KCT takes steps to enhance planning protocol by recruiting individual planning engineers for each project to closely monitor schedules and delays. The contractor has standardized reporting forms and developed a common web reporting system allowing directors to check on projects from anywhere. Mohammed Raslan Khayyat, company founder, states the planning department will further develop new software and tools to manage projects with greater detail on time, cost, and risk management.

1. KCT takes steps to enhance planning protocol
Qatari contractor takes inventive leap in planning capabilities to meet the
demands of the market
The number, size and scope of projects in Qatar is presenting new challenges to
contractors in dealing with the volume and complexity of planning requirements,
and KCT is making certain to streamline procedures and technology to bring all
of its capabilities up to the mark.
Mohammed Moutaz Khayyat, CEO of Khayyat Contracting & Trading (KCT) says:
“One of the first things we did was to recruit individual planning engineers for
each of the KCT projects, allowing weekly updates of the time schedules in order
to precisely measure any delay in each program.”
Samir Sakka, senior planning manager at KCT, notes: “My role is to establish
tools to control and monitor the projects, and the planning engineers under me
play a crucial role in highlighting any changes in the pace of progress, or areas of
concern on the projects.”
Further to this, the contractor has standardised the forms used to prepare its
reports and begun to feed the inputs into a common KCT web reporting system
that allows all of its directors and senior management of the company check up
on any project at any time and from anywhere.
The focus on conveying this information is all about time, as a day delay on a big
project means a day of salaries for often thousands of employees.
Sakka continues: “I have never seen something like this at any contracting
company in this region, and this is just one of our tools. Communication skills are
very important in our field and this website is a means of communication - it’s a
new way of communicating our report data.”
Finally, in the role of the planning department as the lead in technical tender
submittals, tools are being developed to enhance process of communication, co-
ordination and collection of the tender components from the different
departments.
Mohammed Raslan Khayyat, company founder summarises: “We are ever
developing new software and tools to facilitate our work, and my future vision
for the planning department is to enhance these tools even further to manage all
projects to an even greater degree of detail in terms of time, cost and the risk
management.”