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C O N S O L I D A T E D C O N T R A C T O R S C O M P A N Y

Duqm in OMAN

June 2010 Issue No. 94

CCC Group Strategy has proved to be successful in maintaining sales, revenues, and profitability despite volatile and often dramatic market events, such as the global financial crisis of 2008. Thank God, we have not been affected, and in 2009 we achieved record profitability.

We are expecting 2010 to show similar results. We also have a healthy backlog for 2011 and 2012. CCC group Strategy has served us well, at a time when many other companies collapsed or suffered greatly.

CCC Group has come out of the market crisis precipitated by the global financial collapse in 2008 unscathed because of several factors. These are attributable to the fact that the CCC Group has a more diversified portfolio than it did ten years ago. This in turn is due to the fact that CCC has a flexible entrepreneurial management style, which enables it to grasp profitable opportunities as they appear, and to adjust quickly to market changes, but at all times, most importantly, to do so in a conservative manner.

Therefore, one can state with confidence that the CCC business model is fairly robust. The strategic plan set more than ten years ago has helped to achieve resilience. We did not have to resort to mass lay-offs or disrupt any of our projects due to financial problems, as many other companies have done, nor are we in a panic situation to secure new projects.

We have all learned a great deal over the last ten years. The knowledge and experience gained will serve us in the future, as we embark on another decade of achievements. We need to continue our efforts to grow our businesses in the water, power, pipelines, and oil/gas EPC segments by integrating and supporting our subsidiaries such as ACWa and Sicon, EPSO, CCC Underwater Engineering, and CCC Investment. We have all the elements in place to effectively do this in the space of time available before a new construction boom is upon us.

Tawfic S. Khoury

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Editor’s View

1Bulletin Issue 94 / June 2010

Dear Bulletin Readers,

Oman, the oldest independent state in the Arab world, is a beautiful country situated at the southern tip of the Arabian Gulf and facing the Indian Ocean with breath-taking nature and unique “signature” architecture of white and gold palaces, houses and buildings.

Being at the crossroads of many ancient trade routes and civilizations, Oman boasts a versatile multi-cultur-alism.

At one time Oman had its own empire, which at its peak in the 19th century stretched down the east African coast and vied with Portugal and Britain for influence in the Gulf and Indian Ocean.

Oman continues to be a strong and healthy business area for CCC. We have there a healthy backlog of projects.

In this Bulletin, we feature Duqm in the Al-Wusta region that has been undergoing steadfast development since 2007. What is now considered to be a slow-paced fishing town is soon expected to surpass the Sultanate’s fast-developing industrial hub, Sohar, if all goes according to the master plan engineered to position Duqm as a prime export terminal for the Gulf’s crude oil transported through pipeline to this Omani port.

Enjoy reading about our major activities at the new port project.

Nafez HusseiniChief Bulletin Editor

Wadi Dayqah Dam during PHET Cyclone

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This job is in the Bab Area, 150km south-east of Abu-Dhabi and the scope of works involves:

Construction of four new remote degassing stations •(RDS) to receive production of 52 new oil producing wells (23 at Thamama G and 29 at Habshan 2). The fluids will flow via four new transfer lines (one dedi-cated to each RDS) to the existing BCDS.

Tie-in works to 54 water injector wells to support the •increased production.

20 water disposal wells to support disposal of pro-•duced water at the BCDS.

And 12 wash water supply wells.•

Construction of new receiving facilities and manifolds •at BCDS.

Debottlenecking of the existing oil production trains •1 through 7 at BCDS to increase processing capacities by installing new internals for first stage separators in all seven trains and through various minor modifica-tions to existing piping, electrical, instrumentation, and steel structure.

Addition of two new water treating trains, new vapor •compressor, three new air compressors, two instru-ment air dryers and a new nitrogen generation system / package at existing BCDS.

Construction of eight new water injection clusters.•

Construction of various flow lines and transfer lines •from RDSs to BCDS and wells to BCDS.

CCC construction scope of work involves piping fab-rication & erection, pipe lines erection (flow lines and transfer lines), equipment erection (including EPC of field erected tanks), civil works, steel structure erection electrical and instrumentation, painting, insulation and EPC of buildings (four service buildings of a total ap-proximate area of 1,600m2).

The owner is Abu-Dhabi Company for Onshore Oil Operations (ADCO) and the main contractor is Nation-al Petroleum Construction Company (NPCC). Construc-tion is expected to start in October 2010 and completion in August 2012.

This job is in the Qusahwira Area, 80km south-east of Asab and the scope of work involves:

Construction of a new central degassing station (CDS) •at Qusahwira along with three-phase production sepa-rators, four stages of gas compression, glycol dehydra-tion, produced water treatment and disposal facilities and all other supporting utilities.

Constructing a new remote degassing station (RDS-1) •approximately 25km south-east of Qusahwira CDS.

Construction of two new water injection clusters •(WIC).

Constructing a transfer line from RDS-1 to the CDS.•

Constructing a gas injection trunk line from CDS to •RDS-1.

Construction of flow lines from the producing wells to •either RDS-1 or the CDS.

Construction of gas injection flow lines from either •RDS-1 or the CDS to various gas injection wells.

Constructing a new MOL (14” at length 80km) to new •Asab CDS.

Various piping, mechanical, civil and E&I works and •tie-ins to 49 wells (24 oil producers, nine gas injectors, five water injectors, nine water disposal wells and two water supply wells).

CCC construction scope of work involves piping fabri-cation and erection, pipe lines erection (MOL, flow lines and transfer lines), equipment erection (including EPC of field erected tanks), civil works, steel structure erec-tion, electrical and instrumentation, painting, insulation and EPC of buildings (four service buildings of a total ap-proximate area of 6,000m2).

The owner is Abu-Dhabi Company for Onshore Oil Operations (ADCO) and the main contractor is Nation-al Petroleum Construction Company (NPCC). Construc-tion is expected to start in March 2011 and completion in December 2012.

Bab Thamama G & Habshan 2 Development 1.8mm BOPD Project - Abu Dhabi

UAE

Qusahwira Field Development 1.8mmBOPD Project

UAE

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Design and construction of third lane along the main dual carriageway from Al Mawaleh to Seeb Palace Roundabouts for a stretch of 7km.

Works include several box culverts, two wadi bridg-es, two steel pedestrian bridges, and a trumpet bridge, as well as the diversion of existing utilities. There is also a substantial scope of street lightings and landscaping works.

The client is Muscat Municipality, the project was awarded in March 2010 and completion is expected in October 2011.

Civil works related to a 2x650mw gas/oil fired power plant. The scope includes site preparation, underground utilities, foundations for two steam turbines generators, two boilers, two chimneys plus all the associated structur-al steel works and a control building.

CCC is in joint venture with Hassan Allam Sons.

The client is East Delta Electricity production Compa-ny (EDEPC) and the consultants are PEGESCO and the award was in May 2010 with anticipated completion in February 2014.

Third Lane, Main Road Al Mawaleh Interchange to Bait Al Barakah

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Ein Sokhna Supercritical Thermal Power Plant Units 1&2

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Quality Management


Introduction

The ISO 9001:2008 standard requires an organization to establish a system for monitoring and measuring the qual-ity of products. The organization should establish and specify the measurement requirements including accept-ance criteria for its products. The measurement of prod-uct should be planned and performed to verify that the re-quirements of interested parties have been achieved and should be used to improve the realization processes that consist of the whole construction cycle.

Control of Product

In the manufacturing industry, the control of product may follow procedures of standard nature that are simple to apply. In the construction industry, measurement and monitoring of product is more complex and requires spe-cial attention. In the construction industry we deal with custom designs that consist of products related to mul-ti-disciplines such as civil, mechanical, electrical and in-strumentation and also supplied by different manufactur-ers worldwide.

Measurement Methods

When selecting measurement methods for ensuring that products conform to requirements and when considering customer needs and expectations, the organization should consider the following:

Type of product characteristics.•

Type of measurement and the accuracy required and •skills needed.

Equipment, software and tools required.•

Location of suitable measurement points in the reali-•zation process sequence.

Characteristics to be measured at each point, and the •documentation and acceptance criteria to be used.

Customer established points for witness or verification •of selected characteristics of the product.

Inspection or testing required to be witnessed or per-•formed by statutory and regulatory authorities.

Where, when and how the organization intends, or re-•quired by the customer or statutory and regulatory au-thorities, to engage qualified third parties to perform:

Type testing.a.

Product verification.b.

Product qualification.c.

In-process inspections and testing.d.

Product validation.e.

Qualification of people, materials, products, processes, •and the quality management system.

Final inspection to confirm that verification and vali-•dation activities have been completed and accepted.

Recording the results of product measurements.•

Performance Improvement

The organization should review the methods used for measuring products and the planned records of verifica-tion, to consider opportunities for performance improve-ment. Typical examples of product measurement records that could be considered for performance improvement include:

Inspection and test reports.•

Material release notice.•

Product acceptance forms.•

Certificates of conformity as required.•

Processing of Request for Inspection

In most cases, the measurement and monitoring of product involves many parties at construction site. In ad-dition to the inspection and test plan (ITP), measurement and monitoring of product is controlled by Inspection Re-quest known as IR. The IR process coordinates inspection and testing activities including timing at construction site. This is a joint effort by the construction department, the quality control department, the consultant and the owner. As an example, the IR processing for civil works applied for DUBAI MALL project is illustrated in the chart.

The ISO: 9001 View

The organization shall monitor and measure the charac-teristics of the product to verify that product requirements have been met. This shall be carried out at appropriate stages of the product realization process in accordance with planned arrangements.

Evidence of conformity with acceptance criteria shall be maintained. Records shall indicate the person(s) author-izing release of the product.

Product release and service delivery shall not proceed until the planned arrangements have been satisfactorily completed, unless otherwise approved by a relevant au-thority and, where applicable, by the customer.

