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$1.1bn deals push for Bahrain airport

Contracts worth $1.1 billion have been awarded to build a brand new terminal at Bahrain International Airport (BIA), which on completion will be able to receive 14 million passengers. These include five agreements signed as part of the airport modernisation programme (AMP) on the sidelines of Bahrain International Air Show (BIAS) 2016 held last month at the...

OOC unit seeks bids for Duqm terminal

Duqm Terminal, a unit of Oman Oil Company (OOC), has invited expressions of interests from ...

Berger opens Oman’s biggest paint plant

Leading global paint manufacturer Berger Paints has strengthened operations in Oman with ...

Industrial city project on track

Manara, a leading Bahrain-based real estate development company, aims to complete the ...

Qatar to issue metro and tram tenders

Qatar Rail has started preparations to sign a slew of new contracts for the ...





Emerson launches work on technology facility

Emerson Process Management, a leading provider of business automation solutions, has broken ground on its new technology and training facility in Dhahran Techno Valley. A business of Emerson, a US-based global technology and manufacturing giant, the company will set up the 11,370-sq-m facility specialising in technology development, customer training, and ...

GE wins $1bn Saudi power plant contract

US industrial giant General Electric Company (GE) has won a landmark engineering and ...

$80bn desal schemes by 2025 planned

The Saudi Saline Water Conversion Corporation (SWCC) has announced plans to invest about ...

Largest solar panel factory deal

Saudi Arabia’s Al Afandi Group has announced plans to build the largest ...

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Zamil secures Posco contract Zamil Industrial Investment Company said one of its units ...





Volvos help military runway take flight

Volvo construction equipment and trucks have played a key role in fast-tracking the construction of a major military runway project in the UAE. With the help of a fleet of 21 machines from Volvo Construction Equipment and 20 vehicles from Volvo Trucks, UAE contractor National Gulf Constructions successfully completed the construction of a runway, aircraft ...

Taaj Arabia likely to break ground this year

Taaj Arabia, an upcoming Dubai project inspired by India’s iconic landmark Taj ...

Bloom starts work on Park View

UAE-based real estate developer Bloom Holding has announced the launch of enabling works ...

Businessbid takes services online

Construction contractors are going online, thanks to businessbid.ae – an online ...

Dubai airport’s Concourse D nears completion

Dubai International Airport said work at the Concourse D facility being developed at an ...





New machinery ‘steel’ the show

An array of new machinery and technology from global manufacturers displayed at SteelFab 2016, turned out to be a magnet for regional fabricators. Held over three days last month, the 12th SteelFab featured more than 370 exhibitors representing nearly 1,000 brands from 43 countries at all the six halls of Expo Centre Sharjah, UAE, besides new special focus ...

Innovation to take centre stage at Plastivision Arabia

The third edition of Plastivision Arabia 2016, the international plastics exhibition and ...

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Vertical transport in the spotlight Latest technologies that are instrumental in ...

Haji Hassan renews support for gulfBID

Haji Hassan Group, a diversified construction-focused group, has for the second successive ...

Future Cities Summit backed

Arab Future Cities Summit Qatar will aim to offer invaluable networking opportunities, ...





Diary of events

Gulf Construction updates you with the latest calendar of events from the Middle East and beyond.   FEBRUARY 9-11:  Gulf Industry Fair 2016, a premier industry exhibition, at the Bahrain International Exhibition and Convention Centre, Bahrain. 11-14: Infacoma, an exhibition of construction, insulation, sanitary ware, doors and window ...





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