Construction Magazine October 2015 | Page 38

HADEED EMIRATES CONTRACTING LLC
Companies are turning to HEC in increasing
numbers
initial capacity of 7,000 tons a year to serve the regional customers ’ growing needs for these products . “ The plant was completed in record time ,” said Dabbas . “ The client gave us a target of ten months , and to get all the equipment installed , commissioned and powered up in that time was really a big challenge .” But the HEC project team managed to achieve this .
Time is money , he reiterated , and not just for industrial clients . Schools and universities also feature in the project portfolio , and often their expansion programs need to be completed within the vacation . HEC is proud of its reputation as a company that can unfailingly meet these tight schedules using innovative and flexible approaches to management and construction methodology . “ Sometimes we elect to do things in parallel rather than in sequence ; we may use factorymade modules as opposed to constructing on site , or pre-assembling electromechanical elements at the same time as doing the preparatory engineering . Techniques like this can cut the project time by as much a half !”
So he is relishing a project that sets an even tighter timeframe as HEC accepts the challenge to build Morgan Advanced Materials ’ first dedicated Middle East facility , again at Kizad . The London-based company is a global producer of fibre products , and this facility will initially focus on the production of high-temperature fibre products for use in sectors including oil and
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