K&A is a Platinum Partner in the Esri Partner Network and a leading geospatial system integrator and digital services provider of GIS solutions, systems integration, and enterprise implementations across multiple industry sectors. The Utility Network Implementation Award recognizes K&A’s success in bringing core Esri technology to utility and telecommunications operators worldwide. The company holds five Esri Partner Specialties, including Utility Network Management, State and Local Government, ArcGIS System Ready, Indoor GIS, and ArcGIS Marketplace, enabling customers to benefit from in-depth analysis, real-time data, informed decision-making, and driving digital transformation.

Esri is the global leader in location intelligence, with a network of over 2800 partners worldwide. The award winners are organizations that have demonstrated innovative and creative ways to solve complex problems by using Esri’s ArcGIS software and those who have done exceptional work in advancing geographic information systems (GIS) technology. K&A was one of 15 Esri partners that received an achievement award at the conference.

“Esri congratulates K&A on their 2023 IMGIS award in recognition of their innovative work leveraging ArcGIS software,” said Richard Cooke, Corporate Director and SVP Global Business Development at Esri. “We are proud to partner with K&A to foster the use of GIS technology to support our mutual customers improving infrastructure.”

Manal Sayed, K&A Vice President – Digital Services, added: “This accolade represents the culmination of our efforts as we build on our three decades of partnership with Esri in bringing the value of geospatial and mapping to the GIS user community. Thank you to our incredible team for making this happen.”

About Esri

Esri, the global market leader in geographic information system (GIS) software, location intelligence, and mapping, helps customers unlock the full potential of data to improve operational and business results. Founded in 1969 in Redlands, California, USA, Esri software is deployed in more than 350,000 organizations globally and in over 200,000 institutions in the Americas, Asia and the Pacific, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East, including Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, nonprofits, and universities. Esri has regional offices, international distributors, and partners providing local support in over 100 countries on six continents. With its pioneering commitment to geospatial information technology, Esri engineers the most innovative solutions for digital transformation, the Internet of Things (IoT), and advanced analytics. Visit us at ESRI’s.

About K&A

Khatib & Alami (K&A) is an international multidisciplinary consultancy composed of architects, engineers, planners, technologists, and other project specialists. With 6,000 people in more than 30 locations, K&A has vast experience working at the forefront of fast-changing urban environments, with a deep understanding of delivering complex major projects within agreed timeframes and budgets.

Since launching its Geospatial Systems Integration division in 1988, K&A has become among the leaders in its field, with a 200-strong team of GIS experts. K&A helps government and private sector clients make sense of the vast amounts of information and data available, providing insight, enabling better decision-making, creating efficiencies, and improving customer experiences. As an Esri Platinum Partner, K&A continuously provides innovative smart solutions that address business challenges and exceed customers’ expectations.

For more information, please contact:
Olga Khoury
Manager, Marketing and Communications
E: Olga.Khoury@khatibalami.com
T: +961 1 929 728

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This new accolade recognizes K&A’s long work history with state and local governments. K&A is a leading geospatial systems integrator and digital services provider, with over 500 successful projects and 34 years of providing solutions, systems integration, and enterprise implementations.

“We are honored to be a recognized partner in the Esri State and Local Government Specialty program. This designation validates our three decades of partnership and long-term commitment to Esri technology and represents the culmination of hard work and dedication in delivering value to our clients,” said Manal Sayed, K&A’s Vice President – Digital Services.

The State & Local Government Specialty program helps Esri customers identify providers with proven expertise working with city, state, and local government clients.

“K&A has reached a new milestone by earning its fifth Esri Partner Network Specialty. We will continue to leverage the vast potential of ArcGIS to develop ready-to-use solutions and implementation services, which help create a deeper understanding for our state and local government clients and enable data-driven decision-making.”

Last year, K&A was pleased to have won recognition for exceptional work in GIS. We received the ArcGIS Adoption Award at the 2022 Esri Partner Conference and Esri IMGIS Conference Partner Award for the Solution Alignment category at the 2022 Esri Infrastructure Management and GIS Conference. These awards further recognize K&A’s success in supporting the GIS community and being a valuable partner in the Esri Partner Network (EPN).

