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Bulletin
June 2010
Issue No. 94
Duqm in OMAN
CONSOLIDATED
CONTRACTORS
COMPANY
From the Desk Of...
CCC Group Strategy has proved
pr
to be successful in maintaining sales, revenues,
and profitability despite volatile and often dramatic market events, such as the
global financial crisis of 2008. Thank God, we have not been affected, and in 2009
we achieved record profitability.
We are expecting 2010 to show similar results. We also have a healthy backlog for
2011 and 2012. CCC group Strategy has served us well, at a time when many other
companies collapsed or suffered greatly.
CCC Group has come out of the market crisis precipitated by the global financial
collapse in 2008 unscathed because of several factors. These are attributable to the
fact that the CCC Group has a more diversified portfolio than it did ten years ago.
This in turn is due to the fact that CCC has a flexible entrepreneurial management
style, which enables it to grasp profitable opportunities as they appear, and to
adjust quickly to market changes, but at all times, most importantly, to do so in a
conservative manner.
Therefore, one can state with confidence that the CCC business model is fairly
robust. The strategic plan set more than ten years ago has helped to achieve
resilience. We did not have to resort to mass lay-offs or disrupt any of our projects
due to financial problems, as many other companies have done, nor are we in a
panic situation to secure new projects.
We have all learned a great deal over the last ten years. The knowledge and
experience gained will serve us in the future, as we embark on another decade of
achievements. We need to continue our efforts to grow our businesses in the water,
power, pipelines, and oil/gas EPC segments by integrating and supporting our
subsidiaries such as ACWa and Sicon, EPSO, CCC Underwater Engineering,
and CCC Investment. We have all the elements in place to effectively do this in the
space of time available before a new construction boom is upon us.
Tawfic S. Khoury
Editor’s View
Dear Bulletin Readers,
Oman, the oldest independent state in the Arab world, is a beautiful country situated at the southern tip of
the Arabian Gulf and facing the Indian Ocean with breath-taking nature and unique “signature” architecture
of white and gold palaces, houses and buildings.
Being at the crossroads of many ancient trade routes and civilizations, Oman boasts a versatile multi-culturalism.
At one time Oman had its own empire, which at its peak in the 19th century stretched down the east African
coast and vied with Portugal and Britain for influence in the Gulf and Indian Ocean.
Oman continues to be a strong and healthy business area for CCC. We have there a healthy backlog of
projects.
In this Bulletin, we feature Duqm in the Al-Wusta region that has been undergoing steadfast development
since 2007. What is now considered to be a slow-paced fishing town is soon expected to surpass the Sultanate’s
fast-developing industrial hub, Sohar, if all goes according to the master plan engineered to position Duqm as
a prime export terminal for the Gulf’s crude oil transported through pipeline to this Omani port.
Enjoy reading about our major activities at the new port project.
Nafez Husseini
Chief Bulletin Editor
Wadi Dayqah Dam during PHET Cyclone
Bulletin Issue 94 / June 2010
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Recent Awards
Bab Thamama G & Habshan 2 Development 1.8mm
BOPD Project - Abu Dhabi
UAE
This job is in the Bab Area, 150km south-east of AbuDhabi and the scope of works involves:
• Construction of four new remote degassing stations
(RDS) to receive production of 52 new oil producing
wells (23 at Thamama G and 29 at Habshan 2). The
fluids will flow via four new transfer lines (one dedicated to each RDS) to the existing BCDS.
• Tie-in works to 54 water injector wells to support the
increased production.
• 20 water disposal wells to support disposal of produced water at the BCDS.
Qusahwira Field Development 1.8mmBOPD Project
UAE
This job is in the Qusahwira Area, 80km south-east of
Asab and the scope of work involves:
• Construction of a new central degassing station (CDS)
at Qusahwira along with three-phase production separators, four stages of gas compression, glycol dehydration, produced water treatment and disposal facilities
and all other supporting utilities.
• Constructing a new remote degassing station (RDS-1)
approximately 25km south-east of Qusahwira CDS.
• Construction of two new water injection clusters
(WIC).
• Constructing a transfer line from RDS-1 to the CDS.
• And 12 wash water supply wells.
• Construction of new receiving facilities and manifolds
at BCDS.
• Debottlenecking of the existing oil production trains
1 through 7 at BCDS to increase processing capacities
by installing new internals for first stage separators in
all seven trains and through various minor modifications to existing piping, electrical, instrumentation,
and steel structure.
• Addition of two new water treating trains, new vapor
compressor, three new air compressors, two instrument air dryers and a new nitrogen generation system
/ package at existing BCDS.
• Constructing a gas injection trunk line from CDS to
RDS-1.
• Construction of flow lines from the producing wells to
either RDS-1 or the CDS.
• Construction of gas injection flow lines from either
RDS-1 or the CDS to various gas injection wells.
• Constructing a new MOL (14” at length 80km) to new
Asab CDS.
• Various piping, mechanical, civil and E&I works and
tie-ins to 49 wells (24 oil producers, nine gas injectors,
five water injectors, nine water disposal wells and two
water supply wells).
• Construction of eight new water injection clusters.
• Construction of various flow lines and transfer lines
from RDSs to BCDS and wells to BCDS.
CCC construction scope of work involves piping fabrication & erection, pipe lines erection (flow lines and
transfer lines), equipment erection (including EPC of
field erected tanks), civil works, steel structure erection
electrical and instrumentation, painting, insulation and
EPC of buildings (four service buildings of a total approximate area of 1,600m2).
The owner is Abu-Dhabi Company for Onshore Oil
Operations (ADCO) and the main contractor is National Petroleum Construction Company (NPCC). Construction is expected to start in October 2010 and completion
in August 2012.
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CCC construction scope of work involves piping fabrication and erection, pipe lines erection (MOL, flow lines
and transfer lines), equipment erection (including EPC
of field erected tanks), civil works, steel structure erection, electrical and instrumentation, painting, insulation
and EPC of buildings (four service buildings of a total approximate area of 6,000m2).
The owner is Abu-Dhabi Company for Onshore Oil
Operations (ADCO) and the main contractor is National Petroleum Construction Company (NPCC). Construction is expected to start in March 2011 and completion in
December 2012.
Recent Awards
Third Lane, Main Road Al Mawaleh Interchange to
Bait Al Barakah
Oman
Design and construction of third lane along the main
dual carriageway from Al Mawaleh to Seeb Palace
Roundabouts for a stretch of 7km.
Works include several box culverts, two wadi bridges, two steel pedestrian bridges, and a trumpet bridge,
as well as the diversion of existing utilities. There is also
a substantial scope of street lightings and landscaping
works.
The client is Muscat Municipality, the project was
awarded in March 2010 and completion is expected in
October 2011.
Ein Sokhna Supercritical Thermal Power Plant Units
1&2
Egypt
Civil works related to a 2x650mw gas/oil fired power
plant. The scope includes site preparation, underground
utilities, foundations for two steam turbines generators,
two boilers, two chimneys plus all the associated structural steel works and a control building.
CCC is in joint venture with Hassan Allam Sons.
The client is East Delta Electricity production Company (EDEPC) and the consultants are PEGESCO and the
award was in May 2010 with anticipated completion in
February 2014.
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Quality Management
Monitoring and Measurement of Product
Introduction
The ISO 9001:2008 standard requires an organization to
establish a system for monitoring and measuring the quality of products. The organization should establish and
specify the measurement requirements including acceptance criteria for its products. The measurement of product should be planned and performed to verify that the requirements of interested parties have been achieved and
should be used to improve the realization processes that
consist of the whole construction cycle.
Control of Product
In the manufacturing industry, the control of product
may follow procedures of standard nature that are simple
to apply. In the construction industry, measurement and
monitoring of product is more complex and requires special attention. In the construction industry we deal with
custom designs that consist of products related to multi-disciplines such as civil, mechanical, electrical and instrumentation and also supplied by different manufacturers worldwide.
Measurement Methods
When selecting measurement methods for ensuring that
products conform to requirements and when considering
customer needs and expectations, the organization should
consider the following:
• Type of product characteristics.
• Type of measurement and the accuracy required and
skills needed.
• Equipment, software and tools required.
• Location of suitable measurement points in the realization process sequence.
• Characteristics to be measured at each point, and the
documentation and acceptance criteria to be used.
• Customer established points for witness or verification
of selected characteristics of the product.
• Inspection or testing required to be witnessed or performed by statutory and regulatory authorities.
• Where, when and how the organization intends, or required by the customer or statutory and regulatory authorities, to engage qualified third parties to perform:
a. Type testing.
b. Product verification.
c. Product qualification.
Performance Improvement
The organization should review the methods used for
measuring products and the planned records of verification, to consider opportunities for performance improvement. Typical examples of product measurement records
that could be considered for performance improvement
include:
• Inspection and test reports.
• Material release notice.
• Product acceptance forms.
• Certificates of conformity as required.
Processing of Request for Inspection
In most cases, the measurement and monitoring of
product involves many parties at construction site. In addition to the inspection and test plan (ITP), measurement
and monitoring of product is controlled by Inspection Request known as IR. The IR process coordinates inspection
and testing activities including timing at construction site.
This is a joint effort by the construction department, the
quality control department, the consultant and the owner.
As an example, the IR processing for civil works applied
for DUBAI MALL project is illustrated in the chart.
The ISO: 9001 View
The organization shall monitor and measure the characteristics of the product to verify that product requirements
have been met. This shall be carried out at appropriate
stages of the product realization process in accordance
with planned arrangements.
Evidence of conformity with acceptance criteria shall be
maintained. Records shall indicate the person(s) authorizing release of the product.
Product release and service delivery shall not proceed
until the planned arrangements have been satisfactorily
completed, unless otherwise approved by a relevant authority and, where applicable, by the customer.
