United Arab Emirates (24 July 2011) - Meinhardt Group, the engineering, infrastructure and project management consulting firm, today announced the first step in its brand integration initiative as Meinhardt Facade Technology (MFT) migrates under the parent name. MFT will now begin the process of positioning itself as Meinhardt's facade engineering team, a highly specialised facade design and engineering consultancy with a record of more than 1,300 projects in the last 20 years on some of the world's most iconic buildings.
MFT has operated across the Middle East, as well as Asia and Australia, since 1988. MFT has offered consulting services on a range of well-known development projects here in the Gulf such as Dubai Mall and the Rolex Tower on Sheik Zayed road, Ocean Height in the Marina and the Nad Al Sheba race course grand stand in Dubai, Central Market in Abu Dhabi, United Towers in Kuwait and the King Abdulla Financial District in Saudi Arabia. International projects include The Center in Hong Kong, Resorts World Sentosa in Singapore, Eureka Tower in Melbourne, World Trade Centre 3 in Beijing, Citic Square in Shanghai and the Indira Gandhi International Airport Terminal 3 in New Delhi.
With its fully integrated status MFT can optimize Meinhardt's full suite of capabilities for seamless delivery of high quality yet cost-effective designs and solutions. The addition of the facade engineering team from MFT enables Meinhardt to become one of the few multidisciplinary consultancies in the world to offer facade engineering, a rising professional discipline that is critical in the design of high performance and low-carbon buildings.
"MFT's integration under Meinhardt makes us on one of the few global consultancies that can offer a multidisciplinary team of such depth and breadth," said Dr Shahzad Nasim, Meinhardt's Global Chief Executive Officer. "In addition, the facade engineering business is now even better placed to develop and deliver the plans already in place to grow its international footprint."
"Facade engineering is progressively recognized as an integral part of the development process, which makes this point in Meinhardt's evolution all the more exciting," said Mathieu Meur, Managing Director of Meinhardt Facade Technology (MFT) International. "Meinhardt's facade team will continue to offer unparalleled service levels, combining the experience and expertise that our clients have come to expect."
-Ends-About Meinhardt
Meinhardt is one of the world's few multidisciplinary and truly integrated engineering, infrastructure and project management consulting firms. Since 1955, we have led the way in delivering innovative and highly buildable designs that always consider our clients' commercial objectives and global environmental concerns. We employ over 3,500 staff in more than 30 offices worldwide and have worked on some of the largest and most complex building and infrastructure projects. Clients look to us for end-to-end project consultancy ranging from feasibility study, master planning, detailed design, project management to delivery, which includes among other capabilities, construction supervision, and testing and commissioning.
Annually the Group consults on projects worth an estimated US$15 billion and ranks among the largest independent engineering consulting firms globally by revenue. Some of our key projects include Xintiandi (China); TAMAR Development (Hong Kong); Marina Bay Financial Centre (Singapore); MGM Grand Ho Tram Integrated Resort (Vietnam); The Dubai Mall (Dubai, UAE); Muscat International Airport (Oman); KL Sentral Station (Malaysia); Eureka Tower (Australia); and the Greater Bangalore Water Supply Distribution Network (India).
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