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Work starts on new Bahrain waterfront
Work at the Marina West, Bahrain’s first gated residential beachfront community, was launched last month with the commencement...
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Bahrain City Centre to get twin
A massive twin development for the BD250 million ($663 million) Bahrain City Centre has won the go-ahead from the Manama Municipal Council...
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Al Hidaya to build twin towers RealCapita has awarded a BD3 million ($8 million) construction contract to Bahrain-based Al Hidaya Contracting to build its BD4.5 million...
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Al Taiseer builds extrusion line
Saudi Arabia’s Altaiseer Aluminium Factory has embarked on an expansion which will see the company add a fourth extrusion line at a cost of SR45 million (12 million...
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Koreans wins $621m job
Kuwait Oil Company (KOC) has awarded South Korea’s SK Engineering and Construction a KD180 million ($621 million) contract to build a gathering centre with a capacity of...
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$1bn bridge to Africa eyed
Yemen is in talks with a Dubai company to build a 14-km bridge across the Red Sea to Djibouti in the Horn of Africa...
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KAEC to be world’s first smart city
King Abdullah Economic City (KAEC) is in talks with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to help develop the $...
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TCM ‘lifting the world’
TCM forklifts are increasingly finding favour throughout the world on a diverse range of operations, according to Aljomaih Equipment Company, the Saudi dealer for the...
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ABB wins $450m deal
ABB has won a QR1.6 billion ($450 million) contract from Qatar General Electricity and Water Corporation (Kahramaa) to expand the country’s power transmission system...
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Jeddah to get first skyscraper
A SR2 billion ($$533 million) high-rise commercial and residential development to be built in Jeddah is being billed as the first-ever skyscraper project in Saudi Arabia’...
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Pearl foundation stone laid
Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, Heir Apparent of the State of Qatar, last month laid the foundation stone for the Pearl gas-to-liquids (GTL) project, a world-scale...
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Sparkling medical design
World-renowned architect Cesar Pelli has drawn up an incandescent architectural design for the new Sidra Medical Research Centre in Qatar, which both reflects and...
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Transport overhaul studied
International consultant Systra-MVA is undertaking a study on how to overhaul Bahrain’s public transportation, with a view to developing an integrated transport strategy...
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$800m plants finance won
A consortium including France’s Suez closed an $800 million deal to finance the construction of a power and water plant and the purchase of another power plant, both in...
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Arcelor Mittal to build mill
Arcelor Mittal, the world’s largest steelmaker, has signed a joint venture agreement to build a seamless tube mill in Saudi Arabia...
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Al-Osais wins Aramco contract
Al-Osais Contracting has won a contract to build a residential and recreational complex for Saudi Aramco in Khurais, Saudi Arabia...
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Green, clean way to recycle halon
UNIVERSAL Halon Treatment Factory (UHTF) has embarked on a marketing blitz of its environmental expertise in the recovery and recycling of halon, which is being phased...
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$531m roadworks under way
Road projects worth more than BD200 million ($531.91 million) are currently under construction in Bahrain, a government official has revealed...
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ECR fibreglass factory goes up in Bahrain
Saudi company Saleh and Abdulaziz Abahsain (S & A Abahsain) has commenced construction of a fibreglass-manufacturing...