UAE Focus

THE IMG Group has broken ground for a major new indoor family entertainment centre, having recently concluded a licence agreement with Marvel Entertainment to build and operate the Marvel Adventure in Dubai.






A STATE-OF-THE-ART eco-friendly mosque that will be the largest in Dubai is scheduled to open by the end of 2013, the Awqaf and Minors Affairs Foundation (AMAF) has revealed. To be built at a cost of $6.8 million, the mosque will have a capacity to accommodate 3,500 worshippers.






BYRNE Equipment Rental said it has plans to establish its new 401,000-sq-ft headquarters complex at Dubai Industrial City (DI), the region’s primary manufacturing and logistics destination and a member of Tecom Investments.






NAKHEEL has signed a Dh27.5-million ($7.48 million) contract for the construction of a 10,600-sq-m community centre in Jumeirah, Dubai, as part of the company’s growing retail portfolio.






Emirates Steel wins ASME approval EMIRATES Steel has been awarded a quality system certificate (QSC) as a material organisation (MO) from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) for the manufacture of concrete reinforcing bar (rebar).






THE UAE will become the first Gulf state to start constructing a nuclear power plant in the region, following the recent go-ahead given to the projects in Abu Dhabi both by the Environmental Agency – Abu Dhabi and the UAE nuclear regulator Federal Authority of Nuclear Regulation (FANR).






THE Abu Dhabi Health Services Company (Seha) has selected a renowned global firm to manage the construction of two new community hospitals in the UAE. In a two-year contract worth Dh17.4 million ($4.






DUBAI-BASED master developer Nakheel has said International City Phase Three is not on hold, but is “live” and a number of developers have started work on their projects. “The ongoing work at International City Phase Three is for the completion of community services and facilities such as roads and streetlighting.






MAPEI, a global leader in the production of adhesives, sealants and chemical products for buildings, has launched an exclusive range of concrete admixture products that have been specifically developed to address technical and efficiency issues in the concrete industry.






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