Measuring and Monitoring the Satisfaction of Interest-ed Parties

The organization should identify the measurement in-formation required to meet the needs of interested par-ties (other than customers) in relation to processes of the organization, in order to balance the allocation of re-sources. Such information should include measurement relating to:

The people in the organization.•

The owners and investors.•

The suppliers and partners.•

Society.•

Monitoring and Measurement of Product

Quality Management


People of the Organization

People at all levels are the essence of the organ-ization and their full in-volvement enables their abilities to be used for the organization’s ben-efit. Taylor’s approach adopted in the United States for a good part of the 20th century, failed in a competitive market following the economi-cal recovery of Europe and Japan, after the Sec-ond World War. Taylor1 suggested that workers should not think and should only follow in-structions provided by the engineers. Although this approach created a specialized work force, it placed limits on cre-ativity.

On the contrary, the modern approach considers that people are the main as-set of the organization. This approach may be summa-rized2 in the following items:

Training: Organizations are responsible for the train-ing of employees in order to achieve desired levels of knowledge, experience and competence.

Fear: Organizations should drive out fear to unlock the personal capabilities of the employees and provide op-portunities to participate in improvement projects.

Numerical Goals: Numerical goals, although impor-tant, should not be the driving force in conducting work. Concentrating on numerical goals may lead to failure and delay that can only be fixed at a high cost.

Supervision: Modern methods of supervision should be applied with an emphasis on self-check: this also gives the employees confidence in their work and abilities.

Departmental Barriers: Organizations should remove barriers between departments by concentrating on processes and systems. This is very important for the success of the organization.

Pride in Workmanship: Organizations should remove barriers that rob people of pride in their workmanship.

Owners and Investors

For owners and investors, the organization should:

Assess its capability to attain defined objectives.•

Assess its financial performance.•

Evaluate the impact of external factors on its results.•

Identify the value contributed by actions taken.•

Suppliers and Partners

For suppliers and partners, the organization should:

Survey the opinion of suppliers and partners on their •satisfaction with the purchasing processes of the organ-ization.

Monitor and supply feedback on the performance of •suppliers and partners and their compliance with the organization’s purchasing policy.

Assess the quality of product purchased, contributions •from suppliers and partners, and mutual benefits de-rived from the relationship.

Society

For society, the organization should:

Define and track suitable data relative to its objectives, •in order to achieve satisfactory interaction with soci-ety.

Periodically assess the effectiveness and efficiency of •its actions and the perceptions of its performance by relevant parts of society.

Mounir Soufyan

1Taylor: Founder of Scientific Management2QM: Total Quality Management - Deming

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(CCC’s Expanded Role in Civil / Marine Infra-structure Development)

Ports play an important part in the global com-munication and trading environment. The gov-ernment of the State of Oman has committed it-self to exploring the economic potential of its vast coastlines while making accessible its under-uti-lized Al-Wusta region to the rest of the trading world. Duqm being the centre point of the region, it was considered to be the ideal spot for such in-frastructure development. Accordingly, construc-tion of a new port at Duqm was entrusted to the CCC/STFA - JDN Consortium with CCC playing the leading role.

The Duqm Port Project (NPDD) has been a challenging undertaking both in terms of mo-bilization logistics, being at a far-flung location, and in terms of its peculiar marine environment, due to heavy silt movements during monsoons and challenges arising out of its underground soil conditions.

Duqm is truly a no-man’s land, only accessible by the road that connects it to Muscat-Salalah through harsh desert terrain and being some 600kms from the nearest airport. It is a remote area in a desert wilderness where camels and other desert creatures roam around freely competing with our transport vehicles for right of access to the only main road available.

Constructing and maintaining contractors’ camps of more than 3,000 personnel fully supplied with their dai-ly needs for the life of the project is, in itself, a daunting task. However, with CCC’s resources and determination these challenges have been successfully tamed. Currently progress on the ground is well ahead of schedule; 49% ac-tual verusu 38% planned as of the end of January 2010.

Mobilizing for a mega project with an anticipated dura-tion of five years, even under the best conditions, is not an easy task. We knew we had to get our priorities right from the very onset. We endeavoured to develop a friend-ly teamwork environment where staff could freely inter-act not only within the CCC cadre but equally well to-wards colleagues associated with the JV and consortium partners.

We developed exercise gyms and sports fields within the camp so that the staff could re-estab-lish and recoup the strength to tackle the next day’s assignment. To this end, barbecue parties held bi-weekly at the staff re-creation centers have been equally helpful.

On the technology and advancement fronts, the NPDD Project has provided CCC with an ide-al opportunity to conceptualize and strengthen its marine arm. CCC has risen to the occasion and added a sizable marine fleet under its flag-ship. CCC now has a fully- fledged marine wing that will be advantageously available for future projects long after NPDD has been handed over to the Omani people.

The project management team has also kept CCC’s oth-er traditions alive by contributing and attending to the needs of the local population. We make regular contribu-tions, both in cash and kind, to local events and voluntari-ly supply 30,000 gallons of potable water each day, free of charge, to local residents with our compliments.

Due to the importance of the project for the people of Oman, it has been regularly visited by their Excellen-cies the Ministers, and other dignitaries. The visiting del-egates and official media teams have been highly im-pressed with the logistics and the pace of work progress. The project management team is now looking forward to the announcement that CCC’s senior management will be visiting the Site. This will be a giant step towards boost-ing the morale of this team which has been dug-in at the harsh trenches of the project site for the last three years, with two more years to go.

The CCC/STFA - JDN Consortium is determined to put Duqm on the navigational map globally, despite over-whelming odds. Accepting challenges with a winning at-titude and timely delivery of our commitments has long been a hallmark of CCC and our team at NPDD is keen to make this endeavour a shining jewel in CCC’s record of achievements.

Rizik Abu MiddianProject Director

New Port at Duqm

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In an area where water is more than scarce and precious, the NPDD project management had to look for sustaina-ble water resources for their operations. The nature of the Duqm area, with no available natural water resource, made us consider seawater desalination using a 1,500 m3/day RO desalination Plant of five RO units with four refurbished units and a new 5th RO unit under com-missioning. The water quality was good to the point that boron rejection rate achieved 95% to level better than that found in bottled water.

The high natural turbidity of the sea-water and dredging activities inside the harbor which made the turbidity and the Silt Distribution Index - SDI - levels even more high was clearly affecting the per-formance of the RO plant and increased the fouling tendency of the membranes so after we could dig beach-wells to have low turbid water because of the marsh “Sabkha” nature of the area, we designed a Seawater Pretreatment Plant applying mechanisms such as sedimentation, coagulation, flocculation and disinfection processes that reduced the turbidity and the SDI to acceptable levels.

In Oman, where the environment is valuable and pro-tected by royal decree, the generated wastewater was an-other issue that needed our attention. We split the waste-water stream into two different streams one of which was directed into a highly efficient Membrane Bioreac-tor Sewage Treatment Plant MBR (supplied by ACWA, our sister company) and the other stream was directed into Waste Stabilization Ponds, a natural treatment sys-tem suitable for hot climate countries.

The WSPs were designed by NPDD to reduce the emis-sions of CO2 incorporated by the power consumption of the other mechanical systems including the MBR. The wa-ter produced from the WSPs was more than suitable for the irrigation programme “The Desert goes Green” initi-ated by NPDD where more than 1,000 trees were planted; and the high quality Treated Sewage Effluent TSE pro-duced by the MBR was found to be suitable for concrete mixes in the batching plant reducing the quantities sup-plied by the RO plant and again reducing the CO2 emis-sions resulting in the reduction of power energy consump-tion at the RO plant.

Moh’d DahlanEnvironment Engineer

Water Resources for the NPDD Project

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The construction of a quay wall is the most dif-ficult part of port construction, specially in deep water (at -20.4 mt. Chart Datum).

The construction of the quay wall started late due to delayed cutting of the trench. However, the quay wall installation team managed to im-prove production from four blocks to 22 Blocks per day after going through the learning curve and overcoming the following difficulties.

Divers without previous experience on quay 1. walls at this depth.

Very poor or zero underwater visibility made 2. the preparation of the bedding layer very diffi-cult and necessitated the use of huge bedding frames extending above water for setting and control by the surveyors.

For block placement, and to overcome the poor 3. underwater visibility, a purposely built frame was made to fit over the block with extendable survey poles 20 meters long to be seen above water. This frame did not give the required re-sults and the project team opted to use tradi-tional surveying method, of plumb bobs, sur-veying instruments, and a high tower extending above water for setting out works.

Dredging activities exacerbated the visibility 4. problems due to silt generation within the port basin. This was mitigated by very close coordi-nation with our dredging partners.

It should also be appreciated that the large 5. amount of marine equipment working close to each other in the port basin requires contin-uous and intensive coordination between the different parties. This coordination also in-cludes the other main contractor building the dry dock facility.

Hussain BadrSr. Project Engineer

Quay Wall Construction

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RFI or ‘Request for Inspection’ is a very simple quality tool used by construction teams to prove the subject un-der implementation towards to compliance and accept-ance.

ISO 9001 requires the construction organization to de-fine, organize, prepare the sources, equipment and mate-rial, implement and maintain the construction effectively and contractually to the customer’s satisfaction.

Remember that every activity starts with RFI and ends with RFI as demonstrated in the flow chart.

At Duqm, during the processing and finishing works, RFI is an important tool to register all buried, completed

and ongoing activities to assume that they are carried out in compliance with contract requirements. To guarantee the process acceptance, the following related documents are compiled as per Internal RFI Procedure:

Reference ITP or MS to identify and clear the inspec-•tion items, tolerances and acceptance criteria.

Check list forms/Control form or any required survey-•ing inspection sheet also will clear and shortens the in-spection and acceptance time.

Release reports attached including check list in order •to release the work item to next activity.

Mehmet ZiyaQA/QC Manager

Quality at Duqm

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The pioneers of the company arrived in April 2007 and started establishing the camp in the barren Duqm area. Using the limited resources they managed to get, within two months the camp had a capac-ity of the 200 employees required for the start-up.

