Free The Map Part 3: Kuwait Part B

Caution - this episode contains some details of suicides that happened when I worked at Amec Foster Wheeler in Kuwait. If you need it, these are helplines you can call for the top 5 most popular countries for this newsletter:

1. USA: 988 for the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline.

2. UK: 111 for the NHS.

3. Canada: 988 for the Suicide Crisis Helpline.

4. Australia: 1300 22 4636 for Beyond Blue.

5. India: 9820466726 for Aasra.

Continuing the testimony regarding my career in the worst country to be an expat, Kuwait. Until I joined Jacobs later on, I would also have contended it was at the worst place to be a consultant - Amec Foster Wheeler. We went in to the weeds geospatially finally! Here is a link to the Mapillary track, showing the security workers at the first gate on the road to GC 31. This is AMEC's office at GC-31.

GC-31 - North Korean workers reported in 2016, along with a road accident death in 2017.

This is the other gathering center they were working on in North Kuwait, GC-30. Yep, design appears to have been copied and pasted.

GC-30 - the site of a suicide by hanging on a pipe rack on a weekend during construction where Amec Foster Wheeler was the project management consultancy. Also site of a broken leg due to falling cabinet and a worker being fired for calling the ambulance due to a H2S gas leak.

For the separate video I made years ago animating the safety and other violations mentioned at these sites:

For the video uploaded years ago about my site visit to verify the circumstances of the fatal car accident at GC-31:

For a speech I gave in 2019 summarizing all this stuff at Spatial Information Day in Adelaide, South Australia:

Who would have known I could speak for 2hrs about Kuwait. There will even be a 3rd hour. I’ll do my best to up the pace and get everything done about my career this week. Then back to regular programming whilst the lawsuits come in.