Qatar’s 2030 National Plan and the FIFA World Cup 2022 bring major changes to a small construction market. Good project management is the way forward.
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We help our clients explore their project’s viability, define the investment needed and ascertain how best value can be achieved. Objectives and expectations can then be well understood and communicated through the stakeholder body and the supply chain going forward. Faithful+Gould’s experience in Qatar is that good project management helps alleviate many of the problems that the country’s construction faces. We use informed procurement, risk management and scheduling strategies to deliver projects in a timely and cost-effective manner. Our role progresses to monitoring and managing the contract, program and budget, ensuring high
performance, minimizing claims and delivering our client’s goals. Materials import is via Doha’s under-capacity port (while waiting for completion of the new port) and delivery is via a heavily congested road system, so careful and realistic scheduling is vital. Our risk assessment helps clients to understand the issues around contractor quality and capability, ensuring the resource is available in a market constrained by shortages of qualified operatives and labor. We also find that experience is needed to navigate ministries, local authority and utility approvals as these can be very unclear. We have a growing portfolio of projects in
Qatar, including Shaza Kempinski hotel where we are providing project and cost management services, and Lusail Light Rail Transit (LRT) system, where we provided cost management services. We are developing a suite of standard forms of contract for a Qatari government procurement program, and we are also working with our parent company Atkins to support Qatar’s Central Planning Office in their aim to implement best practice systems. Faithful+Gould has identified Qatar as a core growth area for our Middle East operation. We are committed to providing support for the nation and all our work is closely aligned with the 2030 vision.
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