MIDDLE EAST Dredging Company (Medco) has been awarded a QR4.5 billion ($1.2 billion) contract to dredge the approach channel for a new port project in Qatar.
Work on museum gathers speed WORK on the National Museum in Muscat, Oman, has been gaining momentum for the project “to open on schedule”, according to the Oman Observer.
A PREMIER solution provider in the US, EarthCam is steadily gaining popularity in the Middle East, with remote project management having become an essential component of construction business.
ONE of Bahrain’s biggest infrastructure projects is set to be completed ahead of schedule. The BD98 million ($259 million) North Manama Causeway includes upgrading the junctions that connect the Al Fateh Highway to the King Faisal Highway and the Shaikh Hamad Causeway. It also features the construction of an elevated 1.
PREMIER Composite Technologies (PCT) has been awarded a contract to supply composite roof and inner ceiling panels for the Madinah station of Haramain High Speed Railway project in Saudi Arabia.
DIVERSIFIED Brazilian industrial giant Vale is in preliminary discussions with Sohar Industrial Port Company and Oman’s Ministry of Transport and Communications to bring its wealth of expertise to Oman’s stretch of the $30-billion GCC rail network. “Rail transportation plays a fundamental role in Vale’s operations.
OTIS Elevator Company Saudi Arabia has won six contracts to supply and install 263 elevators, including 10 double-deck elevators, and 90 escalators, in various buildings in the King Abdullah Financial District (KAFD) in the Saudi capital Riyadh.
US-BASED PrivacyLink, a manufacturer and distributor of fence products, is expanding into the Gulf region in response to increased interest in its products and services. “We have received a number of enquiries and requests for job quotes recently from various countries outside north America.
MARS, a leading chocolate manufacturer, is setting up a new state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah Economic City (KAEC) at a total cost of $210 million. The facility will be the second Mars factory in the region, with the first based in Dubai, UAE.
THE first phase of a 6,000-unit housing project for Saudi Arabia’s Jazan province has been launched. The SR6-billion ($1.
US-BASED Leo A Daly has opened a new office in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, which will focus on the infrastructure, housing, healthcare and education markets. This is the second office opened by the international architecture, planning, engineering, interior design and programme management firm in the Middle East in recent years.
GLOBAL built asset consultancy EC Harris has won a key contract in the development of the next phase of Hamad Medical City (HMC) in Doha, Qatar.
PARTNERSHIPS Technical Bureau in Kuwait (PTB) has invited companies to submit expression of interest (EoI) to invest in an integrated rolling stock and systems (IRS) company being developed as part of the country’s first metro project.
WORK on a new BD4.6-million ($12.2 million) health centre will start this month in what would be the largest such facility in Muharraq, Bahrain, said a top government official. The 13.
KUWAIT will soon launch an initial tender for construction of a second terminal at its international airport, a project worth around KD700 million to KD800 million ($2.5 billion to $2.9 billion), state-run news agency Kuna reported.
JENAN Real Estate Company has won a SR90-million ($24 million) loan from Arab National Bank (ANB), which is expected to give a fillip to its development projects, the key among them being the Al Nawras Village project dedicated to Saudi Aramco employees.
