In the high-stakes world of critical infrastructure and asset protection, where engineering rigor is the final safeguard against catastrophic risk, Engineer Wail Al Muharzi stands as a defining figure. As Managing Director of Aman International Engineering Consultancy, he is recognized for his technical expertise but also for his strategic leadership in shaping the fire and life safety landscape of the GCC.
With approximately 15 years in Fire and Life Safety engineering, Al Muharzi couples deep technical specialization with proven organizational leadership. A licensed and certified Fire Protection Engineer, his expertise spans some of the region’s most complex and sensitive sectors, including aviation, oil and gas, industrial facilities, healthcare, tunnels, military installations, and ports.
Over the course of his career, Al Muharzi has established a strong regional presence, training more than 500 engineers and Civil Defence officers across the GCC. He also plays an active role in shaping new Fire and Life Safety codes and standards. His project portfolio extends across Oman, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iraq, and Qatar.
What distinguishes Wail Al Muharzi is his ability to operate seamlessly as both an engineer and a business leader. He integrates fire protection engineering, building code compliance, risk analysis, and safety management to deliver resilient, code-compliant solutions that simultaneously protect lives and safeguard billions of dollars’ worth of assets.
The Visionary Target: Top Three Leadership
Aman International Engineering Consultancy was established with a clear and focused vision to specialize exclusively in Fire and Life Safety consultancy and property protection. From its inception, Engineer Wail Al Muharzi set out to build a strong presence across the GCC, attract international expertise, and actively contribute to the development of Fire and Life Safety codes and standards rather than simply applying them.
The objective was unambiguous: to secure a position among the top three fire engineering consultancies in the GCC and the wider Middle East. According to Al Muharzi, this position has been achieved through consistent technical excellence, uncompromising integrity, and sustained commitment. The consulting firm operates with a disciplined focus on client priorities, including cost, time, and quality, and has established a benchmark for fire engineering consultancies across the region.
The Talent Crucible: The PE, The CE, and Certification
One of the most enduring challenges confronting Aman has been the global shortage of qualified fire engineering professionals. Fire engineering remains a highly specialized discipline taught by only a limited number of universities worldwide, resulting in a persistent talent gap across the industry.
Rather than relying on conventional engineering credentials, Al Muharzi has taken a deliberate approach to talent acquisition, targeting professionals with internationally recognized certifications. These include Registered Professional Engineers in the United States, Chartered Engineers in the United Kingdom or Australia, and engineers certified by organizations such as the National Fire Protection Association.
Building and sustaining such a specialized and technically robust team continues to be one of the consulting firm’s greatest challenges. Under Al Muharzi’s leadership, Aman prioritizes proven expertise and advanced professional accreditation over academic qualifications alone, ensuring a consistently high technical standard across all projects.
The DNA of Excellence: Quality Over Cost
At the core of Aman International Engineering Consultancy’s philosophy is an uncompromising commitment to quality and value-based solutions rather than fee-driven competition. The consulting firm focuses exclusively on large-scale and giga projects, delivering high-quality designs that reduce overall project costs not by cutting corners, but through disciplined, innovative, and efficient engineering.
This standard is reinforced through a mandatory internal peer review process. No project is executed by a single engineer. Multidisciplinary teams specializing in Fire Protection, Fire Alarm Systems, and Smoke Control collaborate throughout the design lifecycle, with senior engineers providing layered technical reviews to ensure full compliance with life safety codes while maximizing long-term value for clients.
Beyond Compliance: Setting Sustainable Standards
Al Muharzi views sustainability in Fire and Life Safety as a core professional responsibility. Under his leadership, Aman International Engineering Consultancy is focused on setting new benchmarks rather than merely complying with existing regulations. This approach includes the proactive avoidance of systems with high global warming potential, such as certain HFC-based agents including FM-200, which are already subject to global phase-down initiatives.
The consulting firm prioritizes environmental impact reduction through risk-based design, the elimination of unnecessary suppression systems, and the specification of materials with lower smoke generation and reduced heat release. All designs are developed with a long-term perspective, considering a 50-year operational lifecycle rather than focusing solely on construction completion.
Long-term target operating models and intelligent monitoring solutions enable early fault detection, reducing energy consumption and lowering ongoing operational costs for clients.
Digital Discipline: From Paperwork to Platform
Digitalization is a core pillar of Aman’s efficiency and sustainability strategy. Under Al Muharzi’s leadership, all internal processes, inspections, and reporting workflows have been fully transitioned to digital platforms, eliminating unnecessary paperwork and manual handling.
Engineers and inspectors conduct site visits using tablets with real-time access to drawings and project data. This approach enhances accuracy, accelerates reporting cycles, and supports green logistics by removing the need for printing and paper-based documentation.
