Newsletter - ProjectsLink

March 2016 Issue 5
Newsletter
Projects Update
Letter from the Managing Director
“Whatever we accomplish belongs to our entire
group, a tribute to our combined effort”;
Walt Disney
Dear Colleagues, friends and partners, The Second
quarter of 2016 has started,
La Mer Project
North Peninsula activity has now
subsided due to substantial
completion, a balance 400 lm of
crown wall remains followed by
finalization of rock works post crown
wall to close. The Headland has
seen good progress once again
this month, we opted to progress
the main crown wall ahead of rock
works which allows early handover
of area to follow on Contractors,
this change in methodology proved
successful & early handover of
the Headland is on target. South
Peninsula has seen the completion
of South West Beach Groynes 2 & 3
with the commencement of Beach
reclamation, Groyne 1 is advancing
at great pace which should see
completion by end April 2016.
Crown wall has commenced on
South Peninsula South Revetment
following substantial completion of
Rock Works in this area.
Sieving has commenced onsite to
create Beach Sand to Engineers
Specification, this will be transported
to each beach on completion and
placed via Long Boom Excavators
to the required profiles. Estimated
completion date is June 2016
Deira Island Coastline Project
PLC major projects are on schedule. La Mer is at
88% progress, Burj Al Arab Piling and sheds replacement is 100% complete,
Al Hail Field @ 85%, and the other marine logistics projects adhering to the
supply schedules of Clients. Every member of this great team, from labors and
mechanics, The Bilal heavy duty operators, the marine crew, the construction
team up to the administration and management team; you are all recognized,
appreciated and should be proud for your role in La Mer, Burj Al Arab and all
other projects that have contributed to the new footprint of this great emirate –
Dubai;
I personally thank you all for succeeding to make Projects Link Contracting a
well-known name in the market for its capabilities and added value to Clients.
Confirmed by the award of our new project “Port La Mer”
During the Next Quarter you will receive appraisals results and appreciation for
your efforts, changes in the PLC Base (DWF) announcing new management;
added to continuously improving with Key personnel for all functions in
place; remapping of processes as part of the ERP, preparations for Integrated
Management System certification. Meanwhile, as part of the Group expansion,
we are reviewing marine construction projects in Ivory Coast, and Madagascar.
Be safe and Thank you for supporting Projects Link.
Khaled A Hamid
IMS Certification
Company is currently preparing for Integrated
Management System (IMS) certification
scheduled for third quarter 2016. The IMS is a
combination of three international standards –
ISO 9001: 2015 - Quality Management System,
ISO 14001: 2015 - Environmental Management
System and OHSAS 18001: 2007 - Occupational
Health and Safety Management System. In the
run up to the certification, we are realigning
existing processes and procedures to comply
with the international standards. Implementing those standards would facilitate
the company to continually improve upon safety, and reliability.
The Company is already certified to ISO 9001 since 2013.
Total quantity 1,447,000 Tons.
Delivered 286,002 Tons. Estimated
date of completion is July 2016
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Projects Update
LA Mer Project Celebrating
Two Million Safe Man Hours
AL Hail Field Development
Project
Rock Revetment works in A-A,
B-B, C-C sections, & crest works
in handed over areas is completed.
Estimated completion date is May
2016
Burj Al Arab Shed Project
Burj Al Arab Piling Project
The main achievement in March 2016 has been
the completion of 2 Million Safe Man Hours
without Lost Time Incident for LA Mer Project.
The milestone achievement was celebrated on
31st March 2016 at 5:00 P.M with approximately
400 employees from both day & night shifts.
Meraas, Sogreah and other contractors joined the
celebration. Certificates and prizes were awarded
to the safety nominated workers & supervisors.
Company also received n letter of appreciation from
Meraas on achieving this milestone.
Mr. Ian Roberts, Sogreah Sr. Resident Engineer
congratulated and appreciated the efforts of Projects Link, a theme echoed by
Mr. Andrew Scott, LA Mer Project Manager, in his address. Also Mr. Vinod Brutus,
Health & Safety Manager added “Our client and consultant involvement and
support on the Health and Safety matters is always outstanding. The guidelines
and encouragement from them together with Projects Link employee’s effort has
driven us to 2 Million Safe Man Hours”.
Archirodon Rock Supply,
Zirku Island
Total quantity received of aggregates
& dune sand is156,993 Tons. Total
quantity loaded 153,338 Tons,
Supplies /Loading 7,500 Tons /
Month. Estimated date of completion
is May 2016
Podium dignitaries: Mr. Ian Roberts & Mr. Andrew Scott
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Al Hail Feild Development:
Safety Award Distribution Ceremony
Projects Update
Archirodon Rock Supply,
Das Island
Total requirement 802,176 Tons.
Total received 772,260.79 Tons. Total
Loaded 661,427 Tons. Estimated
completion date is May 2016
Hyundai Rock Supply, Satah
Al Razboot
Total quantity 370,238 Tons. Total
received 23,800 Tons. Estimated
date of completion is March 2017
Meet Projects Link
New Staff
Human Resources
Health & Safety
The award ceremony was held on
the 22nd February, 2016 under the
slogan on “Safety First & Always”.
The main purpose of this ceremony
is to enhance the safety culture
among all and to encourage them
to adopt and implement it at site.
Mr. Carmello PullIdo; (HSE ADOC),
and Mr. Garry Garzon; (Marine
Supervisor, ADOC) were the chief
guests to distribute the awards
for the nominated members.
Certificates of appreciation were given to the safest men for the month of
February based on their behavior and discipline, instruction follow up, compliance
to PPE, safe approach to work and contribution to reporting unsafe conditions.
For the man of the month, certificates of appreciation were given to Abdul Ghaffar,
Bandan Kuman Nath, Buddhiman Tamang, and Radhakrishnan Pillai. This month
AL hail Field Development project team reached 0.82 Million Safe Man Hours
without any lost time incident.
Hitting 1,000 Followers on Linkedin
We have recently exceeded 1,000 followers of our Linkedin
company page “Projects link” - A great achievement!
The aim of the page is to keep people up to date by promoting
our important news and showcase our current ongoing projects.
Thank you our followers for liking, commenting and sharing our
posts helping us reach this milestone.
Training on the efficient usage of RTK
systems
Didik Purwantoro
Master
Marine & Plant Department
Abhilashkumar Unnikrishnan
Store Keeper
Purchase Department
In order to reduce the number of Real Time
Kinematic breakdowns, a training session has
been conducted on the 17th March 2016 by Mr.
Muhammad Kaleem Khalid, Senior Land Surveyor.
The main purpose of this training is to
reinforce the procedures of using RTK system
which are used by operators on the machines for
rock placing and excavation. Targeted audience
were operators of 16 long boom excavators, Site
Engineers, Section Head, Survey Chief and Lead
QA/QC Engineer.
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