Features
Revving up for recovery

With the promise of increased revenues as Bapco refinery ramps up production later this year following its upgrade and a robust $30-billion infrastructure project pipeline, Bahrain is pushing ahead on its path to post-Covid recovery.  The nation has also charted out its course of action with a far-reaching Economic Recovery Plan and appointed a new ...

Massive showcase!

The glistening massive new Exhibition World Bahrain (EWB) opened its doors to the world ...

Onyx SkyView poised to break ground

Kooheji Development, one of Bahrain’s leading real estate companies, has launched ...

Paschal systems meet contractors’ needs

Whether it is high-rise construction or linear waterfront developments, formwork solutions ...

KAR Group aims for expansion, diversification

Having established a niche in the contracting sector with its three decades of experience, ...





Integrated energy hub

With the go-ahead last month for the construction of a residential complex and workers village within the mega energy hub in the Eastern Province, King Salman Energy Park (Spark) has flagged off yet another key component of what is fast taking shape as a fully-integrated industrial city. The dedicated residential area will allow residents to live, play and ...

Design-focused towers to come up in Al Khobar

A key contract is expected to be announced this month for a major component of a new ...





Trench boxes make excavations safer

Trench excavations pose a range of safety and environmental hazards to workers. It’s a staggering fact that the fatality rate for excavation work is 112 per cent higher than the rate for general construction1. Understandably, collapses are a particular concern, with a cubic yard of soil as heavy as a bull elephant. Should a trench wall collapse and ...

Altrad RMD Kwikform launches trench boxes guide for Middle East

ALTRAD RMD Kwikform (ARMDK), a major temporary works’ systems provider, has launched ...

Throwing a simpler, faster lifeline

Use of temporary horizontal lifelines is especially common in construction and industrial ...





People-centric HQ for Roshn

Global architecture and interior design practice Scott Brownrigg has announced that its interiors team has completed the fit-out work at the new 5,460-sq-m headquarters of Saudi community developer Roshn Real Estate in the capital Riyadh. Scott Brownrigg says the brief for the project was for an innovative, people-centric working environment that reflects ...

Geberit’s iCon meets hotels specs

The new Geberit iCon Rimfree WC meets the vital aspects that hotels seek when fitting out ...





Italy builds strength on quality and green tech

There is strong demand for Italian goods in the UAE with €3.8 billion ($4 billion) worth of goods exported by the country in the first eight months of 2022, representing a 25.8 per cent increase compared to 2021, Amedeo Scarpa, Italian Trade Commissioner, told Gulf Construction’s Bina Goveas. In an exclusive interview following The Big 5 show ...





Tags