Currie & Brown, a leading provider of cost management, project management, and advisory services, has announced that it provided contract management services for Abu Dhabi’s first public-private partnership (PPP) schools project, which has been successfully completed.

Three of the state-of-the-art schools under the programmed were inaugurated on September 11 in Abu Dhabi’s Zayed City by Abu Dhabi Investment Office (ADIO), in collaboration with the Abu Dhabi Department of Education and Knowledge (ADEK) and a multinational consortium led by Plenary Group and Besix Group.

 The development is the first school PPP project in Abu Dhabi to be delivered through the ADIO PPP procurement framework. The project will provide 5,360 school places in Zayed City, across new school campuses for boys and girls from kindergarten to cycle 3.

 Currie & Brown acted as the contract manager for the ADEK. It also partnered with a fellow member of the Sidara Collaborative, Dar, to act as a technical adviser, ensuring the highest standards of design and construction.

Currie & Brown’s work spans the design and construction phases. Its team in the UAE worked in close collaboration with their UK colleagues, who have decades of experience in contract management. This regional contract management expertise allowed Currie & Brown to successfully execute project completion on time, meeting the unique challenges of a PPP compared to traditional procurement. 

Regarding this groundbreaking project, Craig McInnes, Currie & Brown’s Abu Dhabi lead senior director, said: “Through our UK and UAE teams working together, we were able to bring our global expertise to this project to deliver a fantastic learning environment for more than 5,000 children. We’re excited to play a major part in Abu Dhabi Investment Offices’ first schools PPP project, and we hope to see more developments in the region using this delivery model.”