Al Ahad Precast — banded knight mark
AL AHAD PRECAST
MADE IN UAE

Concrete elements, cast to order.

RAL 1003 · the yellow on the marker

Since 1989 we have cast to the drawing on one site. Forty-two positions are already tooled, and when a drawing is new we cut the steel for it ourselves — one mould per engraving, never a substitute. Orders have run from a single piece to four thousand.

DEWA 132 kV power and fibre optic route marker — stencilled lettering and RAL 1003 band
1989

Thirty-seven years on the utilities' approved lists.

One yard, one trade. The networks grew, the standards changed, the moulds kept coming out of it.

Approved vendor to
DEWA SEWA FEWA ADWEA / ADDC TRANSCO Etihad WE Etihad Rail RTA clear zones

Supplied direct and through the main contractors who build those networks — ETA, Emirates Electrical Engineering, NPCC, Centaur, Al Mostajed, Civil & Electrical Projects.

8 346 Markers to DEWA
2015–2020
15 400+ Across the emirates
since the first pour
The approval file and the company profile go out with the offer, together with the drawing reference for every item quoted. Approval letters · trade licence 212937 · TRN 100363649300003
The full range

Forty-two tooled positions, eight things to point at.

Grouped by what the item does in the trench, not by catalogue heading. Every position has a steel mould standing in our own workshop; dimensions, grade and engraving follow the approved shop drawing.

Link box enclosure on a precast foundation
13 items Link boxes, foundations, earthing Enclosures with steel double doors over the link box, feeder pillar, RMU and transformer foundations, lighting bases and earth pits — cast to your bolt layout.
Precast chamber with cast-in duct openings
9 products Manholes and chambers Jointing bays and pull pits with the duct openings cast in, not cut afterwards. Covers supplied loose, lifting bars cast in where the size calls for them.
In short
Our own mould shop Forty-two positions tooled.
A new type is cut here, not bought in.
One grade, one routine C-30 ready-mix from CONMIX, Ajman.
Seven days water curing before despatch.
Papers on request Data sheets and drawings by section.
Ask for the ones you need
The supply record

Two hundred and three supplies, and a paper trail for each.

The list starts in 1992 with cable tiles and has not stopped since. Below are the recorded supplies of markers and enclosures from 2006 onward. Each line carries the contract it was cast against.

Year
Item supplied
Quantity · confidential
Contract
2006
Cable route markers — fibre optic
2 072
DEWA CE/024B
Link box enclosures
32
DEWA CE/024B
2007
Cable route markers — fibre optic
2 072
DEWA CE/024B
Link box enclosures
31
DEWA CE/024B
2008
132 kV cable route markers
1 071
DEWA CE/288A/2006
Link box route markers
945
DEWA 1240CAB · CE/455C
2009
Cable route markers
1 400
DEWA 1254 CAB
2010
132 kV cable route markers
3 200
DEWA
2014
132 kV cable route markers
2 450
DEWA Jazeera Emirates Power
2015
F.O. cable route markers
800
DEWA — ITS
2016
HDPE route markers (three supplies)
1 474
DEWA
2017
HDPE route markers (two supplies)
1 758
DEWA
2018
HDPE route markers (four supplies)
1 426
DEWA
2019
HDPE route markers
2 020
DEWA
Link box bollards and enclosures
178
DEWA
2020
HDPE route markers
1 450
DEWA
Link box bollards
200
DEWA
Route markers Link boxes and bollards Bar to the largest line
Ask for the contract list
Largest single supply
3 000+ Cable route markers, in a single year
Years in the table
2006–2020 17 lines in this table

Earlier supplies from 1992 to 2005 — cable tiles, protection slabs, tile route markers — are listed in the company profile, issued with every offer.

The colour code

White body, yellow and red bands, a stencilled legend.

On site nobody opens the drawing. The colour is read first, the legend second — and between them they say what is under the ground and what it costs to hit it.

Stencilled on the face
DEWA 132kV CABLE HDD AREA
Utility DEWA
Voltage 132 kV
Marks Bored crossing
Colour Two red bands

The cable is bored deep under the road here.

No open trench to find. The bore runs between the two markers at either end of the crossing.

Cast the same way every time

The colour is the easy part. The batch is the job.

A marker is only worth the mix behind it. One grade, one curing routine, one mould per engraving — that is what keeps the four thousandth piece identical to the first.

C-30 Ready-mixed from CONMIX, Ajman, to the grade on the DEWA drawing. Raw materials tested by an independent laboratory.
7 days Water curing before anything leaves the yard. No despatch off a green pour, whatever the programme says.
RAL 1003 / 3003 Two coats of reflective enamel, stencilled lettering 30 mm, repainted if a band fails inspection.
1 : 1 One steel mould per engraving. A DEWA face is never pressed from a SEWA tool.
Made to your order

If it isn't in the moulds, we cut the mould.

Our own workshop makes the steel tooling. A new engraving, a different height, an odd duct opening, a utility we have not cast for yet — it starts as a drawing and ends in the yard. Supplies have run from 40 to 4,144 pieces on a single order with no tooling bought in.

