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Notes from the site and the plant room

Practical notes on structural steel erection and chiller maintenance in the UAE, written by the AL NIMRA team.

Structural steel Featured

What steel erection actually involves, stage by stage

Erection is the visible part of a longer sequence. Knowing the stages makes it much easier to see where a programme is going to slip.

AL NIMRA Admin 15 Sep 2026 · 2 min
Chiller works Featured

How often should a chiller be serviced in the UAE?

Quarterly is the interval most contracts inherit. It comes from temperate climates, and Gulf dust load is the reason it often is not enough.

AL NIMRA Admin 10 Sep 2026 · 2 min
Compliance & delivery Featured

What belongs in a maintenance contract, and what gets left out

Most maintenance disputes are not about the work done. They are about what the scope was silent on.

AL NIMRA Admin 05 Sep 2026 · 2 min
Structural steel Featured

Site readiness before steel arrives

A checklist worth working through before the first delivery, because every item on it stops the crane if it is missed.

AL NIMRA Admin 31 Aug 2026 · 2 min
Chiller works Featured

What a chiller AMC should actually include

A scope you can hold a contractor to, written as a specification to demand rather than a service to sell.

AL NIMRA Admin 26 Aug 2026 · 2 min
Compliance & delivery Featured

How to compare contractor quotations fairly

Three quotations with three different totals are usually three different scopes. Normalising them is the actual work.

AL NIMRA Admin 21 Aug 2026 · 2 min
Structural steel

Anchor bolt setting-out, and why tolerances matter

A few millimetres at the base becomes a much larger problem at the top of the column. Here is how that happens.

AL NIMRA Admin 16 Aug 2026 · 2 min
Chiller works

Labour-only or comprehensive AMC: how to choose

The two standard contract types priced very differently, and a straightforward way to decide which one your plant justifies.

AL NIMRA Admin 11 Aug 2026 · 2 min
Compliance & delivery

Method statements and risk assessments: what they are for

Treated as paperwork they are useless. Treated as planning they prevent most of what goes wrong.

AL NIMRA Admin 06 Aug 2026 · 2 min

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