Abdalla Shalaby is a licensed professional engineer in the province of Ontario specializing in the area of geostructural and shoring engineering. He has performed detailed support of excavation (SOE) designs for over 100 projects in Canada and the US for high rise building foundations, roadway protection systems, cofferdams, bridge abutments, and more. SOE designs include seacant and tangent pile walls, soldier piles and lagging walls, sheet piles walls, shotcrete walls, braced with tieback anchors, rakers, struts, etc. Abdalla’s main focus is to provide optimized solutions that adhere strongly to the relevant design standards, but also consider clients’ constraints, particularly around geotechnical conditions. He places particular emphasis on achieving efficiency in his designs by optimizing safety factors and available construction material. Through his extensive work with contractors, Abdalla was also able to gain a strong understanding of construction means and methods.