annual report - Royal Haskoning
annual report - Royal Haskoning
annual report - Royal Haskoning
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projects<br />
>> prize-winning design for the palm jebel ali welcome island dubai<br />
<strong>Royal</strong> <strong>Haskoning</strong> has created a prize-winning<br />
design for Palm Jebel Ali, off the coast of<br />
Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. In this<br />
forward-looking and imaginative project<br />
Nakheel, the world’s largest project developer,<br />
is building a 21st-century city, a man-made<br />
area, a successful blend of east and west.<br />
One of the most important components<br />
is the Welcome Island, where the traveller<br />
enters or leaves the Palm. Nakheel invited<br />
project manager >> ir. S.P. van Breda<br />
<strong>Royal</strong> <strong>Haskoning</strong> to outline our vision for<br />
this dramatic meeting of land and water. We<br />
brought in our best experts from Bangkok,<br />
Amsterdam and Dubai: architecture, town planning and bridge design, landscape design and transport solutions were all<br />
tackled and worked out in an integrated operation. Our concept revolves around visual harmony, between the Palm and<br />
Welcome Island, between the towers and the bridge. We present the result with pride: a fitting entrance to the Palm Jebel<br />
Ali, with facilities and services for a great many people.<br />
>> new hospital for gelre in zutphen<br />
At the beginning of 2006, Gelre Hospitals<br />
were the first organisation in the Netherlands<br />
to get the go ahead to build a new hospital<br />
at their own expense and risk under the<br />
terms of the new Health Care Institutions<br />
Enabling Act. <strong>Royal</strong> <strong>Haskoning</strong> was selected<br />
for the integrated consultancy for the whole<br />
project, for which Wiegerinck Architecten are<br />
contributing on specific items. On the existing<br />
site in Zutphen there will be a two-hundredbed<br />
regional hospital with specialists. Gelre<br />
project manager >> ir. W. Zweers<br />
deliberately chose a consultancy firm that has<br />
all key disciplines in house, is innovative and<br />
decisive and is willing and able to carry the final responsibility. Three and a half years from structural design to occupation<br />
is half the usual completion time so new methods of working have been developed. The structural design was fixed in close<br />
collaboration with a decisive Gelre organisation in just a hundred days. Construction is expected to start at the end of 2007<br />
so that the new hospital including the regional health centre will be ready at the end of 2009.<br />
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<strong>annual</strong> <strong>report</strong> 2006 >>
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