BACKGROUND / OVERVIEW

...BARQAAB was registered as a Company under the Companies Ordinance 1984 in May 2000 and has also been registered with the Pakistan Engineering Council to provide Consultancy Services.  BARQAAB is organized as an imperative professional Consulting Company.  It has a nucleus formation at the Headquarters and has various specialty groups of professional registered and working with the Company on various projects.  The services of these various groups are utilized for management of projects from conception stage to implementation and maintenance stages.  These special groups are centres of excellence for various disciplines and provide professional input to the project management.

BARQAAB in these 10 years, has been providing Consultancy Services to WAPDA and Provincial Govt. of Punjab, Sind and Khyber Pakhtun Khwah, both as independent and Joint Venture with other Consulting concerns, for Dams, Hydropower, Irrigation and Drainage Projects. These Projects include Feasibility Study of Mangla Dam Raising, Feasibility of Diamer Basha Dam, Detailed Design and Tender Documents of Chashma Right Bank (Lift Cum Gravity) Canal, Detailed Design and Tender Documents of Greater Thal Canal, Detailed Design and Tender Documents of Kachhi Canal, Design Review and Construction Supervision of three High Head Hydropower Projects i.e. Allai Khwar, Khan Khwar and Duber Khwar; Detailed Design, Tender Documents and Construction supervision of Mangla Dam Raising and Design/Construction Supervision of Right Bank outfall Drain (RBOD), Detailed Design and Tender Documents of Diamer Basha Dam, Winder Dam, Sukleji Dam, Noulang Dam, Golen Gol Hydropower Project and Numerous Small Dams in KPK.

On Power side, BARQAAB is playing its vital for the growth of energy by providing consulting services on projects of national importance in the fields of distribution and transmission system and by today has completed over 100 billion of power Projects as a independent consultant.  Power Projects activities include Preliminary Design, Cost Estimates, preparation of Tender Documents, Evaluation and Recommendations for Award of Contract, Project Management, Construction Supervision, Quality Assurance and Monitoring, Verification of Contractors BOQ and Payments, Project Management, Progress Reporting, Testing & Commissioning of Projects relating to 500/220kV GIS and AIS Gridstations, Extension of Existing Gridstations, 500kV, 220kV and 132kV Transmission Lines, Rural Electrification Projects, System Augmentation Programme and Deposit Works including Electrification of Housing Societies, Factories, Industrial Estates, Feasibility Study of Projects, Environmental Studies of Transmission Lines and Substations.  Recently as a individual Consultant, major projects completed and commissioned are Construction of 275kM, 500kV Transmission Line from Faisalabad to Muzaffargarh, Extension of 500kV Gridstations at Muzaffargarh and Gatti with addition of 3x200MVA transformer bays 500kV and 220kV Line Bays and Reactor Bays 500/220kV NTDC-KESC Interconnection Grid Station with 500/220kV 4x200 MVA power transformers along with associated 500kV and 220kV Transmission at Karachi.  In addition we have also completed installation of 220/132kV 3x60 MVA transformers at 220kV Bahawalpur, Ludewala, Yousfawala, Hyderabad and Bannu Grid Stations.  Major projects in hand are 220kV Double Circuit Bundle conductor 139Km of Transmission Line from Ludewala to Chashma Nuclear Power Plant with extension of 220kV Ludewala Grid Station, 220kV AIS Kassowal Grid Station, 220kV GIS Grid Station Extension at Ghazi Barotha, New 500kvAIS Grid Station at Dera Ghazi Khan, 220kV GIS Grid Station at Shalimar, 5 Nos. 132kV Grid Stations of Lahore Electric Supply Company along with associated Transmission Line 6th STG & ELR Projects of IESCO being funded by the World Bank, 2nd Rural Electrification Project of QESCO financed by Kuwait Fund, Rural Electrification Projects, System Augmentation Programme and Deposit Works covering all the eight DISCO’s from 2004 to date funded by GOP.  In addition we are also providing Consultancy Services as a joint venture partner with NESPAK which includes of 250KM of 220kV Dadu-Khuzdar Transmission Line, with associated extensions of grid stations at both ends, New 500/220kV Rahim Yar Khan AIS Grid Station and 500kV Neelum-Jhelum Transmission Network for dispersal of 969 MW of electricity.

BARQAAB has a total strength of about 700 employees, out of these there are about 320 Professionals.  BARQAAB possess fully furnished with latest equipment, Planning and Design Offices spread over 14,000 s.ft.

Consultancy work of the Projects is carefully monitored along with time management and financial control.  Quality assurance is given utmost importance.