RIBA International Business Conference Winning & Delivering Work Together David Hunter 3rd March 14 Introduction Partnering for Success: ● Why do Clients want to engage International Consultants? ● What makes successful partnerships? ● Case Study – Dubai Metro ● Case Study – Jeddah Airport ● Conclusions 2 Why do Clients want International Consultants? ● Experience and capability not available locally ● International experience and best practice ● Strengthen local market by working collaboratively with local consultants ● Knowledge transfer to local market 3 What makes successful partnerships? A team capable of winning the project! ● Relevant experience – Domain knowledge and skills in sector ● Specialist expertise in particular areas ● People – Key staff to lead and appropriate staff to deliver ● Previous experience of working together ● Common goals, culture and behaviours ● Local knowledge 4 What makes successful partnerships? A team capable of delivering the project! ● Collaboration – Integrated and collocated team ● Organisation – ‘One Team’ identity and culture ● Rapid mobilisation ● Flexibility of staff and resources – local team and ability to respond to the unexpected ● The right people ● Openness, honesty and trust 5 Dubai Metro United Arab Emirates Full multidisciplinary design, design coordination of civil works including geotechnical & site investigations and construction supervision Dubai Metro Red and Green Lines: • 75km track, 10km in tunnels • 10 underground and 35 over ground stations • 3 maintenance depots. 7 Dubai Metro A key challenge was to integrate the specialist skills from Atkins' international offices to work with our local team on this tightly programmed project. Design Team Organisation Core Team in Dubai ● 200 strong Core Team in Dubai ● All disciplines with local interfaces and design requirements ● Aedas – 6 person team including Lead Architects ● Essential for communication, approvals and site queries Off shore Design ● Engineering – Atkins UK and India ● Architecture – Aedas UK and Singapore 8 Dubai Metro What worked well? ● Concept design - Aedas ● Establishing local design principles ● Design approvals – Architect participated fully ● Detailed design and site support delivered locally ● Core Team – Large enough to lead coordination Lessons Learnt ● Design coordination – Led by Architect ● Design development – control and coordinate ● Essential to have architects in Core Team 9 King Abdulaziz International Airport Saudi Arabia Architecture, multidisciplinary engineering design, special airport systems, design management, construction planning and scheduling, quantity surveying The PTB in context Passenger Terminal Building – Key facts and figures Euston Tower Capital value of $4.3 billion 30M PAX increasing to 80M PAX 1.3km by 1.0km 680,000m2 floor area 60 km of baggage handling system 150 no. escalators 60 no. travelators (3.6 km overall) 200 no. elevators 135 m high air traffic control tower (world’s tallest) Tottenham Court Road Station Passenger Terminal Building Design Production Team Saudi Arabia GACA/DAH Package Manager UK Team SBG Design Manager ZFP Arup USA Structures ArupAtkins Landscape Atkins Lead Atkins / P+W Consultant Architect Ghafari Atkins MEP Areen Areen Interior Design The Global Design Challenge +5:30 +3:00 0:00 -7:00 -5:00 The key challenges #3 Project North +4:00 NORTH Atkins Offices: London Bristol • Delivery of the architecture and MEP design in 300 Jeddah Dubai days Bahrain • Co-ordination of delivery teams across the world Abu Dhabi Qatar • Client 6000 km away! Tampa • Cultural understanding Phoenix Bangalore MAKKAH • Delivery of the structural design in 120 days Time Zones +5:30 +4:00 +3:00 0:00 -5:00 ATKINS OFFICES ARUP OFFICES New York New Jersey Boston Madrid San Francisco 13 -7:00 Arup Offices: Jeddah Airport A key challenge was coordinating and integrating the design being delivered by teams in different offices and in different countries. Design Team Organisation Core Team in UK ● ● ● 250 strong Core Team in UK Engineering and architectural design 80 strong Architectural team – 50 Pascal & Watson Local Team in Saudi Arabia ● ● ● Client interface Approvals Project Management 14 Jeddah Airport What worked well? ● ● ● ● ● Architect fully involved at bid stage Team played to their strengths P&W’s specialist domain knowledge e.g. Airport planning / Baggage handling Atkins presented technical outcomes to D&B contractor Architect led design coordination Lessons Learnt ‘One Team’ identity and culture very important - collocation ● Must build an integrated team ● Ownership of entire design by all ● Open communication, problems shared, no blame ● 15 Conclusions What makes successful partnerships? ● Understand what the Client wants ● Understand what you need to win ● Demonstrate strength of team to win - added value ● Adopt ‘One Team’ approach to delivery Communication + Collaboration + Coordination = Success 16 www.atkinsglobal.com
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