Strategic Integration: The Resilient Solution
Technology integration at Aman is driven by operational necessity, not novelty. Each design begins with strict compliance with minimum code requirements and is then strategically optimized based on asset complexity, risk profile, and operational criticality.
System selection, whether water-based, gaseous, or detection-only, is determined by the nature of the asset and its exposure. Every solution is engineered to be reliable, resilient, and insurable, enabling clients to benefit from proven technologies that support long-term risk reduction and favorable insurance outcomes.
A defining strength of the consulting firm lies in advanced system integration. Fire and Life Safety systems are designed to interface seamlessly with SCADA and BMS platforms, delivering an intelligent, unified safety ecosystem that replaces fragmented and standalone protection measures.
The Sustainability Mandate: Certifying Integrity
Aman International Engineering Consultancy is actively advancing toward ESG certification through a dedicated internal task force, reinforcing its commitment to environmental stewardship, social responsibility, and governance excellence. This internal initiative directly reflects the advisory services the consulting firm delivers to its clients, including strategic support for sustainability frameworks and certifications such as LEED.
By embedding Fire and Life Safety systems within broader sustainability strategies, Engineer Wail ensures that Aman’s advisory role is not only technically robust but also grounded in measurable performance and independently verifiable standards.
Global Ambition: From GCC Leadership to International Competition
That same blend of technical authority and strategic discipline has driven Aman International Engineering Consultancy to a position of clear leadership within the regional market. Under Engineer Wail Al Muharzi’s direction, the consultancy firm has built a level of scale and capability that few consultants in the region can match. Today, Aman is widely regarded as having the largest and most technically robust fire engineering team in the GCC, delivering consistently at the highest level across complex, high-risk environments.
This regional dominance forms the foundation for Aman’s next strategic phase: decisive international expansion. Global growth has been established as a core performance objective for 2026, with active market entry planning underway for mature and highly regulated jurisdictions such as the United Kingdom and the United States.
Confident in the depth of its talent, engineering rigor, and operational maturity, Al Muharzi positions Aman not as an emerging player, but as a consultancy already operating at the level of the world’s leading Fire and Life Safety consultancies, with a clear trajectory toward top-tier global standing.
The Culture of Trust: Delegation and Mentorship
This growth strategy is underpinned by a culture of trust, ownership, and structured delegation. Al Muharzi considers delegation a critical success factor, ensuring the right people are assigned clear roles, responsibilities, and procedures.
Teams are fully supported by the required tools, software, and equipment. Mentorship plays a central role, encouraging collaboration and internal knowledge transfer. Accountability is reinforced through the RACI matrix, ensuring clarity and governance across all projects.
Transformative Partnerships: The No-Addendum Principle
Al Muharzi believes strong partnerships are built on clarity and honesty from the outset. Aman International holds framework agreements with major regional clients, including PIF, KAFD, NEOM, and Qiddiya.
Aman’s approach is to define scope and fees clearly at the earliest stage through thorough analysis, thereby avoiding reliance on addenda. As he states, “We are not addendum oriented.” This commitment to upfront clarity supports long-term collaboration, financial certainty, and trust.
The Leadership Evolution: From Technician to Visionary
Al Muharzi reflects on a significant shift in his leadership role over time. In the early stages of the company, he was deeply involved in technical execution. As Aman expanded, his focus moved toward strategic leadership.
Today, his efforts are centered on managing the organization at a corporate level, setting long-term vision, and establishing the foundational processes required to support continued growth. This role demands a deep understanding of market dynamics, financial performance, competitive fee structures, and rigorous benchmarking to ensure sustainable profitability.
Al Muharzi is now primarily engaged in executive responsibilities including administrative oversight, human capital management, business development, and budgeting. He acknowledges that mastering this breadth of responsibility requires significant time and experience but considers it essential to successfully guide the firm through its next phase of expansion.
A Legacy of Elevated Standards: Shaping Safer Communities
Looking ahead, Al Muharzi hopes the projects delivered by Aman will serve as a benchmark for future developments, both in private asset protection and code development.
His leadership legacy centers on two goals:
Raising Standards Actively shaping stronger life safety codes and contributing to safer, more resilient communities.
Inspiring Excellence Building a culture of integrity, innovation, and technical excellence in engineering.
Engineer Wail Al Muharzi emphasizes Aman International Engineering Consultancy’s commitment to mentoring the next generation of engineers and encourages professionals and organizations seeking guidance to engage with consulting firms. His ultimate aim is to leave a lasting, positive impact on the industry through leadership grounded in ethics, expertise, and purpose.