The main camp in Duqm now hosts more than 2,700 of the staff and another camp located at Sidrah Quarry Site (almost 40kms away from the main camp) hosts another 600 people.

Because of the remote location of the project and the far distance from any resi-dential area, the security, safety and com-fort provided became more vital.

The management of the project spon-sored the creation of sophisticated recrea-tion blocks within the camps including or-ganizing tournaments for the whole staff twice a year and offering valuable prizes to the winners. Such activities include football, baby-foot, table tennis, cards, cricket and billiard tournaments that were last held during the last holy month of Ramadan.

In addition to the outdoor BBQs in both camps which take place twice a month for senior and junior staff, the professionally equipped gym and the fine accommodation available to the staff members, there is a strong focus on the quality of the food served. Also, there are two pri-vate sectors; one for families, the other for VIPs at our camp who are provided with five-star hotel accommoda-tion and messing services and which have already hosted VIPs, ministers and undersecretaries.

Transportation is made easy for the staff, the distance traveled on each trip to Muscat taking a lengthy five to six hours. Hence the need for a fully equipped and safe trans-

portation system including more than comfortable vehi-cles driven by professional drivers making five to six trips a day to and from Muscat.

Security is a major concern for the residents of the camps and the site facilities. More than 200 security staff mem-bers led by an ex-police lieutenant serve day and night to secure the amenities and coordinate with the local police force to assure the security of CCC staff in Duqm.

Concerning Omanization, as a leader company in Oman, CCC Oman has many projects in the Sultanate. NPDD is one of those projects where more than 500 staff members are Omanis being assigned duties in various aspects of the project. The project target was to recruit people from the local area of Duqm and surroundings in a way to prepare them to take over the responsibilities they will be assigned

after completion of the project by their lo-cal authorities.

The recruitment of Omani staff includes training by CCC experts at our Russail Training Centre in different fields: they are motivated by a special leave scheme and cash prizes for those considered to be hard workers.

Furthermore, the project is a main spon-sor and supporter of different aspects of all social events. Since water in such loca-tions is considered so precious, the project supplies the local citizens with fresh water produced from our RO units as a means of providing support to the surrounding so-ciety.

Salah HalawaniAdministration & Personnel

The Administration & Personnel Department

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...The Administration & Personnel Department

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Value Engineering is an organized process to providing the necessary functions at the lowest cost through iden-tifying and eliminating unnecessary costs. In Duqm, this was achieved by finding the most effective and least cost-ly methods of construction as demonstrated by the fol-lowing pictures: (More details will be posted on the KM Portal.)

The precasting of concrete blocks was changed from 1. the conventional method of casting blocks in a dedicat-ed and specially prepared precast yard into a half-cir-cle mobile casting spread. Completed blocks were left in place and shutter moulds were moved into new cast-ing areas. This method saved significantly on budget because it eliminated the need for costly gantry cranes and concrete pumps. Concreting was done by simple conveyor belts and blocks were moved to final desti-nation or temporary storage, when required by a 50ton crawler crane.

In-situ casting of the concrete wave walls units (90 to 2. 380 Ton/Unit) in lieu of precast as specified in the IFC Drawings. This has led to significant cost reduction due to using simple conveyor belts, locally fabricated and eliminating the requirement for massive cranes and barges in case precast option was implemented. It also boosted progress substantially ahead of the pro-gramme.

Although actual unit rates of explosives are higher 3. than budgeted figures, NPDD managed to cut on cost substantially through reversing the budgeted ratio of Anfo/emulsion i.e. by using more of the cheaper Anfo than the costlier emulsion power get in blasting.

NPDD managed to find a natural sand source which 4. required no washing and used the sand in all concrete mixes. Oversize material of this operation was use for other construction purposes. This has led to consider-able saving in cement and plasticizer dosage. Crushed sand which was adjusted to a minimum in the crush-er, was stock piled for future jobs such as roads in the Duqm area.

The design of temporary Jetties to load and transport 5. the (120-160 ton) quay wall blocks was initially based on using steel piles topped by heavy girders to support the 200 ton capacity gantry crane. Due to very long de-livery time and high cost of steel in 2007, the project team opted to design and built the jetties using con-crete blocks on the dredged and treated sea bed. This proved a lot cheaper and faster as everything was done in-house.

The project team invested not only in state-of-the-art 6. technology to install the concrete corelos units but also on highly qualified personnel to make it work. NPDD was the first project worldwide to successfully use the Posibloc device for installing the corelocs underwater

Value Engineering in Duqm

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...Value Engineering in Duqm

when others failed. Concrete Layer Innova-tive (CLI) and Mesuries (Possibloc developer in Conjunction with CLI) have both acknowl-edged this success and asked that other inter-national contractors visit the site to learn from our experience. The use of posibloc not only eliminated the need for divers, but also has at least doubled the daily production.

Muhammed Suleiman El-DawoodProject Manager, Controls

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Well … … first you have to get there and as you have to travel 550km from Muscat this journey is an integral part of the Duqm experience.

The first leg of the journey is a 100km trip along the Nizwa road which has stunning views of the mountains, wadis and the multi-coloured geological rock layers where the road has been cut through the hills.

The next 80km section to Sinaw is not quite as interest-ing as you are going away from the mountains, but there are still some interesting rock formations to see. The town of Sinaw may deserve a mention here as there is a morn-ing and evening market along the sides of the main road passing through the town which causes horrendous delays to through traffic.

Phase 3 between Sinaw and Mahoot (180km) is semi-desert and quite a tedious drive. The final leg between Mahoot and Duqm is more pleasant as again there are mountains to view and eventually you get some views of the sea.

After leaving the Nizwa road, partially built by CCC, the re-maining journey is along roads with just a single carriageway in each direction and although the trip is carried out at speed you must look out for goats, donkeys and camels wandering across the road in front of you.

Duqm is quite a sizeable town and has retained the traditional Omani way of life. There are no hotels, no cinemas, no sports or social clubs and no supermar-kets, but there are small shops for essential supplies. Unless you are a keen fisherman or bird-watcher the area pro-vides little or no entertainment, however this may change in the future as we are building one of the biggest ports in the Arabian peninsular - second only in size to the UAE’s Jebel Ali Port.

The first thing that you notice on site is the considera-ble amount of marine plant in the harbour. The biggest of these are the dredgers and so on belonging to our con-sortium partners Jan De Nul. This should come as no sur-prise as they have in excess of 68 million m3 to dredge and over 20 million m3 of reclamation to do. They are using cutter-suction dredgers for the harder materials, includ-ing the quay wall foundation trenches and hopper dredg-ers for the softer materials such as the sand required for the reclamation. JDN also has marine craft on site for testing the strength capacity of the designed bed level in case additional dredging is required to achieve the spec-ified criteria.

However, JDN do not have the monopoly on large ma-rine plant as the CCC/STFA Joint Venture has an im-pressive array on site including split-barges (for bottom dumping of rock fill materials), crane and backhoe barg-es working on the breakwaters plus derrick and jack-up barges for installation of the quay wall blocks.

Although the Main and Lee Breakwaters are now well advanced with the rock core already complete on both breakwaters, the rock armour also substantially complete and the precast concrete armour units (corelocs) in place up to the bottom of the wave walls there is still a sub-stantial amount of land-based plant in operation on both breakwaters with backhoes and cranes using skips and grabs to complete the armour and cranes with special lift-ing harnesses to position the remaining corelocs.

The wave wall construction on the breakwaters is also well underway with cranes allocated for erecting the spe-cially made steel formwork for these.

To give you an idea of the amount of work associated with the breakwaters, the approximate total volumes of materials for the Main and Lee Breakwaters combined when complete will be:

Core Rock = 4,689,000 m• 3

Rock Armour = 921,059 m• 3

Corelocs = 47,000 no•

Insitu Concrete = 127,495 m• 3

The breakwaters may be in their final stages but this is not the case for the Commercial Quay Wall. Work is in progress for the first 800m length out of a total of 2,436m. The amount of marine plant to complete the quay wall is substantial with JDN’s cutter-suction dredger plus testing

So, What is it Like in Duqm?

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equipment to prepare the foundation trench followed by split-barges to install the bulk of the block bedding layer.

Then crane barges with a specially designed bedding frame are used to complete the bedding and screed it to the correct level. Placing the precast concrete blocks requires special marine plant as the blocks weigh up to 145 tons. Specially designed derrick barges and a jack-up crane barge are being used. Once the blocks have been installed to above sea level for a sufficient distance, in-situ concrete shear keys are cast between the columns of blocks using a barge-mounted crane and concrete pump.

The split-barges, backhoe barges and crane barges are then used to place rock fill on both sides of the wall to provide an anti-scour layer at the front and as a start to-wards the reclamation behind the wall. Following a suita-ble period to allow for settlement of the blocks and rock fill, precast coping units weighing 55 tons each can be in-stalled using a crane barge.

The final element of the quay wall is the insitu coping which will take 55 m3 of concrete per 6m long bay. The key to the successful completion of the Commercial Quay Wall will be the correct phasing of the individual activities so that there is no interference between the marine plant carrying out different tasks.

The quantities to be installed for the Commercial Quay Wall are:

Precast Wall Blocks = 5,919 no•

Rock Fill = 1,142,000 m• 3

Sand Fill = 1,045,000 m• 3

Insitu Concrete = 33,700 m• 3

Of course, neither the breakwaters nor the quay wall could progress very far without the services of the site precast yard. A vast area is required for the casting, cur-ing and storage of the 47,000 corelocs units. The quay wall block casting and storage is also substantial with two pro-duction trains each with its own 200 ton gantry crane on rails for lifting and moving the blocks into storage. The gantry cranes are also used to load the barges for taking the blocks for installation at the quay wall from specially designed loading jetties. Two concrete batching plants are required to supply the daily requirement of concrete.

The total amount of concrete to be used in the precast yard for the breakwaters and commercial quay wall will be approximately 746,028 m3.