Measuring and Monitoring the Satisfaction of Interested Parties
The organization should identify the measurement information required to meet the needs of interested parties (other than customers) in relation to processes of
the organization, in order to balance the allocation of resources. Such information should include measurement
relating to:
d. In-process inspections and testing.
• The people in the organization.
e. Product validation.
• The owners and investors.
• Qualification of people, materials, products, processes,
and the quality management system.
• The suppliers and partners.
• Society.
• Final inspection to confirm that verification and validation activities have been completed and accepted.
• Recording the results of product measurements.
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Quality Management
...Monitoring and Measurement of Product
People of the
Organization
People at all levels are
the essence of the organization and their full involvement enables their
abilities to be used for
the organization’s benefit. Taylor’s approach
adopted in the United
States for a good part of
the 20th century, failed
in a competitive market
following the economical recovery of Europe
and Japan, after the Second World War. Taylor1
suggested that workers
should not think and
should only follow instructions provided by
the engineers. Although
this approach created a
specialized work force,
it placed limits on creativity.
On the contrary, the
modern approach considers that people are the main asset of the organization. This approach may be summarized2 in the following items:
Training: Organizations are responsible for the training of employees in order to achieve desired levels of
knowledge, experience and competence.
Fear: Organizations should drive out fear to unlock the
personal capabilities of the employees and provide opportunities to participate in improvement projects.
Numerical Goals: Numerical goals, although important, should not be the driving force in conducting
work. Concentrating on numerical goals may lead to
failure and delay that can only be fixed at a high cost.
Supervision: Modern methods of supervision should be
applied with an emphasis on self-check: this also gives
the employees confidence in their work and abilities.
Departmental Barriers: Organizations should remove
barriers between departments by concentrating on
processes and systems. This is very important for the
success of the organization.
Pride in Workmanship: Organizations should remove
barriers that rob people of pride in their workmanship.
• Assess its financial performance.
• Evaluate the impact of external factors on its results.
• Identify the value contributed by actions taken.
Suppliers and Partners
For suppliers and partners, the organization should:
• Survey the opinion of suppliers and partners on their
satisfaction with the purchasing processes of the organization.
• Monitor and supply feedback on the performance of
suppliers and partners and their compliance with the
organization’s purchasing policy.
• Assess the quality of product purchased, contributions
from suppliers and partners, and mutual benefits derived from the relationship.
Society
For society, the organization should:
• Define and track suitable data relative to its objectives,
in order to achieve satisfactory interaction with society.
• Periodically assess the effectiveness and efficiency of
its actions and the perceptions of its performance by
relevant parts of society.
Owners and Investors
Mounir Soufyan
For owners and investors, the organization should:
• Assess its capability to attain defined objectives.
Taylor: Founder of Scientific Management
QM: Total Quality Management - Deming
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Feature
New Port at Duqm
(CCC’s Expanded Role in Civil / Marine Infrastructure Development)
Ports play an important part in the global communication and trading environment. The government of the State of Oman has committed itself to exploring the economic potential of its vast
coastlines while making accessible its under-utilized Al-Wusta region to the rest of the trading
world. Duqm being the centre point of the region,
it was considered to be the ideal spot for such infrastructure development. Accordingly, construction of a new port at Duqm was entrusted to the
CCC/STFA - JDN Consortium with CCC playing
the leading role.
The Duqm Port Project (NPDD) has been a
challenging undertaking both in terms of mobilization logistics, being at a far-flung location, and in
terms of its peculiar marine environment, due to heavy
silt movements during monsoons and challenges arising
out of its underground soil conditions.
Duqm is truly a no-man’s land, only accessible by the
road that connects it to Muscat-Salalah through harsh
desert terrain and being some 600kms from the nearest
airport. It is a remote area in a desert wilderness where
camels and other desert creatures roam around freely
competing with our transport vehicles for right of access
to the only main road available.
Constructing and maintaining contractors’ camps of
more than 3,000 personnel fully supplied with their daily needs for the life of the project is, in itself, a daunting
task. However, with CCC’s resources and determination
these challenges have been successfully tamed. Currently
progress on the ground is well ahead of schedule; 49% actual verusu 38% planned as of the end of January 2010.
Mobilizing for a mega project with an anticipated duration of five years, even under the best conditions, is not
an easy task. We knew we had to get our priorities right
from the very onset. We endeavoured to develop a friendly teamwork environment where staff could freely interact not only within the CCC cadre but equally well towards colleagues associated with the JV and consortium
partners.
The project management team has also kept CCC’s other traditions alive by contributing and attending to the
needs of the local population. We make regular contributions, both in cash and kind, to local events and voluntarily supply 30,000 gallons of potable water each day, free of
charge, to local residents with our compliments.
Due to the importance of the project for the people
of Oman, it has been regularly visited by their Excellencies the Ministers, and other dignitaries. The visiting delegates and official media teams have been highly impressed with the logistics and the pace of work progress.
The project management team is now looking forward to
the announcement that CCC’s senior management will be
visiting the Site. This will be a giant step towards boosting the morale of this team which has been dug-in at the
harsh trenches of the project site for the last three years,
with two more years to go.
The CCC/STFA - JDN Consortium is determined to
put Duqm on the navigational map globally, despite overwhelming odds. Accepting challenges with a winning attitude and timely delivery of our commitments has long
been a hallmark of CCC and our team at NPDD is keen
to make this endeavour a shining jewel in CCC’s record
of achievements.
Rizik Abu Middian
Project Director
We developed exercise gyms and sports fields
within the camp so that the staff could re-establish and recoup the strength to tackle the next
day’s assignment. To this end, barbecue parties
held bi-weekly at the staff re-creation centers
have been equally helpful.
On the technology and advancement fronts, the
NPDD Project has provided CCC with an ideal opportunity to conceptualize and strengthen
its marine arm. CCC has risen to the occasion
and added a sizable marine fleet under its flagship. CCC now has a fully- fledged marine wing
that will be advantageously available for future
projects long after NPDD has been handed over
to the Omani people.
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Feature
Water Resources for the NPDD Project
In an area where water is more than
scarce and precious, the NPDD project
management had to look for sustainable water resources for their operations.
The nature of the Duqm area, with no
available natural water resource, made
us consider seawater desalination using
a 1,500 m3/day RO desalination Plant
of five RO units with four refurbished
units and a new 5th RO unit under commissioning. The water quality was good
to the point that boron rejection rate
achieved 95% to level better than that
found in bottled water.
The high natural turbidity of the seawater and dredging activities inside the
harbor which made the turbidity and the
Silt Distribution Index - SDI - levels even
more high was clearly affecting the performance of the RO plant and increased
the fouling tendency of the membranes
so after we could dig beach-wells to have
low turbid water because of the marsh “Sabkha” nature
of the area, we designed a Seawater Pretreatment Plant
applying mechanisms such as sedimentation, coagulation,
flocculation and disinfection processes that reduced the
turbidity and the SDI to acceptable levels.
In Oman, where the environment is valuable and protected by royal decree, the generated wastewater was another issue that needed our attention. We split the wastewater stream into two different streams one of which
was directed into a highly efficient Membrane Bioreactor Sewage Treatment Plant MBR (supplied by ACWA,
our sister company) and the other stream was directed
into Waste Stabilization Ponds, a natural treatment system suitable for hot climate countries.
The WSPs were designed by NPDD to reduce the emissions of CO2 incorporated by the power consumption of
the other mechanical systems including the MBR. The water produced from the WSPs was more than suitable for
the irrigation programme “The Desert goes Green” initiated by NPDD where more than 1,000 trees were planted;
and the high quality Treated Sewage Effluent TSE produced by the MBR was found to be suitable for concrete
mixes in the batching plant reducing the quantities supplied by the RO plant and again reducing the CO2 emissions resulting in the reduction of power energy consumption at the RO plant.
Moh’d Dahlan
Environment Engineer
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Quay Wall Construction
The construction of a quay wall is the most difficult part of port construction, specially in deep
water (at -20.4 mt. Chart Datum).
The construction of the quay wall started late
due to delayed cutting of the trench. However,
the quay wall installation team managed to improve production from four blocks to 22 Blocks
per day after going through the learning curve
and overcoming the following difficulties.
1. Divers without previous experience on quay
walls at this depth.
2. Very poor or zero underwater visibility made
the preparation of the bedding layer very difficult and necessitated the use of huge bedding
frames extending above water for setting and
control by the surveyors.
3. For block placement, and to overcome the poor
underwater visibility, a purposely built frame
was made to fit over the block with extendable
survey poles 20 meters long to be seen above
water. This frame did not give the required results and the project team opted to use traditional surveying method, of plumb bobs, surveying instruments, and a high tower extending
above water for setting out works.
4. Dredging activities exacerbated the visibility
problems due to silt generation within the port
basin. This was mitigated by very close coordination with our dredging partners.
5. It should also be appreciated that the large
amount of marine equipment working close to
each other in the port basin requires continuous and intensive coordination between the
different parties. This coordination also includes the other main contractor building the
dry dock facility.
Hussain Badr
Sr. Project Engineer
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Quality at Duqm
RFI or ‘Request for Inspection’ is a very simple quality
tool used by construction teams to prove the subject under implementation towards to compliance and acceptance.
and ongoing activities to assume that they are carried out
in compliance with contract requirements. To guarantee
the process acceptance, the following related documents
are compiled as per Internal RFI Procedure:
ISO 9001 requires the construction organization to define, organize, prepare the sources, equipment and material, implement and maintain the construction effectively
and contractually to the customer’s satisfaction.
• Reference ITP or MS to identify and clear the inspection items, tolerances and acceptance criteria.
