Allegion takes over QMI

Allegion, a leading global security products and solutions provider, said it has successfully completed the acquisition of QMI, a commercial door manufacturer, through one of its subsidiaries.

Headquartered in the UAE, QMI is one of the Middle East’s largest manufacturers of commercial steel and wood doors and frames.

Lucia Veiga Moretti, the senior vice-president and president at Allegion (Europe, Middle East, India and Africa), said: “We continue to expand through a focus on creating the best possible customer experience with a full suite of security solutions and services in the EMEIA region.

 “With QMI, we are further expanding our code-compliant products to include doors in the Middle Eastern market, while leveraging the strength of our existing specification writing capabilities.”

One Za’abeel marks record pour

One Za’abeel, an iconic new high-rise mixed development that will tower over Zabeel Park in Dubai, has successfully completed the record pouring of 26,000 cu m of concrete over a 7,600-sq-m raft foundation footprint, said the project’s main contractor.

The whole process took an estimated 132 hours, thus making it one of the largest concrete pours in the UAE, stated Alec Engineering and Contracting, a major construction company in the UAE.

Located at the heart of Dubai, One Za’abeel comprises two adjacent skyscrapers, 67 and 57 storeys high respectively. They are linked by the iconic Linx, which is described as the world’s largest cantilever, floating 100 m above the ground.

The project, being developed by Ithra Dubai, the real estate arm of state-owned Investment Corporation of Dubai (ICD), will have office and retail space, a 90-key ultra luxury hotel, a 314-key luxury hotel, 94 serviced apartments, 263 residential apartments and 2,500 parking spaces.

Avenues-style project for Sharjah

Sharjah Investment and Development Authority (Shurooq) has signed a strategic partnership deal with leading real estate group Mabanee to develop a premium tourist and leisure project on the lines of the Kuwaiti firm’s successful shopping brand ‘The Avenues’.

The new development, which will be spread over a 65,000-sq-m area in the Mughaider region of Sharjah, aims to transform the area into a premium tourist and leisure destination for Sharjah’s residents and visitors, said Shurooq.