The Visionaries
Shaun Powell
Straight out of South Africa, Shaun was practically born wearing a hard hat. As the son of a contractor, he didn’t learn to crawl, he started by checking floor alignment with a spirit level. By the time most toddlers were stacking toy blocks, Shaun was already calculating load-bearing ratios for his Lego towers.
He’s a structural engineer with years of experience in construction. A man whose brain runs on algorithms and espresso.Walls behave around him, tiles line up straighter, paint somehow dries smoother. It’s not science, it’s Shaun.
He’s also a devoted dad to two girls, which explains his next-level patience and crisis-management skills. Fatherhood, after all, isn’t so different from construction: constant noise, tight deadlines, and the occasional meltdown on-site. He runs his household like a project plan: every tantrum gets logged, every bedtime delay comes with a revised timeline, and no one steps on Lego without a safety warning.
Mahmood Abdulla
Born and raised in Bahrain, Mahmood grew up on an island where half the challenge is keeping sand out of the machinery, so problem-solving is basically in his DNA. A mechanical engineer by training, he studied in the UK, and returned to the Gulf with the perfect blend of Arab charisma and British punctuality. Mahmood lines up tiles with the same precision the British queue for their morning commute: perfectly straight, evenly spaced, and with absolutely no cutting in line.
When he’s not managing sites, Mahmood is behind the barbecue, his favorite kind of construction zone. He checks steak temperatures with the same focus he gives to project deadlines, and somehow both end up perfectly medium-rare.
Mahmood is what happens when East meets West: polite enough to apologize for the dust, confident enough to build you a palace.