Remember that every activity starts with RFI and ends
with RFI as demonstrated in the flow chart.
At Duqm, during the processing and finishing works,
RFI is an important tool to register all buried, completed
• Check list forms/Control form or any required surveying inspection sheet also will clear and shortens the inspection and acceptance time.
• Release reports attached including check list in order
to release the work item to next activity.
Mehmet Ziya
QA/QC Manager
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The Administration & Personnel Department
The pioneers of the company arrived in
April 2007 and started establishing the
camp in the barren Duqm area. Using the
limited resources they managed to get,
within two months the camp had a capacity of the 200 employees required for the
start-up.
The main camp in Duqm now hosts more
than 2,700 of the staff and another camp
located at Sidrah Quarry Site (almost
40kms away from the main camp) hosts
another 600 people.
Because of the remote location of the
project and the far distance from any residential area, the security, safety and comfort provided became more vital.
The management of the project sponsored the creation of sophisticated recreation blocks within the camps including organizing tournaments for the whole staff
twice a year and offering valuable prizes
to the winners. Such activities include football, baby-foot,
table tennis, cards, cricket and billiard tournaments that
were last held during the last holy month of Ramadan.
In addition to the outdoor BBQs in both camps which
take place twice a month for senior and junior staff, the
professionally equipped gym and the fine accommodation
available to the staff members, there is a strong focus on
the quality of the food served. Also, there are two private sectors; one for families, the other for VIPs at our
camp who are provided with five-star hotel accommodation and messing services and which have already hosted
VIPs, ministers and undersecretaries.
Transportation is made easy for the staff, the distance
traveled on each trip to Muscat taking a lengthy five to six
hours. Hence the need for a fully equipped and safe trans-
portation system including more than comfortable vehicles driven by professional drivers making five to six trips
a day to and from Muscat.
Security is a major concern for the residents of the camps
and the site facilities. More than 200 security staff members led by an ex-police lieutenant serve day and night to
secure the amenities and coordinate with the local police
force to assure the security of CCC staff in Duqm.
Concerning Omanization, as a leader company in Oman,
CCC Oman has many projects in the Sultanate. NPDD is
one of those projects where more than 500 staff members
are Omanis being assigned duties in various aspects of the
project. The project target was to recruit people from the
local area of Duqm and surroundings in a way to prepare
them to take over the responsibilities they will be assigned
after completion of the project by their local authorities.
The recruitment of Omani staff includes
training by CCC experts at our Russail
Training Centre in different fields: they
are motivated by a special leave scheme
and cash prizes for those considered to be
hard workers.
Furthermore, the project is a main sponsor and supporter of different aspects of
all social events. Since water in such locations is considered so precious, the project
supplies the local citizens with fresh water
produced from our RO units as a means of
providing support to the surrounding society.
Salah Halawani
Administration & Personnel
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Feature
...The Administration & Personnel Department
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Value Engineering in Duqm
Value Engineering is an organized process to providing
the necessary functions at the lowest cost through identifying and eliminating unnecessary costs. In Duqm, this
was achieved by finding the most effective and least costly methods of construction as demonstrated by the following pictures: (More details will be posted on the KM
Portal.)
3. Although actual unit rates of explosives are higher
than budgeted figures, NPDD managed to cut on cost
substantially through reversing the budgeted ratio of
Anfo/emulsion i.e. by using more of the cheaper Anfo
than the costlier emulsion power get in blasting.
1. The precasting of concrete blocks was changed from
the conventional method of casting blocks in a dedicated and specially prepared precast yard into a half-circle mobile casting spread. Completed blocks were left
in place and shutter moulds were moved into new casting areas. This method saved significantly on budget
because it eliminated the need for costly gantry cranes
and concrete pumps. Concreting was done by simple
conveyor belts and blocks were moved to final destination or temporary storage, when required by a 50ton
crawler crane.
4. NPDD managed to find a natural sand source which
required no washing and used the sand in all concrete
mixes. Oversize material of this operation was use for
other construction purposes. This has led to considerable saving in cement and plasticizer dosage. Crushed
sand which was adjusted to a minimum in the crusher, was stock piled for future jobs such as roads in the
Duqm area.
2. In-situ casting of the concrete wave walls units (90 to
380 Ton/Unit) in lieu of precast as specified in the IFC
Drawings. This has led to significant cost reduction
due to using simple conveyor belts, locally fabricated
and eliminating the requirement for massive cranes
and barges in case precast option was implemented. It
also boosted progress substantially ahead of the programme.
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5. The design of temporary Jetties to load and transport
the (120-160 ton) quay wall blocks was initially based
on using steel piles topped by heavy girders to support
the 200 ton capacity gantry crane. Due to very long delivery time and high cost of steel in 2007, the project
team opted to design and built the jetties using concrete blocks on the dredged and treated sea bed. This
proved a lot cheaper and faster as everything was done
in-house.
6. The project team invested not only in state-of-the-art
technology to install the concrete corelos units but also
on highly qualified personnel to make it work. NPDD
was the first project worldwide to successfully use the
Posibloc device for installing the corelocs underwater
Feature
...Value Engineering in Duqm
when others failed. Concrete Layer Innovative (CLI) and Mesuries (Possibloc developer
in Conjunction with CLI) have both acknowledged this success and asked that other international contractors visit the site to learn from
our experience. The use of posibloc not only
eliminated the need for divers, but also has at
least doubled the daily production.
Muhammed Suleiman El-Dawood
Project Manager, Controls
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So, What is it Like in Duqm?
Well … … first you have to get there and as you have to
travel 550km from Muscat this journey is an integral part
of the Duqm experience.
The first leg of the journey is a 100km trip along the
Nizwa road which has stunning views of the mountains,
wadis and the multi-coloured geological rock layers where
the road has been cut through the hills.
The next 80km section to Sinaw is not quite as interesting as you are going away from the mountains, but there
are still some interesting rock formations to see. The town
of Sinaw may deserve a mention here as there is a morning and evening market along the sides of the main road
passing through the town which causes horrendous delays
to through traffic.
However, JDN do not have the monopoly on large marine plant as the CCC/STFA Joint Venture has an impressive array on site including split-barges (for bottom
dumping of rock fill materials), crane and backhoe barges working on the breakwaters plus derrick and jack-up
barges for installation of the quay wall blocks.
Although the Main and Lee Breakwaters are now well
advanced with the rock core already complete on both
breakwaters, the rock armour also substantially complete
and the precast concrete armour units (corelocs) in place
up to the bottom of the wave walls there is still a substantial amount of land-based plant in operation on both
breakwaters with backhoes and cranes using skips and
grabs to complete the armour and cranes with special lifting harnesses to position the remaining corelocs.
Phase 3 between Sinaw and
Mahoot (180km) is semi-desert
and quite a tedious drive. The
final leg between Mahoot and
Duqm is more pleasant as again
there are mountains to view and
eventually you get some views
of the sea.
After leaving the Nizwa road,
partially built by CCC, the remaining journey is along roads
with just a single carriageway
in each direction and although
the trip is carried out at speed
you must look out for goats,
donkeys and camels wandering
across the road in front of you.
Duqm is quite a sizeable town
and has retained the traditional
Omani way of life. There are no
hotels, no cinemas, no sports or
social clubs and no supermarkets, but there are small shops
for essential supplies. Unless
you are a keen fisherman or bird-watcher the area provides little or no entertainment, however this may change
in the future as we are building one of the biggest ports in
the Arabian peninsular - second only in size to the UAE’s
Jebel Ali Port.
The first thing that you notice on site is the considerable amount of marine plant in the harbour. The biggest
of these are the dredgers and so on belonging to our consortium partners Jan De Nul. This should come as no surprise as they have in excess of 68 million m3 to dredge and
over 20 million m3 of reclamation to do. They are using
cutter-suction dredgers for the harder materials, including the quay wall foundation trenches and hopper dredgers for the softer materials such as the sand required for
the reclamation. JDN also has marine craft on site for
testing the strength capacity of the designed bed level in
case additional dredging is required to achieve the specified criteria.
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The wave wall construction on the breakwaters is also
well underway with cranes allocated for erecting the specially made steel formwork for these.
To give you an idea of the amount of work associated
with the breakwaters, the approximate total volumes of
materials for the Main and Lee Breakwaters combined
when complete will be:
• Core Rock = 4,689,000 m3
• Rock Armour = 921,059 m3
• Corelocs = 47,000 no
• Insitu Concrete = 127,495 m3
The breakwaters may be in their final stages but this is
not the case for the Commercial Quay Wall. Work is in
progress for the first 800m length out of a total of 2,436m.
The amount of marine plant to complete the quay wall is
substantial with JDN’s cutter-suction dredger plus testing
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equipment to prepare the foundation trench followed by
split-barges to install the bulk of the block bedding layer.
Then crane barges with a specially designed bedding
frame are used to complete the bedding and screed it
to the correct level. Placing the precast concrete blocks
requires special marine plant as the blocks weigh up to
145 tons. Specially designed derrick barges and a jack-up
crane barge are being used. Once the blocks have been
installed to above sea level for a sufficient distance, insitu concrete shear keys are cast between the columns of
blocks using a barge-mounted crane and concrete pump.
The split-barges, backhoe barges and crane barges are
then used to place rock fill on both sides of the wall to
provide an anti-scour layer at the front and as a start towards the reclamation behind the wall. Following a suitable period to allow for settlement of the blocks and rock
fill, precast coping units weighing 55 tons each can be installed using a crane barge.
Of course, neither the breakwaters nor the quay wall
could progress very far without the services of the site
precast yard. A vast area is required for the casting, curing and storage of the 47,000 corelocs units. The quay wall
block casting and storage is also substantial with two production trains each with its own 200 ton gantry crane on
rails for lifting and moving the blocks into storage. The
gantry cranes are also used to load the barges for taking
the blocks for installation at the quay wall from specially
designed loading jetties. Two concrete batching plants are
required to supply the daily requirement of concrete.
