With landmark infrastructural and industrial projects nearing completion and some other much-awaited contracts set to be announced, 2019 is poised to be one of anticipation and new hope for the construction sector. Work on Aluminium Bahrain’s (Alba) $3-billion expansion project is drawing to a close, with the smelter having last month produced the ...
Highest homes to rise at Bay
Standing tall in testimony to the close ties between Bahrain and India with a design that ...
Al Tijaria now structurally complete
Commercial Real Estate Company (Al Tijaria) has announced the completion of structural ...
Marassi homes set for handover
The year 2018 was a period of major milestones for Marassi Al Bahrain: Phase One of the ...
Cebarco set for further growth
Since its establishment 27 years ago, leading Bahrain-based building and civil engineering ...
Artificial intelligence (AI), the very phrase conjures up images of futuristic mechanical brains doing all kinds of intelligent work. Scare stories abound – AI and robots are going to take away all of our jobs! Science fiction scenarios paint a picture of enslaved humans being subjected to the evil whims of smart computer technology. What’s...
Made-in-UAE robot to help ministry
The UAE’s Ministry of Infrastructure Development (MOID) hopes to see the adoption of ...
Taking the leap into next frontier of FM
US-based Facilio says its namesake facilities optimisation software leverages artificial ...
Spread over a massive 50 sq km, the King Salman Energy Park (Spark) is seen as a catalyst for Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030 in its ambitions to diversify the kingdom’s economy beyond oil and position it as a global energy, industrial and technology hub. When operational, the mega city project is estimated to contribute more than $6 billion to the ...
CMCI to supply VIP solutions in kingdom
Dammam-based Construction Material Chemical Industries (CMCI), a reliable name in the ...
Ambitious AlKifah aims for leadership in market
AlKifah Holding, a diversified group in Saudi Arabia’s Eastern Province, envisions ...
The industry’s prescriptive approach is reflected in the reaction to failures in fire safety. In the wake of major fires, there’s a clamour on social media focusing on one form of protection or another – ‘If only the building had automatic sprinklers, or an aspirating detection system, or had been constructed of non-combustible ...
Axis Communications has launched a new multidirectional high-image resolution camera which ...
Firms hailed for safety efforts at Dubai South
Dubai South (the rebranded Dubai World Central) recently honoured contractors and ...
In keeping with its tradition of sourcing the best products and materials for the construction industry from around the world, Universal Building Materials Merchants Company (UBM) of Saudi Arabia continues to enhance its offering of door hardware, hollow metal fire-rated doors and frames, fire-rated wooden doors, mechanical and architectural products for the...
Hueck aims to double sales in region
In line with its ambitions of achieving 100 per cent sales growth in the region this year, ...
As many as 450 skilled professionals worked day and night to complete the pile cap at Dubai Creek Tower in less than nine months – and two months ahead of schedule. The job involved placing 18,000 tonnes of reinforced steel and pouring 48,000 cu m of concrete. Dubai Creek Tower’s pile cap is an approximately 20-m-thick multi-layered, tiered ...
ECC makes headway on Nshama projects
Engineering Contracting Company (ECC) says significant progress had been achieved in the ...
Drake & Scull wins mall contract
Drake & Scull International says it has won a Dh600-million ($163 million) subcontract ...
Indian engineering and construction company Larsen & Toubro (L&T) has won a major ...
We return this month to the topic of “Things We Don’t Do Much in the Middle East” by examining target cost contracts (TCCs). This is a construction contract pricing model which (its supporters say) offers both a collaborative approach and strong risk management. It is always worth looking at ideas that promise to move our industry beyond ...
