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GCC delivers on USD2 trillion megaprojects
with European best practices
NAFL REVIEW
Construction of
20 berths
planned at Port
of Fujairah
The ICC in The Netherlands features open interior plans and integrates nature
European best practices in mega-projects
are key for the GCC to deliver on its USD2
trillion project pipeline, industry experts
announced before Cityscape Global.
The GCC hosts a mega-project pipeline
worth USD2 trillion, especially in megaprojects
tied to Expo 2020 in Dubai, the
2022 FIFA World Cup Qatar, and Saudi
Vision 2030 projects such as the King
Abdullah Financial District, according to a
recent survey by consultancy Deloitte.
“Increasingly, GCC planners and
developers are localizing best practices
from Europe to enhance the worker and
visitor experience,” said Santhosh Vallil for
the Middle East at Hunter Douglas, a
mega-project consultancy based in The
Netherlands.
“GCC mega-projects need to make a
signature statement. But they should also
place user needs at the center, with a
pedestrian scale of construction, open
plan interiors that can re-arranged for
different stakeholders, and links to nature
and sustainability,” added Santhosh Vallil.
In the GCC, Hunter Douglas has advised on
large-scale projects such as Masdar
Institute and Zayed Sports City in the UAE,
and the Qatar National Convention Centre.
Now, GCC planners are looking at the
success of the recently-opened International
Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague
in The Netherlands. The 56,000 square
meter complex employs 1,200 staff from
124 countries who prosecute people
allegedly involved in war crimes,
genocide, and crimes against humanity.
The six-building ICC complex maintains
safety, but is also open and transparent,
grand but with a sense of human
dimensions. In particular, the project has a
small footprint that integrates the dune
area on the edge of the city.
Inside, the ICC delivers a strong design
statement with a sophisticated, crisp, and
functional finish. Hunter Douglas
aluminium ceiling panels, which are
perforated and inlaid with acoustic mats,
cover 29,000 square meters of offices,
courtrooms, and public areas, which can
be partitioned for extra room. Supporting
sustainability, ICC offices are lit with
100,000 LED lamps that are integrated
into the ceiling panels. The panels also
provide a place for air quality and fire
safety installations to be tucked away.
Two new berths for fuel bunkering will
be constructed at the Port of Fujairah,
according to Chief Financial Officer
Khalil Ibrahim.Ibrahim added that the
construction is expected to cost
AED100 million.
He noted that this construction will
increase the number of oil berths to
20, with a total handling capacity of
some 100 million tonnes, equivalent
to about 750 million barrels of crude
oil and petroleum products per year.
Ibrahim told local media that these
new berths would assist the Port of
Fujairah to integrate its services, in
line with the rapid growth in the port,
especially in the oil berths' sector.
He further explained that the Port of
Fujairah receives more than 5,500
ships annually, in addition to visits by
more than this number of ships that
receive logistical services in the
anchorage area adjacent to the port.
Ibrahim added that in order to avoid
congestion in the harbour basin, the
Port of Fujairah is currently working to
establish a new port to receive small
ships, with an initial capacity of 150
small ships and locomotives at the
south of the current location of the
Port of Fujairah, at a cost of AED 220
million in the first construction
phase.There will be other stages, as
per requirements, while the opening
of this port is not expected for at least
one year, he said.
Ahmed Mahboob Musabih speaking at the conference
13/ Sep-Oct 2016