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Though the country will probably be always modest in scope, the potential for the areas of construction in which the company has proven itself – hotels, multi-use complexes, and airports – present a horizon of possible new developments.
“Oman is beautiful – the country is upgrading the airport, and tourism will definitely be on the up there,” he believes. “The kind of work that happened in Oman we feel suits what we are looking at.”
He emphasises that choosing new countries in which to expand needs to be done with care. It is partly down to the demand in the market and also assessing what that market needs next.
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“Pretty much our strategy is to follow select clients into specialist knowledge into areas of operation. ALEC has done large retail centres, as well as completing a line of resort hotels in the UAE. Now we’ve looked at taking very specialist knowledge – with an ability to construct and sometimes be part of the design – into others areas.”
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BIOGRAPHY
Kez Taylor studied a Bsc. Building (Construction Management) at the University of Witwatesrand in Johannesburg. Starting his career as a bursar for Grinaker-LTA, Taylor’s career has seen him work throughout South Africa, Namibia and Zambia, before transferring to the Middle East to establish a building operation in the UAE in 2001.
He has more than 22 years experience in construction management and project execution in building works, including nine years’ experience in the UAE working for ALEC. He is married to Micheline and has two sons.
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