Issue 2 . Mar 2015
Ibn Khaldun . AlMadaen Engineering Consultants
Ensuring high level of services I
bn Khaldun . Almadaen Engineering Consultants have proven successful records of taking up and completing various infrastructure projects like: industrial estates, urban planning, ports, harbors, airports, roads, waste management and water projects. The company is the result of the merger of two major Omani Engineering firms: Ibn Khaldun Consulting Engineers and Almadaen Engineering Consultants. Since then the company has expanded its civil engineering activities to include major development projects in Oman and has been associating with reputed international consultants in specialist fields to ensure high level of services provided and to facilitate the transfer of know-how to Omani Engineering firms and accordingly Omani nationals. “Building up expertise of Omani nationals is continuing to be our principle goal and projects have been the primary tool for this aim”, says Musab Al Kindi, Head of Administration and Finance of the company. Ibn Khaldun . Almadaen also has a vast record of engineering services for industrial, commercial and residential building projects in both Government and private sectors. Appointments included multimillion construction costs of factories, schools and multi-storey buildings. “At present, around 25 per cent of the company’s running projects include roads”, Al Kindi revealed in his comments to MoTc magazine. The most challenging and one of the important projects the company handled in the past was the HadbinHasik costal road in Dhofar. “Hasik was only accessible by sea and this project served a whole town and gave them better accessibility”, said Al Kindi. According to him, the major road projects the company presently handles include: upgrading Al Batinah Highway Junctions, Bilad Al Shuhum – Al Hajr Road in Ibri, Empty Quarter Checkpost with Saudi
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Transport In Oman
Building up expertise of Omani nationals is continuing to be our principle goal and projects have been the primary tool for this aim
Arabia in Ibri, Wadi Al Jazeer Bridges in Sur, and Seeb Roads Network in Al Mawalih & Al Mubaila. About the company’s engineering disciplines, capabilities and expertise, he said, “we have over 20 years of experience in roads and we tie up with international companies who are known internationally for their work”. Apart from road sector, the company also engages engineering design and consultancy in many other areas. That includes Airports, Harbors, Hospitals, Hotels, Mixeduse complexes, Shopping Malls, Water Distribution Networks, Commercial Buildings, Residential complexes and Military buildings. According to Al Kindi, the company has many prestigious design and supervision projects in their profile where they managed the whole design process in-house or in close cooperation with international companies. Some examples are: Sohar Industrial Port, Tilal Mixed Use Project, Military Hospital Salalah, Al Duqum Airport, and Crowne Plaza Hotel in the new Oman Convention and Exhibition Center Ibn Khaldun . Almadaen team includes senior engineers specialized in harbors, architecture, roads, structures, and MEP with a team of designers supported by fully automated design offices in Muscat & Salalah using latest CAD facilities.
Duqum Airport
Crowne Plaza OCEC
Sohar port
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Eng. Fuad Abdullah Al Kindi Managing Director of IKAM