GMW MIMARLIK is excited about their Balkan project: Portonovi Luxury Resort

Key elements of Portonovi will be its 238-berth super-yacht international marina, including iconic Yacht Club by Winch Design, Europe’s first One&Only resort and Espace Chenot Health Wellness Spa. The resort will also feature world renowned and authentic restaurants, along with high-end retail zone.

Istanbul based architectural practice GMW MIMARLIK (GMWM) is delighted to be appointed to design manage the “Portonovi Luxury Resort” project in Herceg Novi for Azmont Investments, which includes a luxury residential complex alongside a Yacht Marina and Europe’s first “One & Only” hotel project. With extensive project experience in some 20 countries worldwide, where they often led large multi-national teams, GMW MIMARLIK (GMWM) is excited about returning to the Balkans ten years after they completed the international terminal project for Skopje Airport in Macedonia. They are delighted to be appointed to design manage the “Portonovi Luxury Resort” project in Herceg Novi for Azmont Investments, which includes a luxury residential

complex alongside a Yacht Marina and Europe’s first “One & Only” project. Portonovi Luxury Resort will be undertaken by the practice’s newly established Montenegro office: GMWM2 Portonovi Montenegro is an exclusive resort community located between the foot of Mount Orjen and the glistening shores of the Adriatic Sea. Elegantly positioned at the entrance of Boka Bay, the 26-hectare premium resort commands breathtaking views and is an ideal gateway from which to discover Montenegro’s stunning 300-kilometre coastline. With a number of award-winning international airport terminal projects under its belt, spanning from Istanbul to Vnukovo, Cairo, Skopje, Medina, Riyadh and Kuwait, GMW MIMARLIK is one of the leading architectural brands in the transportation sector both in Turkey and internationally. The practice has also been engaged as terminal planners to work with some of the largest consultancy firms in the world, on projects such as Rome Fiumicino and Amsterdam Schiphol airports. Although the core business of GMWM remains to be the airport terminal projects the practice has also been responsible for projects in other sectors including offices, retail, hotels and mixed-use developments. Design

Management and co-ordination of multi-national team of engineers and specialist consultants is one of the core strengths of the practice and regardless of the type and size of their projects, GMWM always takes pride in providing the highest quality of professional service. Portonovi offers the best of Montenegrin lifestyle in a waterfront community that offers a blend of Old European architecture with 275 premium residences. The collection of residences represents the finest selection of Adriatic property available and includes luxury apartments, townhouses, sky villas and penthouse suites. No two properties are the same. In the Lower Village, which is currently on sale, properties are master-planned by Harper Downie and complemented with an entirely bespoke approach from Harrods Interiors. The Marina Apartments – the most iconic and modern buildings within the Resort and also on sale now - have been designed by the renowned London architectural studio RTKL. Portonovi is easy to reach. Dubrovnik and Tivat Airports are less than an hour away and are both served directly by a number of airlines from international cities, whilst also offering private jet facilities.

Turkish contracting services around the world

The government set its goal as to increase the yearly value undertaken projects by Turkish companies to 100 billion US Dollars in 2023. The construction material industry export increased 30.8% in January 2019.

Turkish contracting companies successfully compete on 5 continents and in 120 countries offering affordable services of high quality. They are open to enhancing international partnerships not only in the field of contracting, but also in construction industry investments, ranging from the production of building materials to infrastructure, housing, industrial plants and tourism projects in the African, Eurasian and Middle Eastern countries. Turkish contractors continue to increase their competitiveness with extensive knowhow and experience gained in all kinds of challenging projects and in all forms of business environments This success might be attributed to Turkey’s competitive advantages; including its qualified human resource, enhanced technical knowledge, wide business experience, strong discipline, ability of adaptation to new technologies and innovations alongside its strong political relations and cultural proximity to the neighboring countries, and its determination to sustain coordination and cooperation between public institutions and private sector. Turkish contractors have successfully completed big and extensive

milestone projects especially in the Commonwealth of Independent States, the Middle East and North Africa in time. Turkish Contactors have undertaken 46,2 billion US Dollars’ worth of project value between the years 1972 and 2002, in 30-year time. Since 2002, the international project value has reached to 283 billion US Dollars. The value of the projects undertaken in the last 14 years is 86% of all projects. Similarly, while annual project value was 2,9 billion US Dollars in 2001, it reached to 30 billion US Dollars in 2012 and 2013. Moreover, the number of projects undertaken annually reached to 414 in 2013 and 336 in 2014, though it was 208 in 2002. The improvement is not only quantitative but also qualitative. This can be extracted from the change of average value of the projects in years. The average value of a project has increased from 22 million US Dollars up to 98

million US Dollars between 2002 and 2015. This transformation indicates that Turkish Contactors are now more capable of carrying out larger and more value-added projects such as airports, subways, industrial plants, natural gas and petroleum refineries, highways and energy stations. The achievements of Turkish technical consultancy and engineering firms are also highly appreciated in the international arena, thanks to their contemporary visions and local know-how. According to the list showing the 250 largest construction companies of the world announced annually by the international construction sector’s leading magazine, Engineering News Record (ENR), based on the total value of projects undertaken in the previous year on international

level, Turkish overseas contracting companies were in the 2nd place upon the number of national companies and in the 9th place upon the national overall revenue in the list. The government set its goal as to increase the yearly value undertaken projects by Turkish companies to 100 billion US Dollars in 2023.

E-Link system from Kone – central control for lifts and elevators

Monitoring and control of lifts and elevators have great importance especially at high traffic buildings for higher security and better comfort. Kone’s E- Link facility management system offers the best service quality to people in the buildings.

Thanks to the Kone E-Link system you can control the lifts and elevators centrally. The system provides real-time data about the general conditions of equipment, heaviness and performance of traffic and availability. Management and remote monitoring of the system have become more practical thanks to the easy remote configuration of the equipment. With real time and detailed operational data Kone E-ink ceaselessly informs the operators and authorities about the conditions and operation of the equipment. Besides,

important events can be watched and analyzed for safety and security and the modes of lifts can be re-arranged and locked remotely. With its monitoring ability the conditions of all the equipment can be monitored in one screen in detail. With its reporting ability, the system produces reports about operational data results for the performance of the lift (such as the number of calls from each floor), the performance of destination control system (waiting time and duration to destination), the alarms and the like.