There has been perceptible vibrancy in Oman’s construction sector over the past few months, thanks to the increased interest in the sultanate’s real estate and tourism sectors, rise in government spending on infrastructure and efforts to diversify the heavily oil-revenue-reliant economy. With the horizons now well clear of the gloomy clouds of ...
Smart vision
In June this year, Oman unveiled plans for Sultan Haitham City, its first smart city, ...
Trendsetting city
Nestled amidst the tranquil foothills of Oman’s picturesque mountains in Muscat, ...
Al Mouj expands with island development
Oman’s first integrated tourism complex Al Mouj Muscat has recently launched Jinan ...
The water technology sector is on the constant quest to improve energy efficiency, reduce tariffs and incorporate more renewable energy to make desalination more accessible and affordable for countries around the globe. Among the key players spearheading this drive is Acwa Power, the world’s largest private water desalination company, which is ...
Smart approaches need of the hour
With the increasing demand for water putting a strain on the region’s already ...
Geberit flushed with success on green drive
Geberit, a global leader in sanitary technology, aims to play a leading role in the ...
The award-winning Burj Vista continues to grab attention in Downtown Dubai, thanks to its avante-garde design that was created to provide tenants with unobstructed, front-row views of the iconic Burj Khalifa, the world’s tallest building. The striking high-rise residential complex – previously known as the Grand Boulevard – was one of the ...
Bafco to create facades for Amaala resorts
Saudi-based Ladun Investment Company has announced that its subsidiary, Built Aluminum ...
Cranes from Manitowoc’s key brands Potain and Grove continue to loom large on the horizon of a number of GCC countries, where the leading international provider of lifting equipment has been able to capitalise on the resurgence in the construction market over the past year. In Saudi Arabia, for instance, Manitowoc’s exclusive distributor, NFT ...
‘Best-in-class’ models take on challenges
A fleet of Liebherr mobile cranes and Demag, Kobelco and IHI crawler cranes was recently ...
The metaverse concept has evolved as a transformative digital space with broad implications across numerous businesses in the dynamic environment of the digital era. The potential of the metaverse to offer immersive experiences, digital twins, and virtual land ownership can completely reshape urban design and architecture. Its significance in shaping the ...
Too futuristic – or is it?
Construction companies are increasingly using virtual environments to support various ...
Procuring natural stone for destination-scale projects such as Saudi Arabia’s giga project to transform Diriyah, the birthplace of the kingdom, is a major challenge, demanding the greatest attention to consistency, quality and availability. And it is precisely this challenge that Australia’s Versatile Group aimed to address when it set up its ...
As an industry, we talk a lot about how to choose dispute resolution in contracts: litigation or arbitration; which forum, where seated, which set of arbitration rules. Issues of practicality and efficiency, of course, feature in those decisions (especially cost) but we are generally thinking only about disputes which are big enough and complex enough to ...
Saudi Entertainment Ventures (Seven), a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Public Investment Fund (PIF), has awarded the contract to build its new entertainment destination in Yanbu to a joint venture (JV) of Al Bawani Co and UCC Saudi. Construction is already under way on the project with an investment value of more than SR1.1 billion ($293.27 million). ...
Roshn awards $2.4bn community projects work
Roshn, a leading Saudi real estate developer and PIF-funded giga-project, has awarded over ...
EDF, Masdar ink RSG multi-utilities deal
Red Sea Global (RSG), the multi-project developer behind the world’s most ambitious ...
Turner Arabia lands Mukaab PMC contract
Saudi-based New Murabba Development Company (NMDC) has awarded a major contract to Turner ...
Helicopter-aided work pioneered in Neom
Enowa, Neom’s energy and water company, has piloted helicopter-aided construction ...
Azizi Developments, a leading private developer in the UAE, has revealed plans for Azizi Venice, its venetian-inspired luxury waterfront lifestyle community, set entirely within a swimmable crystal-blue water lagoon, in Dubai South. The AED30-billion ($8.17 billion) high-end mixed-use desert oasis community will feature over 30,000 residential units, ...
Damac launches fitness-inspired development
UAE-based Damac Properties has announced the launch of Volta, a 60-floor new ...
$1.5bn deal for key phase of MBR Solar Park
Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (Dewa) has awarded a major contract to Abu ...
Palm tower to feature unconventional structure
Omniyat, a leading Dubai visionary developer, has revealed exclusive insights behind the ...
Sales launched for first Palm Jebel Ali villas
Nakheel, a Dubai-based world-leading real estate master developer, has launched one of its ...
