Mott MacDonald has been awarded a project management contract for the first UAE float glass plant by Dubai Investments and a select group of regional investors.

The $200 million plant will produce 600 tonnes of float glass daily, primarily to service the region’s booming construction markets.
The new Emirates Float Glass (EFG) factory will be located in Abu Dhabi’s Industrial City. It will operate around the clock to produce around 160,000 tonnes of glass annually.
State-of-the-art features, such as a pyrolytic (high temperature coating) facility, an automatic cullet (automatic sorting technology for different colour glass) recovery, optional on-line soft coater and an automated cutting end section tool, have been incorporated in the design to produce a wide product mix.
To meet the growing requirements of the construction and auto industry, the plant will produce tinted and pyrolytic coated glass, in various sizes, ranging between two and 12 mm in thickness and up to 3,210 mm in width.
Mott MacDonald’s project management team begins work with the turnkey contractor (Ianua from Italy) early this month. It will be responsible for checking design and quality control; programming/planning and scheduling; project progress, including reporting, certification, payments, cost control and insurance; as well as contract management.
The plant is expected to be complete by December 2007.
Gordon Turley, who signed the contract on behalf of Mott MacDonald, says: “We are delighted to be assisting Dubai Investments on this strategically important project. We project managed a similar factory in Cairo in the 1990s and look forward to demonstrating our professional excellence in this area.”
Mott MacDonald is a world-class consultancy delivering solutions that add value to many areas of everyday life – from transport, energy, building, water and the environment to health and education, industry and communications. It is a wholly independent, employee-owned company with a turnover of £515 million ($966 million) and 9,000 staff working in more than 100 countries.