Royal Govenor's Mansion Complex - Located in Gassium, Saudi Arabia. Project Irrigation System cost $ 2,500,000 US Dollars in 1984. Installation included included 4 Pump Stations, 4 Fountain's, Irrigation for more then 1,000,000 sq meters.
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia:
Positions held - "Director of Irrigation" of:
1)
Obal Company: Toro Master Wholesale Distributor-(Largest Irrigation Design Team in the Middle East 1982-1983, site supervised 120-man installation crew and supplied Toro Irrigation materials throughout Saudi Arabia. Note: I hired and trained a 10-man Irrigation Design Agency in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
2)
Building Materials Trading Company, Rain Bird Master Wholesale Distributor-(Largest Irrigation Design Team in the Middle East 1983-1984, site supervised 120-man installation crew and supplied Rain Bird Irrigation materials throughout Saudi Arabia. (I took my Irrigation Design Team with me when I changed companies.)
Projects Completed in Saudi Arabia:
1)
King Kalaid University – 7-million-dollar irrigation system, designed & installed this project.
2)
King Fahad International Airport – rebuilt entire project to resolve maintenance errors.
Note: British Maintenance Company ran "Acid" through the two (2) Reverse-Osmosis Filters
and totally destroyed the Kodak filter membrane's and over 1 million Bow Smith Drip Emitters,
along with all the diaphragms in all the irrigation zone valves. We were sub-contracted to
remove and replace all the destroyed equipment.
3)
Diplomatic Quarter - largest landscape/irrigation site in the world to date (350 Embassies
& Housing for families & support staff). I designed and/or installed 52 of the 350+ embassies
plus I develop the Maxi-Com Automatic Control System for the Diplomatic Quarter with Rain
Bird. This site was so large we had to install two (2) Maxi-Com packages.
4) Pro-Soccer Sports Fields – my designs were selected by the Ministry of Youth Welfare and
used exclusively throughout Saudi Arabia on all their professional Soccer fields. My company
designed & installed over 28 Professional Sports fields, cost per field an average of $500,000.
5) King Fisals Hospital – Riyadh SA – $1.5 million-dollar irrigation system.
6) Tubook Desalination Plant – $1.2 million-dollar irrigation system.
7) Royal Governor’s Mansion in Al Qasim Saudi Arabia, $4.5 million-dollar project in 1984.
8) King and Royal Family Palaces, designed and installed 14 palaces, size 2-3 million dollars.
9) Military City in Jabail, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, including Housing area for 50,000 soldiers
and their families.
THIS IS VERY BRIEF LIST OF PROJECTS I DID IN SAUDI. IN TOTAL I DESIGNED AND/OR INSTALLED OVER 50 MILLION DOLLARS IN IRRIGATION SYSTEM IN MY 3 YEARS, WHICH I LIVED AND WORKED IN THE KINGDOM OF SAUDI ARABIA. FINALLY, I WAS EMPLOYED DIRECTLY BY KING FAHAD AND WAS THE DIRECTOR OF THE IRRIGATION DEPARTMENT FOR B.M.T.C. THE RAIN BIRD MASTER DISTRIBUTORSHIP FOR THE ENTIRE MIDDLE EAST - SEE REFERENCE LETTERS FROM TORO AND RAIN BIRD.