The total amount of concrete to be used in the precast
yard for the breakwaters and commercial quay wall will be
approximately 746,028 m3.
Again, none of the above could be done without the
services of the quarry. Approximately 10 million cubic
metres of rock have to be drilled, blasted, processed and
transported the 40km distance from the quarry to site.
Two crushing plants have been
set up to cope with the quantities of materials required for
the permanent works installations plus aggregate production for precasting and insitu
concrete works. Excavation and
transport of sand from Wadi
Dunqart for reclamation works
is also ongoing and although
the contractual requirement
for sand is approximately 1 million cubic metres, an additional 1.9 million may be required
as a stockpile for the Dry Dock
contractors. Almost 200 trucks
are running day and night for
transporting this sand and the
rock products from the quarry, which brings us back to the
journey from Muscat to Duqm
... ... as on the final 40km of the
trip you always have to negotiate your way around scores of
slow-moving trucks!
The final element of the quay wall is the insitu coping
which will take 55 m3 of concrete per 6m long bay. The
key to the successful completion of the Commercial Quay
Wall will be the correct phasing of the individual activities
so that there is no interference between the marine plant
carrying out different tasks.
On a final note, all of the above quantities could be increased significantly if the Client decides to include the
1km long Government Berth quay wall plus the associated revetment and reclamation in the CCC/STFA-JDN
Consortium’s scope of work.
The quantities to be installed for the Commercial Quay
Wall are:
Peter Thompson
Sr. Planning Engineer
• Precast Wall Blocks = 5,919 no
• Rock Fill = 1,142,000 m3
• Sand Fill = 1,045,000 m3
• Insitu Concrete = 33,700 m3
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Geomatics at Duqm
Introduction
In marine projects, although the needs of geomatics and
surveying are the same as land projects, the practices and
methods are different. The most challenging task is the
underwater setting out and mapping. However, the market is full of solutions that can assist in solving these problems. The task of the geomatics engineer, thus, is choosing the optimal solution that balances between cost and
productivity. Here “cost” doesn’t necessarily mean the direct cost of the solution, but rather the cost-saving factor
of using such a solution.
What is Posibloc?
Posibloc is a system that incorporates many pieces of
hardware and software. The hardware consists of computer, GPS, compass, tilts sensors, distance encoders (odometers), radios and cables. The software consists mainly of
two components: i) Data acquisition and ii) data display
and analysis.
Figure 3: A Sample of the daily report
The Posibloc helps in placing the CLI armour core-loc
units on a pre-defined position and in visualising its orientation for a better interlock placement. Also, it keeps an
as-built record of all the placed core-loc.
Figure 4: A Sample of the weekly report
Figure 1: The Posibloc installed on the crane
The first Posibloc was delivered to NPDD in November
2008. The envisaged number of core-loc was around 35;
now, 65 units per day has become a routine. The success
of the first system encouraged the NPDD management to
invest in another Posibloc. Currently, there are two Posibloc’s at NPDD delivering around 140 placements per
day. Here, one can clearly see the cost vs. productivity relation.
Before the purchasing of the Posibloc, there was some
scepticism as to whether it would succeed or not. This was
owing to news coming from other companies where the
system failed to work due to the lack of qualified people.
After a couple of months in operation, not only the manufacturer in France was impressed by the NPDD achievement, but also the CLI who even asked us if they could
send their potential clients to visit our project.
Figure 2: Visibloc in operation in the American crane modified cabin
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This success lies not only in the number of placed units,
but also in its attractiveness to the consultant. The benefits
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are: i) there is no need any more for divers for placing and
inspection – a process that consumes lots of time, is hazardous and subject to divers’ skills; and ii) we gained the
consultant’s trust and respect when we invested in such an
expensive technology that shows full transparency.
Although the operation of the Posibloc can be easily
learnt by a new graduate surveyor, the presence of a well
trained superintendent surveyor is essential to supervise
data preparation, reporting and technical problems-solving. An automation engineer will definitely be of assistance since the Posibloc is an integration of HW and SW.
A geomatics engineer is needed at the beginning to manage the installation, training and solve the early technical problems.
What is Multibeam Echosounder Mapping System?
Multibeam Echosounders (or sonar) send a swath of
sound waves in water; these waves hit the bottom and
come back as echoes. By measuring the time between the
emission of sound and receiving of echo, the distance is
calculated.
An Echosounder Mapping Systems consists of GPS, Inertial Navigation System (INS), multibeam, computer
and software. These must all be mounted on a boat. The
multibeam measures the distances to the seabed, the GPS
determines the position of the multibeam, the INS measures the attitude of the multibeam, the computer and
software integrates all the data together to determine the
X, Y, Z coordinates of a point cloud of the underwater
surface. From this point cloud we can generate 3-D maps.
Some benefits of Multibeam system at NPDD:
• Replacing the old as-built surveying methods of breakwaters’ quarry run, under layer and toe.
• Mapping the sea bed and monitoring dredging works,
thus ensuring that levels are achieved as per design and
client requirements.
• Checking the level of quay wall foundation/bedding
layer, and hence preventing any surprises while placing the quay wall blocks. The NPDD multibeam found
many dredging errors and leftovers, and thus we avoided building the quay wall on wrong levels and unclean
trench. Indirectly we saved inestimable over-costs.
• Inspection and detection of silt.
The multibeam was delivered to NPDD in December
2008 and it was fully operational and successful from the
very first day. Now we have full knowledge and control
of what is happening underwater throughout the project.
We are delivering bathymetric maps, volumes, cross sections, profiles of the sea-bed, silt detection in just a couple
of hours from the time the mapping request is received.
Usually, hydrographic surveyors operate the multibeam.
However, ambitious and fast learning surveyors can be
trained to operate these sophisticated systems. A specialised geomatics engineer needs to be present at the beginning to manage the installation, training and solve the
early technical problems. Usually, the required personnel
is a skilled (hydrographic) surveyor that is familiar with
AutoCAD and surveying SW packages, in addition to a
smart boat captain. A dedicated boat is a must.
The Geomatics Section at the NPDD would not have
been successful without:
Figure 5: The Multibeam Workstation inside the 8.5m catamaran boat
• The highly appreciated commitment of the NPDD
management to invest in advanced Geomatics technology/solutions
• The presence of the Geomatics Team members who
not only know how to operate the systems, but also
how to install and maintain:
* Jean Chalouhi, Superintendant Surveyor
* Mohammad Taha, Automation Engineer
* Mohammad Al Tamari, Surveyor
Fadi Bayoud
Sr. Geomatics Engineer
Figure 6: The pole holds all the measuring equipment.
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Information Technology
CCC Uses Building Information Model (BIM) for the Dubai Mall Project
The following article is a reprint from the BIM JOURNAL
December 2009 Issue 11 and is reproduced here with kind
permission.
The Project
The Dubai Mall is the largest retail development in the
world. It offers an astounding number of stores and scope
of amenities.
The overall construction cost of $1.3 billion comprises
over 12 million square feet total area, with leasable retail
space in excess of nine million square feet. The Mall offers a host of entertainment options, including an Olympic sized skating rink and a 10 million litre indoor aquarium. At peak times over 50,000 customers are anticipated,
totaling over 30 million visitors annually.
The Dubai Mall is part of the $20 billion iconic megaproject ‘Downtown Burj Dubai Development’, a truly inspirational concept in urban design incorporating the tallest building in the world, creating unprecedented prestige
and scale to the overall project. The main structural element of the mall was concrete, around 600,000 cubic metres in total.
The contractor responsible for structure was Athensbased CCC. It was formed in 1952 by three talented young
entrepreneurs who joined forces to create one of the first
modern Arab construction companies.
With over half a century of continuous growth, CCC has
risen to become one of the world’s largest construction
companies, with over 150,000 employees and annual revenues of $4 billion.
CCC operates a management style based on mutual trust
with clients and respect for the communities in which they
operate. As CCC’s Mission Statement states:
“We are committed to providing reliable, amicable and
professional service to our valuable clients, and to being
supportive to local businesses and social activities, friendly to the environment as well as being proactive in the socio-economic environments within which we operate.”
The Problem
…the particular problems associated with traditional
methods in quantity surveying and how BIM technology
can address those implications on costs and delivery time
of the project.
Using traditional methods, the actual numbers were
staggering:
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• The Mall comprised 32 buildings, each on average requiring 360 valuation sheets in Microsoft Excel.
• Each set of valuation sheets required, on average, a
1,000 page bill of quantities report.
• Every document must be accurate and in a strictly approved format.
• New revisions in the design or a field changes had to be
reflected in a revised QS package.
• For contractor payment, a current set of reports was
required every month throughout the three-year construction phase.
• There were 32,000 spreadsheet pages every month 1,152,000 over the duration of the project.
With a traditional manual process, the risk of errors was
huge and would require a full-time team of 25 quantity
surveyors on site to undertake the work - in total 75 man
years of effort.
The buoyancy of the regional construction market during the project lifecycle meant that there was massive demand for experienced contracting and engineering resources. This had resulted in both a considerable increase
in the cost of QS specialists and significant difficulty in actually finding them.
In order to succeed CCC needed innovation in the QS
process.
The Solution
CCC decided that the innovation route to take was to
automate the process utilizing BIM.
The first part of the process was to develop a workflow
to implement the QS system to accommodate the multiple cycles of drawings - issue, approval and revision.
A team of eight 3D modelers created the BIM model
from existing 2D documents of the structural design.