Again, none of the above could be done without the services of the quarry. Approximately 10 million cubic metres of rock have to be drilled, blasted, processed and transported the 40km distance from the quarry to site.

Two crushing plants have been set up to cope with the quan-tities of materials required for the permanent works installa-tions plus aggregate produc-tion for precasting and insitu concrete works. Excavation and transport of sand from Wadi Dunqart for reclamation works is also ongoing and although the contractual requirement for sand is approximately 1 mil-lion cubic metres, an addition-al 1.9 million may be required as a stockpile for the Dry Dock contractors. Almost 200 trucks are running day and night for transporting this sand and the rock products from the quar-ry, which brings us back to the journey from Muscat to Duqm ... ... as on the final 40km of the trip you always have to negoti-ate your way around scores of slow-moving trucks!

On a final note, all of the above quantities could be in-creased significantly if the Client decides to include the 1km long Government Berth quay wall plus the associ-ated revetment and reclamation in the CCC/STFA-JDN Consortium’s scope of work.

Peter ThompsonSr. Planning Engineer

...So, What is it Like in Duqm?

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Introduction

In marine projects, although the needs of geomatics and surveying are the same as land projects, the practices and methods are different. The most challenging task is the underwater setting out and mapping. However, the mar-ket is full of solutions that can assist in solving these prob-lems. The task of the geomatics engineer, thus, is choos-ing the optimal solution that balances between cost and productivity. Here “cost” doesn’t necessarily mean the di-rect cost of the solution, but rather the cost-saving factor of using such a solution.

What is Posibloc?

Posibloc is a system that incorporates many pieces of hardware and software. The hardware consists of compu-ter, GPS, compass, tilts sensors, distance encoders (odom-eters), radios and cables. The software consists mainly of two components: i) Data acquisition and ii) data display and analysis.

The Posibloc helps in placing the CLI armour core-loc units on a pre-defined position and in visualising its orien-tation for a better interlock placement. Also, it keeps an as-built record of all the placed core-loc.

The first Posibloc was delivered to NPDD in November 2008. The envisaged number of core-loc was around 35; now, 65 units per day has become a routine. The success of the first system encouraged the NPDD management to invest in another Posibloc. Currently, there are two Posi-bloc’s at NPDD delivering around 140 placements per day. Here, one can clearly see the cost vs. productivity re-lation.

Before the purchasing of the Posibloc, there was some scepticism as to whether it would succeed or not. This was owing to news coming from other companies where the system failed to work due to the lack of qualified people. After a couple of months in operation, not only the man-ufacturer in France was impressed by the NPDD achieve-ment, but also the CLI who even asked us if they could send their potential clients to visit our project.

This success lies not only in the number of placed units, but also in its attractiveness to the consultant. The benefits

Geomatics at Duqm

Figure 1: The Posibloc installed on the crane

Figure 2: Visibloc in operation in the American crane modified cabin

Figure 3: A Sample of the daily report

Figure 4: A Sample of the weekly report

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are: i) there is no need any more for divers for placing and inspection – a process that consumes lots of time, is haz-ardous and subject to divers’ skills; and ii) we gained the consultant’s trust and respect when we invested in such an expensive technology that shows full transparency.

Although the operation of the Posibloc can be easily learnt by a new graduate surveyor, the presence of a well trained superintendent surveyor is essential to supervise data preparation, reporting and technical problems-solv-ing. An automation engineer will definitely be of assist-ance since the Posibloc is an integration of HW and SW. A geomatics engineer is needed at the beginning to man-age the installation, training and solve the early techni-cal problems.

What is Multibeam Echosounder Mapping System?

Multibeam Echosounders (or sonar) send a swath of sound waves in water; these waves hit the bottom and come back as echoes. By measuring the time between the emission of sound and receiving of echo, the distance is calculated.

An Echosounder Mapping Systems consists of GPS, In-ertial Navigation System (INS), multibeam, computer and software. These must all be mounted on a boat. The

multibeam measures the distances to the seabed, the GPS determines the position of the multibeam, the INS meas-ures the attitude of the multibeam, the computer and software integrates all the data together to determine the X, Y, Z coordinates of a point cloud of the underwater surface. From this point cloud we can generate 3-D maps. Some benefits of Multibeam system at NPDD:

Replacing the old as-built surveying methods of break-•waters’ quarry run, under layer and toe.

Mapping the sea bed and monitoring dredging works, •thus ensuring that levels are achieved as per design and client requirements.

Checking the level of quay wall foundation/bedding •layer, and hence preventing any surprises while plac-ing the quay wall blocks. The NPDD multibeam found many dredging errors and leftovers, and thus we avoid-ed building the quay wall on wrong levels and unclean trench. Indirectly we saved inestimable over-costs.

Inspection and detection of silt.•

The multibeam was delivered to NPDD in December 2008 and it was fully operational and successful from the very first day. Now we have full knowledge and control of what is happening underwater throughout the project. We are delivering bathymetric maps, volumes, cross sec-tions, profiles of the sea-bed, silt detection in just a couple of hours from the time the mapping request is received.

Usually, hydrographic surveyors operate the multibeam. However, ambitious and fast learning surveyors can be trained to operate these sophisticated systems. A special-ised geomatics engineer needs to be present at the be-ginning to manage the installation, training and solve the early technical problems. Usually, the required personnel is a skilled (hydrographic) surveyor that is familiar with AutoCAD and surveying SW packages, in addition to a smart boat captain. A dedicated boat is a must.

The Geomatics Section at the NPDD would not have been successful without:

The highly appreciated commitment of the NPDD •management to invest in advanced Geomatics technol-ogy/solutions

The presence of the Geomatics Team members who •not only know how to operate the systems, but also how to install and maintain:

Jean Chalouhi, Superintendant Surveyor*

Mohammad Taha, Automation Engineer*

Mohammad Al Tamari, Surveyor*

Fadi BayoudSr. Geomatics Engineer

...Geomatics at Duqm

Figure 5: The Multibeam Workstation inside the 8.5m catamaran boat

Figure 6: The pole holds all the measuring equipment.

Information Technology


The following article is a reprint from the BIM JOURNAL December 2009 Issue 11 and is reproduced here with kind permission.

The Project

The Dubai Mall is the largest retail development in the world. It offers an astounding number of stores and scope of amenities.

The overall construction cost of $1.3 billion comprises over 12 million square feet total area, with leasable retail space in excess of nine million square feet. The Mall of-fers a host of entertainment options, including an Olym-pic sized skating rink and a 10 million litre indoor aquari-um. At peak times over 50,000 customers are anticipated, totaling over 30 million visitors annually.

The Dubai Mall is part of the $20 billion iconic mega-project ‘Downtown Burj Dubai Development’, a truly in-spirational concept in urban design incorporating the tall-est building in the world, creating unprecedented prestige and scale to the overall project. The main structural ele-ment of the mall was concrete, around 600,000 cubic me-tres in total.

The contractor responsible for structure was Athens-based CCC. It was formed in 1952 by three talented young entrepreneurs who joined forces to create one of the first modern Arab construction companies.

With over half a century of continuous growth, CCC has risen to become one of the world’s largest construction companies, with over 150,000 employees and annual rev-enues of $4 billion.

CCC operates a management style based on mutual trust with clients and respect for the communities in which they operate. As CCC’s Mission Statement states:

“We are committed to providing reliable, amicable and professional service to our valuable clients, and to being supportive to local businesses and social activities, friend-ly to the environment as well as being proactive in the so-cio-economic environments within which we operate.”

The Problem

…the particular problems associated with traditional methods in quantity surveying and how BIM technology can address those implications on costs and delivery time of the project.

Using traditional methods, the actual numbers were staggering:

The Mall comprised 32 buildings, each on average re-•quiring 360 valuation sheets in Microsoft Excel.

Each set of valuation sheets required, on average, a •1,000 page bill of quantities report.

Every document must be accurate and in a strictly ap-•proved format.

New revisions in the design or a field changes had to be •reflected in a revised QS package.

For contractor payment, a current set of reports was •required every month throughout the three-year con-struction phase.

There were 32,000 spreadsheet pages every month - •1,152,000 over the duration of the project.

With a traditional manual process, the risk of errors was huge and would require a full-time team of 25 quantity surveyors on site to undertake the work - in total 75 man years of effort.

The buoyancy of the regional construction market dur-ing the project lifecycle meant that there was massive de-mand for experienced contracting and engineering re-sources. This had resulted in both a considerable increase in the cost of QS specialists and significant difficulty in ac-tually finding them.

In order to succeed CCC needed innovation in the QS process.

The Solution

CCC decided that the innovation route to take was to automate the process utilizing BIM.

The first part of the process was to develop a workflow to implement the QS system to accommodate the multi-ple cycles of drawings - issue, approval and revision.

A team of eight 3D modelers created the BIM model from existing 2D documents of the structural design.

As MS Office programmes were being used to create documentation, a visual basic applications programmer was employed to develop the required tools and utilities to communicate with the system, incorporating all the business rules and methods of measurement boundaries.

With the integration of the BIM/QS communication protocols completed, a senior and a junior BIM engineer received intensive training in using the system efficiently

CCC Uses Building Information Model (BIM) for the Dubai Mall Project

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to deliver the QD reports and valuation sheets. This team then ran the utilities against the constantly changing BIM model to automatically generate the QS report.

This automatic process of producing 32,000 QS reports was undertaken monthly or as frequently as the project required.

The Results

Many benefits of using BIM and automated QS were re-alized.

Not only would it have been difficult, if not impossible, to find the required number of quantity surveyors for tra-ditional delivery, but also the human error factor was re-moved by use of the automated tool, contributing to an overall improvement in quality.

The up-to-date BIM model also helped visualize com-plex areas of the project, coordinating activities and re-ducing potential site errors.

In actual monetary terms, the productivity benefits were significant.

