BESIX Group is the largest Belgian construction group, a conglomerate of companies active in the construction, engineering, environmental, real estate and concession sectors. The Group was founded in 1909 and since then has known impressive and regular growth.
BESIX and its subsidiaries cover practically all fields of the construction industry and are operating in Western Europe, in Central and Eastern Europe, North and Central Africa, in the Middle East, in Central Asia and in the Caribbean.
In 2009, the Group achieved a revenue of EUR 1.92 billion. BESIX Group has about 19,000 employees in 15 countries on 4 continents.
The Ferrari World is the world’s first Ferrari Theme Park and the largest attraction of its kind. It is located on the artificial island of Yas, right by the Yas Marina Formula 1 circuit, a few kilometers away from Abu Dhabi Airport.
- Successfully completed working on the Ferrari Experience Project, largest theme park in the world..
1. Developed the programme of the Ferrari roof package that includes the space frame stucture, aluminum cladding, façade glazing and all the related temporary works and revised it numeriously throughout the project life cycle with all its related monitoring documents.
2. Defined the critical indicators which the programme was monitored against.
3. Setting up a reporting system that was used as a very powerful monitoring tool of the progress in which the data was extracted with ease to update the programme and to read the progress at any level of detail.
4. Following up the progress by creating and updating a large number of S-curves on daily, weekly, monthly basis whether generally or specifically to monitor each team’s productivity at any given time. These S-curves were split into 2 parts generally; official S-curves which are based on the planned and recovery programmes in addition to internally targetted high performance S-curves in which the productivity required is greater than that of the planned and recovery S-curves.
5. Following up with the subcontractors and suppliers on their technical deliverables and progress on site
6. Working side by side with the Managing Contractor, Al Dar Besix, to fulfill all their requirements in terms of reporting/planning related matters.
7. Progress presentations when and where required for clients on behalf of the project management
8. Handling communications pertaining to the planning works in the Ferrari Experience project.
All the above and more, added to the team’s effort achieved the successful and timely completion of the Ferrari Experience roof package project.
- Started the set up of a Planning Department for Yas Island Development projects with a team of 4 planners; this includes: training and development of the other team subordinates, ensuring all planning works are carried out correctly and as per time schedules, checking the interfaces between the various interrelated packages and ensuring that works could be executed without any conflict.