees are encour
aged to take continuing education courses or pursue ad
vanced degrees. The firm works with these staff members to
reconfigure work hours and project loads to accommodate
their class schedules.
Managing partners Raef Azouz and Emad Khouzam serve as
mentors to the firm’s senior design and engineering staff, who
in turn serve as mentors to the junior staff members. The firm’s
close relationships with some of the country’s other AEC firms
allows Designers Consultants & Associates staff to form out
side mentoring relationships—a nontraditional approach, but
one that has worked well for Designers.
ENCOURAGING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
ideas in professional development, employee benefits, team spir
it, and strong business growth to the land of the Pharaohs.
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available to support work/life balance, allowing employees who
qualify to tend to family matters or other personal concerns.
Team building is also a major consideration. Firm-wide events
and outings occur several times each year, giving employees a
chance to bond while celebrating New Year’s Eve together at
the big bash the office hosts, or a day of bowling, or playing
ping-pong and basketball during a visit to a sports club. A road
trip to the historic city of Alexandria offered another chance for
Designers Consultants & Associates to build on the spirit of
family that makes the firm such a desirable place to work.
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Floating hotels are a niche market within the hospitality
sector, and the firm’s luxurious vessels are decked out
in rich wood and modern appointments, and offer—no
surprise here—amazing water views.
Check out some of the firm’s newest floating
properties:
http://bit.ly/aA19tn
http://bit.ly/agQzHZ
Finally, managing partners Azouz and Khouzam have worked
hard to make Designers Consultants & Associates a firm of
growth and opportunity.
In just the past few years—some of the roughest for the design
and construction industry worldwide—the firm grew in size by
more than 50%, from 34 employees in 2007 to 53 employees
currently, and they anticipate additional hires during 2010.
The firm has also expanded beyond its original markets,
Egypt and Libya, to pursue work in places as diverse as Togo,
Gabon, Tanzania, Eritrea, Tunisia, Rwanda, Uganda, and
Guinea. BD+C
— Jay W. Schneider, Senior Editor
SUSTAINING GROWTH IN THE BUSINESS
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46. 10. APPRAISAL CERTIFICATES

79. “Our creation goes as far as your imagination”
7 El Horeya St., El Merghany, Heliopolis – Cairo, Egypt
Tel. & Fax:
(+202) 241 855 66 – 229 187 19
Mobile :
(+2) 0122 235 65 16
E-mail : designers_office@link.net
Info@designersconsultants.com
website: www.designersconsultants.com