Saudi Arabia has been grabbing global attention over the past couple of years with the launch of its giga-projects, many of which have begun translating into reality, giving a new thrust to the kingdom’s 2030 Vision’s ambition to draw big-ticket investors to its shores. Indeed, according to Saudi Arabia’s HRH Crown Prince Mohammed bin ...
Neom: Drawing the line
Ambitions run high for the $500-billion Neom development, which not only aims to become ...
The Red Sea Project: Rising along Red Sea
The Red Sea Project, the world’s most ambitious luxury tourism development, has ...
Dual challenge
What are the strategies and technologies being employed at The Red Sea Project to ensure ...
Amaala: Wellness in focus
With site formation works now drawing to a close at Amaala – the stunning wellness ...
Work is fast nearing completion on the first phase of Sharjah Sustainable City (SSC), which comprises 25 per cent of the total residential units in the development – or 280 villas – which are slated to be handed over this September. According to the developers, mock-up villas on site at Sharjah’s first sustainable integrated city are now ...
First certified recycled aluminium window
Technal, a leading architectural aluminium systems brand owned by the Norwegian ...
Circal effective in reducing CO2 emissions
A recent case study of a project in the UK demonstrated that some 146.98 tons of CO2 ...
Geberit records major drop in eco impact
Geberit, a European market leader in the sanitary products sector, has been making ...
Cladding and façade designs have, in the past, tended towards two-dimensional façade staples glass and aluminium, or maybe occasionally natural stone or even heavyweight options like precast concrete. In recent years though, high-performance materials like GFRP (glass fibre reinforced polymer) and ultra high-performance concrete (UHPC) have ...
Al Liwan sports distinctive elevations
Al Liwan, an outdoor mixed-use development developed by Seef Properties in the Hamala area ...
Promoting American hardwood products in the global market given the difficulties imposed by current coronavirus pandemic has been a challenge for the American Hardwood Export Council (AHEC), a non-profit trade association. Undaunted however, AHEC has – like many organisations – moved more into the digital realm, using platforms like Zoom to ...
Danube to distribute Italian coatings brand
UAE-based Danube Building Materials says it has reached an agreement with top coatings ...
Ideal Standard says its innovative Ceralook is a smart kitchen solution that looks great, performs flawlessly, and saves money in the long term through its energy and water-saving technologies. “In today’s world, the kitchen is a living room where families hang around, cook eat and spend time. Naturally, every fitting and product in the kitchen ...
Demand-controlled ventilation marvel
Halton Group, a technology leader in ventilation, will begin providing its ...
Grohe’s smart faucets ‘attuned to modern needs’
The new Grohe Eurosmart faucets combine comfortable functionality, refreshed design and ...
Benoy, an international architectural firm, says steady progress is being made on Solitaire, a vibrant 65,000-sq-m urban district being developed by Saudi-based Al Marqab Investment Company in the capital Riyadh with the raft work completed and casting of the first basement slab set to begin. The design, led by the international architects Benoy, ...
Chapman Taylor wins Qatar hospital work
Chapman Taylor, a leading global architect and masterplanner, says it has been signed up ...
Summertown seals Times Square contract
Summertown Interiors, a leading UAE sustainable fit-out contractor, says it has been ...
Acciona completes Al Ain historic house job
Acciona Cultural Engineering has completed work on the exhibition space at Bait Mohammed ...
Prasoon paving way for innovative future
Prasoon Design Studio, a new-age Dubai-based architecture firm specialising in ...
Al Masaood Commercial Vehicles and Equipment has recently delivered eight units of UD Trucks’ Quester CGE 420 – 8X4 equipped with concrete mixer with a capacity of 12 cu m to Gulf Ready Mix (GRM), a UAE-based readymix company. Quester is the first in a new generation of UD Trucks specifically developed for the world of heavy-duty ...
Volvo Trucks rolls out new-gen models
Volvo Trucks’ new generation of heavy-duty trucks – the Volvo FH, FH16, FM and ...
In the previous tech-talks, MH Hydraulics FZC, a leading hydraulic solutions provider in the Middle East, discussed hydraulic oil contamination, ways of preventing oil contamination by means of effective filtration, use of desiccant breathers, selection of hoses and fittings, etc. In this tech-talk, we would like to talk more about headspace management in ...
Diriyah Gate Development Authority (DGDA) has set up a new subsidiary company, Diriyah Development Company (DevCo) to handle the development activity taking place within its ambitious SR75-billion ($20 billion) Diriyah Gate development which is projected to increase by 450 per cent over last year. Work is in full swing on the Phase One of Diriyah Gate ...
Muvi on track to open 307 screens by 2022
Saudi Arabia’s first homegrown cinema brand, muvi Cinemas KSA, is on target to ...
OSC to build $570m facility at Spark
Dubai-based Oilfields Supply Center Limited (OSC) said it has awarded the construction ...
Masdar to start work on 300MW solar PV project
Abu Dhabi-based Masdar said its consortium with global renewable energy leader EDF ...
Acwa Power opens $320m green energy project
ACWA Power, a leader in power generation and water desalination plants, has inaugurated ...
Abu Dhabi is launching two major infrastructure public-private partnership (PPP) projects under the Partnership Projects framework issued by the Abu Dhabi Investment Office (ADIO), for the procurement of three new schools and Phase Two of its street lighting upgrade programme. Potential bidders can now submit expressions of interest for the two projects, ...
Etihad Rail completes 25pc work at O&M facility
Etihad Rail, the developer and operator of UAE’s national railway network, has ...
Work in full swing on MBR solar park
Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (Dewa) said work is progressing at a steady pace on ...
Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA), the largest industrial company in the UAE outside oil and ...
More than 70 per cent of the work has been completed on a major water desalination project ...
We have looked before at the benefits of consolidating disputes in arbitration, and at ways to make it happen. Consolidation of disputes is often a live issue in our industry because of the complex web of relationships that make up the contracting structure on most projects. Any problem in a project (for instance, a defect in the works) might create ...
