AECOM, Abu Dhabi

15/08/2010 (Sun)
http://www.aecom.com/

When I finally arrived back home in Abu Dhabi from Muscat Airport at night (14/08/2010), I prepared for work the following morning not knowing what to expect or what was expected from me. All I knew was that I had to start work at 08:30 as a Project Assitant in Aecom's Abu Dhabi Office (Al Jazira Sports Stadium) and work past 17:00 depending on the work intensity for 5 days a week. Luckily, I started work the following morning in the Design & Planning department which comprises of urban designers, landscape architects/planners & environment engineers from across the world.

I have not been involved with the practice long enough to base a detailed anology towards it, however their Abu Dhabi portfolio seems to be very impressive. They typically work on a variety of large scale mixed-use developments throughout the United Arab Emirates, with an innovative and particular focus towards public realm. See website for Company Overview and Project Involvements (Abu Dhabi).

Hopefully throughout this placement, I will not feel like too much of an ant when it comes to work output and recognition in comparison to the rest of the design team.

After meeting the Landscape Director, Mark Khune, I was introduced to the design and planning team. The purpose of the 15th was to become familiar with the workers, studio, computers and networks/software before I could move on to something a little more hands on and technically work related. At the end of the day I was finally given something to do, and that task was to update the networks Hardscape Library by uploading paver samples from a number of local hardscape services through scanning these artifacts and producing their general product descriptions onto AECOM's Abu Dhabi network system.