Qatar trusts ACCIONA with important services

ACCIONA Service has been selected in recent months to perform the management of auxiliary services for the Argentine, Peruvian and Paraguayan embassies, as wells as cleaning and waste management for three big hospitals and around 50 medical centers owned by the Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC), in Qatar. These contracts add to others awarded to ACCIONA over the past year to provide a diverse range of services in hotels, schools and museums.

ACCIONA Service began operating in Qatar in 2013, when  it signed an association agreement with GSSG (Ghanim Bin Saad Alsaad & Sons Group Holdings), an important company in the trade, engineering, aviation, education, information technology and automobile sectors. Now ACCIONA Service is a benchmark for the provision of non-core business services for public and private clients in the country.

ACCIONA has entered the Qatari hospital services sector in partnership with HMC

Active in health care

In the hospital sector, through its participation in ACCIONA-GSSG Facility Services, the Company  won the contract for cleaning and waste management at Al Wakrah, Al Khor and Dukhan hospitals, as well as at two emergency pediatric centers, five health centers and 50 emergency medical services centers, all belonging to HMC. It is also servicing HMC’s central warehouse. ACCIONA Service will also provide kitchen auxiliary services at Hamad General Hospital and the new Hamad Medical City. The total worth of the contracts is 145 million Qatar riyals and they are to last for five years, employing over 500 people. ACCIONA has thus entered the Qatar hospital sector in partnership with HMC, the main public health entity in the State of Qatar and which is attached to the Ministry of Health.  

Diplomacy in hand

Three embassies —those of Argentina, Peru and Paraguay— have trusted ACCIONA with the management of their auxiliary services. In the case of the Argentine and Peruvian embassies, ACCIONA is entrusted with integrated management, i.e. the Facility Management of all its services for one year (renewable), from maintenance and cleaning to even disinfection and control of plagues. The Paraguayan embassy has also asked ACCIONA to perform the cleaning and disinfection and pest control work.

Back to school

Among other recent contracts, the Company through its subsidiary in August 2014 became the provider of auxiliary services for three of the most prestigious education centers in Qatar, two of them belonging to the Sherborne International School and the other to the Finland-Qatar International School, all in Doha. The contracts, of two years’ duration, cover the integrated management of cleaning, waste management, gardening and security services, and full maintenance of buildings (classrooms, laboratories and libraries) and other installations such as sports facilities. Indeed, in the Qatari educational sector, ACCIONA Service has a large portfolio of clients, including the SEK International School, to which it has been providing full support services since September 2013.

The Company became a supplier of auxiliary services for three prestigious educational centers in August 2014

Five-star services

ACCIONA-GSSG also provides auxiliary services to the hotel sector, the highlight being the contract signed with Al Diyafa Hotel Apartments, a five-star luxury establishment in the heart of the Al-Sadd district. The services, which ACCIONA-GSSG began performing in October 2014, include cleaning of public areas as well as bedrooms, and managing the integrated maintenance of the facilities.

MUSEUMS THAT COME ALIVE

ACCIONA Producciones y Diseño (Productions and Design), a part of ACCIONA Service, has in recent years notably increased its activity in the Middle East with projects in Qatar. Two of the most important are for Doha’s Museum of Islamic Art and the Qatar Orientalist Museum, at which the company has put on several exhibitions. In the next few months, a new museum project carried out by ACCIONA Producciones y Diseño will open, “Msheireb Downtown Doha Heritage Houses”. This involves the development of a complex of four thematic museums located in traditional Qatari houses, for which APD has undertaken the technical development and curatorial work. These museums, owned by the Qatar Foundation, will together form one of the main attractions in the restored quarter of Msheireb Downtown Doha. Once the renovation of the quarter has been completed in 2016, the district will become Qatar’s center of government and culture. ACCIONA Producciones y Diseño has also been responsible for several temporary exhibitions in the country. Two of these were in the Museum of Islamic Art: one dedicated to the diplomat, Hans Ludwig von Kuefstein, “Heritage of Art Diplomacy: Memoirs of an Ambassador”, and another on pilgrimage to Mecca, “Hajj: The Journey through Art”. A third took place at the Al Riwarq Exhibition Hall, entitled “The Art of Travel: Bartholomäus Schachman (1559-1614)”. Also this year, for the first time, ACCIONA Producciones y Diseño put on an audiovisual spectacular in Qatar. The Ali Bin Ali Group chose the company to launch its Katara Plaza commercial, cultural and leisure complex with a presentation for the media, international investors and top fashion professionals.

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