National pride for MEED Quality Awards for Projects
After many hours of discussion among the seven judges, the MEED Quality Awards for Projects national winners from across the GCC have been announced
MEED Quality Awards for Projects: NATIONAL WINNERS
Water reuse projects
Oman | Al-Ghubrah Mobile Water Treatment Plant, Muscat
Entrant & EPC Contractor: Septech Emirates; Client: Public Authority for Electricity and Water
Saudi Arabia | Sea Water Cooling Pump Station, Jubail & Yanbu
Entrant & Engineering Adviser/FEED Contractor: Saudi Arabian Bechtel Company; Client: Royal Commission for Jubail & Yanbu; EPC Contractor: Al-Harbi Trading and Contracting Company
UAE | Jebel Ali Sewage Treatment Plant
Entrant, Architect & Engineering Advisers: MWH; Client: Dubai Municipality; EPC Contractor: Al-Ahmadiah Aktor
Leisure & Tourism Projects
Kuwait | Kuwait National Library
Entrant: The Associated Engineering Partnership;
Client: Ministry of Public Works; EPC Contractor: Al-Hani Construction & Trading
Oman | Al-Musannah Sports City, Asian Beach Games site
EPC Contractor: Larsen & Toubro; Client: Omran
Qatar | Grand Hyatt Resort
Entrant & Consultant: GHD Global; Client: Touristic Investment Company
UAE | Ferrari Experience
Entrant & EPC Contractor: Besix; Client: Aldar
UAE | Qasr Al-Sarab Desert Resort and Spa
Client: Tourism Development & Investment Company
Building Projects
Kuwait | Al-Tijaria Tower
Entrant & Consultant: Al-Jazera; Client: Commercial Real Estate Company; EPC Contractor: SHBC Contracting
Oman | Bank Muscat Corporate Headquarters Building
Entrant & Project Management: Atkins; EPC Contractor: Galfar Engineering & Contracting; Client: Bank Muscat
Qatar | Qatar Science and Technology Park
Entrant & Architect: Woods Bagot; Client: Qatar Foundation;
EPC Contractor: Qatar Petroleum
Saudi Arabia | Technical College at Medina
Entrant & Client: Technical and Vocational Training Corporation; EPC Contractor: Lada for Trading & Contracting Company
UAE | The Address Downtown
Entrant & EPC Contractor: Arabtec & Besix joint venture (JV); Client: Emaar
UAE | Burj Khalifa
Entrant & Architect: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill; Entrant & EPC Contractor: Arabtec, Samsung & Besix JV; Client: Emaar
Oil & Gas Projects
Bahrain | Refinery Gas Desulphurisation Project
Entrant & Client: Bahrain Petroleum Company;
EPC Contractor: Foster Wheeler Italiana
Kuwait | Facility upgrade and relocation of underground pipelines project
Entrant & EPC Contractor: Petrofac International; Client: Kuwait Oil Company
Oman | Burhan West and Harmal Pipeline Project
Entrant & EPC Contractor: Al-Hassan Engineering Company;
Client: Petroleum Development Oman
UAE | Construction of Mobile Offshore Production Unit
Entrant & Construction: Topaz Engineering; Client: Single Buoy Moorings (End user – Talisman Energy, Norge AS); EPC Contractor: SBM
Transport Projects
Bahrain | Khalifa bin Salman Port & Industrial Area at Hidd
Entrant: Ministry of Works; Client: General Organisation of Sea Ports
Kuwait | Sheikh Saad General Aviation Terminal
Entrant & Client: United Projects Company for Aviation Services; EPC Contractor: Ahmadiah Contracting & Trading
UAE | Dubai Metro Red Line
Entrant & Client: RTA; EPC Contractor: DURL Construction Consortium
UAE | Garhoud Bridge
Entrant & EPC Contractor: Six Construct; Client: RTA
Social Projects
Kuwait | Kuwait National Library
Entrant: The Associated Engineering Partnership
Client: Ministry of Public Works; EPC Contractor: Al-Hani Construction & Trading
Qatar | American School of Doha Expansion Programme
Entrant & Project Management: Hill International; Client: American School of Doha; EPC Contractor: Al-Sraiya Trading & Contracting
Saudi Arabia | Technical College at Medina
Entrant & Client: Technical and Vocational Training Corporation;
EPC Contractor: Lada for Trading & Contracting Company
UAE | City Hospital, Dubai
Entrant & EPC Contractor: Al-Ahmadiah Aktor; Client: EHL Management Services
Sustainable Projects
Bahrain | Carbon Dioxide Recovery Plant
Entrant, Project Management & Client: Gulf Petrochemical Industries, EPC Contractor: Tecnimont ICB
UAE | Labour camp, Dubai
Entrant, EPC Contractor & Client: Waagner Biro Gulf
Power & Water Projects
Qatar | Mesaieed A, IPP Power Plant
Entrant & EPC Contractor: Iberdrola Engineering and Construction; Client: Mesaieed Power Company
Qatar | Power Supply Grid – High-rise Towers West Bay, Doha
Entrant, Project & Construction Management: Mott MacDonald; Client: Qatar General Electricity and Water Corporation
UAE | Substations for Nad al-Sheba at Meydan
Entrant & EPC Contractor: Emirates Electrical Engineering;
Client: Meydan City Corporation
MEED Quality Awards for Projects Judges
- Edmund O’Sullivan, Chair of the MEED Quality Awards for Projects and Chairman of MEED Events
- Abdelmajeed al-Gassab, President, Bahrain Society of Engineers
- Matar Ali Almutairi, Chairman, Kuwait Society of Engineers
- Sulaiman al-Hudhaili, Secretary general, Oman Society of Engineers
- Ahmad Jassim al-Jollo, Chairman, Qatar Society of Engineers
