Amana Contracting and Steel Buildings completes largest pre-cast factory in the world

Published May 21st, 2006 - 01:48 GMT

Amana Contracting & Steel Buildings, a leader in fast track construction, has completed construction of the world’s largest pre-cast factory for Mammut Industries, a leading manufacturer of trailers, steel buildings, sandwich panels, concrete pre - cast panels and porta cabins.

 

This new automated pre-cast factory covers a total built up area exceeding 35,000 sqm on a plot in excess of 100,000 sq. m.  The factory will produce all types of pre - cast panels including new floor and wall panel technologies from Germany and Canada which will greatly improve the speed, cost and quality of the construction sector.

 

Explaining the complexity of building such a tremendous structure, Jihad J. Bsaibes, General Manager of the Dubai office for , Amana Contracting & Steel Buildings said:  “The structure encompasses a high level of design complexity as it includes extensive machine foundations, networks of underground trenches, batching plants, multilevel conveyor systems and stand-alone ovens for fast curing, among other features.”

 

“Because the factory is fully automated with a network of conveyor systems, it resulted in the need to cast a complex ground floor slab inclusive of various inserts and precise floor casting tolerances suitable to support the robotized processes.”

 

The facility also has an extensive mechanical, electrical, plumbing works is extensive including multiple uses of bus bars, and specialty electrical and compressed air services for the manufacturing process.

 

Amana Contracting and Steel Buildings is the regional leader in the design-build of industrial and commercial facilities, with over 1500 buildings constructed across the region.  Amana is leading the industry in its ability to deliver turnkey solutions for extremely time sensitive industrial and commercial projects on time, within budget and with quality requirements.

 

Amana Contracting and Steel Buildings is a leading regional turnkey contractor with offices in the UAE (Dubai, Abu Dhabi & Sharjah), Cairo, Doha, Kuwait and Colombo.  Each office is independently run with capabilities to market, design, procure, and construct projects on a full design-build basis.  Amana offices in the UAE are ISO-certified.