Instead of the initial requirement using traditional methodology - sourcing and deploying 25 full time on site quantity surveyors - CCC was able to use two onsite BIM engineers to produce the QS reports.

In addition there was the team of eight 3D modelers to model and revise the whole structural system of the project, resulting in an overall reduction of 15 staff.

The actual time saved by automating the quantity sur-veying task was over 700 man-months, which translated to an improved efficiency of 86% and an overall saving of $7 million.

Material take-off services were completed with com-plete accuracy allowing the construction team to purchase exactly the quantity of concrete needed - no more, no less. This eliminated the need for a normal material contin-gency, thereby reducing waste by 5% and saving $3 mil-lion in wasted concrete.

In total, CCC saved $10 million by adopting the inte-grated and automated BIM/QS process.

A final thought.. A 5% material saving on 600,000 cubic metres of concrete equates to 30,000 cubic metres. De-pending on the method of calculation, the actual figures may vary, but it takes a lot of CO2 to produce one cubic metre of concrete and even more to transport it - the sav-

ing is the equivalent of around 500,000 gallons of petrol - which probably equates to around 1,000 less cars on Du-bai’s roads in any given year.

This article has been reproduced with the kind permission of its source BIM Journal (www.bimjournal.com)

BIM Journal is acknowledged as a source of unbiased and understandable information. Circulation is now over 170,000 internationally. Its clear and concise style is respect-ed by those involved in construction. It has been described as ‘invaluable’ by non-technical professionals, who at long last have access to a jargon-free publication, which explains things in plain English.

The BIM Journal website provides a comprehensive refer-ence point for solutions that can take the construction proc-ess forward, by eliminating waste and inefficiency, whilst im-proving productivity and quality. It does this by furthering the knowledge of an encouraging collaboration between profes-sionals working in the construction industry.

BIM Journal is aimed at everyone involved in the construc-tion process - owner/developers, project managers, consult-ants, engineers and contractors at all levels. It is managed by buildingSMART ME (www.bsame.org) and subjects covered are led by member contribution, which is actively sought.

BIM Journal.com is a not for profit organization. All con-tents copyright 2009.

...CCC Uses Building Information Model (BIM) for the Dubai Mall Project

Area News


During the official visit of the Pal-estinian President Mahmoud Ab-bas to Athens on 24 February, Said Khoury hosted him for dinner at his residence, together with his delega-tion and in the presence of all the Arab ambassadors to Greece.

Discussion focused on how best to support the Palestinian population living in the West Bank, Jerusalem and Gaza.

Samer KhouryExecutive Vice President - Operations

The Visit of Mahmoud Abbas to Athens

Greece

from left to right: President Mahmoud Abbas, Samir Abu Ghazaleh (Palestinian Ambassador to Greece), Said Khoury

from left to right: Said Khoury, President Abbas, Walid Salman, Samer Khoury

Area News


CCC Lessons Learned Meeting

In its endeavour to excel in every field it works in and to maintain a leading competitive position in the highly challenging global industry, CCC spares no effort to im-prove its operations by seizing every opportunity to per-form better and better. CCC is a unique organization that combines all the following characteristics:

It is an organization that has kept growing since it was •founded almost 60 years ago.

It has a one-family culture spread throughout the en-•tire group, caring about all its employees.

It is an International group operating on all conti-•nents.

It is a leader in its region and high ranking worldwide.•

It has an outstanding reputation with all clients and •partners.

It has never failed to deliver a top quality project.•

Safety is a value given top priority.•

Samer Khoury emphasized the importance of this meeting from his belief that failing to maintain any of the above characteristics means failure of CCC. There-fore, CCC strategies are focused to maintain its leader-ship and growth in this changing market. Almost twice a year, CCC top Managers meet to share ideas and lessons learned from their ongoing experience to improve the ef-ficiency, reduce the cost, deliver on time, work safely and with top quality, and avoid repetition of problems from one project to other projects.

In March 2010, the lessons learned meeting was held in Bahrain to discuss CCC op-erations from all perspectives. The following subjects were discussed in detail: sales and revenues, how to tackle potential projects and compete with other bidders, performance and accounta-bility, Advisory Committees role, Major Projects Commit-tee role, methods to improve cash flow, World Economic Forum Initiatives, tools for improving project perform-ance in search for excellence, knowledge management COPs, risk management and tools for mitigating risk, pro-ductivity improvement, Balanced Scorecards for projects, workshops with partners, Quality Assurance and Control, HSE, human resources issues, training, Plant Engineer-ing Department issues, internal technical and commercial audit, PMV issues, central procurement and Chinese pro-curement issues beside other issues like Project Directors workshop, projects capitalized assets, new cost monitor-ing system and CCC core values and principles.

During the meeting, the attendees agreed to invest in any means that allows them to achieve the set targets for improvement and moving CCC forward. Training is a key factor that triggers improvement. Training is required in all fields of operation. All attendees are involved and re-quired to involve their subordinates in drawing the road map of performance excellence.

Henri TadrosVice President, Construction Support

and Quality Management

Bahrain

Area News


MEED Green Buildings Conference

United Arab Emirates

The undersigned attended MEED’s Middle East Green Buildings & Sustainabili-

ty Conference in Dubai on 17-19 November 2009. The event was based around the

principles and practices of sustainability and investigating the latest policy developments and key projects in the re-gion, as nowhere in the world needs sustainable buildings more than the Gulf.

The event went from an overall view of the green build-ings industry directly relevant to the Middle East, to discussing what impact the financial crisis is having on building green, to taking a close look at carbon critical buildings and the road to Copenhagen and ended with hearing about the key initiatives and major projects in the region, sharing vital lessons learned along the way.

The panels and speakers, who are some of the leading figures in the green building movement in the region from both government and business, tend to analyze and dis-cuss the principles, practices, case study presentations demonstrat-ing the lessons learned and the challenges and constraints which might be faced due to the number of building codes, rating systems and government leg-islation, confirming that going green will never have any economic implications; on the contrary, it will enhance the profitability of the businesses in the life cost perspective.

The exhibition attached to the event hosted var-ious suppliers of green technologies which lead to low/zero carbon buildings and sustainability. I gath-ered brochures and promo-tional materials that are avail-able with me for consultation.

The future of green buildings and sustainability beyond the Copenhagen sum-mit in December was largely discussed. The participants were of the opinion that the

summit would re‐conduct and likely strengthen the cur-rent mechanisms.

Many presentations and discussions were of general in-terest and were of benefit to CCC. The sustainability reg-ulations will become more and more constraining. Sup-pliers and contractors will have to adopt the concept of being environmentally sustainable and strategically sound to satisfy clients and the public as increasing importance will be given to environmental issues.

Information about the presentations, case studies and plenary sessions, in addition to the overall conclusions are available and I remain available to provide any additional comments or information you would like.

Thamer H. RushaidatProposals Leader

Athens


Throughout the Engineering Day Activities which were organized by the Engineering Faculty of Birzeit Universi-ty, CCC was represented as one of the sponsors and more precisely as a keen participant via the Building Informa-tion Modeling Centre (BIM) in Palestine. Over two days of participation CCC, through its BIM Centre, carried out many activities such as:

A recruiting campaign, aimed to give a chance to the •newly graduated student, especially the successful ones, to join CCC in its different operational locations.

An awareness campaign, through conducting aware-•ness lectures about the BIM concept, its implementa-tion at CCC and distributing published materials at the BIM booth.

Presentation of certificates to the first group of train-•ees who participated in the BIM Development Train-ing.

Graduation projects presentations, conducted by teams •who tackled the BIM implementation on construction projects with cooperation and supervision from the BIM Centre.

Amro AbualiaBIM Centre, Palestine

Engineering Day at BZU

Palestine

CCC President Visits Mushaired Project

Sudan

Area News

Our President arrived in Khartoum from Dubai on Tuesday, 6 April 2010 and departed for Athens on Thursday, 8 April 2010.

He represented the State of Palestine in the 39th yearly conference of the Arab Monetary Institutions.

Mr. Khoury honoured the Mushaireb Project with a visit during which he got acquainted with all the employees and he addressed us all with a very warm and encouraging message.

As usual, Mr. Khoury was happy with what he achieved and observed.

Zikar Masroua

Area News


CCC, being a regular attendant of LNG events, successfully participated in the LNG16 Conference and Exhibition from 18-21 April, 2010 in Oran with a state-of-the-art stand demonstrating CCC’s out-standing capacities in the oil and gas sector and espe-cially in the field of the construction of LNG trains.

The eruption of the volcano in Iceland seriously af-fected travel schedules across the European conti-nent. This resulted in many LNG participants being unable to reach Oran in time for the LNG16 Confer-ence and Exhibition. Unfortunately, the scheduled participation of CCC Senior Management was can-celled.

The CCC stand was honored by visits from H.E. Shakib Khalil, the Algerian Minister of Energy & Mining Resources, H.E. the President General Man-ager of the Algerian oil and gas operator, Sonatrach, accompanied by his senior officers and by several top ex-ecutives of multinationals active in the oil and gas sector.

The LNG 16 event covered:

A conference on the LNG industry, which featured pa-•pers by the world’s leading authorities.

An exhibition displaying state-of-the-art LNG technol-•ogies presented by several companies from the LNG industry.

Technical visits to industrial facilities and liquefaction •sites.

A social and entertainment programme that concen-•trated on the potentials of the host city Oran, capital of the Algerian western region.

In parallel, and within the same venue, a ministerial meeting / summit of the Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF) was held and adopted important decisions on fu-ture LNG pricing techniques in the world markets.

During the conference, we met major oil and gas engi-neering companies such as Chiyoda, JGC, Technip, KBR and so on, and senior executives from such oil compa-nies as Total, Shell, BP, BG and Repsol. They were very pleased with CCC’s presence and with our keen interest to participate in the construction of oil and gas projects on the Algerian market.

