Since 1997, Linde International President Scott Linde has acted as an on-going consultant to this large family-owned business and Linde International supplies whatever the Summa Group needs from the USA.
ABOUT SUMMA
Summa is an international construction company which is among the most successful in Europe. Summa is a private company with more than 3,000 employees which was started more than 35 years ago in Ankara, Turkey by Mete Bora, who now operates the company with his sons.
The company’s field of activities includes infrastructure, waste water treatment, drinking water, irrigation systems, housing, hotels, hospitals, business centers, military facilities, administrative buildings, industrial plants and warehouses. Summa has successfully completed projects in such extreme temperatures as Siberia (-50 degrees Celsius) to Libya (+40 degrees Celsius). For each of the last 4 years Summa has been awarded the Certificate of Achievement in Construction from Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan.
Summa has offices in Ankara and Istanbul, Turkey; Bucharest, Romania; Chisinau, Moldova; Moscow, Russia; Tripoli, Libya and Pittston, PA, USA.
Linde has been involved with Summa since 1997. In 2010-11, Linde partnered with Summa to complete a private hospital in Moldova’s capital of Chisinau, and the African Union Summit Convention Center in Equatorial Guinea.
SUMMA/LINDE PROJECTS
SIPOPO CONGRESS CENTER—MALABO, EQUATORIAL GUINEA
The African Union Summit Hall in Sipopo, Equatorial Guinea, was designed and completed in a record-breaking time of 5 months. It was built in Equatorial Guinea’s newest city and hosted the 17th African Union Summit in June, 2011.
The conference hall is nearly 140,000 square feet and is able to comfortably host 60 African heads of state and 5 delegates from each attending country, for a total of 360 dignitaries. In addition, the Conference Center has seating for 160 press delegates, 4 VIP lounges, 4 TV broadcast booths, 8 simultaneous translation booths and a restaurant which seats 500.
The city of Sipopo, Equatorial Guinea, was officially inaugurated June 5, 2011. This new city was built for nearly 6 billion Euros and is planned as a major point of attraction for tourists from around the world.
MEDPARK INTERNATIONAL HOSPITAL, MOLDOVA
Medpark International Hospital in Chisinau, which officially opened February 17, 2011, is the biggest private hospital in the Republic of Moldova.
The six-story facility is nearly 135,000 square feet and cost 20 million Euros to build. It includes a maternity ward and surgery block with four operating theaters and an interventional cardiology room, integrated with two intensive care units. In addition, the in-patient department consists of exclusive accommodations in 63 one-bed rooms including 6 VIP rooms, equipped with advanced systems for supervision of vital functions. The rooms include air conditioning, satellite TV, Internet, telephone, refrigerator, and individual showers and bathrooms to insure the comfort and safety of the patients.