Leadership
Shahzad Ahmad
Managing Director
Responsible for the overall direction of the practice, principal-level client relationships, and final technical and commercial accountability across DMC commissions.
About us
How we are organised
DMC is organised around four functions reporting to the Managing Director: a technical directorate holding both design disciplines and specialist engineering, a construction supervision team with a permanent site establishment, a commercial and contracts group, and administration and IT.
Clients ask two questions about a consultancy's structure, and both are fair. Who will actually do the work? And is the discipline my project needs held in-house, or bought in when the contract is signed?
Our structure answers both. Design and specialist engineering sit together under one technical directorate, so a scheme is not passed between firms as it moves from concept to detail. Construction supervision is a standing function, not a team assembled per project. And commercial, contracts and administration support every commission from the same office.
Organisation chart
Office of the Managing Director
Overall direction of the practice, client relationships at principal level, and final technical and commercial accountability on every commission.
Technical directorate
Led by the Director Technical, this is where the engineering is done. It holds two groups.
Design & engineering
The disciplines that produce the design:
- Senior Electrical Engineer (Power)
- Architect
- Road Design Engineer
- Bridge Design Engineer
- Water Supply & Drainage System Design Engineer
- Structural Design Engineer
Specialist disciplines
The specialists who inform, test and validate that design — and who are the difference between a scheme that clears its approvals and one that does not:
- Transportation Engineer
- Hydrology Expert
- Geo-Technical Engineer
- Environmental Engineer
- Electrical Engineer (Solar)
- Quantity Engineer
- Land Survey Specialist
- CAD Section In-charge
- Laboratory Section In-charge
Two of these are standing units rather than individual roles. The CAD section produces and controls every drawing the practice issues. The laboratory section carries out materials testing, in the office and on site.
Construction supervision
Led by the Construction Manager, with a permanent site establishment:
- Resident Engineer
- Assistant Resident Engineer
- Site Inspector
- Site Surveyor
- Site Laboratory Technician
This matters more than it looks on a chart. A practice that designs but does not supervise never finds out which of its details were difficult to build. Ours does, on every project, and the design office hears about it.
Commercial & contracts
- Contract Specialist
- Economist
- Accountant
Contract administration, economic appraisal and cost work sit alongside the engineering rather than being bought in — which is why our feasibility studies carry economic analysis and our tender documents are administered by someone who has read the conditions of contract.
Administration & IT
- IT In-charge
- Computer Operator
- Reception
- Office Assistant
- Security Guard
Elsewhere in About Us
You will know who is on your project.
Every commission is assigned a named lead from the relevant discipline and a single point of contact for the client. You will not find out halfway through that the work has been subcontracted to a firm you were never introduced to.
Common questions
Frequently asked questions
Does DMC subcontract its engineering?
The design disciplines and specialist engineering listed on this page are held within the practice. Where a project needs expertise outside them — for example specialist ecology or economics — DMC brings in established partners under its own coordination and tells the client who they are.
Who supervises construction on a DMC project?
A permanent site establishment led by the Construction Manager, comprising a Resident Engineer, Assistant Resident Engineer, Site Inspector, Site Surveyor and Site Laboratory Technician. The same practice that produced the design supervises its construction.