ABU DHABI'S Tourism Development and Investment Corporation (TDIC) has invited contractors to submit bids for the main construction works on its delayed Louvre Abu Dhabi museum project. The museum, designed by Jean Nouvel, will form an iconic landmark within the cultural district of Saadiyat.
DUBAI Investments Park (DIP), the largest integrated business and residential community in the Middle East, and wholly owned by Dubai Investments, said the construction of the first stage on Phase Eight of the facility has been completed. Work on Phase Eight started in August 2010 at a total cost of Dh150 million ($40 million).
Mahindra opens Sharjah facility MAHINDRA Middle East Electrical Steel Service Centre (MME), a joint venture between Mahindra Intertrade of India and Nippon Steel Corporation (NSC) of Japan, has launched its state-of-the-art transformer cores facility in Sharjah. Set up at a capital expenditure of $3.
AS PART of major expansion plans, Emirates Glass has launched a state-of-the-art coating line that will raise production capacity to more than 3.5 million sq m.
THE Watertec division of the UAE-based Belhasa Projects has won a major project from the UAE’s Federal Electricity and Water Authority (Fewa) to supply a DN 600 transmission pipeline from Thouban pumping station to Masafi WDC (water distribution centre).
GULF Petrochem Group, a leading player in the global oil space, said that the first phase of its 1.2-million-cu-m storage terminal project in Fujairah is on track for completion in September this year. The storage terminal is spread across a112,233 sq m area, which includes up to 73,269 sq m of expansion capability.
ABOUT 70 per cent of construction works in Rashid Hospital tunnels project in Dubai has been completed, according to Mattar Al Tayer, chairman of the board and executive director of Dubai’s Roads & Transport Authority (RTA). He said he expected all works costing about Dh700 million ($190.
EXTRUSION welders from Leister Technologies of Switzerland were recently in service to help build a galvanisation plant at Al Jaber Street Light Factory, which has been set up in Abu Dhabi.
A FIRST-OF-ITS-KIND roadshow conducted by well-known BIM software and hardware providers concludes early this month in Abu Dhabi after a successful tour of four major cities across the GCC.
A GERMAN engineering company has secured a contract for the design of a solar project located in Dubai.
SAINT-GOBAIN Gyproc’s plasterboard plant in Abu Dhabi, has marked a major safety milestone, notching up 1,000 days without a single lost-time accident (LTA). The achievement, as of February 23, 2012, marks a complete absence of LTA at the state-of-the-art plasterboard plant, since its opening in April 2010.
SIEMENS has been awarded a €26-million ($34 million) contract by Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (Dewa) to build a turnkey 132 kV/33 kV high-voltage substation in Mushrif, Dubai.
JOHN Crane, a global leader in the provision of products and services for the world’s process and industrial markets, has launched an expanded and upgraded Middle East and Africa (MEA) headquarters with a new service and manufacturing facility in Dubai.
ABU DHABI'S Aldar Properties, rescued twice by the government with bailouts totalling $10 billion amid a property slump, may merge with local rival Sorouh Real Estate in a state-backed tie-up.
