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Alan Dick Middle East

Alan Dick Middle East | www.alandickme.com


Alan Dick Middle East has been a pivotal supplier to the Gulf States since 1974, performing turnkey projects in the Middle East in:

  • Telecommunications and Cellular Communications for leading operators and OEMS
  • Defence and Radar Solutions for both Military and Civilian Agencies
  • Oil & Gas sectors and related industries.
  • TV/Radio Broadcasting

Alan Dick Middle East has enhanced its presence since its inception, adding to it's credibility with further expansion across the GCC with offices in Abu Dhabi, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Qatar and Lebanon. Alan Dick Middle East currently employs more than 150 qualified engineers, project managers, site supervisory engineers and trained tower erectors and has successfully completed projects in Middle East Countries such as:

  • Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
  • Iraq
  • Afghanistan
  • Qatar
  • Bahrain
  • Kuwait
  • Iran
  • UAE
  • Oman
  • Lebanon
  • Yemen

The strength of Alan Dick Middle East lies in its ability to project manage complex turnkey projects in physically difficult environments. For Cellular, Microwave, Paging and other telecommunication projects, Alan Dick Middle East can perform activities from initial site surveys to commissioning of turnkey systems including civil works, simultaneously and on multiple sites.

With over 30 years experience in global telecom and broadcast infrastructure and ISO 9001 certification, Alan Dick provides innovative products and services to support the highest standards of quality, performance and reliability demanded by international telecommunications network operators, service operators, service providers and OEMs.

With it's unparalleled design and QA experience, Alan Dick has been designing and manufacturing product solutions that have brought quality-engineered designs to the communications market. Today, Alan Dicks product range includes a wide selection of self-supporting towers, guyed masts, monopoles, cellular & GSM antennas, mobile cells sites, wireless infrastructures and component solutions supported by a range of high quality support services provided through a team of internationally recognised project managers.

From feasibility study and conceptual design to fabrication, installation, commissioning, optimisation, integration, deployment and support, Alan Dick offer complete network solutions.

Towers and Structures

Structures generally fall into three categories; Monopoles, Guyed Lattice Masts and Self Supporting Towers. The most appropriate will depend on many factors such as required height; operational and design wind speed: wind loads imposed by the antennas it supports, available land area and of course cost.
 
The designers' objective is to work with our customers to provide a structure which will satisfy the clients load requirements as well as international design and manufacturing standards and be as light-weight and practical as possible. Alan Dick is unique amongst world structure suppliers in that they continue to maintain a large in-house design and detailing team with a portfolio of in-house software.

Features of Alan Dick Middle East structures include:

  • Wide range of models suitable for all applications
  • Up to any height for monopoles, guyed masts and self-supporting towers
  • Economical design
  • Wide range of ancillary products such as antenna and feeder mounting steelwork, feeder gantries, aviation lighting, platforms and lift, erection hardware

Cellular Networks

Alan Dick Middle East has been working with the region's operators and OEMS for the past 2 decades to successfully build and maintain world class cellular networks. With a wide range of innovative products and services Alan Dick Middle East are the leading authority in:

  • Network Solution Providers
    Alan Dick is the only company able to plan, deploy, maintain, manage and upgrade communications networks on a global basis by offering products, services and complete solutions to the infrastructure requirements of network operators.                                             
  • Mobile Communication Units
    Alan Dick's Mobile Communication Units (MCUs) offer a complete, self contained mobile solution for Cellular Service Providers.
  • Rapid Deployment Units
    The RDU can be rapidly deployed with minimum personnel to in less than six hours to provide a permanent or semi permanent cell site with a total footprint of only 36 square metres.
  • Camouflage Solutions
    The explosion and continuing expansion of cellular mobile communications networks has brought into stark conflict with increasing sensitivity amongst local authorities and residents to the proliferation of cellular sites.
  • Indoor Solutions
    Alan Dick provide products and services to help wireless network operators provide coverage and services within buildings or large public areas

 

Defence Communications and Surveillance

Military Communications Infrastructure
Alan Dicks broad range of skills has a major part to play in its service to the Military, ranging from the design, supply and erection of lattice towers and masts, through to maintenance of steel structures and radomes, to rigging works.

In recent times Alan Dick has provided significant support services to their military colleagues in areas which have been damaged during conflicts, such as Bosnia, Kosovo, Kuwait and Iraq.

Radar Systems Infrastructure
Focusing on the specialised field of Radar Communications, Alan Dick has successfully utilised extensive in-house full electromagnetic, structural and civil expertise, allied to a global manufacturing, installation and civil construction resource to provide a truly turnkey service to the military and civil aviation industries worldwide.

The Alan Dick portfolio also includes a wide range of radome sizes and designs, ranging from 2.35 metre diameter for Satellite Communications through to 20 metre diameter for Radar Systems. These radomes are designed for any environmental condition through the temperature range of -55deg C to +70deg C.

In addition a dedicated range of highly rigid, self-supporting towers is available, suitable for heights up to 40 metres, accommodating the largest of radomes. The towers are designed to include a full staircase, supporting structures for the antenna units and enclosures to accommodate the electrical equipment.