The awardees included:

Consultants: WS Atkins & Partners Overseas (Simon Crispe - Commercial Director), Skidmore Owings & Merrill LLP (Eric Tomich - Associate Partner), RMJM (Gordon Affleck- Director);

Contractors: Arabtec (Riad Kamal- MD), Belhasa Six Construct LLC (Philippe Dessoy-GM), ALEC (Kez Taylor- MD); and

Developers: Dubai Airports (Khalifa Al Zaffin - Executive Chairman of Dubai World Central), EMAAR Properties (Ahmed Al Matrooshi -MD), Al-Futtaim (Emad Nimeh- Development Director), RTA (Nabil Mohammed Saleh - Director of Roads Dept Traffic and Roads Agency), Nakheel (Marwan Al Qamzi - MD Palm Jebel).

The function was well attended and industry captains networked over cocktails and dinner celebrations thereafter.

Pratap Vijay Padode, Managing Director of ASAPP Media Information Group, publishers of CONSTRUCTION WORLD, the largest circulated construction business magazine with independent editions across Gulf and South Asia since eleven years and a readership of 200,000, explained that, "Perception based surveys define the sum total of a company's image created by its offerings, its conduct with its customers, employees and society at large."

The next awards would be held during the BIG 5 later this year as per announcement by Pratap Vijay Padode.

The expert panel included:

David May, Technical Director, Khansaheb Investment LLC

Mark Beer, Chairman, British Business Group

Suresh Kumar, CEO, Emirates Financial Services

Carlos Carvalho Costa, Director, Portuguese Trade Centre

Dr. Ferdinand Fiore, Trade Commissioner, Government of Italy

Sachin Kerur, Partner, Pinsent Masons, Masons Galadari

-Ends-

CONSTRUCTION WORLD is published by IKAN Media FZ LLC, a Dubai Media City based company, part of the ASAPP Media Information Group for last eleven years. In course of its mission to inform and encourage excellence in the field of construction and infrastructure, ASAPP Media has instituted awards. It has been conducting CONSTRUCTION WORLD AWARDS for last five years in South Asia. Its bouquet of events includes awarding Fastest Growing construction companies, Top Architects & Builders and Infrastructure companies.

© Press Release 2008

 

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