Dubai- Brazilian construction company Engeprot is getting ready to expand its business in Saudi Arabia and Libya. The company, which has had a unit in Dubai since 2004, is responsible for constructions like that of the Oasis Centre, and also for the Dubai metro parking building, hotels, schools, universities, hospitals and some skyscrapers that are part of the landscape of the emirate.
In Saudi Arabia, Engeprot already has an operations manager responsible for negotiating the construction of two building complexes, one covering an area of 500,000 square metres. In Libya, in turn, the company is participating in tenders for the execution of six works, including hotels, commercial and residential buildings and two universities.
In Brazil, the company has been in operation since 1989, headquartered in Curitiba, where it executed, for example, the construction of the Court of Audit. The company was also responsible for the construction of the parking building at Salgado Filho airport, in Porto Alegre, for the expansion of Iguatemi shopping centre, in Campinas, for the convention centre of the Hotel Internacional in Foz do Iguaçu and for Clube XV, in Santos, among other works.
The company works with prestressed concrete. “It makes the construction more resistant, is cheaper and faster to produce, as well as granting greater quality to the structure,” explained Engeprot owner Omar Khaled Hamaoui. Brazilian, Hamaoui has been living in Dubai for six years, since he opened the unit in the Middle East.
The businessman explains that he discovered the Arab market in 2002, when his wife showed him a construction to be developed in the Emirates. In the following year, he participated in the Big 5 Show, a building sector fair that takes place in Dubai every year, and, in 2004, inaugurated the Engeprot unit in the emirate.
On speaking about the building sector in the region, Hamaoui points out Abu Dhabi, in the Emirates, and the cities of Jeddah and Riyadh, in Saudi Arabia, as the main hubs for investment in the sector. “They are the great points of focus where it is worth investing,” he analyses.
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Tel: (+971) 42341317
E-mail: omar@engeprot.com.br
Site: www.engeprot.com.br
*Translated by Mark Ament
