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It has taken a long time but it seems the peculiarly American practice of employing a project manager (PM) to run large-scale civil construction works has taken root in the Gulf.
Two decades ago, outsourcing the management of major projects to specialist contractors was unheard of outside the oil and gas sector in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the UAE.
Today, the scene has changed considerably While oil and gas continues to provide the core business for PMs, a boom in major building and infrastructure projects in the UAE, particularly Dubai, has opened up a new market for contractors.
The sheer scale of some of these projects makes them ideal for PMs. Where client organisations seldom have the expertise needed to deal with the challenges presented by massive civil construction projects, giant American contractors such as Bechtel and Parsons Brinckerhoff International have become masters of the art.
In delivering huge construction projects around the world, these...
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