01
A brief or a drawing A utility standard detail, a marked-up PDF, a photo of the one on site — or just the problem in words.
02
Detail and submittal We develop or refine the solution and send it for approval before work starts.
03
The steel mould Cut and welded in our own workshop, for that engraving alone.
04
Sample, then batch We show the first piece; once it is confirmed we run the volume.
05
Despatch Banded on pallets — ex-works or delivery to site.
Steel mould for a concrete route marker on the workshop bench
Fabricator welding a steel mould in the workshop
Plant and process

Everything happens on one plot.

Mould shop, mixing, casting and finishing sit inside one yard, so a drawing does not leave the premises between the first cut and the pallet.

Production yard 40,000 sq. ft. — mould shop, casting bays and finishing in one place
Equipment Electric mixers and vibrating tables
Moulds Steel moulds made in our own shop, one per engraving
Marking Every piece marked with its type and casting date
Testing Raw materials tested by authorised independent laboratories
Despatch Banded on pallets — ex-works or delivered to site
Precast manhole cover finished in the yard
Finished in the yard, marked before it leaves
Where it went

Districts you know.

The projects are named in our DEWA approvals; supply went through the contractors who laid the cable.

Palm Jumeirah — site or network photo
2005
Palm Jumeirah 132/11 kV Markers along the spine and fronds as the island was energised.
JBR — Dubai Marina site photo
2007
Jumeirah Beach Residence · Dubai Marina Markers along the walk as the towers went up round the marina basin.
Dubai Silicon Oasis — site photo
2006
Silicon Oasis · IMPZ · City of Arabia Three new districts out of the desert in a single year.
Jumeirah Village Circle — site photo
2013
Jumeirah Village Circle Distribution markers across the circle as villas gave way to mid-rise plots.
Mira — site photo
2015
Mira cable network The year DEWA accepted HDPE in place of UPVC.
Wellness Village — site photo
2015
Wellness Village 132/11 kV Route and joint markers across a new district.
Town Square — site photo
2016
Town Square 132 kV circuit Full-height markers along the feeder circuit.
Garden City — site photo
2018
Garden City 132/11 kV Markers, slabs and link box enclosures as one package.
Why a contractor puts us on a submittal

Approved once, then approved again for thirty-four years.

DISTRICTS SUPPLIED
15+

Across Dubai backed by 34 years of DEWA-approved production since 1992.

PRODUCTION YARD
40,000 sq ft

Mould shop, casting bays and finishing, all under one roof in Al Sajaa.

MOULDS
1 : 1

Every route, joint and fitting gets its own steel mould, cut in our workshop for that application alone.

Same yard, same trade, thirty-seven years.

Standards changed, the pipe went from UPVC to HDPE, the network grew into a system. All that time the moulds kept coming out of the same workshop.

1989

First cast in the U.A.E. Part of the city’s construction from the ground up.

1992

First recorded supply of 132 kV cable tiles to DEWA.

2015

DEWA accepts HDPE in place of UPVC. The current marker takes its shape.

2026

Moving to a larger site with a batching plant, to cast large-size elements.

Plant and process

Forty thousand square feet, two mixers, one workshop.

Mould shop, mixing, casting and finishing sit inside one yard — the same ground where every marker in this catalogue was cast.

Route markers ready for despatch in the yard
The yard
Precast manhole and mould in the workshop
Bollards drying in rows in the yard
SEWA 33kV joint markers, finished heads
DEWA power and fibre markers staged for despatch
Ready for despatch
How we work

Six questions a buyer may need answered.

Tall red and white banded DEWA 132 kV route marker
01 Can I download the catalogue?

No. The catalogue and technical data sheets are issued directly to identified buyers after we verify the company. Our drawings and engravings are the product of thirty-five years of approvals.

02 Whose drawing do you cast from? +

The approved shop drawing issued with your purchase order. Dimensions, concrete grade and engraving follow it exactly; duct opening positions are confirmed with the buyer on a marked-up drawing before casting.

03 What quantities do you handle? +

Supplies have ranged from 40 nos to 4,144 nos on a single order. Typical project quantities of a few hundred to a few thousand units are accommodated without additional tooling.

04 Do you need new moulds for a new type? +

Steel moulds are fabricated in our own workshop. Forty-two catalogue positions are already tooled; a new type is cut in-house rather than bought in.

05 How is quality controlled? +

Ready-mixed concrete from CONMIX, Ajman, grade C-30 per the DEWA drawing. Seven-day water curing before despatch, raw materials tested by authorised independent laboratories, each piece marked with type and casting date.

06 How is material delivered? +

Ex-works, or delivered to site. Lifting bars are cast in where the item requires them; cover slabs are supplied loose.

Enquiries

Send the drawing.

Quantities, lead time and terms come back against your drawing and delivery point. The approvals file and company profile go out with every offer.

+971 056 215 8020 order@alahadprecast.ae Artur Petrosian, CEO
P.O. Box 19852, U.A.E.
Why the catalogue is not on this page
01 You tell us the company, the utility or main contractor, and the scope.
02 We verify the company against our record of supplies and approvals.
03 We issue the catalogue sections and data sheets that apply — nothing more.
Catalogue request sheet · issued to identified buyers

Request the catalogue.

Received.

We come back within one working day.