As MS Office programmes were being used to create
documentation, a visual basic applications programmer
was employed to develop the required tools and utilities
to communicate with the system, incorporating all the
business rules and methods of measurement boundaries.
With the integration of the BIM/QS communication
protocols completed, a senior and a junior BIM engineer
received intensive training in using the system efficiently
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...CCC Uses Building Information Model (BIM) for the Dubai Mall Project
to deliver the QD reports and valuation sheets. This team
then ran the utilities against the constantly changing BIM
model to automatically generate the QS report.
ing is the equivalent of around 500,000 gallons of petrol which probably equates to around 1,000 less cars on Dubai’s roads in any given year.
This automatic process of producing 32,000 QS reports
was undertaken monthly or as frequently as the project
required.
This article has been reproduced with the kind permission of
its source BIM Journal (www.bimjournal.com)
The Results
Many benefits of using BIM and automated QS were realized.
Not only would it have been difficult, if not impossible,
to find the required number of quantity surveyors for traditional delivery, but also the human error factor was removed by use of the automated tool, contributing to an
overall improvement in quality.
The up-to-date BIM model also helped visualize complex areas of the project, coordinating activities and reducing potential site errors.
In actual monetary terms, the productivity benefits were
significant.
Instead of the initial requirement using traditional
methodology - sourcing and deploying 25 full time on site
quantity surveyors - CCC was able to use two onsite BIM
engineers to produce the QS reports.
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and understandable information. Circulation is now over
170,000 internationally. Its clear and concise style is respected by those involved in construction. It has been described
as ‘invaluable’ by non-technical professionals, who at long
last have access to a jargon-free publication, which explains
things in plain English.
The BIM Journal website provides a comprehensive reference point for solutions that can take the construction process forward, by eliminating waste and inefficiency, whilst improving productivity and quality. It does this by furthering the
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In addition there was the team of eight 3D modelers
to model and revise the whole structural system of the
project, resulting in an overall reduction of 15 staff.
The actual time saved by automating the quantity surveying task was over 700 man-months, which translated
to an improved efficiency of 86% and an overall saving
of $7 million.
Material take-off services were completed with complete accuracy allowing the construction team to purchase
exactly the quantity of concrete needed - no more, no less.
This eliminated the need for a normal material contingency, thereby reducing waste by 5% and saving $3 million in wasted concrete.
In total, CCC saved $10 million by adopting the integrated and automated BIM/QS process.
A final thought.. A 5% material saving on 600,000 cubic
metres of concrete equates to 30,000 cubic metres. Depending on the method of calculation, the actual figures
may vary, but it takes a lot of CO2 to produce one cubic
metre of concrete and even more to transport it - the sav-
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Greece
The Visit of Mahmoud Abbas to Athens
During the official visit of the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to Athens on 24 February, Said
Khoury hosted him for dinner at his
residence, together with his delegation and in the presence of all the
Arab ambassadors to Greece.
Discussion focused on how best to
support the Palestinian population
living in the West Bank, Jerusalem
and Gaza.
Samer Khoury
Executive Vice President - Operations
from left to right: President Mahmoud Abbas, Samir Abu Ghazaleh (Palestinian Ambassador to Greece),
Said Khoury
from left to right: Said Khoury, President Abbas, Walid Salman, Samer Khoury
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Bahrain
CCC Lessons Learned Meeting
In its endeavour to excel in every field it works in and
to maintain a leading competitive position in the highly
challenging global industry, CCC spares no effort to improve its operations by seizing every opportunity to perform better and better. CCC is a unique organization that
combines all the following characteristics:
• It is an organization that has kept growing since it was
founded almost 60 years ago.
• It has a one-family culture spread throughout the entire group, caring about all its employees.
• It is an International group operating on all continents.
• It is a leader in its region and high ranking worldwide.
• It has an outstanding reputation with all clients and
partners.
• It has never failed to deliver a top quality project.
• Safety is a value given top priority.
Samer Khoury emphasized the importance of this
meeting from his belief that failing to maintain any of
the above characteristics means failure of CCC. Therefore, CCC strategies are focused to maintain its leadership and growth in this changing market. Almost twice a
year, CCC top Managers meet to share ideas and lessons
learned from their ongoing experience to improve the efficiency, reduce the cost, deliver on time, work safely and
with top quality, and avoid repetition of problems from
one project to other projects.
In March 2010, the lessons
learned meeting was held in
Bahrain to discuss CCC operations from all perspectives.
The following subjects were discussed in detail:
sales and revenues, how to tackle potential projects and
compete with other bidders, performance and accountability, Advisory Committees role, Major Projects Committee role, methods to improve cash flow, World Economic
Forum Initiatives, tools for improving project performance in search for excellence, knowledge management
COPs, risk management and tools for mitigating risk, productivity improvement, Balanced Scorecards for projects,
workshops with partners, Quality Assurance and Control,
HSE, human resources issues, training, Plant Engineering Department issues, internal technical and commercial
audit, PMV issues, central procurement and Chinese procurement issues beside other issues like Project Directors
workshop, projects capitalized assets, new cost monitoring system and CCC core values and principles.
During the meeting, the attendees agreed to invest in
any means that allows them to achieve the set targets for
improvement and moving CCC forward. Training is a key
factor that triggers improvement. Training is required in
all fields of operation. All attendees are involved and required to involve their subordinates in drawing the road
map of performance excellence.
Henri Tadros
Vice President, Construction Support
and Quality Management
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United Arab Emirates
MEED Green Buildings Conference
The undersigned attended
MEED’s Middle East Green
Buildings & Sustainability Conference in Dubai on 17-19
November 2009. The event was based around the
principles and practices of sustainability and investigating
the latest policy developments and key projects in the region, as nowhere in the world needs sustainable buildings
more than the Gulf.
The event went from an overall view of the green buildings industry directly relevant to the Middle East, to
discussing what impact the financial crisis is having on
building green, to taking a close look at carbon critical
buildings and the road to Copenhagen and ended with
hearing about the key initiatives and major projects in the
region, sharing vital lessons learned along the way.
The panels and speakers, who
are some of the leading figures
in the green building movement
in the region from both government
and business, tend to analyze and discuss the principles, practices, case
study presentations demonstrating the lessons learned
and the challenges
and constraints
which might be
faced due to the
number of building
codes, rating systems
and government legislation, confirming
that going green
will never have
any
economic
implications; on
the contrary, it
will enhance the
profitability of
the businesses
in the life cost
perspective.
summit would re‐conduct and likely strengthen the current mechanisms.
Many presentations and discussions were of general interest and were of benefit to CCC. The sustainability regulations will become more and more constraining. Suppliers and contractors will have to adopt the concept of
being environmentally sustainable and strategically sound
to satisfy clients and the public as increasing importance
will be given to environmental issues.
Information about the presentations, case studies and
plenary sessions, in addition to the overall conclusions are
available and I remain available to provide any additional
comments or information you would like.
Thamer H. Rushaidat
Proposals Leader
Athens
The exhibition
attached to the
event hosted various suppliers of
green technologies
which lead to low/
zero carbon buildings
and sustainability. I gathered brochures and promotional materials that are available with me for consultation.
The future of green buildings and
sustainability beyond the Copenhagen summit in December was largely discussed. The
participants were of the opinion that the
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Sudan
CCC President Visits Mushaired Project
Our President arrived in Khartoum
from Dubai on Tuesday, 6 April 2010
and departed for Athens on Thursday, 8
April 2010.
He represented the State of Palestine
in the 39th yearly conference of the Arab
Monetary Institutions.
Mr. Khoury honoured the Mushaireb
Project with a visit during which he got
acquainted with all the employees and
he addressed us all with a very warm and
encouraging message.
As usual, Mr. Khoury was happy with
what he achieved and observed.
Zikar Masroua
Palestine
Engineering Day at BZU
Throughout the Engineering Day Activities which were
organized by the Engineering Faculty of Birzeit University, CCC was represented as one of the sponsors and more
precisely as a keen participant via the Building Information Modeling Centre (BIM) in Palestine. Over two days
of participation CCC, through its BIM Centre, carried
out many activities such as:
• A recruiting campaign, aimed to give a chance to the
newly graduated student, especially the successful ones,
to join CCC in its different operational locations.
• An awareness campaign, through conducting awareness lectures about the BIM concept, its implementation at CCC and distributing published materials at the
BIM booth.
• Presentation of certificates to the first group of trainees who participated in the BIM Development Training.
• Graduation projects presentations, conducted by teams
who tackled the BIM implementation on construction
projects with cooperation and supervision from the
BIM Centre.
Amro Abualia
BIM Centre, Palestine
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Algeria
LNG 16 Conference & Exhibition, Oran
CCC, being a regular attendant of LNG events,
successfully participated in the LNG16 Conference
and Exhibition from 18-21 April, 2010 in Oran with
a state-of-the-art stand demonstrating CCC’s outstanding capacities in the oil and gas sector and especially in the field of the construction of LNG trains.
The eruption of the volcano in Iceland seriously affected travel schedules across the European continent. This resulted in many LNG participants being
unable to reach Oran in time for the LNG16 Conference and Exhibition. Unfortunately, the scheduled
participation of CCC Senior Management was cancelled.
The CCC stand was honored by visits from H.E.
Shakib Khalil, the Algerian Minister of Energy &
Mining Resources, H.E. the President General Manager of the Algerian oil and gas operator, Sonatrach,
accompanied by his senior officers and by several top executives of multinationals active in the oil and gas sector.
The LNG 16 event covered:
• A conference on the LNG industry, which featured papers by the world’s leading authorities.
• An exhibition displaying state-of-the-art LNG technologies presented by several companies from the LNG
industry.
• Technical visits to industrial facilities and liquefaction
sites.
• A social and entertainment programme that concentrated on the potentials of the host city Oran, capital of
the Algerian western region.
