Currie & Brown delivers PPP school project
The development is the first school PPP project in Abu Dhabi to be delivered through the ADIO PPP procurement framework
Currie & Brown has provided contract management services for Abu Dhabi’s first public-private partnership (PPP) schools project – which has now been successfully completed, the firm said.
Three of the state-of-the-art schools under the programme were inaugurated on 11 September in Abu Dhabi’s Zayed City by Abu Dhabi Investment Office (ADIO), in collaboration with the Abu Dhabi Department of Education and Knowledge (ADEK) and a multinational consortium led by Plenary Group and Besix Group.
The development is the first school PPP project in Abu Dhabi to be delivered through the ADIO PPP procurement framework. The project will provide 5,360 school places in Zayed City, across new school campuses for boys and girls from kindergarten to cycle three.
Currie & Brown acted as the contract manager for ADEK. It also partnered with a fellow member of the Sidara Collaborative, Dar, to act as a technical adviser, ensuring the highest standards of design and construction, the firm noted.
Craig McInnes, Currie & Brown’s Abu Dhabi Lead Senior Director said, “Through our UK and UAE teams working together, we were able to bring our global expertise to this project to deliver a fantastic learning environment for more than 5,000 children. We’re excited to play a major part in Abu Dhabi Investment Offices’ first schools PPP project, and we hope to see more developments in the region using this delivery model.”
The company’s work spans the design and construction phases. Its team in the UAE worked in close collaboration with their UK colleagues, who are said to have decades of experience in contract management. This regional contract management expertise allowed Currie & Brown to successfully execute project completion on time, meeting the unique challenges of a PPP.
