CONSTRUCTION years after Hong Kong was established as a British Colony and when the demand grew for building banks , shopping pavilions , clubs and offices .
Project pipeline Having secured a huge project win for a city plan in Dubai , P & T established an office in the Dubai in 2004 , which now has 150 employees . Frantzén spent four years in London and New York before returning to P & T ’ s Dubai branch in 2008 , driving projects forward .
Today , P & T Group is one of the largest consultancies in the world , drawing on a global network of 2,000 architects and engineers . Its Middle East project portfolio contains notable award- and competitionwinning designs already .
The 70-story Burj Rafal is the first major project to be fully completed by P & T Group ’ s Dubai office . Home to stunning apartments and the five-star Kempinski Hotel , the tower required all of the firm ’ s vast high-rise experience as architects , structural and MEP ( mechanical , electrical and plumbing ) engineers .
“ Burj Rafal is at the moment the tallest completed tower in Riyadh , and it received the award for ‘ the most sustainable large project in Saudi-Arabia ’ some years ago , based on our in-house best practice in MEP ,” Frantzén explains .
Another flagship hotel , nearing completion , is the Viceroy Hotel on the Palm in Dubai . “ It will be spectacular with a 16 stories gateway structure containing guestrooms on the sides and a ballroom spanning across the opening on top ,” Frantzén says . “ The ballroom views are amazing : the Marina towers and beach hotels to the west and views of Burj Al Arab and Burj Khalifa to the east . Restaurants flank an 80m infinity pool that ends in a beach club and the beach . It will undoubtedly be one of the most memorable hotels in Dubai .”
P & T ’ s project scope in the Middle East does not stop there . Turning from hospitality to hospitals , the company is working on one of the largest hospital developments in the world in Riyadh , with 1,200 single bed wards . Other projects in progress include a multiple hotel complex in Aqaba , several residential projects in Abu Dhabi and
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