Abdul Manan Khalid, P.E.
Abdul Manan Khalid was born in Kabul in 1958; completed
his elementary and secondary studies at Qarabagh High School and moved on to finish his
high school at AIT (Afghanistan Institute of Technology) in the winter of 1975.
Khalid entered Faculty of Engineering of the Kabul University
right after finishing high school, and graduated from the Department of Civil
Engineering in January of 1981.
His dream job was to become a professor, and while still on
his last year of studies, he was given the opportunity to teach. He continued
to teach at the Faculty of Engineering up to July of 1983, when he was sent on
a scholarship for post graduate studies to India. It was to a well reputed and
the oldest engineering university in India,
the Roorkee
University. Khalid
finished his masters in the field of Hydrology, and was awarded university’s gold medal for his work. He also
completed post graduate studies in the field of infrastructural rehabilitation
at Polytechnic University
in Brooklyn, New York.
In November of 1984, he was hired by an electromechanical
company, involved in the construction of power stations and power distribution
systems in the Kingdom
of Saudi Arabia, where he
worked for almost eight years. However he was hired as a structural engineer,
but he successfully worked as construction project manager, and in his final
years, as projects coordinator reporting directly to the general manager of a
1400 employee company. Khalid’s major accomplishment
was establishing a civil engineering sister company, which created capacity to
complete all construction and design work in house, rather than subcontracting
the work.
After immigrating to the United States in 2001, he worked
for many years on full and part time basis in real estate development. Khalid
joined the ranks of civil service with the City of New York
in 1999. He first worked for the Bureau of Bridges of the New York City
Department of Transportation working on the rehabilitation of some of the land
mark bridges, such as, Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridge.
For a short period, he also worked in traffic planning and construction
mitigation and control.
He then moved on to become an administrative engineer with
New York City Housing Authority managing a portfolio of $300 million in rehabilitation
projects. He managed design, in house construction management and construction
management firms. He managed a staff of 41 engineers of different disciplines
and numerous administrative staff.
Currently, he works as an administrative engineer with the
New York City School Construction Authority, which has a five year capital
budget of over $13 billion dollars. In his current capacity, he manages consultants
involved in the design of the rehabilitation of existing, and also the design
of new school buildings.
Over the past ten years, he has acquired valuable knowledge
and experience in rehabilitation and forensics of infrastructures, particularly
bridges and building envelopes.
Mr. Khalid lives with his wife and his eight year old son in
the Queens section of New York City.