Building Performance Egypt

Omnia Halawani

Co - Chief Executive Officer - GRFN

Omnia cofounded grfn as a multidisciplinary consultancy with a mission to realize clients’ visions while sustaining the built environment via progressive, functional and lucrative environmentally conscious engineering & design solutions for sustainable built environments that serve the wellbeing of your communities. The firm is driven by advanced engineering practices and innovative approaches and embeds environmental and social sustainability as integral to the operational model by embracing UN SDGs that align with our core activities in each and every project. Grfn is now based out of Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Cairo, Beirut, and India.

Omnia brings extensive experience in energy efficiency and sustainability consultancy services having been involved in the retrofit management of multiple large-scale projects ans consulting on related matters in policy making technical advisory services, arbitration, and other end customer perspectives.

Omnia’s combined education and background in engineering and business is instrumental in the effective management of projects and the firm. She was recognized as a distinguished alumni entrepreneur of the American University of Sharjah in the year 2014 and is a regular speaker at regional conferences and contributor to periodicals and technical magazines.

Sherine Fahmy

Co-Founder - Egypt Green Building Council

Engineer Sherine Fahmy received a B.Sc. degree in Mechanical Engineering from The American University in Cairo, followed by a Graduate Diploma in Environmental Engineering from the same university. She is a LEED Accredited Professional and a Certified Senior Management Trainer and Co-Active Coach.

She helped pioneer the beginnings of the Green Building movement in the Middle East. Starting in the UAE, she managed projects that worked on earning LEED Certification for over 70 commercial buildings and on making them more environmentally sustainable. As a LEED Consultant and adjunct faculty at the American University in Cairo, she was an active partner in the very first LEED Platinum project in Egypt and North Africa: The Credit Agricole Egypt Headquarters in New Cairo in addition to the LEED Gold certified Dar Al Handasah new premises in Smart Village, Giza and the LEED Gold certified Mall of Egypt.

Combining over 20 years of experience in environmental consulting and training with business skills coaching, she has also delivered training courses to many corporate on the area of management skills and human development. Currently she is adjunct faculty at the American University in Cairo, teaching courses attended by corporate clients and graduate university students on the areas of environmental sustainability and LEED concepts.

Sherine is Co-Founder, Board Member and Treasurer of the Egypt Green Building Council, emerging member of the World Green Building Council, a nonprofit NGO with the objective of promoting the culture of Green Building in Egypt. With the help of a group of volunteers, Sherine is laying the foundation for a strong and effective green building council, also responsible for the development of TARSHEED, the green building rating system developed specially for Egypt.

As Sustainability Consultant & LEED® Accredited Professional, Sherine is CEO of EcoStrategies for Sustainable Development, an environmental consultancy firm leading the drive towards sustainability in the built environment by supporting several LEED, Tarsheed and Edge projects in Egypt.