Record
day for Alnaboodah Contracting
Posted: 03 June 2004
6500 tonnes of asphalt laid in a single day at Dubai’s
Airport extension
The civil engineering team of Alnaboodah Contracting working on
Dubai International Airport’s new extension are celebrating
a company record that may well turn out to be a world record.
In
a single day, 6518 tonnes of asphalt was produced by the company’s
three asphalt plants and laid over an area of 32,500 square metres – the
equivalent of 4.5 kilometres of standard roadway.
And the record bid has also been instrumental in keeping Alnaboodah
ahead of schedule in their contract with the Dubai aviation authorities.
Steve Lever, General Manager of Alnaboodah’s Civil Engineering
Division, said: “The operation needed logistical planning
to ensure sufficient raw materials and resources were in place.
The work was efficiently implemented by our teams at the production
plants, on site and the various support functions and the fact
that we achieved our goal was largely down to the enthusiasm of
all those involved.
“This may well be a UAE record and possibly even a world
record for the amount of asphalt laid on one site in a single day.”
The Al Naboodah initiative was backed by energy giant Shell which
contributed 240 tonnes of bitumen, an essential ingredient, along
with aggregate, in the asphalt production process.
Said S.Natarajan, General Manager, Sales (UAE and Central Asia)
for Shell, one of whose specialist bitumen products was also used
in the laying of the Formula 1 track in Bahrain: “We are
proud to be associated with an outstanding achievement by one of
our most important partners in this region.”
The task involved all three Alnaboodah production units working
close to their maximum capacity of 440 tons an hour while Shell
delivered as much bitumen to the plants in one day as many contractors
take in a month. A fleet of trucks shuttled between the plants
and the airport extension site, delivering 217 truckloads at 30
tonnes a time. And on site a total of 70 employees worked in shifts
to lay the asphalt over what will be the airport extension’s
taxiway and apron.
The whole exercise took 16 hours to complete.
Added Moh'd Naeem, a member of the Alnaboodah team: “We
planned very carefully for this day. The production plants and
laying equipment were checked over and many of the team stayed
up all the previous night to make sure everything was as prepared
as possible.
“It needed everything to run smoothly and the teams knew
what was required. The fact that we succeeded in setting at least
one record has been a tremendous boost to morale right across the
company.”
For more information see http://www.alnaboodah-civil.com or http://www.shell.com
Posted by Richard Price,
Editor Pipeline Magazine
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