John Wooden’s Center East Footprint Grows on $850 Mln Contract Wins

By Anthony O. Goriainoff

John Wooden Group mentioned it has secured contract wins valued at $850 million within the Center East up to now 12 months.
The London-listed consulting and engineering firm mentioned Tuesday that it just lately recruited greater than 700 staff throughout the region–which consists of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the UAE–and was trying to recruit an extra 500 roles, including that it anticipated extra all through 2024.

The corporate mentioned that amongst its most notable wins had been groundbreaking tasks akin to the event of a CO2 transportation and storage community, in addition to feasibility research and preliminary front-end engineering design for each carbon seize and storage and low carbon hydrogen tasks.
It additionally talked about a contract extension in Iraq with a long-term shopper to proceed to ship front-end engineering design, procurement and EPC (engineering, procurement and development) contract-management options, in addition to a multi-million-dollar engineering and procurement companies contract in Qatar.
“As a key strategic area for Wooden, we see continued progress and alternative throughout the Center East. We’ve got supported power safety within the area for greater than eight a long time and are excited to play a key position in its power transition, designing a decrease carbon, digitally enabled future,” Chief Government Ken Gilmartin mentioned.
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