Georges R. AssiProject Manager,

Sonatrach Ensemble Parking& Restaurant Project

LNG 16 Conference & Exhibition, Oran

Algeria

Area News


Yvon LeScraigne and the undersigned attended the Carbon Show in London on 29-30 September 2009. The event was essentially based around the Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) a new regulation in the UK, which was to come into force in April 2010, aiming at limiting climate changes by decreasing emissions from businesses. Some 5,000 businesses in the UK will now have to mon-itor and report their environmental performance. The seminar was also promoting the idea that UK firms would benefit from their home based experience to develop in-ternationally.

This event was the opportunity to realize that the Low Carbon Economy will represent a huge market for goods and services. Certain businesses will undergo fundamen-tal changes such as the automotive industry (development of electric cars); some will be facing considerable expan-sion such as the insulation industry and some will have to face a contraction of their activity (oil and gas).

The exhibition attached to the event hosted various sup-pliers of low carbon technologies including wind and so-lar power and numerous consultants offering services in environmental, legal or financial fields. Universities were also advertising for special courses on Kyoto projects, en-vironmental regulations, carbon trading, etc… We gath-ered a lot of brochures and promotional materials that are available with us for consultation.

The panels and speakers tend to analyze the reasons for the current low price of Carbon Credits (around 12 ‐ per Ton of eq CO2) which is affected by the economic crisis because the downturn in activity has made it easier for the countries to fulfill their emissions target. The price of Carbon Credits had already dropped previously because

the caps were too high and too easy to achieve.

The future of the Low Car-bon Economy beyond the Copenhagen summit in December was largely discussed. The partici-pants were of the opinion that the summit would re‐con-duct and likely strengthen the current mechanisms. The participants generally expressed concerned that the USA would not accept quantified objectives.

Although the seminar was based on a specific UK regu-lation, many presentations and discussions were of gener-al interest and were of benefit for CCC. Limiting climate changes is an absolute necessity and regulations will be-come more and more constraining. Suppliers and contrac-tors will have to improve their environmental perform-ance to satisfy clients, media and the public as increasing importance will be given to environmental issues.

Thamer RushaidatProposals Leader - SPC

MOA

United Kingdom

The Carbon Show

Area News


This event took place in Athens, Greece from 18-19 May 2010 and was organ-

ised by Financial Times Global Events in cooperation with the Institute for Cli-

mate and Energy Security, a non-profit, non-governmen-tal association.

The event attracted participants from all over the Medi-terranean countries; representatives from the Greek gov-ernment and international organizations; experts from the scientific community; members of banking and invest-ment groups along with private sector companies of the energy and environment industry.

The venue (the Athens Hilton) offered ample oppor-tunity for interaction and networking between all par-ticipants seeking feasible solutions for the environmen-tal protection and establishment of regional cooperation networks, focusing on the energy challenges present in South East Europe and Mediterranean countries.

The keynote speakers included (among many others):

George A. Papandreou, Prime Minister, The Hel-* lenic Republic.

H.S.H. Prince Albert II of Monaco.*

Tina Birbili, Minister of Environment, Energy & * Climate Change, Greece.

Stavros Dimas, Former Commissioner for Environ-* ment, EU Commission.

Spyros Kouvelis, Deputy Minister of Foreign Af-* fairs, Greece.

Among the highlights of the summit was a video greet-ing from Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Prime Minister of the Republic of Turkey.

CCC participated in and was one of the sponsors of the summit, with our newly designed stand.

Thomas KafarakisSr. Project Engineer (Planning)

Third Mediterranean Sustainable Energy Summit

Greece

Prime Minister of Greece, George A. Papandreou

H.S.H. Prince Albert II of Monaco

Tawfic S. Khoury

Corporate Social ResponsibilityText


Contributions to CSR Initiative

CCC Staff are encouraged to come up with ideas and ac-tivities related to CCC’s CSR Initiatives including Going Green and community involvement events. Please send your ideas, initiatives and achievements to “CSR-CCC” email address [email protected]

Paper Recycling

Awareness toward the 3-R’s of paper: “Reduce - Re-use - Recycle”, is spreading and continuously expand-ing around the offices, areas and projects. Intensive local campaigns are initiated that are fully supported by their respective senior managements. A reminder to all con-cerned is that the recycling achievements and results of the different areas and projects will be evaluated and re-warded according to the “Search of Excellence Rewards Programme”.

The following statements are getting popular and are being used more frequently as email signatures:

Think before you print.•

Think of the environment before you print.•

Please don’t print this e-mail unless you really need •to.

Think before you print: minimize printing and save pa-•per.

Greece

An Update on the 2009 Reforestation at Nea Pendeli

CCC’s Reforestation Campaign at Nea Pendeli took place in March 2009. CCC donated 12,000 pine trees and two open-top water tanks with a capacity of 40,000 liters each, to facilitate water uplifting by helicopters during firefighting operations. You will see from the photos that the trees are growing and the two tanks are situated on a high spot on the Nea Pendeli Mountain.

Kazakhstan

International Women’s Day

Women’s Day is an important holiday in the CIS coun-tries and CCC could not let it pass by without making its own contribution and showing appreciation for the local culture. A concert was held in Atyrau theatre and many employees from CCC, local companies, and children from local orphanages were invited there. The concert was comprised of a very interesting programme (songs, dances of different cultures like Kazakh, Arabic, Russian and so on). CCC presented beautiful flowers and gifts to all the ladies contributing to our success in Kazakhstan.

Nauruz Holiday

Nauruz is a holiday which unites many people of dif-ferent nationalities with their traditions and culture, es-pecially in Kazakhstan. Every group offers samples of its national food, wears traditional clothes, performs nation-al songs, and dances. CCC took part in these events and presented a beautiful show of Dabka and delicious Ara-bic food.

Tony AwadCorporate Social Responsibility Officer

CSR News Report



Following last year’s reforestation campaign, a second tree planting event took place on Sunday, 14 March 2010 in collaboration with the munici-palities of Nea Pendeli and Melissia. It was jointly organized by CCC MOA’s CSR Committee and The Lions Athens Continental Club (whose Pres-ident is Suhail Sabbagh).

This year’s reforestation activity was held in commemoration of our late Chairman, Hassib Sabbagh, and the area where the activity took place on the outskirts of Melissia had been allo-cated by the municipality to CCC for this special event.

Last year the children enjoyed the hands-on ex-perience of planting trees. This year another ex-citement was added to the event which generated more interest for all participants: ADOPT THE TREE YOU PLANTED. Special name tags were distributed to label the planted trees so that the participants would periodically go back to check on them, do a bit of clearing and maintenance and enjoy their growth progress. This way, we can make sure that the Hassib Sabbagh Reforestation Campaign will maintain its growth.

CCC’s contribution to this campaign consist-ed of 1,000 pine trees, an 8,000-litre water tank and an irrigation network which will be installed at the location for ensuring the proper watering of the trees. In addition to that and to support the volunteer firefighters who put themselves on standby to protect the Nea Pendeli and Melissia forests against any possible fires, CCC has donat-ed special firefighting equipment and protective helmets.


Hassib Sabbagh Reforestation Campaign



On Saturday, 27 March, Earth Hour 2010 be-came the biggest Earth Hour event ever. A record 128 countries and territories joined the global dis-play of action for Earth Hour 2010, making it the world’s largest ever global climate change initia-tive. Landmarks from Asia Pacific to Europe and Africa to America switched off their lights.

A participant of this initiation was the CCC Group with CCC employees, offices, areas and projects switching off their lights between 8.30 to 9.30 pm local times, to support the Global Earth Hour.

Projects, camps and entire cities with their lights turned off is a very rare and interesting sight. Many CCC employees had the idea and the chance to capture this event and share with us photos showing how they spent this Earth Hour and what a camp looks like in darkness.

Dimitra NtalachaniSecretary, CSR Committee, Greece

Earth Hour



Polo Cup raises over US$ 353,000 for Welfare Association of Palestine

CCC sponsored the first-ever UAE-Palestine Polo Cup which took place in Dubai in January 2010. The event met with resounding success and raised over 1.3 million AED (US$353,000) in funds to benefit the neediest residents of the West Bank and Gaza.

The fun-filled day of polo, prize draws and a charity auc-tion brought together polo enthusiasts as well as the UAE and Palestinian communities to support this humanitari-an cause.

Rashid Al Habtoor, one of the players and organizers of the event, commented:

“This polo challenge has increased awareness and deliv-ered a significant amount of funds for the Welfare Associ-ation of Palestine, and we hope to increase the communi-ty participation and funds raised as part of an annual polo event to provide aid to Palestine”.

The UAE polo team narrowly defeated Palestine by 5.5 goals to 5 goals in a thrilling finish.


The CCC Sustainable Construction CommitteeBased on the World Economic Forum’s SlimCity Sus-

tainable Buildings initiative (which had a two- year man-date and which ended in March of this year) the CCC Sustainable Buildings Committee was created in order to follow up on this initiative.

During their first meeting the committee members agreed that the scope of the WEF Initiative for SlimC-ity Sustainable Buildings was very limited considering the strategic and global nature of sustainable construc-tion. With this in mind, the members developed a mission statement for the committee which was sent to the EVPO, Samer Khoury, who approved it and also approved the subsequent proposal to change the committee’s name to Sustainable Construction Committee since it was the col-lective opinion of the members that sustainability should not be limited to buildings.

CCC’s Vision & Mission in this regard is to:

Contribute towards a sustainable future for the En-•vironment.

Plan, source, deliver and manage environmental so-•lutions to realize measurable values to our stakehold-ers, clients and the environment through our exper-tise.

Promote preservation of the environment in CCC’s •areas of operation.

The main short-term target for the committee is to es-tablish a sustainability entity within CCC while the long-

term target is to achieve a leadership position on con-struction sustainability for our industry.

