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    Robert Conchie

    Robert is a Senior Associate – Project Manager, based in Abu Dhabi, with 28 years’ experience within the landscape construction industry in the UAE and Middle East. Robert is Project Manager on the Post Contract team ensuring that the professionally created designs and details, from Cracknell’s design teams, are implemented on site to the required quality and aesthetics and within program and budget, maximising the long-term sustainability and enjoyment of the project whilst protecting the Client’s investment.

    Robert’s extensive experience both as a General Manager of contracting companies as well as Project Manager for Cracknell enables him to understand the challenges of project implementation with a fair and rational approach.

    Project quality is Robert’s passion, and he strives to achieve excellence in the projects he manages, and to ensure the project team working with him have the same objectives through collaboration, teamwork and mentoring.

    Alex Dios

    Alex has experience within the fast and challenging China and Southeast Asian market for the past 23 years and is Director of the Shanghai Chapter of the United Architects of the Philippines. He has led projects ranging from small scale to mid-size community planning, urban landscape, mixed used, residential, commercial, and public realm.

    As a Senior Associate at Cracknell he heads and oversees the Manila team, sharing his experience and expertise in place making and sustainable design. Ensuring that the team’s design resolution meets Cracknell’s standards, Alex refines and takes responsibility for each project’s final design solution.

    Jan Ayalin

    Jan’s scope of knowledge spans architecture and interior design, urban master planning, and landscape architecture. He has over 25 years’ experience in the landscape design profession working on hotels and resorts, urban open space, and public and private residential landscapes across Asia and the Middle East.

    As a Senior Associate Landscape Architect at Cracknell he specialises in both conceptual design and design development. Sharing his experience, he guides and sets examples for the younger members of the team, helping them to grow within the profession.

    Trained as an Architect, his core design strength lies in balancing the needs of the client and the end user, to develop marketable, sustainable, and innovative built environments that engage the senses and enhance the sense of place.

    Marwan Kandil

    Marwan is a highly knowledgeable, skilled Landscape Architect with over 16 years’ experience in all areas of landscape design, from the early construction stages to project management. A self-starter and team player with an ability to develop strong client relationships, Marwan has a track record for successful completion of projects across a broad range of sectors including residential, commercial, urban and civic landscapes as well as sports facilities.

    Marwan takes great pleasure in developing concept designs into buildable schemes that both serve the end-user needs and are sustainable and harmonious with the surrounding landscape or cityscape.

    Rahul Gokhale

    Rahul has 25 years’ experience as a Chartered Accountant in the Middle East. As a Group Finance Manager at Cracknell, he is responsible for the financial health and processes, and accounting of the Group across its international locations.

    Rahul is passionate about creating sustainable fiscal health within Cracknell to engage the stakeholders, build trust and create a stable financial environment in which to support the Group’s design and growth aspirations.

    Michael Goode

    Michael is a Chartered Landscape Architect with 18+ years’ diversified experience in the Middle East and Europe in project management and contract administration, handling all work stages as well as a wide range of project types.

     

    His design ethos is grounded in the development of original and appropriate design solutions; driven by the consideration of the genius loci, social, physical and historical context of a site and through the application of well-considered, tested and clever design solutions. Michael has a strong ability to efficiently develop innovative conceptual ideas into robust, cost effective and achievable design proposals tailored to specific project requirements.

     

    He has worked in numerous multi-disciplinary design teams where it has been important to work with a range of design consultants along with undertaking regular client and key stakeholder meetings. This has provided him with an in-depth knowledge of all design consultant inputs and requirements to successfully coordinate and implement various sizes of landscape projects. Michael is committed to service excellence and his objective is to produce high quality, innovative Landscape Architecture with cost effective, feasible solutions in keeping with the requirements of his clients.

     

    His role also includes building and maintaining client relationships and expectations, managing fee proposals, scope of work, project briefs, budgets, and project schedules along with the management of in-house landscape resources across Cracknell’s global studios.

    Rathakrishnan

    Rathakrishnan has 31 years’ experience as an irrigation design professional in the Middle East region and India. As a Senior Associate Irrigation Engineer, he has a leading role in designing many types of irrigation systems for landscape projects across Cracknell’s global portfolio.

    Rathakrishnan has a wealth of knowledge in computer aided design & drafting with AutoCAD and database management. He is passionate about design customisation and guiding the design team to achieve project deliverables with competitive industrial standards.

    Ravindra Lawhale

    Ravi has 28 years’ experience as an irrigation design and supervision expert
    across the Middle East and India. At Cracknell he designs, executes, supervises,
    and maintains all kinds of irrigation and drainage systems including those for Golf
    Courses.

    Ravi is passionate about sustainable irrigation design by adopting IOT
    enabled water use monitoring & controlling techniques and conservation tools.

    Kunaal Parmar

    Kunaal has over 15 years’ design experience working in the UK, Europe and the Middle East. As a Senior Associate in London, he has helped mentor and develop the growing team and leads the delivery of a range of large-scale retail, luxury and mixed-use developments as well as private residences for high-net-worth individuals. Kunaal’s passion and expertise focuses on the quality of user experience.

    His knowledge of luxury hospitality development helps him to orchestrate and choreograph human and landscape interaction to create welcoming environments.

    Moushumi Koul

    Moushumi has 20 years’ experience in landscape design in the Middle East and India. With a background in Architecture, she has a holistic design vocabulary. A key member of Cracknell’s design delivery team for projects with multi-level complexity, she has a strong ability to reconcile conflicting stakeholder requirements and find solutions for site constraints.

    Having a keen interest in public realm, community & mixed-use developments, she is passionate about the integration of architecture and landscape to create seamless & meaningful experiences for the end users, improving their daily lives.

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