GCC a new name in general contracting but with a history and a wealth of expenence. The general contracting industry throughout the Gulf and particularly in Saudi Arabia, is facing an unprecedented boom. Mega projects abound in all fields and all requiring the services of suitably qualified contractors. Until now, with but few exceptions, the local contracting industry could not respond effectively to the degree required. With the above circumstances in mind, several forward-looking local contracting entities agreed to pool their experience and resources with a view to forming a general contracting company with the power to meet the present and future demands in the region for a strong locally based company. Thus was born GCC, having the benefit of local knowledge and experience together with a powerful history of construction over the past 50 years or so, however the focus is strongly towards the future.
The constituent companies include the construction arms of FAFCO-PETCON (Abdullah Fouad), Abdullah H. Al-Shuwayer, Al-Tamimi plus Al-Jabr Trading. Collectively , this grouping has experience throughout the full spectrum of the industrial construction market to include all aspects of building, civil, structural, mechanical, electrical and instrumentation disciplines and also including a strong background in the specialist pipeline and steel fabrication fields.
Much of this extensive historical in-Kingdom experience has been built serving Saudi Aramco -the national oil company and the largest oil corporation in the world, Saudi Electricity Company (SEC) -the national electrical energy supplier and Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC) -currently one of the largest global producers of petrochemicals via their multiple in-Kingdom affiliated companies,ensuring that the experience so gained was to the highest standards.
GCC constituent companies have shown a quality initiative and to be thus recognized as worthy holders of ISO 9001:2000, plus the added value of ASME certificates of authorization for code stamps and the National Board where appropriate.
The objective of this merger exercise remains as originally envisaged via early discussions, i.e. "To harness the joint and varied attributes of the main companies involved, in order to build a general contracting company with a well diversified capability and of sufficient stature and experience to be able to undertake the scale and scope of the large industrial plant and related construction projects currently planned in the region and beyond."
Under one unified organization we intend to operate as three divisions within Saudi Arabia (1) GCC Plant Construction, (2) GCC Pipeline Construction and (3) Transport & Equipment Rental, although we anticipate considerable interplay between the divisions in order to cater to targeted projects. Via these divisions we shall be targeting the larger multidiscipline industrial projects as currently planned both in-Kingdom and elsewhere in the Gulf.