Bukaka: Indonesia's biggest heavy industry companies

Commencing in 1978, from a small scale operation with only twelve employees and a single product line, this company has grown into a multi-million dollar company with thousand of employees. Pioneer in the line of its genuine businesses, PT Bukaka Teknik Utama’s main activities cover the engineering and manufacturing of infra-structure related products and services.

The focus and strength of the company lie with its continuing and innovating experience in serving the rapid national development of the most important support sectors, namely energy transportation, and communication. The challenging enormous demand for the infra-structure, strives the company to keep its attention to the ongoing innovation competing world-wide.



This is a company with breakthroughs of utilizing the maximum use of its productive personnel and continuous efficiency improvement to the attainable level of innovation.

The company is opened to all opportunities that promote efficiency in such a spread-wise area of activities. Though delivery as the final stage of operation is executed in an efficient and economical manner, the company keeps its improving process, even it has to invite and or to cooperate with expertises.

This is a company which implements the objective function of the good corporate governance. Governing the internal audit implementation to meet the objectives of good cooperate governance is totally inseparable.

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Saudi Building Industries Exhibition big success

More than 200 exhibitors at the Saudi Building Industries Exhibition, which ended at the Jeddah Center for Forums & Events on Thursday night, reported a huge number of business deals running into millions of riyals.

“We can’t quantify the exact value of the business transacted at the expo, but the deals signed or those in the pipeline suggest that there has been record business,” Oguz Kuyumcu of Export Promotion Center of Turkey, which organized the Turkish participation, told Arab News.

Similar sentiments were expressed by Justin Liu, export manager of Jiangyin BondTape Technology Corporation of China, while speaking on behalf of the Chinese group.

Malaysia, with a number of its companies, was among one of the major overseas exhibitors.

Jeddah Gov. Prince Mishaal bin Majed opened the expo on Monday.

The exhibitors included 100 local companies who are agents or suppliers of building materials and equipment.

Most of the exhibitors said they were more than satisfied with the participation as the visitors were mainly businessmen, professionals or traders.

“The exhibition provided us the right platform to introduce our products and also study the local requirement," Jean Howiller, director of development of France-based Mathis SA, said.

“There have been many inquiries for our building designs and systems, and equipment for sports and cultural centers, and infrastructure for malls and other commercial ventures.”

Jeddah’s Insulation Factory Ltd, producer of thermal insulations and packing solutions for the building industry, was among the many local exhibitors.

Its senior executive Adam Al-Tabei, said while demand for the factory’s products continued to grow “we received export orders for Sudan, Lebanon and other countries at this exhibition.”

Its products include thermal insulations and a wide range of sheets and products for roof and wall insulations.

Visitors at the exhibition, who included engineers, architects, consultants and designers, said they found some of the exhibits new and timely, and hoped they would be useful for the Kingdom’s booming real estate sector.

"After all, Saudi Arabia has a $400 billion development program that includes new cities, airports, schools and hospitals, a rail link and a huge program for building domestic properties for its ever growing population," said Zahoor Siddique, vice president of exhibitions at Al-Harithy Company for Exhibitions, which organized the annual event.

The wide range of exhibits included all kinds of building materials including hardware, climate control, construction equipment and tools, electricity and lighting, environmental conservation, marble, granite and stone technology, safety, security and fire prevention, water technology and waste management.

A symposium related to the construction industry was also held alongside the 20th edition of the exhibition, with experts deliberating on quality control.

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Erdogan unveils vast canal project

Turkey plans to build a vast waterway to relieve congestion in Istanbul’s Bosphorus Strait, Turkey’s Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday, a week into the campaign for June’s parliamentary election.

Speaking at a glitzy event to mark the government’s vision for 2023, the centenary of the republic, Erdogan unveiled plans to redraw the map in his home town in what he called a “crazy project” which also involves building a third airport there.

“Istanbul will become a city with two seas passing through,” Erdogan, a former mayor of Istanbul, said in a presentation that lasted around an hour and was broadcast live.

“We are building the canal of the century, a project of such immense size that it can’t be compared to Panama or Suez canals.”

He said the canal would be some 45-50 km (28-31 miles) in length, 150 meters (492 feet) wide at the surface, and have a depth of 25 meters (82 feet).

The canal to be built on the European side of Istanbul will link the Black Sea with the Marmara Sea, and will be large enough for supertankers up to 300,000 dwt to pass through.

“Istanbul will become a city with two peninsulas and an island,” Erdogan said.

“The first peninsula already exists: the Asian side. The island will be formed between the canal and the Bosphorus when it cuts through the city, leaving a peninsula on the west.”

The aim is to relieve congestion through the Bosphorus Strait and reduce chances of an environmental disaster as tankers carrying oil and gas from Russia and Central Asia pass through the waterway separating the Asian and European halves of Istanbul.

