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Oman’s mega resort makes rapid progress

Construction of Saraya Bandar Jissah, a $600-million mega tourism project in Oman, is on track with rapid progress being made on site, the developer has revealed. More than 2,500 workers from companies including Carillion Alawi, Leighton Middle East, Towell Construction, Ghantoot Transportation and General Contracting (GTGC), Bumi, Drake & Scull and ...

Ashghal to double treated water capacity

Qatar’s Public Works Authority (Ashghal) plans to double its production capacity of ...

Parsons to advise on traffic bottleneck

Parsons has won a traffic consultancy services contract for the improvement of the Bahrain ...

Contract awarded for ‘Links’

Omani developer Badr Group has awarded a contract to Unique Contracting Company to build ...

Bahrain Airport Company awards HQ contract

The Bahrain Airport Company (BAC), the managing body and operator of the kingdom’s ...





UBM opens doors to new opportunities

Saudi-based Universal Building Materials (UBM) has become the exclusive distributor for Allegion (formerly known as IR) in the kingdom, strengthening its partnership with the innovative door hardware manufacturers. “UBM and Allegion are joining hands to promote Allegion products in this market. Allegion products can now be ordered to the required ...

Josloc dominates lubricants sector

Since its launch a little over three decades ago, Al Jomaih and Shell Lubricating Oil ...

Work on Riyadh Metro takes big strides

Riyadh Metro’s construction has taken major strides forward with Alstom starting ...

AccorHotels plans 15 Adagio aparthotels

AccorHotels has signed a strategic management deal to develop 15 new Adagio aparthotels ...

Mabanee to build $1.9bn complex

A subsidiary of Kuwaiti developer Mabanee has received approval to build a SR7-billion ...





Fox theme park on way for Dubai

A new 20th Century Fox theme park will be built in Dubai joining a growing list of international parks. Al Ahli Holding will build the park alongside its Dubai Outlet Mall, which is close to Dubai Holding’s proposed Universal Studios Park at Dubailand – the original ‘theme park’ home in Dubai, announced in 2003 before the crash. ...

Giant retail hub launched

Leading developer Nakheel has officially opened its retail and dining destination – ...

New beachfront community on way

Abu Dhabi Urban Planning Council (UPC) has announced plans to develop a beachfront ...

Caterpillar boosts regional services

Caterpillar continues to invest in the region and recently announced the creation of a new ...

RAK Ceramics backs design awards

RAK Ceramics, a global hi-tech manufacturer of lifestyle ceramics solutions, supported the ...





Major Bahrain events lined up for 2016

Bahrain-based Hilal Conferences and Exhibitions (HCE) has launched its campaign for next year’s calendar of events. These include the Gulf Industry Fair, which will be held along with iTech Industry, and the trio of trade shows: gulfBID, gulfInteriors and Gulf Property Show. The launch highlighted new features to the back-to-back exhibitions to be ...

Al Nooh, Hempel and Eagle Hills win stand awards

Bahrain-based Hilal Conferences and Exhibitions (HCE) declared the Best Stand Awards last ...

GeoME awards firms for best projects

The seventh International Conference and Exhibition Geosynthetics Middle East (GeoME) 2015 ...

Emerson, HRC unveil innovative solutions.

Emerson Climate Technologies Middle East and Africa and Hashem Hassounah and Sons ...

Record-breaking Big 5 draws 3,000 exhibitors

It was yet another record-breaking year for The Big 5 with more than 3,000 exhibitors ...





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