During the next meeting which will be the fourth and is scheduled to be held in September 2010, the committee is determined to produce its final proposal and make specif-ic recommendations to the EVPO for the establishment of a new department within CCC for sustainable construc-tion, manned by suitably qualified professionals. It is the consensus of all the committee members that such a stra-tegically important subject that encompasses and affects all construction disciplines and that needs to be incorpo-rated into how CCC does business on an everyday basis cannot be handled by a committee that works on a part-time basis. It goes without saying that the existing com-mittee will gladly stay and work together until such a de-partment is formed and is able to perform on its own.

Finally, the committee members who are Ziad Bishouty, Camile Kanaan, Eyad Batarseh, Ghassan Alami, Hani Asfour, Harry Lakeman, Ihab Kilada, Nicolas Zeidan, Ramzi Dahdah, Samer Haddad and Thamer Rushaidat, are ready to receive any proposals or recommendations regarding this matter.

“Treat the Earth well. It was not given to you by your parents. It was loaned to you by your children”

Thamer H. RushaidatProposals Leader, SPC-MOA


23 cars participated in the Abu Dhabi Rally Paper 2010.

For the third year in a row, the first place winners were the cousins combo Elie Shehadeh and Samer Mubaeid. It was quite a close one as the winners accumulated 880 points, while the second place winners, Mohammad Abu Sharek and Chadi Mahmoud coming in with 865. In third place were the “Ahmeds” Abdelghani and El Shazly with 860 points.

Although it was a cloudy and cold day by Abu Dhabi standards, everyone enjoyed a lovely BBQ lunch hosted by the Area camp’s catering.

Special thanks to the Area office for the event, to Omeir Travel for sponsoring the first prize, to Abu Dhabi Area staff and the Activities staff who made this event so suc-cessful.

Anna Hussein

Walid Shuhaiber presenting the first prize to the winners

Staff kids at the Rally Paper

Buffet spread from the Abu Dhabi camp’s catering


A Different View of the Oman Rally Paper 2010

The rally paper here in Oman has gained in popularity among CCC Oman employees over the past few years. It has become one of most awaited event of the year (after the PROMOTION/INCREMENT SEASON).

We all know Rally Paper is a day for a battle of the brains. It’s a day to prove who is the toughest and smart-est. At the end of the day, all the teams will gather in one place, lay down their weapons and armour. It’s just a game and nothing personal. We all know we are all tak-ing part for fun and excitement.

This is actually a priceless day. We all belong in the same company but our time is very limited to talk or to laugh about something not related to work. A day to en-joy good food, good friends and family, old and new peo-ple around us and the fruit of our hard work. It’s a mo-ment of no walls or differences, no work, no stress, no job title or description, no seniority, no nationality or race involved. And this is the most important part of a CCC event.

And of course, announcing the winners. The spirit of sportsmanship and kindness will always be there. It’s a good feeling cheering not only for the winners but for all the teams, Management, sponsors and the organizers.

Rally paper in Oman is fun, exciting, challenging and in-spiring. We can say that it’s not a matter of who wins the prize, or who beats whom. What really matters is we are all gathered together as a family in one company - CCC.

We appreciate the support of Samir Sabbagh, the ef-forts of Alex Khoury for the questions and mechanics, for Maria Vassilopoulou, Vangelis Magiras and to Anna Hussein for making this event possible and successful and of course, to CCC Oman Management for the continu-ous support. We look forward to the next Rally Paper and other events in Oman.

Rene Adornado (CCC Oman Area Accounts)Khaled Abdel Hadi (CCC ASCS Project Oman)

2nd Place, Oman RP 2010

1st Place: Harry Cogan, Syed Bashir and George Dabbas

2nd Place: Rene Adornado, Khaled Abdel Hadi & Raymondo Adornado

3rd Place: Ghada Saba and Zahi Saba


When you work six days a week, you have only one day left to rest at home and spend quality time with your family. However, you see more and more people participating in the CCC Rally Paper every year, driving throughout the streets of Athens looking for the stations (ignoring the rising cost of gas) and struggling hard to solve riddles, quizzes and tough questions. All this proves one thing: “Rally Paper is an exciting event that fascinates people of all ages and nothing can stop RP fans from participating”. That’s why new records of partic-ipants are broken every year and not to mention that the record of participants of all time was broken this year in Oman (40 cars).

Winners of MOA RP 2010 for the second year in a row were Khad-er Abu Ghanam and Elias Nakhleh. In second position came Eirini Vlavianou and Kostas Tselios and in third place were Yasser Hijazi with Samer Mansour.

This year, the RP committee, in order to make the event more chal-lenging and at the same time to reduce reliance on the Internet, had decided that the questions of the last station would be answered at the finishing line without the aid of laptops, 3G wireless sticks, mo-biles and so on. This method would regulate the points to a reason-able level of fairness which in turn would demonstrate the authentic winners who relied on their actual knowledge. Tasos Konstantelos and Andreas Karamanos were the team who scored most points at the fourth station and they were given a special prize for that. The outcome was very encouraging. All participants were happy with the idea. Therefore we are going to implement the same procedure in Abu Dhabi and Oman too.

Many thanks for all who helped on the day and for Nargile Staff who gave their best so that we could enjoy delicious food and warm hos-pitality. I want to take this opportunity once again to thank our head of activities Samir Sabbagh for his support, sponsorship and promo-tion of the whole event.

“See you all at the Rally Paper 2011 in your areas.”

Alex Khoury

MOA Rally Paper 2010 Results Points

1KHADER ABU GHANAMELIAS NAKHLEH 785

2EIRINI VLAVIANOUKOSTAS TSELIOS 770

3YASSER HIJAZISAMER MANSOUR

765

4YANNIS YANNOULISVICKY PAGONI 755

5OMAR AFIFIJENNIFER HARRISON 750

6GHASSAN CHEHADEAYMAN KHATIB

730

7TASOS KONSTANTELLOSANDREAS KARAMANOS 720

8PETER SAADANDRE HALLACK 720

9VANGELIS MAGIRASSOTIRIS SIRMAKEZIS

Undedified Vehicle???

720

10NABIL HAGESAID SHAWWA 715

11GRIGORIS MOUZAKITISLILA MOSCHOU 708

12NOORA HUSSEINIALA ABU GHAZALAH

705

13BASHEER ABOU EIDBOUTROS LAMA

695

14RASHA NAKHLEHRAZAN SIMAAN 690

15KOSTAS KOUMANDARAKISEVANGELIA PANTELIDOU

690

16KOSTAS KOUTRASVANA TSAROUCHA 675

17TAREK DESIRABDELLATIF LADKI

680

18JOHNNY ABU ATAAREEJ DAHDAL 660

19OMAR ALFATYANSHAHAD QASSIM 665

20BERNARD KHATERWASSIM ABDELBAKY

644

21SAMI AL-SAIDIMOHAMMAD ISSA

633

22RUTH GEORGIOPOULOUSOFIA GEORGIOPOULOU

630

23ANTOINETTE MANSOURKASSY APOSTOLOPOULOU 615

24NESRINE ABDELHAMIDSTAVROULA LAZARIOTOU

550

25BASHAR ABU SHAHLAABED YOUSEF

490

26MUHAMMAD ZINNOSUZAN ZIMMO 220


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In the CCC Family

Name Ramzi Shawa

Born In Gaza, Palestine

Married To Matia

Children Zeena 12 Years Old

Business Title & Dept. Head of Accounts - Group

Work Station (Area) M.O. Athens

Years in CCC 22

Graduated From The University of Memphis, USA

Car You Own Mercedes CLK

Worked in Other CCC Areas none

Sports You Practice Basketball / Swimming

Favorite Cuisine Italian

Hobbies Gardening

Best Book Ever Read “1984” by George Orwell

Favorite Music Rock

Favorite Sport Team Buffalo Bills of the NFL

Best Athlete Wayne Gretzky

Favorite Sport To Watch On TV NHL - Ice Hockey

Best Destination For Holidays The Greek Island of Patmos

Best City Ever Visited New York

Best All-Time Movie The Deer Hunter

Favorite Actor/Actress Sean Connery / Jessica Lang & Ashley Judd

Favorite TV Show Sanford & Son

Favorite Period Of The Year Spring

Hate I Don’t

Like Humility

Best Moment In Life Birth of My daughter

Worst Moment In Life 1967 Middle East War

A Wish To See a Free And Independent Palestine

Name George Dabbas

Born In Alexandria, Egypt

Married To Riitta ( Finnish Spelling)

Children Natalie, 30 Years/Talal, 28 Years

Business Title & Dept. Sr. Manager, Business Development

Work Station (Area) Muscat, Sultanate of Oman

Years in CCC 38

Graduated From AUB Lebanon

Car You Own Personal: Dodge Charger,Company’s : Mercedes

Worked in Other CCC AreasAbu Dhabi/MOA/Assisted in Bahrain, Azerbaijan & China Covering Malaysia

Sports You Practice Bowling, Used To Play Volley Ball Many Moons Ago

Favorite Cuisine Mediterranean, Mlookhiyyeh is No 1 of All Times!!

Hobbies Reading / Music

Best Book Ever Read “The Sign” Raymond Khoury

Favorite Music Music of The 60’s, Mainly The Beatles

Favorite Sport Team Italy’s World Cup Team (Comes Once Every 4 Years)

Best Athlete Rafael Nadal (Tennis)

Favorite Sport To Watch On TV Tennis

Best Destination For Holidays The Seychelles

Best City Ever Visited Paris

Best All-Time Movie “Z“

Favorite Actor/Actress Pierce Brosnan (Met Him Per-sonally in Baku) / Meg Ryan

Favorite TV Show 24

Favorite Period Of The Year Winters (In Oman)

Hate Hypocrisy and Unfairness

Like Holidays With My Wife

Best Moment In Life Birth of Both Our Children

Worst Moment In Life Giving Our daughter’s Wedding Speech (Made Everyone Cry !!)

A WishFor All Those I Care For (And Me As Well ) To Give Up Smoking.

Patmos Island

Seychelles Island

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As the plane descended to K i l i m a n j a r o airport it was visible from all angles - I was instantly mes-merized: as Ernest Hem-ingway wrote, Kilimanjaro is “as wide as all the world, great, high, and unbelievably white in the sun”.