About Esri

Esri, the global market leader in geographic information system (GIS) software, location intelligence, and mapping, helps customers unlock the full potential of data to improve operational and business results. Founded in 1969 in Redlands, California, USA, Esri software is deployed in more than 350,000 organizations globally and in over 200,000 institutions in the Americas, Asia and the Pacific, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East, including Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, nonprofits, and universities. Esri has regional offices, international distributors, and partners providing local support in over 100 countries on six continents. With its pioneering commitment to geospatial information technology, Esri engineers the most innovative solutions for digital transformation, the Internet of Things (IoT), and advanced analytics. Visit us at ESRI’s.

About K&A

Khatib & Alami (K&A) is an international multidisciplinary consultancy composed of architects, engineers, planners, technologists, and other project specialists. With 6,000 people in more than 30 locations, K&A has vast experience working at the forefront of fast-changing urban environments, with a deep understanding of delivering complex major projects within agreed timeframes and budgets.

Since launching its Geospatial Systems Integration division in 1988, K&A has become among the leaders in its field, with a 200-strong team of GIS experts. K&A helps government and private sector clients make sense of the vast amounts of information and data available, providing insight, enabling better decision-making, creating efficiencies, and improving customer experiences. As an Esri Platinum Partner, K&A continuously provides innovative smart solutions that address business challenges and exceed customers’ expectations. For more information, visit www.khatibalami.com.

For more information, please contact:
Olga Khoury
Manager, Marketing and Communications
E: Olga.Khoury@khatibalami.com
T: +961 1 929 728

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K&A is a multidisciplinary design and engineering consultancy firm and an Esri Platinum EPN Partner with over 30 years of experience providing solutions and services, systems integration, and enterprise implementations for clients across multiple sectors, including AEC, telecoms, utilities, transportation, local government, emergency response and commercial. The Solution Alignment Award recognizes K&A’s success and commitment to supporting the GIS user community. Through its digital solutions built on top of the ArcGIS system, K&A enhances its clients’ services by enabling in-depth analysis, providing real-time data, improving decision-making, and driving digital transformation.

Esri is the global leader in location intelligence with a network of over 3000 partners around the world. The award winners are organizations that have demonstrated innovative and creative ways to solve complex problems by using Esri’s ArcGIS software and those who have done exceptional work in advancing geographic information systems (GIS) technology. K&A was one of 14 Esri partners that received an achievement award at the conference.

“Esri congratulates K&A on their 2022 IMGIS award in recognition of their innovative work leveraging ArcGIS software,” said Robert Laudati, Director of Global Partners and Alliances at Esri. “We are proud to partner with K&A to foster the use of GIS technology in support of our mutual customers improving infrastructure.”

Faisal Alami, Partner and Executive Vice President for Khatib & Alami commented: “We could not be prouder of Esri’s recognition, which reinforces our three-decade strategic partnership. This accolade further reinforces K&A Digital Services’ hard work and dedication to providing state-of-the-art solutions to our clients.”

Manal Sayed, Digital Services Senior Director for Khatib & Alami, added: “We’re excited to bring the value of geospatial and mapping to the GIS user community and to assist our clients in solving their business problems. We view this award as a commitment to continue striving towards innovating solutions and bringing core Esri technology, including the ArcGIS Utility Network, to major utility and telecommunications operators worldwide.”

About Esri

Esri, the global market leader in geographic information system (GIS) software, location intelligence, and mapping, helps customers unlock the full potential of data to improve operational and business results. Founded in 1969 in Redlands, California, USA, Esri software is deployed in more than 350,000 organizations globally and in over 200,000 institutions in the Americas, Asia and the Pacific, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East, including Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, nonprofits, and universities. Esri has regional offices, international distributors, and partners providing local support in over 100 countries on six continents. With its pioneering commitment to geospatial information technology, Esri engineers the most innovative solutions for digital transformation, the Internet of Things (IoT), and advanced analytics. Visit us at ESRI’s.

