The high demand for skilled and qualified engineers in Qatar is seeing “low quality engineers” being employed by the country’s consultancies, an industry figure has said.
Nazeer Tahboub, managing director of water technology distributor Pipes Tech, said that high-quality suppliers and distributors are suffering as a result as poorly qualified engineers struggle to comprehend the latest product designs and industry innovations.
“Because of the huge demand for construction, consultation and designs, the consultant offices have low quality engineers,” Tahboub said.
“This leads you to suffer as a distributor of engineering products as we have to educate each and every one about our products. That will be difficult to change. If you have an advanced product with high-tech, it will not be easy to convince traditional engineers to turn to this new tech product. They will keep to the vendor list of maybe 15 years before, where some of the manufacturers have already disappeared.”
Tahboub added that distributors of quality-focussed products are also contending with an excessive focus on price by contractors in the market.
“When it comes to the commercial side we have huge competition,” he said. “After the economic crisis contractors have come to take care of their costs, even if it affects the quality of the products they select. Now they are looking at the price. Pipes Tech is a company that is always concerned with quality and we don’t compromise with the price. That’s always our advice for sales – the battle of price we will never lose. Our policy is to introduce only quality products for the local market even if it sometimes means that we lose projects to low quality or low priced material.”
Pipes Tech, a Qatar-based distributor, is at the show displaying a wide range of pipe technologies.
