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Update

01 October 2010

Infrastructure in focus
THREE conferences will be held concurrently during the Infrastructure Middle East 2011, Conferences and Exhibition, which will be held at the Gulf Hotel’s Gulf International Convention Centre in Bahrain, from January 17 to 19 next year.
The themes of the conferences are ‘Underground Infrastructure’, ‘Water and Waste Water’ and ‘Traffic and Transportation’.

Launched in January this year as Underground Infrastructure Middle East, this series of international conferences and exhibitions was an “overwhelming success”, according to Khalifa Al Mansoor, assistant undersecretary for sanitary affairs at Bahrain’s Ministry of Works, which is patronising the conferences in cooperation with the German Society for Infrastructure Solutions Transfer (GSIST).

The scope of the event has now expanded under the umbrella of ‘Infrastructure Middle East.

Among the projects which will be highlighted will be the planned 1,940-km Gulf Railway project linking all six GCC states, alongside several small and medium-scale infrastructure projects under way.

The conference programme, with internationally-renowned speakers, is again being compiled by EITEP (Euro Institute for Information and Technology Transfer in Environmental Protection) in co-operation with the Bahrain Society of Engineers.

Wood a key theme at Bau 2011
WOOD will be one of the main themes at Bau 2011, where the timber construction industry will showcase the diversity and many applications of this renewable resource. Bau 2011, which will take place from January 17 to 22, 2011, at the New Munich Trade Fair Centre, Germany, will highlight the various qualities of wood, such as its good insulation properties, its ability to prevent thermal bridges, in addition to the resource possessing a combination of low weight and high compressive and tensile strength.

Hall B5 of the trade centre will feature structural timber, interiors and wood derivatives. The whole spectrum of windows and doors made of wood will be presented in Halls C4 and B4, wood in the form of parquet flooring will be in Hall B6, with Hall A3 covering the whole range of roof-building materials and attic windows.

Expo to debate power options
POWER-GEN Middle East 2010, the region’s premier conference and exhibition for the power and water industries, will deliver a quality conference programme, complete with around 80 leading industry speakers. The three-day conference will be held this month (October 4 to 6) at the Qatar International Exhibition Centre, Doha, and will include 21 sessions providing ample opportunities to network with industry leaders and debate key power options that will meet an increased demand for water and power in the region.

Largest lagoon on display
CRYSTAL Lagoons, creator of the world’s largest crystalline lagoon, will showcase what will become the largest navigable crystalline lagoon in the world, in Sharm El Sheikh on Egypt’s Red Sea coast, at Cityscape Global in Dubai, this month (October 4 to 7).

The event, being held at the Dubai World Trade Centre, will feature some of Crystal Lagoons’ most spectacular projects, all developed with an exclusive worldwide patent.

At present, the largest crystal lagoon in the world is in Chile; however, shortly, a real estate development in Sharm El Sheikh in Egypt, will acquire this distinction. Apart from this 12-hectare lagoon, the project features another 10 giant lagoons that in total hold more than 100 hectares of crystal clear water in the middle of the desert. The first lagoon will be inaugurated early next year.

bauma China grows larger
AN EXPANDED outdoor site has been made available to the exhibitors of this year’s bauma China, reflecting the exhibition’s growing stature.

This will allow show organisers to temporarily increase outdoor exhibition space by 10,000 sq m at the Shanghai New International Expo Centre, which will now offer 230,000 sq m of total space to accommodate demands of the international trade fair for construction machinery, building material machines, construction vehicles and equipment.
Construction work on the new halls at the north end of the centre is also in full swing. Two of those halls are expected to be used for the first time during bauma China 2010 next month (November 23 to 26).

In addition to new records in the amount of exhibition space and the number of exhibitors, the number of visitors expected to attend bauma China 2010 is also expected to increase. More than 112,674 visitors from 124 countries attended the fair in 2008.