GAC Warehouse and Office Facility, DWC

GAC Dubai is one of the region’s leading logistics, shipping and marine services companies, operating several facilities throughout Dubai and the Middle East. GAC was one of the first foreign companies to set up in Dubai in the late 1960s, and since then it has become a market leader across the shipping, logistics and marine service sectors. GAC’s Corporate Head Office is located in Dubai, in the Jebel Ali Free Zone.

45,000

Pallet Spaces

20

Metre High Racking

20,000

㎡

Size

The Project

The project was a design and build construction of a new 20,000 square meter, climatecontrolled warehouse and a G+2 executive office block located at Dubai South. The warehouse facility included a 20 meter-high narrow aisle racking which added 45,000 pallet spaces to GAC Dubai’s operational capacity. The mezzanine floors of the warehouse were fitted out as office space, workers facilities and a re packaging facility. This project was the new additional to one of several locations of GAC, so this project had to match in terms of design and style its other structures, while being operationally suited to its purpose.

Our Appointment

We were appointed in February of 2017, at the beginning of the construction phase of the project. Our appointment was made to recover the project, which had previously been stalled. Our immediate course of action was to work to effectively resolve delays and mitigate further risks to the project from the outset of our involvement. We carried the project through from that point to design approval process and to realign the projects’ trajectory with the client’s expectations and newly revised budget and timeline. We managed multiple stakeholders in the process and filled in gaps in appointments such as the lack of a design consultant.

The Benefit

When a project requires recovery, our benefit goes well beyond the project’s completion. Bringing the project to successful fruition also means helping the client manage costs to accommodate and mitigate against the cost that the delays and hindrances have surfaced. As a design & build project with the unusual challenge of not having a design consultant appointed, we took on the responsibility of assuring that the design process was handled with the time and attention that is necessary. Due to our advice and guidance, we were able to successfully deliver this facility, which met both authority and end user requirements while still delivering against project programs and budgets.