ABU Dhabi authorities are pushing ahead with the Middle East’s longest traffic tunnel, which is set to be inaugurated on schedule before the end of this year, the semi-official daily Al Ittihad has said. Nearly 80 per cent of the Dh5 billion ($1.
GGR Gulf recently took the plunge to complete a challenging pool project in the middle of one of the largest deserts in the world.
AL HABTOOR Leighton Group (HLG) has secured two new projects in Abu Dhabi worth more than Dh600 million ($163.4-million).
US-BASED Aquatech has won a $82-million contract from the UAE’s Federal Electricity and Water Authority (Fewa) to provide a 15 million gallons per day (mgpd) seawater reverse osmosis-based desalination facility in Ras Al Khaimah.
RAK Ceramics, the world’s largest ceramic tiles and bathware manufacturing company, said it will be partnering with top design houses in Europe to reinforce the company’s in-house team of designers based in Ras Al Khaimah, Spain, Italy, France and the UK.
DAMAC Properties, a leading real estate developer, has commenced main construction works at its Dh508-million ($138.3 million) residential development at Dubai Marina.
CATERPILLAR dealer Mohammed Abdulrahman Al-Bahar has opened its newly-expanded service and parts facility in Sharjah in a bid to enhance its support services to its customers in the region.
INDEX, an 80-storey mixed-use tower in Dubai, has headed off stiff competition to be judged the best new high-rise building in the Middle East and Africa.
A METHODOLOGY for identifying energy efficiency in buildings, developed in Abu Dhabi by Masdar Carbon, has now been formally adopted by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
BASF UAE’s managing director Harald Kroll has been appointed as a board member of the German Emirati Joint Council for Industry and Commerce (AHK), the first bilateral federal German business organisation as well as the first international institution on federal level founded in the Gulf.
Tiger Group ‘best employer’ THE Tiger Group has been named the‘Best Smart Pay Employer’ in recognition of the group’s commitment to employee welfare by supporting the WPS (Wage Protection System) regulations established by the UAE Ministry of Labour and Central Bank of the UAE.
