Metito (Overseas) completed important projects in recent weeks including a Dh24 million ($6.5 million) infrastructure project for Adnoc in Abu Dhabi and the installation of an integrated water and wastewater system at the luxury Sheraton Sharm Al Sheikh in Egypt.

The Abu Dhabi project involved the supply of state-of-the-art water and sewage treatment installations.

The project was part of a wider infrastructure package to serve 1,300 homes in the Ruwais Housing Complex for workers employed at Adnoc's Ruwais Refinery.

Metito, which has its headquarters for Europe, Asia and Africa in Sharjah and has a factory and laboratory facilities in the Humriya Free Zone, completed the two-year contract and handed the completed installations to Adnoc through Al Muhairy General Contracting Company, the main contractor. Consultant to the project was DMGM.

The scope of the work included the design and building of the mechanical and electrical components of the sewage treatment plant, pumping stations and a Scada monitoring system.

"The project is the latest in a series of major infrastructure projects that Metito has undertaken in the emirate of Abu Dhabi on behalf of government and industrial sectors," the company said in a statement.

Metito (Abu Dhabi) branch manager Omar Al Zoubi said: "In a desert environment such as Ruwais we were also determined to ensure that the systems we introduced were environmentally friendly and that the sewage treatment works were designed to ensure that treated effluent could be used for irrigation purposes in and around the housing complex."

The sewage treatment works installed can handle up to 5,000 sq m of effluent every day to cater to the estimated population of 5,200 people. A main lift station with four pumps has also been established to collect sewage which is generated from the new township and which will be pumped along a 400m pipeline to be biologically treated to a quality where treated water can be used for irrigation.

Metito has also introduced a water treatment system where potable water is fed into a 4km network of pipes to supply the homes. Water is treated using a chlorination system and stored in two giant underground storage tanks each of which has a capacity of 2.6 million gallons of water.

The Scada system - a special software package that can be used for monitoring at Ruwais of the sewage treatment plant, the water treatment plant and the main lift station - ensures that the status of the systems is regularly communicated to both the main monitoring stations for the housing complex and the refinery.

Metito's Sheraton Sharm Al Sheikh project on the Red Sea coast at the southern tip of the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt ensured a constant supply of water to guests as well as recycling of the hotel's wastewater in an environmentally friendly manner. The company sank a beach well to pump seawater into a fully automated on-site seawater desalination plant using reverse osmosis technology to supply up to 1200 cu m of fresh water every day.

Metito (Overseas) managing director Fady Juez said the company also designed and installed an on-site sewage treatment facility that treated all the sewage and other used water from showers, sinks and kitchens.

Treated water from the facility could also be re-used to help irrigate the landscaped areas of the hotel in an arid region where there was no natural water supply, he added. Metito's role in the project included turnkey design, engineering, fabrication supply, installation, commissioning and the ongoing full operation and maintenance.

The project was undertaken and supervised from Metito's Cairo office that has been responsible for a number of hotel and leisure-related projects throughout the Sinai Peninsula.

Skilful landscaping also ensured that the locations of the wells and the treatment plants on the hotel site were well concealed, and hotel guests did not encounter any unwanted odours or smells during their time at the resort.

Metito was founded in 1958 by Farouk Ghandour, its current chairman.