- Ghazi Alahmadi, Secretary general, Saudi Council of Engineers
- Rashad Mohammed Bukhash, Director of Architectural Heritage, UAE Society of Engineers
In 2010, MEED launched its Quality Awards for Projects to recognise the highest quality projects from across the GCC. The plan was not to just give out awards for the biggest and the most well-known structures in the region, but to search for the vital infrastructure and essential innovations that are pushing the regional projects sector forward. The aim was to recognise the developments that use new technologies, benchmark best practice and have earned a reputation for the highest standards in the Middle East.
The MEED Quality Awards for Projects is a new venture for MEED and our approach to it had to reflect our core values of integrity and transparency. We also endeavoured to ensure the awards scheme was representative of the GCC and its expertise, recognising home-grown talent as well as international influence. As part of this approach, we wanted to employ expert judges from all the countries in the GCC.
Each of the six member states has a society or council of engineers that worked with MEED to draw up a robust set of criteria reflecting five fundamental processes a project team has to manage. The societies and councils of engineers from Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the UAE then appointed judges from within their organisations.
Judging process for MEED Quality Awards for Projects
Over the course of several months until November 2010, clients and government departments, contractors, consultants and architects sent MEED entries describing many excellent projects across the region.
Submissions were received on water reuse projects from Saudi Arabia and Oman, ports and airport schemes from Kuwait and Bahrain, power plants from the UAE and Qatar and on building projects from across the GCC. The response has been a credit to the project teams, who built these developments and affirms that the MEED Quality Awards for Projects will be seen as the future benchmark of quality.
Of course, the difficult part of the process for all those involved is to assess and judge these projects to find the best schemes. MEED would like to thank all those teams that took the time and effort to complete the detailed and lengthy entry forms we requested.
The first task for the judges was to select the national winners in each category. Each judge considered entries submitted in their respective countries, choosing those that best demonstrated excellence in each of the five criteria. These projects can be considered the best in each country and winners of their national competitions. With this first judging stage now complete, MEED is proud to announce the MEED Quality Awards for Projects national winners.
The next stage will be to select the overall GCC winners. Each national winner now goes forward to the final stage of judging, in which they will be compared against each other to find the projects that contributed the most to excellence in construction, engineering and sustainability in the GCC. Those winners will then be considered the best of the best in the Gulf.
Each national winner has been invited to an awards ceremony to be held at the Ritz Carlton in DIFC, Dubai on the 22 March. The GCC winners of each category will be announced at this event, along with a selection of special awards made by MEED. The event comprises a gala dinner, awards presentation and entertainment and will be a widely anticipated, well-publicised conclusion to the region’s first truly transparent, merit-based awards scheme.
Many thanks are due to the judges for their hard work and time ensuring that the results of this process are fair and warranted.
For more information on the national winners, please see the MEED Quality Awards for Projects supplement to be published with MEED on 11 February.
For more information about purchasing seats at the awards ceremony on 22 March at the Ritz Carlton DIFC Dubai please visit www.meedawards.com, telephone (+971) 4 368 1644 or email info@meedawards.com
The five fundamentals for MEED Quality Awards for Projects
The judging for MEED’s Quality Awards for Projects focuses on specific criteria relating to project development and execution in each category. Overall, the judges look for demonstrable examples and descriptions of projects in the following key areas:
- Economic & Social Feasibility – The impact on employment and job creation, as well as the economic and social benefits
- Design & Architecture – Innovation, use of traditional materials or methods, new technologies and sustainability
- Engineering – New innovative solutions, methodology and problem-solving
- Procurement & Programme Management – Supply chain integration, project management and collaboration
- Sustainability – The impact on both the local environment and population over time, waste management, international standards, power generation and water reuse
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