About IE Design
IE Design is an independent engineering firm offering structural engineering professional services. Through our designs, we make a significant difference in the world by making our buildings evolve from passive structures into adaptive, responsive, and intelligent systems.
We are an innovative structural engineering firm that strives to provide innovative, state-of-the-art, economical service to every client, regardless of the complexity, scale, or type of project. We have worked on many commercial, industrial, and mid- and high-rise buildings over the past 16 years, nationally and internationally, with more than 40 years of combined experience. Likewise, we analyzed and designed buildings from 1-storey heavy industrial buildings to 65-storey high-rise buildings.
We believe that our experience, dedication, professionalism, and commitment to teamwork will be an asset to your project team.
Mahdy A. Hamada
Founder and President
Mahdy A. Hamada, Ph.D., P. Eng., BIM, M.ASCE, M.CSCE, is the founder and president of IE Design, located in London, Canada. Mahdy holds a Doctor of Philosophy and a Master of Engineering Science in civil and environmental engineering from The University of Western Ontario, Canada. He has more than 16 years of national/international experience in consulting, teaching, and research in structural engineering analysis and design. He consulted on major projects in Canada, the USA, the Middle East, and the Far East. In addition, Mahdy is an adjunct research professor and assistant professor of LDA at the department of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Western Ontario, Canada, teaching structural analysis of tall buildings, design of lateral load structural systems, and advanced analysis and design of steel courses.
Mahdy research interests are in the areas of structural and wind engineering, fluid-structure interaction, heavy timber and light-framed wood structures, and artificial intelligence in structural engineering. Mahdy scientific research work includes investigating the behaviour, resilience, and performance-based design of transmission line systems under high-intensity wind loads; the performance of irregularly shaped high- and mid-rise buildings under seismic and wind loads; the performance of mid-rise light-frame wood buildings under lateral loads; the performance-based design of high-rise buildings under high-intensity wind events; and the performance of barrier structures to minimize the blast loads on strategic buildings.
Mahdy is a member of the Future Leader Committee of the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH). He is a corresponding member of the task committee on electrical transmission line structural loading responsible for updating the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Manual of Practice #74, Guidelines for Electrical Transmission Line Structural Loading.
