CONSTRUCTION
WEEK QATAR
AWARDS 2013
CONSULTANT OF THE
YEAR AWARD
ENGINEER OF THE
YEAR AWARD
PROJECT MANAGER OF
Three of the eleven Construction Week Qatar
awards went to KEO including Engineer of the Year,
Project Manager of the Year and the highly coveted
Consultant of the Year
KEO Bags 3 Awards at
Qatar Construction Event
Doha, Qatar - The buzz surrounding the 2013 Construction Week Awards didn’t disappoint last night at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Doha, Qatar. In its usual glitzy fashion the region’s best architecture, construction and engineering professionals paid tribute to the very best talent in Qatar’s booming construction industry.
The most notable series of awards singled out KEO International Consultants, one of the GCC’s most well-known firms, for their substantial contributions to the country’s development and particularly the accomplishments they have made in the last 12 months. Next year marks KEO’s 50th year and certainly some of the most successful achievements have been in the State of Qatar where KEO have been active for over 25 years. Industry peers placed special significance on the firm’s impressive contributions in the fields of architectural design, infrastructure engineering and project management in their choices for the 2013 awards. The judges noted that KEO has been
involved in numerous award winning projects from Education City’s Campus that includes Sidra Medical Center, QP’s District Project, The Pearl, Qatar’s growing road networks and waste water treatment plants.
Donna Sultan, KEO’s CEO and recipient of last year’s ‘Executive of the Year’ honor, stated, “It was an extraordinary night for KEO. It is a true honor to have been selected by our peers for so many awards. We owe our Qatar success to working with incredibly important clients. We are deeply grateful for being allowed to serve government as well as private sector clients in Qatar”. Sultan added, “Qatar has remained a very important market for us from the day we opened our first office here. KEO is very thankful for the opportunities Qatar has presented our firm over the years, we look forward to helping the Qatar leadership fulfill their ambitious goals in the years to come.”
Construction Week Qatar Awards - Grand Hyatt Hotel, Doha Qatar
KEO wins
Consultant of
the Year Award
KEO International Consultants won the
consultant of the year award at last
night’s Construction Week Awards Qatar
2013 event.
Judges commented that the company was leading the way in Doha and supporting the local vision. The company has worked on some of Qatar’s main projects, including the Pearl, Education City and QP District.
“Among the winner’s work there is a pattern of consistently high-quality, sound advice and fairness,” said one judge.
Raphael Khlat, CEO of Faisal Jassim Trading Company, a category sponsor of the event, presented the award to KEO’s chief executive officer, Donna Sultan.
“It’s an absolutely gob-smacking honour to win the award,” she said.
“You just have to look at what an illustrious shortlist there was for these awards to see what it means, we respect all of them so much. “So to be recognised by your peers amongst that company – I don’t think it gets much better than that. We are just very honoured to win the award.”
Atkins was highly commended in the category.
KEO wins hat-trick of
awards at 2013 CWQ
Awards
KEO International Consultants swept
the board at the Construction Week
Qatar Awards 2013, winning three of the
evening’s 11 awards.
Norman Taylor, senior project manager, won the Project Manager of the Year, with judges noting his ‘excellent leadership skills’ and praising him as ‘an advocate of cohesive working between all disciplines and levels’.
Ibrahim Jaidah, CEO of Arab Engineering Bureau, presented the award to Taylor.
His colleague, Mohammed Jaber, KEO’s head of electrical engineering in Doha, beat off stiff competition to win the Engineer of the Year. Jaber won plaudits for his commitment to the future of Qatar through the use sustainable and green initiatives, while one judge said ‘the quality of their engineering design remains outstanding.’ He was also praised by one judge for using knowledge and experience to make calculated decisions and delivering quality work.
Martin Richard-Parrot, general manager of ETA Star, one of the event’s gold sponsors, presented Jaber with the award.
Linden Stephens of Hyder Consulting was highly commended by the judging panel, and was praised as having carried out sterling work and leading from the front to improve Doha’s infrastructure.
KEO wrapped up its third award of the
evening in the Consultant of the Year category. Judges said the firm had stood out over the last 12 months, leading the way in Doha and supporting the local vision.
Faisal Jassim sponsored the category, with its CEO Raphael Khlat presenting the award.
The three KEO recipients of the Construction Week Qatar 2013 Awards Norman Taylor accepts the Project manager of the Year Award, at Construction Week Qatar 2013 Awards
Construction Week Qatar Awards - Grand Hyatt Hotel, Doha Qatar
KEO’s Mohammed
Jaber wins engineer
of the year
Mohammed Jaber, from KEO
International Consultants, was named
the engineer of the year at last night’s
Construction Week Awards Qatar 2013
event.
One judge said ‘the quality of Jaber’s
engineering design remains outstanding.’ Jaber was also praised by a judge for using knowledge and experience to make calculated decisions and deliver quality work.
Martin Richard-Parrot, general manager of ETA Star, a gold sponsor of the event, presented the award to Jaber.
“I’d like to thank the company for nominating me and for believing in my work, he said. “They believe in my ability. I have done quite a bit on sustainability and the company is very supportive of those initiatives and lobby for them”
“You have to take the initiative to make things happen.”
Linden Stephens of Hyder Consulting was highly commended in the category.
In its third year, this edition of the awards was supported by platinum sponsor Hyder Consulting and gold sponsors FAMCO. A selection of independent industry experts judged the award. The top entries from Qatar will go on to compete against others from across the GCC, in the final of the Construction Week Awards 2013, held in Dubai in December.