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In parallel, and within the same venue, a ministerial
meeting / summit of the Gas Exporting Countries Forum
(GECF) was held and adopted important decisions on future LNG pricing techniques in the world markets.
During the conference, we met major oil and gas engineering companies such as Chiyoda, JGC, Technip, KBR
and so on, and senior executives from such oil companies as Total, Shell, BP, BG and Repsol. They were very
pleased with CCC’s presence and with our keen interest
to participate in the construction of oil and gas projects
on the Algerian market.
Georges R. Assi
Project Manager,
Sonatrach Ensemble Parking
& Restaurant Project
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United Kingdom
The Carbon Show
Yvon LeScraigne and the undersigned attended the
Carbon Show in London on 29-30 September 2009. The
event was essentially based around the Carbon Reduction
Commitment (CRC) a new regulation in the UK, which
was to come into force in April 2010, aiming at limiting
climate changes by decreasing emissions from businesses.
Some 5,000 businesses in the UK will now have to monitor and report their environmental performance. The
seminar was also promoting the idea that UK firms would
benefit from their home based experience to develop internationally.
This event was the opportunity to realize that the Low
Carbon Economy will represent a huge market for goods
and services. Certain businesses will undergo fundamental changes such as the automotive industry (development
of electric cars); some will be facing considerable expansion such as the insulation industry and some will have to
face a contraction of their activity (oil and gas).
The exhibition attached to the event hosted various suppliers of low carbon technologies including wind and solar power and numerous consultants offering services in
environmental, legal or financial fields. Universities were
also advertising for special courses on Kyoto projects, environmental regulations, carbon trading, etc… We gathered a lot of brochures and promotional materials that
are available with us for consultation.
the caps were too high and
too easy to achieve.
The future of the Low Carbon Economy beyond the Copenhagen
summit in December was largely discussed. The participants were of the opinion that the summit would re‐conduct and likely strengthen the current mechanisms. The
participants generally expressed concerned that the USA
would not accept quantified objectives.
Although the seminar was based on a specific UK regulation, many presentations and discussions were of general interest and were of benefit for CCC. Limiting climate
changes is an absolute necessity and regulations will become more and more constraining. Suppliers and contractors will have to improve their environmental performance to satisfy clients, media and the public as increasing
importance will be given to environmental issues.
Thamer Rushaidat
Proposals Leader - SPC
MOA
The panels and speakers tend to analyze the reasons for
the current low price of Carbon Credits (around 12 € per
Ton of eq CO2) which is affected by the economic crisis
because the downturn in activity has made it easier for
the countries to fulfill their emissions target. The price of
Carbon Credits had already dropped previously because
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Greece
Third Mediterranean Sustainable Energy Summit
This event took place in
Athens, Greece from 18-19
May 2010 and was organised by Financial Times Global
Events in cooperation with the Institute for Climate and Energy Security, a non-profit, non-governmental association.
The keynote speakers included (among many others):
* George A. Papandreou, Prime Minister, The Hellenic Republic.
* H.S.H. Prince Albert II of Monaco.
Prime Minister of Greece, George A. Papandreou
The event attracted participants from all over the Mediterranean countries; representatives from the Greek government and international organizations; experts from
the scientific community; members of banking and investment groups along with private sector companies of the
energy and environment industry.
* Tina Birbili, Minister of Environment, Energy &
Climate Change, Greece.
* Stavros Dimas, Former Commissioner for Environment, EU Commission.
* Spyros Kouvelis, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Greece.
The venue (the Athens Hilton) offered ample opportunity for interaction and networking between all participants seeking feasible solutions for the environmental protection and establishment of regional cooperation
networks, focusing on the energy challenges present in
South East Europe and Mediterranean countries.
H.S.H. Prince Albert II of Monaco
Among the highlights of the summit was a video greeting from Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Prime Minister of the
Republic of Turkey.
CCC participated in and was one of the sponsors of the
summit, with our newly designed stand.
Tawfic S. Khoury
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Thomas Kafarakis
Sr. Project Engineer (Planning)
Corporate Social Responsibility
CSR News Report
Text
Contributions to CSR Initiative
CCC Staff are encouraged to come up with ideas and activities related to CCC’s CSR Initiatives including Going
Green and community involvement events. Please send
your ideas, initiatives and achievements to “CSR-CCC”
email address csr@ccc.gr
Paper Recycling
Awareness toward the 3-R’s of paper: “Reduce - Reuse - Recycle”, is spreading and continuously expanding around the offices, areas and projects. Intensive local
campaigns are initiated that are fully supported by their
respective senior managements. A reminder to all concerned is that the recycling achievements and results of
the different areas and projects will be evaluated and rewarded according to the “Search of Excellence Rewards
Programme”.
Kazakhstan
International Women’s Day
Women’s Day is an important holiday in the CIS countries and CCC could not let it pass by without making its
own contribution and showing appreciation for the local
culture. A concert was held in Atyrau theatre and many
employees from CCC, local companies, and children
from local orphanages were invited there. The concert
was comprised of a very interesting programme (songs,
dances of different cultures like Kazakh, Arabic, Russian
and so on). CCC presented beautiful flowers and gifts to
all the ladies contributing to our success in Kazakhstan.
The following statements are getting popular and are
being used more frequently as email signatures:
• Think before you print.
• Think of the environment before you print.
• Please don’t print this e-mail unless you really need
to.
• Think before you print: minimize printing and save paper.
Greece
An Update on the 2009 Reforestation at Nea
Pendeli
CCC’s Reforestation Campaign at Nea Pendeli took
place in March 2009. CCC donated 12,000 pine trees and
two open-top water tanks with a capacity of 40,000 liters
each, to facilitate water uplifting by helicopters during
firefighting operations. You will see from the photos that
the trees are growing and the two tanks are situated on a
high spot on the Nea Pendeli Mountain.
Nauruz Holiday
Nauruz is a holiday which unites many people of different nationalities with their traditions and culture, especially in Kazakhstan. Every group offers samples of its
national food, wears traditional clothes, performs national songs, and dances. CCC took part in these events and
presented a beautiful show of Dabka and delicious Arabic food.
Tony Awad
Corporate Social Responsibility Officer
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Text Sabbagh Reforestation Campaign
Hassib
Following last year’s reforestation campaign, a
second tree planting event took place on Sunday,
14 March 2010 in collaboration with the municipalities of Nea Pendeli and Melissia. It was jointly
organized by CCC MOA’s CSR Committee and
The Lions Athens Continental Club (whose President is Suhail Sabbagh).
This year’s reforestation activity was held in
commemoration of our late Chairman, Hassib
Sabbagh, and the area where the activity took
place on the outskirts of Melissia had been allocated by the municipality to CCC for this special
event.
Last year the children enjoyed the hands-on experience of planting trees. This year another excitement was added to the event which generated
more interest for all participants: ADOPT THE
TREE YOU PLANTED. Special name tags were
distributed to label the planted trees so that the
participants would periodically go back to check
on them, do a bit of clearing and maintenance
and enjoy their growth progress. This way, we can
make sure that the Hassib Sabbagh Reforestation
Campaign will maintain its growth.
CCC’s contribution to this campaign consisted of 1,000 pine trees, an 8,000-litre water tank
and an irrigation network which will be installed
at the location for ensuring the proper watering
of the trees. In addition to that and to support
the volunteer firefighters who put themselves on
standby to protect the Nea Pendeli and Melissia
forests against any possible fires, CCC has donated special firefighting equipment and protective
helmets.
Tony Awad
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Earth Hour
Text
On Saturday, 27 March, Earth Hour 2010 became the biggest Earth Hour event ever. A record
128 countries and territories joined the global display of action for Earth Hour 2010, making it the
world’s largest ever global climate change initiative. Landmarks from Asia Pacific to Europe and
Africa to America switched off their lights.
A participant of this initiation was the CCC
Group with CCC employees, offices, areas and
projects switching off their lights between 8.30 to
9.30 pm local times, to support the Global Earth
Hour.
Projects, camps and entire cities with their
lights turned off is a very rare and interesting
sight. Many CCC employees had the idea and the
chance to capture this event and share with us
photos showing how they spent this Earth Hour
and what a camp looks like in darkness.
Dimitra Ntalachani
Secretary, CSR Committee, Greece
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Text Cup raises over US$ 353,000 for Welfare Association of Palestine
Polo
CCC sponsored the first-ever UAE-Palestine Polo Cup
which took place in Dubai in January 2010. The event met
with resounding success and raised over 1.3 million AED
(US$353,000) in funds to benefit the neediest residents of
the West Bank and Gaza.
“This polo challenge has increased awareness and delivered a significant amount of funds for the Welfare Association of Palestine, and we hope to increase the community participation and funds raised as part of an annual polo
event to provide aid to Palestine”.
The fun-filled day of polo, prize draws and a charity auction brought together polo enthusiasts as well as the UAE
and Palestinian communities to support this humanitarian cause.
The UAE polo team narrowly defeated Palestine by 5.5
goals to 5 goals in a thrilling finish.
Rashid Al Habtoor, one of the players and organizers of
the event, commented:
Tony Awad
The CCC Sustainable Construction Committee
Based on the World Economic Forum’s SlimCity Sustainable Buildings initiative (which had a two- year mandate and which ended in March of this year) the CCC
Sustainable Buildings Committee was created in order to
follow up on this initiative.
During their first meeting the committee members
agreed that the scope of the WEF Initiative for SlimCity Sustainable Buildings was very limited considering
the strategic and global nature of sustainable construction. With this in mind, the members developed a mission
statement for the committee which was sent to the EVPO,
Samer Khoury, who approved it and also approved the
subsequent proposal to change the committee’s name to
Sustainable Construction Committee since it was the collective opinion of the members that sustainability should
not be limited to buildings.
