Under the patronage of HRH Prince Mishal Bin Majid Bin Abdulaziz, Nesma Training Centre (NTC) celebrated its official opening in Rawdah District, Jeddah, KSA.

Saleh Ali Alturki, President of Nesma Holding Co. Ltd. took HRH Prince Mishal through a tour of NTC, which offers training to Nesma employees & to the general public.

It’s worth noting that NTC can hold 400 trainees at one time & that it offers various courses such as English, Computer Skills, Marketing, Sales & others, all of which are offered for free.

NTC is part of Nesma’s CSR initiative, which focuses on training Saudis in order to enable & empower them so that they could utilise the many work opportunities available in KSA.

Nesma & Partners celebrated the completion of its Flood Water Drainage Project with the attendance of HRH Prince Khalid Al Faisal in a ceremony held at Ghaia Valley, which is one of the project’s sites.

HRH Prince Faisal was accompanied by HRH Prince Mishaal bin Majed bin Abdulaziz, HRH Prince Mansour bin Meta’ab Minister of Municipal Affairs and Rural, Minister of Finance Dr. Ibrahim Al-Assaf, Minister of Water and Electricity Engineer Abdullah Al-Hosayen, and Transport Minister Dr. Jabara Suraiseri, and a number of other officials.

The Flood Water Drainage Project was completed in two phases. Nesma & Partners worked on both the urgent solutions phase which was an earlier project that lasted 110 days & the 10 month permanent solution phase which included the construction of five major dams, eight generic dams & five sub channels.

For more information about this project, please read the following links:

Nesma Awarded Five Areas In Flood Project

Nesma Spares No Expense To Finish Emergency Project

Nesma to undertake 12 flood projects in Jeddah

A one-day seminar on fire safety, entitled “Fire Safety in Buildings,” was held at the Intercontinental Hotel in Jeddah.

The seminar was organized in part by Nesma UniTrade and sponsored by Civil Defense in Makkah and Halspan, a world leader in fire door manufacturing. The event was of interest to many engineering and safety professionals and help create an an important awareness of fire safety when constructing buildings. The seminar could help the Kingdom’s fire fighters as well.

Lt. Gen. Jameel M. Arbaien, director general of the Civil Defense, commented “The Civil Defense’s main concern is to ensure safety, especially fire safety.”

Panelists and participants discussed the importance of fire protection in the use of emergency doors, different types of wood used in doors, and anti-burning agents. Dialogue continued to spaces in buildings that limit the transfer of fire from one location to another as well as leakage rates of gas as a result of fire from those ports.

The conference gathered together a large number of attendees who exchanged knowledge and experiences in regards to fire safety here in Jeddah.