Milcris receives Oman airport project

Milcris, a Sri Lankan Quantity Surveying company incorporated in 1968 and succeeded in Oman has returned to business in Sri Lanka accepting government's invitation to all expatriate professionals to return to the motherland.

We attended the November 17 meeting with the President and we have confidence of fast development in North East and South after the end of the war.

We are in a new era and Sri Lanka has everything to be a main economy in the South Asian region, said the CEO of Milcris Milan De Silva.

We left the country because there were no opportunities and today a new era has started.

There are plenty of opportunities in the government and the private sector.

They may be small projects but Milcris wants to provide service to the country and we are hopeful of the future, he said.

Milcris Pvt. Ltd. in a short period of time, has recorded an annual turnover in excess of Rs 400 million, while its Sri Lankan staff making up 95% of the Company's total staff strength, remit over Rs 250 million annually to Sri Lanka.

Milcris is backed by the Seven Seas Group of Companies in Oman, a conglomerate which has interests in oil, real estate and shipping, Milcris has emerged to become a key player in the construction industry of Oman and its development.

De Silva said "We aim to be the preferred Cost Consultancy service provider in the region and in the coming year hope to expand our services to Sharjah, Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Mumbai, as well as Sri Lanka. In fact in the coming year we hope to push our turnover up to Rs 750 million".

Milcris is currently handling the cost consultancy for the construction of two new airports in Muscat and Salalah valued at US $ 4.5 billion, each with a passenger load of 12 and 2 million respectively per annum.

In addition we are also working on the new campus for the Dhofar university in Salalah valued at US $ 100 million, as well as a town development project which will be both residential and commercial in Salalah, valued at US $ 40 million, he said.

De Silva whose 70 strong team of Quantity Surveyors, most of whom are Sri Lankan, with the exception of a few Indian nationals and Europeans, is proud of the fact that he has shown the gulf what Sri Lankans are capable of.

"I am proud to say that my company has made it known that Sri Lanka is synonymous not just with house maids, but with dedicated, qualified professionals who are capable of holding their own with any internationally qualified Quantity Surveyor".

De Silva went on to say that such is Milcris reputation, that the Airport project which had been awarded to them, was to date the largest project to be undertaken in the Sultanate of Oman, the value of which exceeded the accumulated value of all the projects undertaken for the last 10 years by any other consultant in the Sultanate of Oman.