More than 2,500 exhibitors from all around the world are expected to join the largest and most influential construction event in the Middle East in Dubai, UAE, next month (November 26 to 29).

Dr Shetha Al Zubaidi* will be talking on key challenges faced by women in construction at the Women in Construction Seminar during The Big 5 Show in November.

For thousands of years, pipelines have been used for the defined supply or discharge of fluids. In each era, the choice of material was determined by availability and the latest technology: right from underground masonry sewerage systems that date back to 3,800 BC to the wooden water pipes and cast iron pipes that emerged in the Middle Ages.