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Table 1 – The most significant key parameters of the polypropylene (PP) and high-density
polyethylene (HDPE) plants

Seq. Description PP HDPE
1 Concrete Foundations[m ] 23,350 9,400
3
Moreover, notwithstanding the fact that initially local
2 Cast in situ RC & buildings (m ) 11,900 10,000 vendors were not ready to satisfy the expectations
3
of an international EPC contractor, MET – through
3 Steel structure (ton) 5,000 4,000 its hub KTAZE – invested efforts in driving the stra-
4 Equipment (n.) 500 400 tegic local suppliers to fulfill its needs project-wise
and to become more effective in providing mate-
5 Piping prefabrication (dia) 73,600 59,000 rials/services with the quality requested. In addi-
6 Piping erection (dia) 149,000 66,000 tion, managing a main subcontractor which was
responsible of all construction and commissioning
7 Electrical cables (m) 466,000 321,000 phases of the project implementation was naturally
one of the most important aspects, together with
8 Instruments main cable laying (m) 363,500 355,000
the necessity to find locally skilled and technically
9 Instruments installation (n.) 5,000 3,000 prepared resources, as blue and white collars are
still in the learning curve to master how to deal with
international contractors. In this respect, all local
resources involved in the projects were successful-
Challenges, but also opportunities ly managed, educated and mentored in term of
Since the beginning, the execution of these two safety issues.
plants in Azerbaijan seemed to be challenging, due
to several different conditions which affected the
normal scheme of the implementation of a project The execution
of this kind. Naturally, challenges bring always op- Since the inception of project activities, engineering
portunities and MET has been able to leverage was implemented in order to deliver the necessary
them to strengthen its position in the Country and documentation to obtain all the permitting, without
in the relevant market. which site construction activities would not have
The main challenges were the implementation of started.
a relative big project in a Country where no in- The preparation of the document “Issued for
vestments of this type were performed in the last Permitting” has been coordinated with a Local
forty years, and ensuring on a fast track basis the Design Institute in which a dedicated team of
coordination with Azerbaijani authorities for permit- specialist was deployed. The decision to deploy
ting matters and technical standards to be utilized such team and to assign an Interface Manager
in the design phase of the project. Furthermore, fully dedicated to the administration of local
since activities were carried out in several opera- technical authorities were among the success
ting centers located in different areas of the world factors in the arrangement of the permitting,
and thus different time zones, the development of a allowing a coordinated and structured informa-
concrete and effective time management strategy tion flow decreasing significantly the timing of
was required to have the project team working in the permit issuance. All permitting documenta-
complete coordination, leveraging I&CT tools and tion duly signed by all necessary local autho-
efficient integration of the teams. rities were obtained on-time and in-line with
project and Client expectation. As a matter of
fact, construction sequences, timely availabili-
ty of permits and materials are jointly of great
importance to implement a project of this type
In this scenario, the Group managed to provide fe-
asible look-ahead work-fronts for the construction
subcontractor which were also supported by the
concrete utilization of 3D model tools.
The utilization of another Group tool such as Ma-
rian allowed a full control over the in-coming ma-
terial at the warehouse, thus introducing a level of
insurance of the implementation of different work-
fronts, which was vital during the first phase of the
construction project.

Sophisticated Coordination with Client and PMC
It has been implemented a sophisticated day-by-
day coordination scheme with Client and its PMC
in order to achieve the following targets:
• full transparency and trustiness in project ma-
nagement;

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