Nürnberg Global Fairs and the Bahrain Convention and Exhibition Bureau will organise two major events – the third Water Middle East 2005 and the Intelligent Building Middle East 2005 – at the Bahrain International Exhibition Centre, later this year.

More than 200 companies from around the world will take part in the Abu Dhabi International Road Exhibition and Conference (Roadex) scheduled to take place in March 2006.

Rebuilding Iraq meet this monthWashington DC: US-based New Fields Exhibitions will hold the Fourth Rebuilding Iraq Conference in Washington DC this month (July 20 to 21).

The Omani government in partnership with private investors unveiled the $15 billion Madina Al Zarqa (Blue City) – its most ambitious project yet – early last month.

Global and regional digital leader LG Electronics in partnership with HG Ibrahim Shaker Company – the exclusive LG air-conditioner distributor in Saudi Arabia – has inaugurated an air-conditioning academy in Jeddah.

The first ‘green city’ in the Middle East is to be built in Bahrain, at a cost of more than BD80 million ($211.3 million), it was revealed. Several international consultants are bidding for the project, which will be located in A’ali, at the site of the new Euro University.

A real estate project on Saudi Arabia's Gulf coast should attract around SR60 billion ($16 billion) in investments over the next 10 years, according to its developer the Khalid S Shobily Group, which has spent SR7 billion to develop the 6 million sq m strip of coastline in Al Khobar.

Saudi Arabia’s Water and Electricity Company (WEC) has started detailed talks with a Saudi-Malaysian group to set up a power and water plant in Shuaiba, southwest of the kingdom.

Qatar Petroleum has signed a $668.7 million deal with a South Korean consortium to build a condensate refinery in the state. GS Engineering and Construction Corporation and Daewoo Engineering and Construction Company will build Laffan refinery and storage and export facilities at Ras Laffan industrial city.

Al Areen Holding Company and Banyan Tree Hotels and Resorts have finalised the interior design concepts of their mixed-use $750 million tourism complex during top-level talks held in Bahrain, senior officials announced.

The UAE-headquartered Al Hamad will undertake the construction of Jordan Gate, one of the key components of Gulf Finance House’s (GFH) $1 billion Royal Metropolis project in Jordan. Hilton International will be appointed to operate the hotel component of Jordan Gate, said GFH chief executive officer Esam Janahi.

Leading construction equipment manufacturer TCM claims that its range of forklift trucks – which includes models designed specifically for the marine construction industry – have got proven capabilities that make them the equipment of choice for the highly corrosive projects in the region.