drs. Floris van den Berg

"Bechtel Corporation is the largest construction and engineering company in the United States, ranking as the 5th-largest privately owned company in the United States. Bechtel is active globally in the Oil Gas and Chemicals, Power, Mining and Metals, Communications and Civil Infrastructure Fields.Many of Bechtel’s projects involve the transportation of abnormally large and/or heavy modules, vessels or other items of permanent plant. It is vitally important for safety and efficiency that those designing such items and planning for their transportation and installation and overseeing those works are aware of the possibilities and limitations of state of the art transportation equipment such as Self-Propelled Modular Transporters. To that end, when we wanted to hold a symposium for our engineering and construction personnel on the subject of Heavy Transport we turned to Marco van

Daal. With vast experience Marco is universally recognized as one of the leading industry experts in this field; his book “The Art of Heavy Transport” is the go-to reference source. Having technical know-how alone does not make a person an effective trainer, but Marco is that too. Bechtel's participants in his training benefitted from his approach to the safety and wellbeing of personnel and coworkers, his methodological approach to complex projects and advice on project execution on foreign soil. At the end of the two-day course, our personnel came away with a much improved understanding and awareness of the subject which will be of great value to Bechtel going forward. In all, the arrangement between Mr. van Daal and Bechtel was a success and we hope to make use of his services again in the future."