Sustainable infrastructures have become a matter of national priority in support of the “China Dream”. An elusive concept for many, merely a business opportunity for others, the China Dream is very concrete for us at Siveco China: all our projects aim at reducing the life-cycle-cost and increasing the useful lifetime of the infrastructures with our Maintenance 4.0 approach.

Siveco China is on the Maritime Silk Road for power generation projects in Sri Lanka… and Tanzania! As usual, my team performs best when I am away travelling… In my absence, three major projects in the Chinese waste & water market have been signed and launched! One contract is for a waste treatment plant of Suez, a global player in the sustainable management of resources and a faithful Siveco China client for over twelve years.

One year ago, we announced that Siveco was tripling its investment in China. The main purpose of this investment was to strengthen our Maintenance 4.0 solutions for ultra-high buildings and infrastructure projects. BIM is fast becoming mandatory in large buildings and infrastructure projects, but its actual usage for operation and maintenance remains an open question.

I had the great pleasure to visit Tunis last month for meeting with our African partners. My main theme was “Siveco China on the Silk Road”, as our EPC business is taking us from Korea in the East to as far as Algeria in the West! Siveco enjoys a very strong presence on the African continent, thanks to a network of local partners built in the past 30 years. At the same time in neighboring Algeria, our ongoing CMMS project at the Boufarik gas turbine power plant built by Turkish EPC GAMA is moving into final delivery phase.

Indeed, we observe our business has picked up during Q1 2016, as more companies finally start to pay attention to optimizing assets utilization and maintenance. More and more customers show interest in our ROI-driven approach, combining specialist maintenance consulting services and Maintenance 4.0 technology.

As of March 2016, Siveco Group has been in business for 30 years! 30 years helping customers optimize their maintenance, 30 years of innovation, 30 years building a unique know-how… and 12 of those years in China!