How we run a project

There is no sales desk at K-Stone. The drawings, the specification or the scope of works are read by the director, a civil engineering graduate of ESTP Paris, who prepares the price and the options himself. Two direct consequences for you: the technical answer and the price come from the same person, and that person remains your point of contact for the whole duration of the works.

• One point of contact, from the first call to the last snag cleared
• Options are offered and discussed, never imposed
• Your documents and your prices do not leave the office

The company brings together around two hundred people, supervisors and site crews, with the office based in Guéliz, Marrakech. On a single operation the headcount has reached one hundred and twenty, at the pyrotechnic plant in Settat. We take on few projects at a time, which lets supervisors travel with the crews and stay put, including on remote sites where a living base is set up.

• The team that starts the project is the team that finishes it
• A weekly review with the client until handover
• Living base and logistics organised for remote sites

On structures that allow it, such as the SP1 pumping station in Safi, the project is followed on a digital model. Concrete volumes and steel weight per bar diameter are kept up to date structure by structure. That is what makes it possible to compare planned against actual at any time, to spot a drift before it costs money, and to justify every site record.

• Quantities kept up to date structure by structure
• Site records justified, with no argument at the end of the month
• Gaps between planned and actual visible as soon as they appear

To date, no claim and no accident have been reported on K-Stone sites. That is not luck: part of our work happens on sites where mistakes are not an option. A pyrotechnic plant with its safety distances and earth berms. A building inside a fully operational airport, with controlled access and imposed working hours. A stadium in use, with the public nearby. Those constraints shaped the way we organise a site.

• Sensitive sites: pyrotechnic, airport, premises in use
• Supervisors present at all times, not visiting
• Access, hours and phasing agreed with the operator before starting

A project is also judged on what is left on paper. We hand over a complete file, like the photographic record file for the Marrakech Grand Stadium, so the structure can be operated and defended over time.

• As-built drawings
• Minutes and cleared snag lists
• Site records and actual quantities
• Photographic record file where the structure calls for it