Intersec Middle East, the region’s leading trade fair for commercial security, fire, safety and health and police and homeland security will be focusing on tackling work-related accidents with training, communication and implementation seen as key steps to site safety.
As many as 500 Arab, Asian and Western delegates from across the world are set to attend the second Jeddah International Forum for Water and Power, which will be held in Saudi Arabia next month.
With over $1 trillion worth of projects announced in the GCC and escalating project risks, the Middle East Economic Digest’s (MEED) Project Risk Management in Construction conference will address the key issues currently faced by the construction industry, providing an opportunity for the sector to gather together to devise new solutions to ensur
A new QR220 million ($54.94 million) golf resort and spa is scheduled to open in Qatar in 2009. Financed by the government’s QSi (Qatar Sports Investment Company), it will be managed by Taj Hotels Resorts and Palaces, said a spokesman.
A glittering Icon Tower will be the centrepiece for the new $1.25 billion Lulu Island housing project in Bahrain being built on the coast of Manama. Residents are expected to begin moving into the residential complex by mid-2008.
The Kuwait-based Alghanim Industries, together with Saint-Gobain, is acquiring Izocam, a leading Turkish company in the insulation products sector. The purchase of Izocam, from the Koç Group, is being made jointly with Saint-Gobain Isover, a leading French construction products manufacturer.
Pearl Development and Real Estate Company has recently announced that work is under way on the mock-up apartments for its maiden development, the BD95 million ($252.66 million) Abraj Al Lulu project in Bahrain.
Abu Dhabi Investment House (ADIH) has awarded the construction contract for The Lagoon Bahrain project to a leading Bahrain-based construction firm, Ahmed Mansoor Al A’ali Company (AMA).
Drake & Scull International (DSI), a leading mechanical and electrical engineering contracting company in the region, has signed a KD2.35 million ($8.12 million) contract with Kuwait's State Audit Bureau (SAB), to revamp its building technology infrastructure.
Saudi Formaldehyde Chemical Company (SFCCL) has awarded India’s largest engineering and construction company, Larsen & Toubro, along with its consortium partner, Denmark's Haldor Topsoe a SR412 million ($109.8 million) contract for setting up high-tech methanol and carbon monoxide plants in Saudi Arabia.
Japan-based TCM, a major equipment manufacturer, last April embarked on a three-year business strategy called Global Stage 06 with the aim of expanding and strengthening the company’s presence in promising global markets.
Durrat Al Bahrain, the kingdom’s largest planned residential, leisure and tourist resort, has reached a major milestone with the completion of land reclamation on the 12 islands that together create the $3 billion resort city.
The foundations for $183 million Amwaj Gateway are to be laid next month and the project is aimed for completion within 30 months. Covering a plot of land measuring around 360,000 sq ft within the Amwaj Islands to the north of Bahrain, the project will house six 20-storey towers that will accommodate around 550 different units.
National Safety and Security Company (NSSC), a complete solution provider for security and access management needs, is offering the latest products from Austria-based Falcontrol in Bahrain.
Three international firms have pre-qualified to bid for a contract for a $500 million power and water plant in Oman and the government is expected to name the winner this month, an official said. The official at the Oman Water and Power Procurement Company named the bidders as AES Corporation/AES Oasis, Suez-Tractabel and Marubeni.
Indian company Voltas, under the Tata Group, has won a BD40 million ($106 million) electromechanical contract for the Bahrain City Centre, being built on Manama coast.This is one of the biggest electromechanical projects ever undertaken in Bahrain. A pool of skilled and dedicated experts from Voltas has been deployed in Bahrain for the task.
Bahrain-based Nass Mechanical, a wholly-owned subsidiary of NassCorporation, has secured a contract worth BD3.13 million ($8.38 million) for the fabrication and mechanical erection work for Phase III of the Hidd privatisation and desalination expansion project in Bahrain.
Bahrain’s Municipalities and Agriculture Ministry has issued a Letter of Intent (LoI) to Bokhowa Contracting for the BD3 million ($7.9 million) project to revitalise the Manama suq area.
The LG Air Conditioning Academy in Jeddah is contributing greatly to the Saudi HVAC (heating, ventilation and air-conditioning) sector by providing training courses to properly equip the manpower in the industry. Since the beginning of this year, around 20 training courses had been organised by the academy in Jeddah alone.
