Dar Al Handasah Consultants opens new office in Warsaw
Through its new office, the firm aims to support projects in Poland and across Europe with the aim of delivering impact and value
Spurred on by its design activities as master civil engineer on the new Polish airport – Centralny Port Komunikacyjny (CPK) – Dar Al Handasah Consultants (Dar) has opened a new office in Warsaw, Poland.
The opening ceremony was attended by Dar’s Chairman and CEO Talal Shair, Regional Director of Operations Danny Aoun, in addition to key company directors and industry experts. It was also attended by Mikołaj Wild, the CEO of CPK airport and Piotr Kasprzyk, the Director of Aviation at CPK.
A representative from the Polish national airlines LOT and the Lebanese Ambassador to Poland Reina Charbel, also attended the opening, along with senior stakeholders, officials, and subconsultants in Poland’s aviation industry.
“Even as one of the world’s leading aviation design consultants and with our experience in airports around the globe, we were captivated by the sheer vision and ambition of the new airport. And that made it an even greater honour when our company was named the master civil engineer,” said Dar’s Chairman and CEO Talal Shair.
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He added, “We are here today to fulfil all of our promises and more, by leveraging our technical excellence and consulting capabilities to help deliver a highly-sustainable, future-fit, and resilient airport that can bolster connections in Europe and position Poland as a continental hub.”
Through its design, planning, engineering, and project management services, Dar says it serves a variety of sectors including buildings and cities, transportation and civil infrastructure, water and the environment.
“We are settling in to establish a local team of experts who can tailor our company’s considerable expertise and global credentials to support projects in Poland and Europe, to deliver even more impact and value to communities across the country,” added Aoun.
He noted that Dar was also the founding member of Dar Group, a global design, engineering, and consulting group. He concluded, “In 2022, Dar Group ranked first among international design firms in the airports market, as well as 10th among international design firms overall, third in buildings, and sixth in transportation”.
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