About K&A

Khatib & Alami (K&A) is an international multidisciplinary consultancy composed of architects, engineers, planners, technologists, and other project specialists. With 6,000 people in more than 30 locations, K&A has vast experience working at the forefront of fast-changing urban environments, with a deep understanding of delivering complex major projects within agreed timeframes and budgets.

Since launching its Geospatial Systems Integration division in 1988, K&A has become among the leaders in its field, with a 200-strong team of GIS experts. K&A helps government and private sector clients make sense of the vast quantities of information and data available to them, providing insight, enabling better decision-making, creating efficiencies, and improving customer experiences. As an Esri Platinum Partner, K&A continuously provides innovative smart solutions that address business challenges and exceed customers’ expectations. For more information visit www.khatibalami.com.

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DUBAI (9 June 2022) – Multidisciplinary consultancy Khatib & Alami (K&A) celebrated two prestigious successes at last night’s Construction Technology Awards. The company was named BIM Organization of the Year, while Structural Computational Solutions Manager, Hussein Rida, won ConTech Rising Star of the Year.

The Construction Technology Awards, part of the Construction Technology Festival, recognizes forward-thinking individuals, organizations, and projects that have demonstrated the best use of digital technologies to improve design, efficiency, cost, sustainability, and safety.

“We are thrilled with this recognition that reflects the dedication of our people to drive the adoption of BIM across all parts of the organization,” said Ahmed Faeq, Senior Director of Operational Excellence.

“K&A’s adoption of BIM has been a core part of its digital transformation, improving decision-making, reducing timescales, and maximizing project performance. BIM is enabling reliable, clash-free, and sustainable projects that offer low maintenance costs, reduced risks and higher revenue streams.”

The company’s BIM journey started in 2011 but accelerated in 2018 with the launch of K&A’s digital transformation program. This has led to the emergence of a dynamic, tech-friendly culture, including the in-house development of new, client-focused products and services which position the company among the world’s leading international technology providers and systems integrators in its sector.

ConTech Rising Star of the Year winner, Hussein Rida, has played a transformational role in expanding digital computation and design automation across all AEC services. His advanced computing skills and structural tools were a key reason he was selected for this honor.

Commenting on the awards, Hussein said: “I’m delighted to be recognized in this way by industry peers and colleagues. BIM automation made a significant contribution to K&A’s projects by saving around 40% of the time for specific tasks, reducing manual and repetitive processes, and eliminating human error.

“It’s great to be able to celebrate our successes, but it is even more important that we and others are sharing best practices that can benefit the whole industry, leading to better and more sustainable projects. We, as tech-driven people, need to use opportunities like this to motivate others to join us in this journey.”

Notes to editors:

Khatib & Alami (K&A) is an international multidisciplinary consultancy comprising architects, engineers, planners, and other specialists. We have vast experience working at the forefront of fast-changing urban environments, with a deep understanding of delivering complex major projects within agreed timeframes and budgets.

K&A was founded over 50 years ago by two university professors who shared the same vision – to create an organization through which talent could thrive, built on the foundations of professional excellence, integrity, and social responsibility. While today K&A employs more than 6,000 experts in more than 30 international offices, our people are the custodians of these values. We are driven by curiosity, with a firm belief in the importance of delivering exceptional quality in order to make a positive and sustainable contribution to the communities in which we work.

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Clean water helps keep kids in school, especially girls.

Less time collecting water means more time in class. Clean water and proper toilets at school means teenage girls don’t have to stay home for a week out of every month.

How do we tackle the water crisis?

We work with local experts and community members to find the best sustainable solution in each place where we work, whether it’s a well, a piped system, a BioSand Filter, or a system for harvesting rainwater. And with every water point we fund, our partners coordinate sanitation and hygiene training, and establish a local Water Committee to help keep water flowing for years to come.

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