MUBADALA Real Estate and Infrastructure (MREI) and Taiwanese property developer Farglory Group have broken ground on the $1-billion Maryah Plaza, a four-tower luxury waterfront complex on Al Maryah Island in Abu Dhabi – marking the first development on the island by a foreign direct investor.
GLASS pioneer in the Middle East, Glass, said its coating lines, comprising subsidiaries Emirates Glass and Saudi American Glass, have won projects worth Dh100 million ($27 million) in the first half of 2013 across the region.
JUMEIRAH Golf Estates (JGE) expects to hand over the first set of villas within its luxury residential golf community located off Dubai’s Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Road in the fourth quarter of this year.
DUBAI’S Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) said it expected the key part of the Parallel Roads at Jumeirah Lakes Towers (JLT) to be completed by the end of this year.
THE Dubai Multi Commodities Centre (DMCC) plans to build the world’s tallest commercial tower as part of its expansion strategy. Currently in the concept design phase, the DMCC Business Park and the world’s tallest commercial tower will cater to large corporations and multi-nationals that require significant floor space to buy or rent.
DRAKE and Scull International (DSI) has won a Dh233-million ($63 million) contract from Arabtec Construction to execute the complete mechanical, electrical and plumbing (MEP) works for the Fairmont Abu Dhabi Hotel and Serviced Apartments. DSI will mobilise on site immediately and is scheduled to complete all MEP works on the project by June 2015.
JUST one year after launching production, the $1.6-billion heavy sections mill of Emirates Steel is now diversifying its product range with the development of structural steel with enhanced mechanical properties that are often specified in offshore oil, gas and petrochemical projects.
THE latest villa resort in the UAE that has been designed to incorporate sustainable design opened on Abu Dhabi’s Sir Bani Yas Island last month (July).
Foundation work has started on the Cranleigh Abu Dhabi school on Saadiyat Island, following the award of the piling and early construction works to NSCC International-Abu Dhabi by the Tourism Development and Investment Company (TDIC), the master developer of major tourism, cultural and residential destinations in Abu Dhabi.
MASTER real estate developer Nakheel has issued a tender for the construction of Club Vista Mare, a beachfront residential and recreation project on Dubai’s Palm Jumeirah. The club will be located at the middle of the trunk of palm-shaped man-made island.
DUBAI World Central (DWC), the world’s first purpose-built aerotropolis, said that RSA Logistics has begun construction of a 9,500-sq-m temperature-controlled facility adjacent to the company’s headquarters in DWC’s Logistics District.
Sowwah Square vies for global title SOWWAH Square in Abu Dhabi is among the distinctive projects selected from four regions across the world that has been declared the best tall buildings in the world for 2013 by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH).