“We are going to put an end to the heavy burden of traffic on the Bosphorus. Our aim is for between 130 and 160 ships passing through the Canal Istanbul,” Erdogan said.

The planned third airport for Istanbul will have capacity for 60 million passengers annually, he said.

The value of the projects were not given, but Erdogan expected to raise financing easily.

Kemal Kilicdaroglu, leader of the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), said it was a scheme to enrich AK Party cronies.

“This country needs men who think and produce, but not crazy men. This project is not about people. It’s about making AK Party supporters rich,” the CHP leader said.

Having run the country since 2002, Erdogan’s AK Party is expected to secure a third term of single party rule when the country votes in general elections on June 12.

Opinion polls suggest a victory of similar margin to the 2007 result, when the AK scored 46.4 percent of the vote.

During Erdogan’s tenure Turkey has passed through a period of unprecedented prosperity, that has given confidence to a country once seen as one of Europe’s poor relations.

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Makkah Gate project includes university

The Makkah Gate project along the Makkah-Jeddah Highway will include a university, medical city and an administrative district, the city’s mayor Osama Al-Bar said on Tuesday.

The project, covering 83 square kilometers, is being implemented by Bawaba Company, an affiliate of Al-Balad Al-Amin Company, which is fully owned by the Makkah Mayoralty. The project will be completed in 15 years and in several phases.

Al-Bar discussed on Tuesday the project with Bakri Assas, president of Umm Al-Qura University in Makkah, in the presence of managing director of Al-Balad Al-Amin Essam Kulthoum, and Muhammad Saifuddin, chairman of Omraniyun consultancy firm.

They also discussed the prospects of establishing a partnership between the university and the company to serve Makkah residents.

“We want to make reality the dream of (Makkah Gov.) Prince Khaled Al-Faisal to make Makkah a city with advanced facilities on par with those in other world-class cities,” the mayor said.

Al-Balad Al-Amin recently signed a series of agreements with the private sector to implement major residential, commercial, health and cultural projects in the area in the presence of Prince Khaled.

A residential district project will be established east of the government department complex, a company official said, adding that it will cover more than a million square meters. It will be developed by Sumou Holding, a leading real estate company.

A similar project with commercial and residential facilities will be carried out on an area of 3 million square meters north of the Jeddah-Makkah Expressway. Sheikh Ibrahim Afandi Group is the developer.

A charitable hospital to treat cancerous tumors will be established on the northwestern part of the expressway by a group of businessmen led by Abdul Rahman Faqeeh. An agreement was also signed for a cultural and knowledge center with Rawafid Charitable Foundation.

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Doha to host tall building summit

Doha will host a key conference on tall buildings in June as Qatar prepares to build the necessary accommodation facilities for the 2022 World Cup.

Qatar has allocated $12.4 billion for the construction of accommodation to cater for the influx of international professionals drafted in to prepare Doha for the World Cup.

In addition, approximately 80,000 hotel rooms will be required for the 1.4 million visitors expected to descend on Doha during the four-week event.

As such, an estimated 800 towers (more than 20 storeys) of residential apartments, commercial premises, hotel accommodation and mixed-use structures are planned for completion in Doha over the next 10 years to provide the necessary high-density accommodation and commercial real estate, principally in the West Bay area, said a report.

In order to develop tower projects through the planning and consultation processes, the complexities of designing, constructing and operating tall buildings must first be addressed. A lack of stakeholder collaboration from the start of the development could result in an increased risk of technical faults and could compromise the integrity of the final delivery, experts said.

The wind, in particular, can compromise fundamental design aspects of super tall structures such as shape, height, suitability for occupancy and the amount of 'useable' space; and can create undesirable wind tunnels at ground level, they said.

Alf Seeling, design director at Woods Bagot, will review best practices methods to mitigate against the effect of the wind at the Tall Buildings Middle East summit.

Transforming facades for super tall towers to withstand tremendous wind forces and increase sustainability is also a critical element of the building concept and Marshall Strabala, chief architect at 2DEFINE Architecture, will discus the benefits of the innovative Shanghai Tower double skin facade design.

Alf and Marshall will be joined by Omar Al-Farouk Al-Damluji, structural design manager at Parsons; and Tony Marshallsay, chief mechanical engineer and Rukn Eldeen Mohammed, senior projects manager at Omrania and Associates; to review best practice solutions for overcoming the shared technical challenges of building tall.

In partnership with Qatar Society on Engineers, Middle East Facilities Management Association (MEFMA) and Institute of Structural Engineers, IQPC Middle East will be hosting this summit at the Oryx Rotana in Qatar between June 19 - 22 in order to bring together stakeholders within local and international tall building projects.

Key confirmed speakers include representatives from Barwa, Tameer Holdings, Gensler, RMJM and Arup. A full line-up of attending experts and senior speakers plus the agenda are available at http://www.tallbuildingsme.com

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