Lina has a broad and diverse background in management and marketing, managing in parallel the business enterprise and building a home. She brings educational acumen and developmental maturity in human resources and public relations. Lina managed multiple events including FuturoScope and environmental management programs under EuroMed. Lina is a graduate of Notre Dame University in marketing management and an active volunteer in community development and resilience. Lina joined IS-CEM since its inception.
Integrated Services CEM LLC
Management Consulting and Engineering
Services
Engineering Technical Expertise and Management Consulting
IS-CEM assists client organization in strategy development, competitor analysis, and business process reengineering. The engagements combine deep engineering expertise with business strategy, risk analysis and management integrating the latest technological advancements in AI, software, and applications.
Resilience, Forensic Engineering, Recovery and Reconstruction
IS-CEM provides expertise in forensic engineering comprising damage assessment from hurricanes, wind, hail, floods, fires, vehicular impact, and blast. Our field inspections cover damage identification and description, root cause analysis, and recommendations. IS-CEM's professional engineers are licensed in multiple states domestically, and internationally in select Mediterranean countries.
Structural Engineering Design and Analysis
IS-CEM offers civil-structural engineering design, inspection, peer review and value engineering, with expertise in dynamics, seismic design and irregular structures, and base isolation. IS-CEM also serves local communities in housing design, repair and inspection.
Learn MorePROGRAM RISK APPRAISAL AND CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT SUPPORT
We provide support services to Program Management by developing and evaluating alternatives in relation to design, constructability, quality, cost, schedule, and public safety. Through risk analysis techniques, our Program Management support philosophy is to translate client requirements and design concepts into tangible results.
Learn MoreWATER, NATURAL RESOURCES, AND ESIA
We believe in corporate social responsibility and that successful projects minimize perturbation to the natural environment. The most attractive facilities that we designed and built blend harmoniously with native terrains. We offer Environmental and Social Impact Assessment services as independent reviewers along with our water resources practice.
Learn MoreHERITAGE PRESERVATION, RESTORATION AND REHABILITATION
Operating in regions where heritage quarters, monuments, and structures contribute invaluable character, history, and culture, IS-CEM provides expertise in preservation, restoration and rehabilitation. We renovated heritage structures built with natural stone, timber, and other materials, addressing strength and serviceability while preserving architectural character.
About
Integrated Services CEM started in year 2000 by Michel S. Chalhoub and recently re-launched as a network of multidisciplinary experts in engineering including civil, structural, environmental, construction management, and information technology development, teamed from industry practice, academic, and research communities to provide strategic consultancy, project design, value engineering, independent peer review, and forensic engineering. Our environmental practice includes water and natural resource management, societal and environmental impact assessment, valuation, and environmental management advisory services. IS-CEM joins decades of practice with leading engineering and management companies and academic institutions over a diverse geographic coverage.
Core Values
Our core values are mastery, integrity, respect for the natural environment, and social responsibility. Mastery in the technical fields of projects is our fundamental premise. Integrity guides our services to achieve tangible results for our clients and society. Respect for the natural environment is part of our philosophy as evidenced by our preservation and environmental valuation approach. Social responsibility is reflected in our practice in community resilience, services to environmental NGOs, in our policy development and publications.
Since its inception, IS-CEM puts social responsibility into practice. Projects that we offer yearly to local communities on a pro-bono basis are selected and scoped on a case-by-case basis.
Brief Project Description
Selected project examples that Dr. Michel S. Chalhoub, founder of IS-CEM, designed and implemented while serving with various firms.
Disney World Splash Mountain
For Splash Mountain, Magic Kingdom, Disney World, designed the steel structure and rail for the boat ride with the finale water chute, that supported the exterior rocky mountain finish, and performed an intricate dynamic analysis to sustain vibration and fatigue.
Prudhoe Bay - Alaska Docking Facilities
For this project which involved severe weather conditions, designed docking cells for steel modules accounting for material properties, loads, and soil subjected to freezing and thawing, under construction loads, and ice loads, performed with strict environmental considerations.
Disney World's Tower of Terror
For Disney World's Tower of Terror, designed and analyzed the free fall drop of the elevator to provide the thrill level while meeting strict safety requirements. Performed a dynamic analysis of the 190ft tall tower to simulate effects of shock, vibration, and fatigue.
Disney Imagineering Typhoon Lagoon Project
For Typhoon Lagoon, Disney World, designed a twelve-cell gravity wave maker with their steel gates for water control, analyzed the wave-maker water release lip and pool bathymetry to generate and propagate surfable waves.
Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral
At Launch Complex 40 for Space Exploration at Cape Canaveral, Florida, designed the umbilical steel tower with innovative mobile platforms as a structural electro-mechanical system to stage shuttles prior to launch. Performed dynamic analysis and optimization to meet performance accuracy.
Hyperion Water Reclamation Plant
For the Hyperion Treatment Plant 1990s expansion and modernization program, serving Los Angeles County, designed giant concrete tank digestors, process piping, and flare headers, with dynamic analysis to ensure safety. Today, anaerobic digestion is practiced worldwide.
LBTS - US Defense Nuclear Agency and Lockheed
For the Large Blast Thermal Simulator (LBTS), designed concrete shell and arched pressure-release steel louvers and performed a dynamic finite element analysis to simulate the tunnel's full-scale test of vehicles subjected to blast.
Hercules Aerospace EAFB Test Stand Tower
For Titan IV Solid Rocket Motor Upgrade (SRMU) Program test facilities built at Edwards Airforce Base, California, designed the steel tower test stand, its concrete flame deflector, platforms, and load measurement system supports, used to measure the SRMU thrust force.
Ecosystem Preservation Study - Nahr Ibrahim
Planned and managed a preservation program for Nahr Ibrahim River, Lebanon, to mitigate the effects of industrial and manufacturing facilities on riverbed ecosystem and riverbank biodiversity. Developed policy recommendations and environmental impact assessments as a pilot project for other rivers in the country.
Study about the National Water Strategy
Working with T.E.R.R.E. Liban, developed a national water strategy to be adopted by the Ministry of Energy and Water, with mechanisms to implement public-private partnerships for a sustainable and integrated national water strategy, including the adoption of renewable energy.
Restoring Biodiversity on U. C. Berkeley's Watershed Lands
Performed a study for Strawberry Canyon in Berkeley, to mitigate threats from rapid housing development, independence from local fresh water supply, fertilizers runoff, and algal bloom. The project introduced water quality biomonitoring.
Contact
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- * INNOVATION PARK, 747 SW 2nd St., Gainesville, FL, 32601, USA
Team
Lina Bassil Chalhoub
General Manager
Nicole Maarawi
Sr. Engineer and Project Coordinator
Nicole has over 29 years of experience in civil engineering with extensive practice in value engineering to optimize design, constructability, and sustainability of built assets. She brings multifaceted experience in renovation and interior remodeling helping clients with cost-saving and environmentally efficient solutions. Nicole is a civil engineering graduate of the American University of Beirut, with construction practice across the Middle East. Nicole joined IS-CEM in 1995.
Michel Soto Chalhoub
Founder and Sr. Subject Matter Expert
Michel has a dual track as university faculty and civil-structural industry practice. He serves in senior positions in leading firms, develops innovative engineering solutions, plans and manages resilience and reconstruction programs. Michel is a licensed PE and SE in California and multiple states, holds a MS in Civil Ocean Engineering, a PhD in Civil Structural engineering from UC Berkeley, and a MPP from Harvard University.
Kamran M. Nemati
Sr. Subject Matter Expert
Kamran Nemati is a Professor in Construction, Geotechnical, and Transportation Engineering, and Transportation Infrastructure. He holds a Ph.D. in Construction Materials from UC Berkeley and practices teaching and multifaceted research in materials science, transportation systems, and other areas. He is a licensed Professional Engineer (P.E.) in multiple states, and bridges between academia and industry practice. Kamran joined IS-CEM in 2026.
Michel Jamjian
Sr. Subject Matter Expert
Michel Jamjian's expertise is in finite elements with over 30 years in simulation, dynamics, material modeling, and failure analysis. He develops innovative computational methods and adapts solutions from research into industry applications and solves challenges to achieve high-accuracy optimization and performance evaluation. He holds a PhD in Computational Mechanics from UC Berkeley. As quadrilingual, he brings a global cultural perspective. M. Jamjian joined IS-CEM in 2025.
Paul Torchia
Sr. Subject Matter Expert
Paul brings over 35 years of expertise in information technology solutions with a strong background in enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution development ranging from business requirements to design and implementation. Paul is a former Sr. Director at Cap Gemini technology division, holds an MBA from Clark University, and has executed ERP projects in the US and the Middle East. Paul joined IS-CEM as an IT expert in 2011.
