
Qatar


Smart City
The $2.5 billion Al Wa’ab City, which will be Qatar’s first planned family-oriented and self-supporting community, is now set to take concrete shape in Doha with the...

Recreating the RIViERA
As construction work continues on several towers at the $2.5 billion The Pearl-Qatar (TPQ), its owner and developer United Development Company (UDC) has launched a series...

Rising up tall
Dubai Towers – Doha, set to be the tallest tower in Qatar at 435 m when it is completed in 2010, is now rising steadily with work currently under way on the podium level...

Formwork ace speeds up Qatar projects
Doka’s formwork systems, which have played a key role in shaping up some of the prestigious projects in Qatar, continue to live...

Doka shapes up ‘dancing towers’
Doka formwork has led the way on Lagoon Plaza towers at Qatar’s West Bay – thought to be the world’s tallest ‘zig-zag’ towers – having helped the Qatar-based main...

QACS grows from strength to strength
Established three years ago as a post-tension structural engineering specialist in Doha, Qatar Australian Construction System (...

Aluminium Gulf Ray set for Al Noor work
Having established itself as one of the largest curtain-walling companies in Qatar over the past 10 years, Aluminium Gulf Ray...

ADA upholds need for building acoustics
There is an increasing awareness of the need to give due importance to building acoustics, which if ignored, can lead to major...

PEB ace upbeat about Gulf market
Mammut Building Systems (MBS), one of the region’s largest manufacturers of pre-engineered steel buildings (PEBs) and polyurethane-injected sandwich panels, claims to...

Cowi focuses on offering three ‘E’s
INternational consulting group Cowi, which has more than 25 years of experience in the Gulf, is focusing on offering the vital...

Kalzip leaves its mark in Qatar
The highly sophisticated Kalzip roofing and cladding system, produced by Corus Building Systems, has been specified for important buildings in Qatar over the past years...

Talco chalks out expansion plans
Altaiseer Aluminium Factory (Talco), which established one of the first aluminium extrusion plants in Riyadh in 1994, has drawn up plans to expand its manufacturing...

Al Masaood Bergum doubles its turnover
Al Masaood Bergum (AMB), a leading supplier of prefabricated steel and timber frame buildings in the Middle East, has recorded...