Park Field and Lime Gardens at Dubai Hills Estate of China Railway 18th Bureau Group Won the 12.5 million Safety Working Hours Certificate
On July 18, Park Field and Lime Gardens at Dubai Hills Estate of China Railway 18th Bureau Group successfully won the 12.5 million safety working hours certificate with its excellent safety management results. This milestone achievement demonstrates the project team’s deep implementation of the concept of “life first, safe development”.
Park Field and Lime Gardens are located in the Dubai Hills Estate area in the core area of Dubai. The total building area is huge. Lime Gardens is designed as a G+P+23/G+1-story structure, and Park Field is a B+G+P+19/B+G+P+10/G+1-story combined structure. Both adopt advanced frame core tube structure, which combines safety and design aesthetics. Since the project started, it has strictly adhered to the 26-month contract period and has been efficiently advanced, showing an overall good trend of “double excellence in quality and safety”.
“In an international construction market like Dubai, safety is the lifeline of the project and the core embodiment of corporate competitiveness. Behind the 12.5 million safety working hours are the responsibilities and obligations of nearly a thousand builders who stick to them day and night.” Project manager Yang Jianglong said at the certificate awarding ceremony, “From the time we poured the first cubic meter of concrete on site, we have been working towards the goal of building a quality project.”
The project was able to achieve such remarkable safety results thanks to a comprehensive and three-dimensional safety management system. In view of the special construction environment of high temperature and strong wind and sand in the Middle East, as well as the challenges of frequent high-altitude operations and cross-construction brought by the frame core tube structure, the project team has innovatively launched a number of measures:
The points system of the “Safety Quality Scoring Supermarket” has enabled frontline workers to change their mindset from “I must be safe” to “I want to be safe”. Reinforcing steel fixer Mohammed laughed as he showed the points record on his phone: “Last month, I spotted loose scaffolding and reported it in time, earning 10 points. I exchanged them for a new set of labor protection clothing! Now workers actively look for potential hazards, even more proactively than safety officers.” This quantified reward mechanism—awarding points for hazard reports and safety suggestions—has increased the on-site hazard rectification rate to 98%.
Grid-based safety management achieves precise governance where “areas are assigned to individuals and responsibilities are fixed to posts.” Project Deputy Manager Pan Deng explained: “We divided the two buildings into 12 secondary grids and 48 tertiary grids. Every welding point and each tower crane has its dedicated grid staff. During the fire safety inspection of Park Field, this model drew praise from the inspection team, who noted evidence of safety measures is visible everywhere.”
Additionally, the project strictly implements the principle of “protection advancing with construction stages.” Floor-level guardrails were installed simultaneously during the main structural phase, horizontal catch nets were added during finishing work, and specialized high-altitude operation plans were customized for the frame-core tube structure. “On the day of pouring the 23rd floor, there was a sudden strong wind. We completed all the edge reinforcement within 15 minutes according to the plan, which was unthinkable before.” Shen Hongxin, the project foreman recalled.
Currently, Park Field has successfully obtained its certificate of completion, while Lime Gardens has entered its final countdown to completion. The initial quality inspection pass rate for its 230 rooms reached 100%.
