For Sammon Group founder and CEO Miceál Sammon, winning a third of the Abu Dhabi Education Council (ADEC) project (Phase 1), the equivalent of five main construction contracts and over 93,000m2 worth of schools, has been one of the company’s biggest achievements to date.
“To some extent, our focus on school building has been our saviour during this downturn,” Sammon says confidently.
“In any country where they have an economic downturn, governments put money into the education and medical sectors. This is where we have won out – we have grown our business every year, including the last two years during the recession, because we concentrate primarily on educational and social infrastructure.”
Incidentally, the group had already been working in the UAE well before the downturn. Having been observing the UAE education market for some time, in 2006 company executives decided it was time to be part of this market, and risky as it was, made a bold move.
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