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Towards a sustainable future

Ambitions run high in Bahrain which announced a future-focused $30-billion Strategic Projects Plan late last year to steer the country towards economic recovery and sustained growth over the long term. To drive this plan forward, the kingdom will increasingly turn to the private sector – a validation of this is the tender for Phase One of the ...

Terminal Phase Two nearly complete

Construction work has well advanced on Phase Two of Bahrain International Airport’s ...

Expo centre marks milestone

Work on Bahrain’s New Exhibition and Convention Centre (NECC) in Sakhir is making ...

Cebarco gears for 2022 with optimism

With Bahrain having reinforced its commitment to developing its strategic projects by ...

Paschal formwork shows its versatility

Formwork systems from Paschal-Werk G Maier of Germany are being used in the construction ...





Spark grows with hi-tech facilities

King Salman Energy Park (Spark), the region’s only fully integrated energy hub, continues to expand its industrial infrastructure with the latest project launched at the mega hub in the Eastern Province having been a 277,000-sq-m drilling and workover facility for energy giant Aramco. Work on the new Aramco drilling and workover head office and ...

Azda Marine Institute to launch in Ras Tanura

Azda Group of Saudi Arabia has joined hands with leading European safety training brand ...





Is your Covid-secure building fire safe?

Commercial building owners are all having to think about how they are going to use their space to keep both employees and the public safe.  At least for the short and possibly medium or long term, we are having to plan how social distancing will work in practice.  For many, this means we need to change both the layout and how people move through ...

iLOQ to ‘revolutionise’ locking systems

iLOQ, a rapidly growing Finnish company in the digital locking industry, is gearing up to ...

New sprinklers provide flexibility, efficiency

Johnson Controls, a specialist in fire, HVAC, automation and security equipment for ...





Marr’s solutions tackle the challenge

Men from Marr’s (Marr Contracting), a world leader in the design and delivery of heavy lift luffing crane solutions and complex craneage services, says its  bespoke solutions are ideally suited to projects such as data centres and giga factory construction,  as they aim to reduce the number of lifts and therefore the number of cranes on a ...

Neom project win for thyssenkrupp

thyssenkrupp Uhde Chlorine Engineers, a key provider of engineering, procurement and ...





Geberit creates added value with eco-design

In line with the eco-design principle that Geberit has adopted since 2007, the Swiss sanitary solutions provider has introduced new and upgraded products that boost the sustainability features of its bathroom solutions. Among such products launched recently are the CleanLine shower channel, the new flush valve Type 212 and packaging for its sanitary flush ...

Iveco renews heavy line with new trucks

Iveco, a leading manufacturer of a wide range of light, medium and heavy commercial ...

Schindler’s solution speeds up building transit

Schindler Group, a global provider of elevators, escalators, and related services, has ...





Misconceptions about technology, automation

the world is changing faster than ever before, and the construction industry has to keep pace with the rising demand for modern residential, commercial, and industrial infrastructure projects. Digital transformation in the construction sector of the Arabian Gulf had started to ramp up even before the pandemic, but has accelerated since then especially as ...





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