CCC’s Vision & Mission in this regard is to:
• Contribute towards a sustainable future for the Environment.
• Plan, source, deliver and manage environmental solutions to realize measurable values to our stakeholders, clients and the environment through our expertise.
• Promote preservation of the environment in CCC’s
areas of operation.
The main short-term target for the committee is to establish a sustainability entity within CCC while the long-
30
term target is to achieve a leadership position on construction sustainability for our industry.
During the next meeting which will be the fourth and is
scheduled to be held in September 2010, the committee is
determined to produce its final proposal and make specific recommendations to the EVPO for the establishment
of a new department within CCC for sustainable construction, manned by suitably qualified professionals. It is the
consensus of all the committee members that such a strategically important subject that encompasses and affects
all construction disciplines and that needs to be incorporated into how CCC does business on an everyday basis
cannot be handled by a committee that works on a parttime basis. It goes without saying that the existing committee will gladly stay and work together until such a department is formed and is able to perform on its own.
Finally, the committee members who are Ziad Bishouty,
Camile Kanaan, Eyad Batarseh, Ghassan Alami, Hani
Asfour, Harry Lakeman, Ihab Kilada, Nicolas Zeidan,
Ramzi Dahdah, Samer Haddad and Thamer Rushaidat,
are ready to receive any proposals or recommendations
regarding this matter.
“Treat the Earth well. It was not given to you by your
parents. It was loaned to you by your children”
Thamer H. Rushaidat
Proposals Leader, SPC-MOA
23 cars participated in the Abu Dhabi Rally Paper
2010.
For the third year in a row, the first place winners were
the cousins combo Elie Shehadeh and Samer Mubaeid.
It was quite a close one as the winners accumulated 880
points, while the second place winners, Mohammad Abu
Sharek and Chadi Mahmoud coming in with 865. In third
place were the “Ahmeds” Abdelghani and El Shazly with
860 points.
Although it was a cloudy and cold day by Abu Dhabi
standards, everyone enjoyed a lovely BBQ lunch hosted
by the Area camp’s catering.
Special thanks to the Area office for the event, to Omeir
Travel for sponsoring the first prize, to Abu Dhabi Area
staff and the Activities staff who made this event so successful.
Walid Shuhaiber presenting the first prize to the winners
Anna Hussein
Staff kids at the Rally Paper
Buffet spread from the Abu Dhabi camp’s catering
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A Different View of the Oman Rally Paper 2010
The rally paper here in Oman has gained in popularity
among CCC Oman employees over the past few years. It
has become one of most awaited event of the year (after
the PROMOTION/INCREMENT SEASON).
We all know Rally Paper is a day for a battle of the
brains. It’s a day to prove who is the toughest and smartest. At the end of the day, all the teams will gather in
one place, lay down their weapons and armour. It’s just a
game and nothing personal. We all know we are all taking part for fun and excitement.
1st Place: Harry Cogan, Syed Bashir and George Dabbas
This is actually a priceless day. We all belong in the
same company but our time is very limited to talk or to
laugh about something not related to work. A day to enjoy good food, good friends and family, old and new people around us and the fruit of our hard work. It’s a moment of no walls or differences, no work, no stress, no job
title or description, no seniority, no nationality or race
involved. And this is the most important part of a CCC
event.
And of course, announcing the winners. The spirit of
sportsmanship and kindness will always be there. It’s a
good feeling cheering not only for the winners but for all
the teams, Management, sponsors and the organizers.
Rally paper in Oman is fun, exciting, challenging and inspiring. We can say that it’s not a matter of who wins the
prize, or who beats whom. What really matters is we are
all gathered together as a family in one company - CCC.
2nd Place: Rene Adornado, Khaled Abdel Hadi & Raymondo Adornado
We appreciate the support of Samir Sabbagh, the efforts of Alex Khoury for the questions and mechanics,
for Maria Vassilopoulou, Vangelis Magiras and to Anna
Hussein for making this event possible and successful and
of course, to CCC Oman Management for the continuous support. We look forward to the next Rally Paper and
other events in Oman.
Rene Adornado (CCC Oman Area Accounts)
Khaled Abdel Hadi (CCC ASCS Project Oman)
2nd Place, Oman RP 2010
3rd Place: Ghada Saba and Zahi Saba
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When you work six days a week, you have only one day left to rest
at home and spend quality time with your family. However, you see
more and more people participating in the CCC Rally Paper every
year, driving throughout the streets of Athens looking for the stations
(ignoring the rising cost of gas) and struggling hard to solve riddles,
quizzes and tough questions. All this proves one thing: “Rally Paper
is an exciting event that fascinates people of all ages and nothing can
stop RP fans from participating”. That’s why new records of participants are broken every year and not to mention that the record of
participants of all time was broken this year in Oman (40 cars).
Winners of MOA RP 2010 for the second year in a row were Khader Abu Ghanam and Elias Nakhleh. In second position came Eirini
Vlavianou and Kostas Tselios and in third place were Yasser Hijazi
with Samer Mansour.
This year, the RP committee, in order to make the event more challenging and at the same time to reduce reliance on the Internet, had
decided that the questions of the last station would be answered at
the finishing line without the aid of laptops, 3G wireless sticks, mobiles and so on. This method would regulate the points to a reasonable level of fairness which in turn would demonstrate the authentic
winners who relied on their actual knowledge. Tasos Konstantelos
and Andreas Karamanos were the team who scored most points at
the fourth station and they were given a special prize for that. The
outcome was very encouraging. All participants were happy with the
idea. Therefore we are going to implement the same procedure in
Abu Dhabi and Oman too.
Many thanks for all who helped on the day and for Nargile Staff who
gave their best so that we could enjoy delicious food and warm hospitality. I want to take this opportunity once again to thank our head
of activities Samir Sabbagh for his support, sponsorship and promotion of the whole event.
“See you all at the Rally Paper 2011 in your areas.”
MOA Rally Paper 2010
Points
1
KHADER ABU GHANAM
ELIAS NAKHLEH
785
2
EIRINI VLAVIANOU
KOSTAS TSELIOS
770
3
YASSER HIJAZI
SAMER MANSOUR
765
4
YANNIS YANNOULIS
VICKY PAGONI
755
5
OMAR AFIFI
JENNIFER HARRISON
750
6
GHASSAN CHEHADE
AYMAN KHATIB
730
7
TASOS KONSTANTELLOS
ANDREAS KARAMANOS
720
8
PETER SAAD
ANDRE HALLACK
720
9
VANGELIS MAGIRAS
SOTIRIS SIRMAKEZIS
Undedified
Vehicle???
720
10
NABIL HAGE
SAID SHAWWA
715
11
GRIGORIS MOUZAKITIS
LILA MOSCHOU
708
12
NOORA HUSSEINI
ALA ABU GHAZALAH
705
13
BASHEER ABOU EID
BOUTROS LAMA
695
14
RASHA NAKHLEH
RAZAN SIMAAN
690
15
KOSTAS KOUMANDARAKIS
EVANGELIA PANTELIDOU
690
16
KOSTAS KOUTRAS
VANA TSAROUCHA
675
17
TAREK DESIR
ABDELLATIF LADKI
680
18
JOHNNY ABU ATA
AREEJ DAHDAL
660
19
OMAR ALFATYAN
SHAHAD QASSIM
665
20
BERNARD KHATER
WASSIM ABDELBAKY
644
21
SAMI AL-SAIDI
MOHAMMAD ISSA
633
22
RUTH GEORGIOPOULOU
SOFIA GEORGIOPOULOU
630
23
ANTOINETTE MANSOUR
KASSY APOSTOLOPOULOU
615
24
NESRINE ABDELHAMID
STAVROULA LAZARIOTOU
550
25
BASHAR ABU SHAHLA
ABED YOUSEF
490
26
MUHAMMAD ZINNO
SUZAN ZIMMO
220
Alex Khoury
Results
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In the CCC Family
b
Name
Born In
Married To
Children
Business Title & Dept.
Work Station (Area)
Years in CCC
Graduated From
Car You Own
Worked in Other CCC Areas
Sports You Practice
Favorite Cuisine
Hobbies
Best Book Ever Read
Favorite Music
Favorite Sport Team
Best Athlete
Favorite Sport To Watch On TV
Best Destination For Holidays
Name
Gaza, Palestine
Born In
Matia
Married To
Zeena 12 Years Old
Children
Head of Accounts - Group
Business Title & Dept.
Work Station (Area)
M.O. Athens
Years in CCC
22
Graduated From
The University of Memphis, USA
Mercedes CLK
Car You Own
none
Basketball / Swimming
“1984” by George Orwell
Rock
Buffalo Bills of the NFL
Wayne Gretzky
NHL - Ice Hockey
The Greek Island of Patmos
Patmos Island
Riitta ( Finnish Spelling)
Natalie, 30 Years/Talal, 28 Years
Sr. Manager, Business
Development
Muscat, Sultanate of Oman
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AUB Lebanon
Personal: Dodge Charger,
Company’s : Mercedes
Abu Dhabi/MOA/Assisted in
Bahrain, Azerbaijan & China
Covering Malaysia
Sports You Practice
Bowling, Used To Play Volley
Ball Many Moons Ago
Hobbies
Gardening
Alexandria, Egypt
Worked in Other CCC Areas
Favorite Cuisine
Italian
George Dabbas
Mediterranean, Mlookhiyyeh is
No 1 of All Times!!
