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Transport thrust

Last year spelt a bonanza for Saudi Arabia’s transport infrastructure sector, with key awards made for the Riyadh metro, airports, roads and railway networks. The demands of a rapidly expanding population, the influx of religious tourists, and increasing industrialisation are all putting a huge strain on the existing transport network and demanding ...

Super skyscraper

THE world’s tallest tower is now in the making, with the first 13 levels of the ...

Culture Club

In MAY 2008 to mark the 75th anniversary of Saudi Aramco, the late King Abdullah laid the ...

Gathering Pace

Having created some of the striking architectural landmarks that have dotted ...

Record order

ZAMIL Air Conditioners, one of the leading international manufacturers of air-conditioning ...





Mulk Holdings to boost capacity

Mulk Holdings plans to increase its production of ACPs and diversify into other cutting-edge building solutions. It is in the process of establishing new facilities in Saudi Arabia and elsewhere globally. UAE-based Mulk Holdings, owner of the world’s largest aluminium composite panels (ACP) brand, is boosting its production capacity around the globe ...

Trespa expands range with grey wood tones

Trespa has boosted its popular Trespa Meteon range of durable exterior panels, with the ...

Salata in Qatar gets unique facade

Neolith by TheSize, a brand of all-natural, premium sintered compact surfaces, has been ...





Wood’s good at Emaar workplace

Dwp | design worldwide partnership has created a new dynamic workplace for Emaar, one of the world’s largest property developers, at Emaar Square in Downtown Dubai – one that reflects the company’s vision, future and its ever-increasing role in Dubai, UAE. Spread over three levels and 6,250 sq m, the project has aimed to reflect ...

Dubai Woodshow reflects surge in demand

Demand for timber and timber products is expected to witness unprecedented growth in the ...

IPM holds the key to good termite control

All the organisms that damage timber in buildings are part of the natural process that ...

US hardwood sales to Mena at record $108m

Total exports of US hardwood lumber and veneer to the Middle East and North Africa (Mena) ...





BASF reaches EIFS milestone

BASF Construction Chemicals’s Senergy exterior insulation finishing systems (EIFS) made their debut in the Middle East at the striking Atlantis, The Palm in Dubai, UAE, in 2007.  Since then, the leading chemical company has installed half a million sq m of EIFS across the Gulf region. The success of the product can be attributed to its many ...

National Paints beats the heat with powerful range

National Paints’ water-based and solvent-based systems offer high resistance to ...





Logic behind using IChemE contracts

It is stating the obvious that the Middle East is big on chemical engineering. The Gulf region has a huge concentration of petrochemical and other process plants with plans everywhere to build more. Process plants can include oil refining, gas conversion, other petrochemical processes, industrial chemical processes, food production, water treatment, ...





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