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Implementation

As mentioned previously, the project was built Figure 5: Membrane installation
with a core group of 23 workers. These workers
were trained by Sascha Meyer, a German expert
with over 15 years’ experience of membrane
manufacturing and installation. Sascha showed
the workers how to erect the steel and install
the membranes.

As the project went on, the size of the teams
was increased and the best performers were
made team managers and allocated specific
targets, which were inspected and approved
by Sascha and the site office manager Razim.
When targets were met, generous bonuses
were distributed among all team players
equally. As a result, skill levels improved and
teams competed against each other to get
larger shares of the bonuses by completing
more units.

During Ramadan, the competition intensified and the Muslim teams asked if they could work at night.
Teams worked from 4 pm until 6 am, and then a second team of Buddhists would work the day shift
from 6 am through to 4 pm during the day, resulting in remarkable progress.

Following Ramadan, the contractor was asked to build the main area buildings as well (this had not been
in the original scope). As a result, two German master carpenters and a French architect were brought
in to supervise a new, 36-man team of local fishermen for the construction of the bamboo buildings.

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