UAE developer Arada has awarded the first two contracts for Masaar, a 19 million-sq-ft mega community coming up in the Suyoh district of Sharjah.  These include a deal awarded to contracting company ASGC Construction to build the Masaar Experience Centre and the show villa. Launched this January, the AED8-billion ($2.

The Ministry of Energy of Saudi Arabia commemorated the mid-way mark of the construction of the Dumat Al Jandal wind farm, the kingdom’s first utility-scale wind farm of more than 400MW capacity and the largest in the Middle East.

Kuwait Oil Company (KOC) has awarded its largest environmental project for cleaning polluted soil at a total cost of more than KD1 billion ($3.31 billion) to various local and international companies, reported Arab Times, citing senior sources.

GE Renewable Energy’s Grid Solutions, a GE business that equips utilities and industries to bring power from the point of generation to end-users, has completed a landmark turnkey contract for a substation to power Rabigh-3 salt water desalination plant, one of the world’s largest sea water reverse osmosis (SWRO) plants that will supply

Al Salem York cuts energy consumption through chiller replacement Saudi-based Al Salem Johnson Controls (York), a leading provider of integrated solutions in HVAC equipment, fire and security and building management systems, says it has been able to reduce energy consumption of its clients by 50 per cent through chiller replacement.