UNRWA EXAM PREPARATION 2015

Dr. Azzam Abuhabib

Projects Coordination Officer
Donor Relations & Projects - UNRWA

Outlines
Applications highlights
What should I study and read?
Exam highlights & advices

Application highlights
Make sure
requirement

you

meet

all

the

Years of experience are crucial

If you pass the exam, youll be asked
to support what you mentioned in
the application with documents &
certificates

What should I study?

Lecture notes
UNRWA specifications
UNRWA contracts
Consult some UNRWA staff or senior
engineers if you know some.

Exam highlights
The exam is a comprehensive one (design,
management, concrete technology, soil mechanics,
infrastructure, tests, reinforcement)
Full of Varity (multiple choices, calculations,
qualitative and quantitative questions, drawings)
but mostly implementation based.
Academic, real cases, and case studies
Contracts and claims

Exam highlights
Design is classic.
Settlement and deflection, failure shape.
Management questions are mostly related to time
schedules and Gantt chart.
Concrete technology & tests: mixes, w/c, mostly
related to implementation (cast, shuttering,
support, vibration, curing,. Tests: cubes, Schmitt
hammer, load test, core test, & slump.

Exam highlights
Reinforcement: tests, spacing, hocks, cross-section
limitations, cover limitation.
Soil: types, bearing capacity, compaction, collapse
angles, water table and content.
Foundation & retaining walls: types, design, overturning, sliding, discharge.
Infrastructure: roads, survey, compaction water &
wastewater piping, excavation. Tests: marshal and
CBR.

Exam highlights
Reinforcement: tests, spacing, hocks, cross-section
limitations, cover limitation.
Soil: types, bearing capacity, compaction, collapse
angles, water table and content.
Foundation & retaining walls: types, design, overturning, sliding, discharge.
Infrastructure: roads, survey, compaction water &
wastewater piping, excavation. Tests: marshal and
CBR.

Exam highlights
Contractual questions: guarantees types, insurance,
tender documents, special & general conditions,
measurements, disputes & arbitration, claims.
Tender documents priorities & order in case of
contradiction (drawings & details, specifications, BOQ).

Variation orders (VOs) & fines.

Breach, cancelation, suspension, and termination (with
guarantee liquidation).

Various questions
In case of cube results failure 7 or 28 days, standard
deviation, what would be your action? In case of core
test failure?
Difference between calendar/working days.
A contractor fail to do proper curing
A contractor not committed to proper inspection &
approval (e.g. cast with no approval).
A contractor dismantled slab support before time?
Can you terminate a contractor?
Can you suspend a contractor?
How to deal with a slow performing/delayed contractor?
Aggregate specifications.

Various questions
Level percentage of error?
Checking a pipeline without survey
device
Internal water piping checking
Drop manhole
Maximum and minimum slopes for
sewage pipes with justification.
Areas
calculation
(sphere,
triangle,..etc).

Word of advice
Time management
Do not start with design questions
Do not panic
Multiple choices are very tricky