A multimillion-dollar expansion is nearing completion at leading Bahrain-based glass and aluminium specialist City Glass, which is now looking at entering the wider GCC market, armed with a portfolio of innovative glazing solutions.

Use of temporary horizontal lifelines is especially common in construction and industrial maintenance work. These are notoriously dangerous occupations, as statistics from the UK Health and Safety Executive (HSE)1 confirm: the construction sector saw more fatal workplace injuries than any other in 2021/22, accounting for 24 per cent of the total.

The new Geberit iCon Rimfree WC meets the vital aspects that hotels seek when fitting out their bathrooms – speedy installation and ease of cleaning to high hygiene standards, says the Swiss sanitary solutions provider Geberit.

Trench excavations pose a range of safety and environmental hazards to workers. It’s a staggering fact that the fatality rate for excavation work is 112 per cent higher than the rate for general construction1. Understandably, collapses are a particular concern, with a cubic yard of soil as heavy as a bull elephant.

Whether it is high-rise construction or linear waterfront developments, formwork solutions from Paschal-Werk G Maier have helped several contractors in Bahrain to meet the specifications and tight deadlines set for their projects, says Paschal Concrete Forms, the German formwork manufacturer’s regional office.