Mechanical and Civil Engineering Contractors Company Limited (MACE) with its years of expertise in construction and maintenance is all set to play a pivotal role in this fast growing segment. It prides itself on being the 'Centre of Excellence' in the landscape, construction, operation and maintenance fields in the Middle East and as such is playing a part in meeting the growing needs of a rapidly evolving socioeconomic environment.
With its headquarters in Abu Dhabi, it provides a vast range of services to municipalities and oil companies. An ISO 9001:2001 accredited company; MACE complies with the current international standards and continually strives to improve its effectiveness and efficiency.
Since its establishment in 1968, by William Haddad, as a partnership in Libya, MACE provides a vast range of its services covering all areas of oil field development and maintenance for cross country pipelines, flow lines, pump stations and plant turn around.
In keeping with a policy of regional expansion, MACE branched into the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Eastern Province, where in 1979 it began major pipeline work for gas, oil and water for Government Ministries and ARAMCO.
Mace's scope of work includes civil and building works such as power and desalination stations, structural steel warehouses and pumping stations requiring multistage dewatering. The group also builds hospitals, residential buildings requiring high quality finishing, parks and decorative fences, concrete and storage pumps.
This diversified construction group played an instrumental role in establishing the developing infrastructure of cities in the UAE, including sewerage and water distribution networks, industrial building and hospital construction, turnkey structural steel warehousing and operation and maintenance of sewage treatment works. It also introduced innovative engineering methods such as the 'cathodic' protection of subterranean concrete structures, sewer surveys and sewer rehabilitation.
It has gained an excellent reputation for comprehensive maintenance service of refineries, gas plants, housing and office services as well as catering to isolated areas over 500 km into the Libyan Desert.
For its various operations MACE operates a comprehensive fleet of heavy construction equipment including cranes, excavators, pressure and suction tankers, bulldozers, shovels, rollers, backhoes and complete sets of pumps and dewatering equipment for ground water control. The equipment is routinely checked on a rotational basis to ensure optimum running performance and minimise down time.
The goals of this company are to achieve quality and excellence in all its contracts. Customer satisfaction is the most important goal so it leaves no stone unturned to ensure that customers are always happy. The Company protects its brand through developing a successful supply chain and continuing to develop capabilities.
Mace believes in the values of leadership, direction and effective communication. Change is the key for success and competition is vital, this is why its managers are receptive to new ideas.
With a vision to build on its pioneering efforts in the contracting and construction sector, MACE conducts regular workshops and modules in order to train and develop their staff and personnel so as to improve personal competency. Employees are encouraged to establish measurable quality objectives at each relevant function.
Safety is MACE's ultimate objective so it is natural that the elimination or adequate control of hazards at work is inseparable from all other main objectives. All employees are given a 'Health and Safety Handbook'. The health and safety handbook covers all the identified hazards in accordance with general risk assessment. In-house safety induction is provided through regular memorandums and circulations, accidents and incidents, propaganda and general safety group discussions.
As part of the privatisation process of the Abu Dhabi Municipality, MACE was awarded a 5 year Operation & Maintenance contract to operate and maintain the entire sewerage, storm water drainage & irrigation networks of Abu Dhabi Island. (Renewable for the sewerage section only) A division of the contract is allocated to Civil & Emergency works.
MACE operation and maintenance division operates a 24-hour call centre, which includes two emergency telephone lines (02-448-9100) and a fax line (02-448-9298), which are also available to customers (residents of Abu Dhabi).
In addition to the O&M network contract, MACE has also been recently awarded a 3 year contract by the Public Gardens Department to develop and landscape a proportionate region of Abu Dhabi state and surrounding islands. With more emphasis on creating greener environments MACE is keen to explore innovative and diverse trends.
With the government's aim to transform the nation with mammoth infrastructure projects ranging from new airports, landscaped green spaces industrial units, towns, roads, towers and more, MACE is going to be busy building for many years to come.