10 new hotels in Makkah to cost $3.2 billion
Jabal Omar Development Company plans to open 10 hotels in the holy city of Makkah, its executive general director Sameer...
Construction
$1.1 billion for a new terminal at Abu Dhabi airport
The consortium building Abu Dhabi's new airport terminal is close to securing a 4-billion dirhams ($1.1 billion) financing deal, which...
Qatar selects firms for metro and tram projects
Doha is making progress on its proposed railway network with the appointment of consultants, contractors and suppliers for the city’s...
Dubai building momentum again
In the wake of the global financial crisis, Dubai’s construction sector has been slow to recover, with a near freeze...
Property transactions in Dubai jump by 21%
Property transactions in Dubai jumped 21 per cent to Dh63 billion in the first half of 2012 compared to the...
Qatar receives bids for World Cup stadium management deal
Qatar has received bids for the first contract tendered for one of the nine new stadiums it plans to build...
SR 615 m deals to boost Saudi ports
The Saudi Ports Authority (SPA) signed a number of contracts worth SR 615 million for the development of King Abdul...
Saudi Stone-Tech 2012 to showcase latest products and technologies between 11 and 14 November
Owing to the planned construction of approximately 500,000 housing units across the country, Saudi Arabia has allocated up to SR250...
A new $16billion industrial city in Bahrain
Having long recognised the need to diversify its economy away from oil, the Kingdom was one of the first Gulf...
16 firms bid to build $412m Grand Faw breakwater
Sixteen companies have bid to build a 480 billion-dinar ($412 million) breakwater for Iraq’s Grand Fao port. Omran...
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