Reading / Music
Best Book Ever Read
“The Sign” Raymond Khoury
Favorite Music
Music of The 60’s, Mainly The
Beatles
Favorite Sport Team
Best Athlete
Favorite Sport To Watch On TV
Best Destination For Holidays
Italy’s World Cup Team (Comes
Once Every 4 Years)
Rafael Nadal (Tennis)
The Seychelles
New York
Best City Ever Visited
Paris
Best All-Time Movie
The Deer Hunter
Best All-Time Movie
“Z“
Favorite TV Show
Sean Connery / Jessica Lang &
Ashley Judd
Sanford & Son
Favorite Actor/Actress
Favorite TV Show
Seychelles Island
Tennis
Best City Ever Visited
Favorite Actor/Actress
Pierce Brosnan (Met Him Personally in Baku) / Meg Ryan
24
Winters (In Oman)
Favorite Period Of The Year
Spring
Favorite Period Of The Year
Hate
I Don’t
Hate
Hypocrisy and Unfairness
Like
Humility
Like
Holidays With My Wife
Best Moment In Life
Birth of My daughter
Best Moment In Life
Worst Moment In Life
1967 Middle East War
Worst Moment In Life
A Wish
34
Ramzi Shawa
To See a Free And Independent
Palestine
A Wish
Birth of Both Our Children
Giving Our daughter’s Wedding
Speech (Made Everyone Cry !!)
For All Those I Care For
(And Me As Well ) To Give Up
Smoking.
Climb Every Mountain
Who Says I Would Not Make
Text
It?
As the plane
descended to
Kilimanjaro
airport it was
visible from all
angles - I was
instantly mesmerized: as
Ernest Hemingway wrote,
Kilimanjaro
is “as wide
as all the
world, great,
high,
and
unbelievably
white in the
sun”.
We set off
on our journey which
would take
five to six days
depending on how well I would cope with
the altitude and we would experience five major ecozones: rainforest, heath, moorland, alpine desert and glacier.
The first day of the trail to the summit consisted of fairly moderate walking through the rainforest that skirts the
lower reaches of the volcano. Day two involved trekking
through heather and open moorland. During the six-hour
scheduled walk, we climbed just over 1,000 meters reaching 3,720. On day three the trail continued across moorland but eventually this gave way to alpine desert. The
scheduled five-hour trek was stretched to eight hours and
finally we arrived at Kibo at an altitude of 4,703 meters
above sea level.
Up until arriving at Kibo my spirits were still surprisingly high and I was eager to complete my mission: altitude
sickness had not affected me, therefore my guides decided I was ready to make it to the summit that evening. I
had taken Diamoz, as a precaution to combating altitude
sickness and was coping well. (I boasted to my guides and
to anyone that listened that I was born in a village high
in the mountains in northern Greece, therefore I was immune to AMS and that it would not affect me.) Our ascent to Uhur (the highest peak in Africa) commenced at
23.00. At dawn, wearing every piece of clothing we owned,
we slowly began our trek walking up the steepest of all inclines. Three hours into our hike the true nightmare began - altitude sickness had finally won and suddenly over
took my body - headaches are one of the first indications
of altitude sickness accompanied by nausea, disorientation, dizziness, water retention, hallucinations and diarrhea. My luck had finally run out.
My feverish body trudged one step at a time up the incline, my guides reminding me along the way: “pole pole”
(slowly slowly). Other groups began to overtake me and
I felt their sympathy and pity as they gazed upon my limp
exhausted body. It was impossible to take long breaks in
these temperatures. The cold crept into my hands and
feet first, then into my entire body. What my guides called
“breaks” were actually stops to release my nauseousness
and bouts of diarrhea (wet wipes proved to be the most
useful item on my check list - rocks and boulders proved
to be good support handles).
When we finally reached Uhur twelve hours later and
the temperature at this stage was minus 13 degrees and by
which time my hallucinations were totally out of control,
the only remedy was to descend. We quickly took a few
photographs in between my “breaks”. (Yes, I certainly left
more than my signature on Uhuru). My guides pushed,
carried and dragged me down as fast as they could. After
a total of 19 hours we reached the safety of Kibo camp.
I do not recall seeing the
breathtaking views that
turned up in my photographs
nor did I feel wonder or fascination with the icebergs
and glaciers, and the snowcapped Kilimanjaro did not
impress me and I certainly
did not experience exhilaration for being at Africas’s
highest point. Till today,
the only thing I recall is the
feeling of great achievement and immense pride.
Looking back, it is very
hard to gauge the mental and physical strength
needed to climb Kilimanjaro. Pride, willpower,
mental strength, determination, my Hellenic
upbringing and passion
are the factors that contributed to my success.
Never at any stage of
the entire experience
did it cross my mind to
“ABORT”. I was representing CCC, my
mother country and
I wanted to place the
Palestinian flag as acknowledgement of its
existence. No matter
what anyone tells you
- I am living proof
that it is 20% physical and 80% willpower. Just like anything in life - if you
want it bad enough
it’s yours.
Olga Dionysiou
Bisbikis
Estimation - MOA
Olga’s climb
was sponsored
by CCC Activities under the direction of Samir
Sabbagh.
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Reflections
Text Why and How?
Goals,
Goals are inspiring, encouraging, a stimulating picture,
a dream of the future. They are the true blueprint of our
purpose and potential.
They propel us. They energize us. They make us enthusiastic. They empower us to do our best. “They are the
most motivating force for humans.” They simply create
direction and momentum in our work and in every aspect
of our lives.
Many of us have goals and on the other hand, many of
us have no real goals. And this makes or breaks the quality of the journey of our life.
When we believe in our goals, we perceive them in
our mind’s eye; we place them in our imagination. And
“those who see their goals are able to seize them.” We
build our passion toward them. We write them down and
we pass them to our subconscious. Our subconscious will
then work on our side around the clock to help us reach
those goals. Those goals will become bigger than us so we
can grow into them.
Goals start with the question what do we want? How do
we want our future and present to be? And what we have
in our mind and heart sooner than later will be in our
hands. We make those goals smart: specific, measurable,
36
achievable, reachable, and time oriented. With these criteria that we set for our goals, we are sure we can reach
our goals and we are ready for all sacrifices. We are then
sure we are committed to our goals and the people around
us will support us, because they believe in our goals after
they have realized how much we believe in our goals.
Our goals become true, not only because they spring
from our passion and commitment, but because they follow the path of leadership as shown in the model.
Goals concentrate on the future, but they have immediate impact on the present. They shape our present to be
able to fuel what is needed in order to reach the better
future. In the journey towards making our goals true, we
get transformed to become better, and what we become is
as important as the goal we reach. We become different,
more experienced, committed, motivated people who will
start dreaming and thinking of another goal. Our life is
then transformed to become a journey of goals: one goal
is reached and another goal will follow.
With goals our life becomes more meaningful, more satisfying: a life with anticipation for something wonderful
to live for.
Dr. Riad Elhaj
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The BULLETIN is a publication issued at CCC
in Athens by volunteer staff.
All opinions stated herein are the contributors’ own.
Submissions (announcements, stories, artwork, etc.) are
welcome.
CCC BULLETIN
P.O. Box 61092
EDITORS
Samer Khoury
Zuhair Haddad
Nafez Husseini
Damon Morrison
PUBLIC RELATIONS
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Maroussi 151 10
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see The BULLETIN on line at
www.ccc.gr - News - Quarterly Bulletin
PRODUCTION
Jeannette Arduino
Nick Goulas
Georgia Giannias
Alex Khoury
Contents
FROM THE DESK OF....................................Tawfic Khoury
EDITOR’s VIEW - Nafez Husseini…..................................…1
MAIL BAG….......................................................................…1
RECENT AWARDS........................................................……2
QUALITY MANAGEMENT
- Monitoring and Measurement of Product
Mounir Soufyan…................…4
FEATURE
- New Port at Duqm - Rizik Abu Middian........................…6
- Water Resources for the NPDD Project - Moh’d Dahlan.…7
- Quay Wall Construction - Hussain Badr......................…8
- Quality at Duqm - Mehmet Ziya....................................…9
- Administration & Personnel Department
Salah Halawani...................…10
- Value Engineering in Duqm
Muhammed Suleiman El-Dawood...…12
- So, What is it Like in Duqm? - Peter Thompson.............…14
- Geomatics at Duqm - Fadi Bayoud.............................…16
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
- CCC Uses BIM in Dubai Mall Project….......................…18
AREA NEWS
- Greece: Mahmoud Abbas in Athens - Samer Khoury.…20
- Bahrain: CCC Lessons Learned Meeting
Henri Tadros…................…21
- UAE: MEED Green Buildings Conference
Thamer H. Rushaidat....................22
- Sudan: CCC President Visits Mushaired Project
Zikar Masroua........…23
- Palestine: Engineering Day at BZU - Amro Abualia.....…23
- Algeria: LNG 16 Conference & Exhibition
Georges R. Assi.................…24
- UK: The Carbon Show - Thamer Rushaidat.................…25
- Greece: Sustainable Energy Summit
Thomas Kafarakis..........................…26
CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
- CSR News Report - Tony Awad…...............................…27
- Hassib Sabbagh Reforestation Campaign - Tony Awad…28
- Earth Hour - Dimitra Ntalachani…...........................…29
- Polo Cup - Tony Awad…...................................................30
- The CCC Sustainable Construction Committee
Thamer H. Rushaidat............30
SPORTS & LEISURE
- Abu Dhabi: Rally Paper 2010 - Anna Hussein................31
- Oman: Rally Paper 2010
Rene Adornado/ Khaled Abdel Hadi..............32
- Greece: Rally Paper 2010 - Alex Khoury................33
- Who Is Who - Alex Khoury.............................................34
CLIMB EVERY MOUNTAIN
- Who Says I Would Not Make It?
Olga Dionysiou Bisbikis....................................35
REFLECTIONS
- Goals, Why and How? - Dr. Riad Elhaj..........................36

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