ADAM’S PROJECT MANAGEMENT

ADAM’S PROJECT MANAGEMENT

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STANDARDS Sustainable Business Magazine speaks to Imtiyaz Adam, Founder and Managing Director of Adam’s Project Management and Construction Limited, about significant projects, green construction, and new frontiers in the Caribbean.

Adam’s Project Management and Construction Ltd is a Trinidadian construction services company. Founded in 2001 as a specialist project management company, Adam’s Project Management and Construction Ltd have since developed general contracting services, as well as building materials manufacturing capabilities. Founder Imtiyaz Adam has a long background in civil engineering, which he brought to Trinidad with a view to taking on projects throughout the Caribbean, no matter how large.

“Over the years we have done many, many large projects, until about four years ago when we decided to buy a new steel plant called Universal Structures,” explains Imtiyaz Adam, Founder and Managing Director of Adam’s Project Management and Construction Ltd. “Our company invested about TT$35m into that steel plant, and we’ve been operating it since.

Universal Structures has become a mainstay of income for our organization. We’ve also branched out into owning our own

concrete plant. We now have a company called ProCrete, which means we pour our own concrete and have our own pumps.”

“Apart from that, we’ve also formed our own equipment division called Adampro,” says Mr. Adam. “With that, we decided to invest into excavators, rollers, dump trucks, and other heavy plant equipment. As a result, we now have a fully-fledged construction company with an emphasis on the

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steel aspect of the job. We tend to do our projects around structural steel. If we have a project such as a high-rise building that is only concrete, we may not do it, because our strength is in structural steel. At present we have about 50 management employees and close to 500 workers in the field.”

MAJOR DEVELOPMENT Today, Adam’s Project Management and Construction are working on one of their biggest projects yet. “At present, we are in the final stages of developing The Village, a new hotel and commercial center in Antigua,” explains Mr. Adam. “It is a 130-room hotel called The Garden Inn, which is not a full restaurant hotel because the surrounding commercial center will include restaurants.

Furthermore, there will be housing above the commercial units. We haven’t yet signed a management agreement for the hotel, but we are looking at high-end chains such as Hilton, Marriott, Wyndham, or Radisson.”

Adam’s Project Management and Construction have undertaken the project handin-hand with an initiative by the Antiguan

government called the Citizen Investment Passport (CIP). “The properties above the commercial units are intended specifically for international clients who would like to invest in property in Antigua,” says Mr. Adam.

“Each residential unit will cost USD$450,000 but via the CIP program they will also be

able to access Antiguan passports. The homeowners can then lease the rooms to rent. The Village will be right next to the American University of Antigua and therefore we intend to lease the rooms mostly to international students. The owners will generate income from leasing those rooms. As this

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is a large-scale project, we have done an environmental impact assessment. There is a large pond on one side of the site that has to be cleaned for the ducks, for example, and part of the environmental impact assessment is the pond has to be retained.”

DEVELOPING GREEN CAPABILITIES Although the Village is a milestone project for the company, it’s by no means the only large project that Adam’s Project ManageUWI STUDENT RECREATIONAL CENTRE.

ment and Construction have been involved with. “Over the past year, for example, we did a large project in Panama,” says Mr. Adam. “It was a school and a huge mosque. With that experience, we felt like we were at a stage where we could take on a serious construction project like this.

It has been a curve. We started small but ultimately reached a point where we wanted to continue challenging ourselves with bigger projects.”

In order to have reached this stage, staff training and capacity building has been essential. “We invest in our staff so they understand the technology required to deliver today’s project in the manner that clients expect,” says Mr. Adam. “A lot of the projects in Trinidad are design builds, with about 70% of projects in Trinidad tendered that way. In particular, the focus now is on green projects.

That is achievable if you train your staff. It is a key factor in ensuring we are able to deliver what is needed for clients and meet their expectations. We also align ourselves with other firms who have the capability to put money into staff training, so that they too can deliver.”

LANDMARK SUSTAINABLE SOLUTIONS Currently, Adam’s Project Management and Construction are working on a landmark green building design for Police Credit Union. “That is a large project, costing TT$140m dollars,” says Mr. Adam. “Police Credit Union want a four-storey structure with a basement and are trying to develop it to be compatible with international green building standards. The processes involved in construction are being recorded to show

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that we are reaching those expectations. It is one of the first projects of its kind in Trinidad, and it will set the standard for the industry.

We are looking forward to the challenge.”

Looking to the future, Adam’s Project Management and Construction are keen to expand their activities into new sectors and regions. “Our plans are to try to look at private developments, like what we are doing in Antigua, and not be dependent on clients for future projects,” says Mr. Adam. “We’re now looking at complying with requirements to work in the energy sector. Our company was just certified to do that, as it’s one of the areas with real potential growth.

There are also countries like Guyana that are blossoming. Those countries are looking for public-private partnership projects with contractors, and we are trying to now focus on things like housing over there. We have to move on with our company if we are going to survive. That’s reality. The economy in some other Caribbean countries has been great and the tourism sector is really performing well. In Guyana, for example, there are a lot of new projects, so companies are setting up branches there now. We are looking at being part of that process to ensure our relevance and success into the long-term future.” c

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