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Intersec to tackle site safety concerns

Intersec Middle East, the region’s leading trade fair for commercial security, fire, safety and health and police and homeland security will be focusing on tackling work-related accidents with training, communication and implementation seen as key steps to site safety. The event is scheduled to take place next January (21to 23) at the Dubai International ...

Jeddah forum to focus on privatisation

As many as 500 Arab, Asian and Western delegates from across the world are set to attend ...

Meed conference to address key issues

With over $1 trillion worth of projects announced in the GCC and escalating project risks, ...

QSi to build golf resort in Doha

A new QR220 million ($54.94 million) golf resort and spa is scheduled to open in Qatar in ...

Icon Tower to be centrepiece for Lulu Island

A glittering Icon Tower will be the centrepiece for the new $1.25 billion Lulu Island ...





EmiCool drapes Etisalat tower

The elegant boat-shaped Etisalat Tower located at the Dubai Trade Centre roundabout in Dubai is being dressed up in 10,000 sq m of high-performance EmiCool Sun NN35 green glass supplied by Emirates Glass, a Dubai Investments subsidiary and a leading producer of premium architectural high-performance glass products. The prestigious project is expected to be ...

Installux poised to transform its range

I nstallux, a leading French manufacturer of high-quality aluminium products for buildings ...

German firm puts class into glass

When it comes to doors, Dorma – a world market leader in door hardware, movable walls ...

Geze’s innovative door hardware arrives

Geze Middle East, the Dubai-based subsidiary of the German manufacturer of door and window ...

Reynaers combines design, functionality

European aluminium systems manufacturer Reynaers Aluminium has introduced a new ...





$6bn Emal smelter project on track

The project to build the largest aluminium smelter in the world in the UAE is swiftly going ahead and officials are happy with the pace of the progress, it was announced. The world-class greenfield aluminium smelter complex is coming up at the Khalifa Port and Industrial Zone in Abu Dhabi.The fourth joint steering committee (JSC) for developing the smelter,...

Firm sees major shift to u-PVC

Construction projects in the Gulf are making a definite shift towards u-PVC (unplasticised ...

Siemens wins Dewa substation CONTRACT

Siemens Power Transmission and Distribution (PTD) will deliver a turnkey 400-kV/132-kV ...

Age Intrade in expansion mode

Dubai-based Age Intrade – a leading stockist and trader of structural steel with one of ...

Kuwait firm to invest $1.4bn in Dubai

Kuwait’s Abyaar Real Estate Development, backed by Aayan Leasing and Investment Company ...





Latest tenders

GC updates you with the latest tenders available in the Gulf region. OmanTender No 146/2006. Installation of a 33 kV cable feeder from Sohar grid station to 33/11 kV Sohar primary substation and replacement of the existing wooden pole-switching arrangement at Sohar primary substation in North Batinah. Documents can be obtained from the Majan Electricity ...





Hilti’s new addition slashes fitting time

Hilti, a global leader in systems and solutions for the professional construction sector, has launched a new screw magazine that is claimed to fill the gap in the drywall installation market for a screwdriving system that maximises productivity while keeping costs down. “The new SMD 57 screw magazine, drives screws twice as fast and cuts working time by ...

Boon Edam launches high-impact barriers

The Netherlands-based Royal Boon Edam Group Holding has launched globally a comprehensive ...

Weinig automates material handling

The Weinig Group, a leading German specialist in wood processing machinery, now offers the ...





Aswar opens new precast facility

The UAE-based Emirates Precast Fences Factory (Aswar) – a pioneer in the manufacture and supply of precast concrete boundary wall systems in the region – has launched its new sophisticated production facilities last month at its headquarters at Abu Dhabi Industrial city and has plans to expand its production capacity of precast products within two years....

Germans push precast for labour camps

The German consortium of Vollert, Unitechnik, and Weckenmann is currently focusing on ...

Spancrete upbeat on growth prospects

With yet another Spancrete Machinery Corporation-supplied precast production facility set ...





Metro tunnelling work set to begin

The tunnelling work for the multi-billion-dollar Dubai Metro project will be all set to start next January when the Al Bugeisha – the tunnel boring machine (TBM) that’s been assembled in Japan  – is shipped to Dubai next month (November). The massive, much-anticipated project, estimated to cost Dh15.2 billion ($4.2 billion), will be undertaken in...

Schöck promotes innovative ComBar

Schöck Bauteile, a German manufacturer of innovative construction products for the ...

DeWalt expands hammer range

DeWalt has further expanded its comprehensive hammer and breaker range with the launch of ...





Technology focus

The Middle East Drymix Mortar Association (Medma) will hold its opening conference and inauguration ceremony at the Big 5 Show this year. The conference will focus on dry mix mortars and will include lectures on advanced drymix mortar applications, the current situation of specifications and standardisation as well as a general outlook on the dry-mix mortar...

Influential voice

Construction Products Association (CPA), which has once again been appointed by UK Trade ...

Growing presence

The German Pavilion at the Big 5 show has continued to show a year on year growth in size. ...

Regional gateway

At the Big 5 show this month, the Fujairah Free Zone Authority (FFZA) – which provides ...

Exhibitors list*

Company name, Stand No Hall 1Abu Saeed Trading, UAE, A12.Ace Tech, Korea, F21.Adhesive ...





FULLY BOOKED

Space for the next edition of Saudi Build, the international construction technology and building materials exhibition, has been fully sold out, according to the organiser of the event. The show is being held from December 10 to 14 at the Riyadh Exhibition Centre – located on the Olaya Road and King Fahd Highway Ring Road – which offers 10,000 sq m of ...

Strong response

Dammam-based Kha-lifa Al Joaib Group of Companies will be returning for the second time to ...

Sustaining growth

In a bid to capitalise on the heightened construction activity in the region, Saudi ...

Meeting the demand

The materials handling division of Riyadh-based Industrial Materials Organisation (IMO) ...

Classy range

Al Tamimi Sons’ tent factory, one of the Gulf’s oldest tent-making establishments, ...





Diary of events

GC brings you the lates calendar of events from the Middle East. October18–20: IKK 2006 Nürnberg – 27th international trade fair for the refrigeration, air-conditioning and ventilation industry, in Nürnberg, Germany.19-22: China Build 2006, at the Dalian Xinghai Convention and Exhibition Centre, Dalian, China.25–29: SAIE 06 – international ...





Tecnoserve releases new design software

Tecnoserve, a regional software and technology solution provider, has recently released a new designing software BricsCad V7, which it says will enable engineers, distributors architects and design companies in the Middle East to legally own an effective alternative to the more expensive AutoCad. BricsCad V7, produced by the Belgium-headquartered BricsCad, ...

New secure remote access launched

Secure Computing Corporation, a specialist in securing connections between people, ...

Primavera helps build City of Arabia

Specialist software solutions provider US-based Primavera Systems says its award-winning ...





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