Al Masaood Bergum (AMB), a leading supplier of prefabricated steel and timber frame buildings in the Middle East, has recorded the most successful year in its history during which it witnessed a doubling of its turnover.

“2007 was an incredible year for the business with 101 per cent increase in turnover, resulting in the most successful year to date for the company with significant contracts awarded and delivered across Europe and the Middle East,” says Steve McConnachie, AMB’s group general manager.
AMB, which focuses on designing, planning and executing cost-effective, quality projects on time and within budget, has four production facilities across Doha, Dubai and Abu Dhabi, with the fifth facility is due to open in Autumn 2008 in Dubai Investments Park.
McConnachie continues: “We will be expanding each factory, both in terms of upgrades and automation, and the Doha and Abu Dhabi facilities will be the first of the AMB sites to introduce a new cold-rolling production system, giving us another edge over our competitors.
“We are setting a new benchmark in the Middle East and we will continue to raise the bar by delivering excellent results for our clients through supplying high-quality products and services; by providing the best building solutions available on the market; and by further developing and diversifying our services according to our customers’ wants and needs.”
2008 sees AMB celebrating 30 years of success in business, not just through manufacturing an excellent product, but also by attracting and retaining the right people for the job. Employee numbers are now touching 3,400, and it is estimated that 4,000 people will be at AMB by the end of the year – so health and safety play a pivotal role in the everyday management of the company.
AMB has recently been commended by the UAE governing bodies within the construction industry for both its specialist contract work and health and safety records. In Qatar, AMB have received safety excellence awards from RasGas and Fluor Mideast for its contribution to the COP Project’s 20 million man-hours without Lost Time Incidents (LTI).
“The beginning of the year is an excellent time for everyone in the construction industry to look at new and practical ways to improve individual, and company, safety records. Our aim is to ensure that we have the correct balanced integration of safety within our commercial business arrangements and we again look forward to record numbers of man-hours without LTI,” states McConnachie.
 “A great many companies pay lip service to the idea of quality. We at AMB do much more that; we believe that, whilst having our quality systems certified to an international standard is important, the proof of our commitment to quality is measured more in repeat business from satisfied customers,” he concludes.