Trent Sukovieff is savouring the comforts of his hometown of Calgary after spending the last four months in Iraq. “It’s like Christmas, New Year’s and everything all rolled into one,” he says of his springtime visit. These days, home for Sukovieff and his fiancée is Dubai, where he heads up the Middle East headquarters for Waterworks Technologies, the company his father, Len, founded.
Building a water treatment plant in Iraq is a tricky business, requiring patience and sensitivity to the local culture, Sukovieff says. Procuring a nut or bolt of a certain size, available at any hardware store in Canada, might take a week in the war-torn country. If you need something done right away, you can’t just call head office; they’re all asleep, so the support of a full-service office in nearby Dubai is a necessity.
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