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“QA/QC”

The three Saudi Engineers, who launched Zamel & Turbag Consulting Engineers (ZATE) a quarter century ago, had one common visionary goal; they had a keen desire to do only Quality Engineering for the world class growth and the satisfaction of Saudi Industry. Keeping their goal in mind they ventured into the then existing market for the best engineering collaboration. They formed a joint venture agreement with the internationally known engineering and construction company Brown & Root, Inc., USA, during the years 1982 - 1987.The joint venture was called Zamel & Turbag/Brown & Root (ZATBAR). Many projects were executed to the full satisfaction of the Clients. This developed the Engineering acumen of the Company and brought it to an international Quality Engineering level.

After this there was no looking back for ZATE. It has successfully completed over 3.31 million man-hours of Design, Engineering & Procurement and over 1.55 million man-hours of Construction Supervision for many reputed Clients all over the Kingdom. ZATE never believed that Quality comes by accident; even before the ISO 9000 came into being, ZATE had Quality processes like ‘Squad Check’ and ‘Office Check’ in place. Much to the happiness & satisfaction of ZATE’s Customers this made the Engineering end products go much easier and smoothly during construction.

In the year 1999, when ISO 9001 (1994) had traveled from Europe and hit the shores of Saudi Arabia, ZATE again started striving to achieve the new Quality goals, a challenge the new world order had thrown to it. ZATE invited Quality and Environment Certification Limited (QEC), UK; for a session on “ISO: 9001 (1994) Awareness & Internal Auditing”. Immediately thereafter ZATE started working on the ISO 9001 (1994) documentation requirements and implementation of the processes. ZATE was Quality certified for ISO 9001 (1994) on 19^th April 2000, by QEC, UK.

The Company kept improving in its Quality investments. The top management has always been sensitive to the Customers needs and set ZATE’s Quality Values in tandem with the Customer needs. It had a Quality Management Representative with two Quality Coordinators and six Internal Quality Auditors, who maintained and kept ZATE Quality Values on top of other business goals.

The closure of Saudi Operations by QEC required ZATE to affiliate itself with MOODI INTERNATIONAL, UK. Thus ZATE was then certified for ISO 9001 (1994) on 30^th January 2002 with MOODY INTERNATIONAL, UK. The ISO organization revised its Quality standards and called for re-certification under the new standard ISO 9001:2000.  Quality requirements for ISO 9001:2000 were then met by ZATE and ZATE was certified for ISO 9001:2000 on 22^nd March 2004 by MOODY INTERNATIONAL.

Today, ZATE has in addition to earlier MOODY Certified Lead Auditors, an IRCA Certified Lead Auditor through Nigel Bauer & Associates, UK. ZATE’s staff has been given a refresher course on Quality Awareness and it now has a strong team of 15 of QUV Certified Internal Quality Auditors; who are continually assuring the Engineering Quality of the Company end product and thus building the right relationship with ZATE’s Customers.