We set off on our jour-ney which would take

five to six days depending on how well I would cope with

the altitude and we would experience five major eco-zones: rainforest, heath, moorland, alpine desert and gla-cier.

The first day of the trail to the summit consisted of fair-ly moderate walking through the rainforest that skirts the lower reaches of the volcano. Day two involved trekking through heather and open moorland. During the six-hour scheduled walk, we climbed just over 1,000 meters reach-ing 3,720. On day three the trail continued across moor-land but eventually this gave way to alpine desert. The scheduled five-hour trek was stretched to eight hours and finally we arrived at Kibo at an altitude of 4,703 meters above sea level.

Up until arriving at Kibo my spirits were still surprising-ly high and I was eager to complete my mission: altitude sickness had not affected me, therefore my guides decid-ed I was ready to make it to the summit that evening. I had taken Diamoz, as a precaution to combating altitude sickness and was coping well. (I boasted to my guides and to anyone that listened that I was born in a village high in the mountains in northern Greece, therefore I was im-mune to AMS and that it would not affect me.) Our as-cent to Uhur (the highest peak in Africa) commenced at 23.00. At dawn, wearing every piece of clothing we owned, we slowly began our trek walking up the steepest of all in-clines. Three hours into our hike the true nightmare be-gan - altitude sickness had finally won and suddenly over took my body - headaches are one of the first indications of altitude sickness accompanied by nausea, disorienta-tion, dizziness, water retention, hallucinations and di-arrhea. My luck had finally run out.

My feverish body trudged one step at a time up the in-cline, my guides reminding me along the way: “pole pole” (slowly slowly). Other groups began to overtake me and I felt their sympathy and pity as they gazed upon my limp exhausted body. It was impossible to take long breaks in these temperatures. The cold crept into my hands and feet first, then into my entire body. What my guides called “breaks” were actually stops to release my nauseousness

and bouts of diarrhea (wet wipes proved to be the most useful item on my check list - rocks and boulders proved to be good support handles).

When we finally reached Uhur twelve hours later and the temperature at this stage was minus 13 degrees and by which time my hallucinations were totally out of control, the only remedy was to descend. We quickly took a few photographs in between my “breaks”. (Yes, I certainly left more than my signature on Uhuru). My guides pushed, carried and dragged me down as fast as they could. After a total of 19 hours we reached the safety of Kibo camp.

I do not recall seeing the breathtaking views that turned up in my photographs nor did I feel wonder or fas-cination with the icebergs and glaciers, and the snow-capped Kilimanjaro did not impress me and I certainly did not experience exhila-ration for being at Africas’s highest point. Till today, the only thing I recall is the feeling of great achieve-ment and immense pride.

Looking back, it is very hard to gauge the men-tal and physical strength needed to climb Kiliman-jaro. Pride, willpower, mental strength, deter-mination, my Hellenic upbringing and passion are the factors that con-tributed to my success. Never at any stage of the entire experience did it cross my mind to “ABORT”. I was rep-resenting CCC, my mother country and I wanted to place the Palestinian flag as ac-knowledgement of its existence. No matter what anyone tells you - I am living proof that it is 20% phys-ical and 80% will-power. Just like any-thing in life - if you want it bad enough it’s yours.

Olga Dionysiou Bisbikis

Estimation - MOA

Olga’s climb was sponsored by CCC Activi-ties under the di-rection of Samir Sabbagh.

Who Says I Would Not Make It?

Climb Every Mountain

ReflectionsText


Goals are inspiring, encouraging, a stimulating picture, a dream of the future. They are the true blueprint of our purpose and potential.

They propel us. They energize us. They make us enthu-siastic. They empower us to do our best. “They are the most motivating force for humans.” They simply create direction and momentum in our work and in every aspect of our lives.

Many of us have goals and on the other hand, many of us have no real goals. And this makes or breaks the qual-ity of the journey of our life.

When we believe in our goals, we perceive them in our mind’s eye; we place them in our imagination. And “those who see their goals are able to seize them.” We build our passion toward them. We write them down and we pass them to our subconscious. Our subconscious will then work on our side around the clock to help us reach those goals. Those goals will become bigger than us so we can grow into them.

Goals start with the question what do we want? How do we want our future and present to be? And what we have in our mind and heart sooner than later will be in our hands. We make those goals smart: specific, measurable,

achievable, reachable, and time oriented. With these cri-teria that we set for our goals, we are sure we can reach our goals and we are ready for all sacrifices. We are then sure we are committed to our goals and the people around us will support us, because they believe in our goals after they have realized how much we believe in our goals.

Our goals become true, not only because they spring from our passion and commitment, but because they fol-low the path of leadership as shown in the model.

Goals concentrate on the future, but they have immedi-ate impact on the present. They shape our present to be able to fuel what is needed in order to reach the better future. In the journey towards making our goals true, we get transformed to become better, and what we become is as important as the goal we reach. We become different, more experienced, committed, motivated people who will start dreaming and thinking of another goal. Our life is then transformed to become a journey of goals: one goal is reached and another goal will follow.

With goals our life becomes more meaningful, more sat-isfying: a life with anticipation for something wonderful to live for.

Dr. Riad Elhaj

Goals, Why and How?

Engagements & Marriages

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Milestones

Dimitra Drakopoulou and Constantinos Andonopoulos

(both from the Services Department, Athens) are happy to

announce their wedding which took place on 19 March 2010

in Vrilissia, Athens.

Mahmoud Kalathil, working at ACWa Emirates LLC in Dubai,

and his wife Zaneera would like to share their happy news: the

birth of a baby boy on 28 April 2010 in Thalassery, Kerala, India.

His name is Zainal Eshan and all the members of the family are

very pleased, especially daughter Zeha Fathima.

Dolfred D’Mello (BEC2 Project, Abu Dhabi) and his wife Reshma are pleased to announce the birth of their baby girl named Reann. She was born on 7 December 2009 in Mumbai. Her brother Deion is very happy to have a little sister as a playmate.

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Laith Marji (Barwa Project, Qatar) and his wife Suha are pleased to announce the birth of their baby girl named Aleen, born in Doha on 14 March 2010 to the delight of all the family.

Faye Vythoulka (PMV Athens) and her husband Komninos are happy to announce the birth of their daughter Nafsika. She was born on 9 April 2010.

Numan Rasheed (The Dubai Mall Project, UAE) is very glad to announce that he is engaged to be married to Anum Shareef. The engagement party was held on 9 May 2010 in Sialkot, Pakistan.

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Sami Saliba (Managing Office Athens) and his wife Shirley

are proud to announce the birth of their wonderful baby boy

Marc on 16 April 2010 in Athens, Greece. Sami and Shirley are

so happy with this little addition to the family and Carla loves

having a baby brother to take care of.

Amr Farouk (MAT Project, Qatar) and his wife Dina Elmansory are extremely pleased to announce the birth of their baby girl Lamar on 7 April 2010 in Alexandria, Egypt.

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The birth of our second child, a boy named “Sugam”, left

me, Surya Subedi (ASCS Project, Oman) and my wife Shobha so

delighted. He was born in Kathmandu, Nepal on 16 April 2010.

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“Baby Ramzi was welcomed with great joy into our home

and into our hearts.” The son of Nasser Amarin (Managing Office

Athens) and his wife Luceen was born on 28 January 2010.

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EDITORS

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PUBLIC RELATIONS

Samir Sabbagh

PRODUCTION

Jeannette ArduinoNick GoulasGeorgia GianniasAlex Khoury

ContentsFROM THE DESK OF....................................Tawfic Khoury

EDITOR’s VIEW - Nafez Husseini…..................................…1

MAIL BAG….......................................................................…1

RECENT AWARDS........................................................……2

QUALITY MANAGEMENT- Monitoring and Measurement of Product

Mounir Soufyan…................…4

FEATURE- New Port at Duqm - Rizik Abu Middian........................…6- Water Resources for the NPDD Project - Moh’d Dahlan.…7- Quay Wall Construction - Hussain Badr......................…8- Quality at Duqm - Mehmet Ziya....................................…9- Administration & Personnel Department

Salah Halawani...................…10- Value Engineering in Duqm

Muhammed Suleiman El-Dawood...…12- So, What is it Like in Duqm? - Peter Thompson.............…14- Geomatics at Duqm - Fadi Bayoud.............................…16

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY- CCC Uses BIM in Dubai Mall Project….......................…18

AREA NEWS- Greece: Mahmoud Abbas in Athens - Samer Khoury.…20- Bahrain: CCC Lessons Learned Meeting

Henri Tadros…................…21- UAE: MEED Green Buildings Conference

Thamer H. Rushaidat....................22

- Sudan: CCC President Visits Mushaired ProjectZikar Masroua........…23

- Palestine: Engineering Day at BZU - Amro Abualia.....…23- Algeria: LNG 16 Conference & Exhibition

Georges R. Assi.................…24- UK: The Carbon Show - Thamer Rushaidat.................…25- Greece: Sustainable Energy Summit

Thomas Kafarakis..........................…26

CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY- CSR News Report - Tony Awad…...............................…27- Hassib Sabbagh Reforestation Campaign - Tony Awad…28- Earth Hour - Dimitra Ntalachani…...........................…29- Polo Cup - Tony Awad…...................................................30- The CCC Sustainable Construction Committee

Thamer H. Rushaidat............30

SPORTS & LEISURE- Abu Dhabi: Rally Paper 2010 - Anna Hussein................31- Oman: Rally Paper 2010

Rene Adornado/ Khaled Abdel Hadi..............32- Greece: Rally Paper 2010 - Alex Khoury................33- Who Is Who - Alex Khoury.............................................34

CLIMB EVERY MOUNTAIN- Who Says I Would Not Make It?

Olga Dionysiou Bisbikis....................................35

REFLECTIONS- Goals, Why and How? - Dr. Riad Elhaj..........................36

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