Qatar wins five regional project quality awards

Qatar scooped five regional awards at the recently concluded 2017 MEED Quality Awards for Projects, the region’s premier recognition programme for completed projects in the Gulf region.

The Public Works Authority (Ashghal) was among the big winners with multiple regional awards, with its Doha North Sewage Treatment Works Project winning the GCC Award for Sustainability and GCC Water Project of the Year trophies;while the Salwa Road Project received the GCC Road, Bridge, Tunnel Project of the Year honour. Its Medical City Fit Out Project was also recognised as the best in the region in the GCC Healthcare Project of the Year category.

The other GCC winner from Qatar was Qatar Primary Materials Company’s Qatar Gabbro Terminal (Bulk Material Handling System) Project (entered by Six Construct) which won the GCC Logistics Project of the Year award. The quintuple-award haul was an improvement from last year’s performance for Qatar in the regional awards programme when it won three trophies, and is a testament to the country’s robust projects industry which is expected to pick up pace as the country hosts the 2022 FIFA World Cup.

“We salute these projects for their successful completion according to strict international quality standards, proving that these schemes are comparable to the world’s best in terms of engineering and construction excellence. Equally important, these projects were recognised as the best in the region for having proven their worth in making signification contributions to the wider socio-economic, environmental and cultural development of the region,” says Richard Thompson, editorial director, MEED.

The 2017 MEED Quality Awards for Projects recognised a total of 21 outstanding projects throughout the region. The most coveted award of the programme, the MEED Quality Project of the Year, was given to Saudi Arabia’s Sadara Project, a joint venture between Saudi Aramco and the DowChemical Company, which also scooped the GCC Oil & Gas Project of the Year award.

The GCC winners were recently announced at The Westin Dubai Mina Seyahi Beach Resort & Marina in the UAE. The MEED Quality Awards for Projects 2017 was made possible by the support of Besix, Parsons, Al Bawani, MVP Tech and ASCG.