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Star Wood Signs Two Contracts to Provide Equipments for Al Habai...

Mohammed Bin Rashed Establishment for Young Business Leaders today announced that ‘Star Wood’, Member of the governmental purchasing programme for Young Business Leaders, won...

Last cladding panel of Burj Dubai ready for installation

1. Arabian Aluminium Company completes last of the 24,348 panels 2. Six-metre long glass, aluminium and steel panel will be installed at the bottom of...

Burj Dubai to open later this year

Burj Dubai, the tallest tower in the world, will be completed later this year according to contractors involved with the project. The sources said work...

Prices of building materials down by 61.3%

Statistics Center - Abu Dhabi (SCAD) issued today its monthly building materials prices index, for the month of June. The statistical release is coming in...

Government of Dubai continues to meet all its contractual obligations

Statement from Dubai Department of Finance The Department of Finance, Government of Dubai, issued the following statement today in response to an inaccurate and misleading...

Al Habtoor Leighton Group & partners withdraw from Dubai Airport Concourse...

The Al Habtoor Leighton group and its joint venture partners Murray & Roberts and Takenaka had come to a mutual agreement with the Dubai...

Municipality plans new projects to improve infrastructure

The Dubai Municipality plans to complete several landscaping projects over 283.6 hectares in the city. The projects will improve the city's infrastructure through cultivation...

Construction costs have dropped to 2003 levels

Should property prices be decreased in line with the reducing costs of building materials? A softening in prices of building materials is expected to kick...

Infrastructure Breakthrough – iCrete introduces revolutionary new material for precast concrete...

• New iCrete product family will feature speed in application, exceptional reliability and workability, less cement, lower cost, and sections that are thinner and...

Limitless delays work on the Arabian Canal

The developer remains committed to the project The future of Dubai's 75km-long Arabian Canal mega-project was under threat this week after the client suspended the...

SZHP is considering a decision to increase the minimum limit for...

The Sheikh Zayed Housing Programme (SZHP) is considering a decision to increase the minimum limit for housing loans administered as part of the programme,...

Top ten Abu Dhabi projects worth $208 billion

Global slowdown notwithstanding, the capital of the United Arab Emirates continues to be transformed with masterplan budgets for the city's top ten civil projects...

Dubai developers can utilise $2.2 bln escrows

Dubai developers have access to up to $2.2 billion from escrow accounts to cover construction commitments, the emirate's property regulator said in a strategy...

Union Properties ongoing projects on track

Union Properties (UP) said on Sunday it will proceed with its ongoing projects, underlining that there are currently no plans for new developments on...

Emaar Misr makes strong progress on Marassi for on-schedule completion

Structural work of villas and townhouses 80 per cent over Completed first phase of golf course Beach Clubhouse to open this summer Emaar Misr for Development S.A.E,...

Construction cost currently between Dhs270 and Dhs350 per sq ft

Construction costs in Dubai have fallen by 70.83 per cent from their peak of Dh1,200 per square foot in August 2008 to about Dh350...

Construction on Nakheels’ Badrah on schedule

Nakheel has announced it is to build more than 1,000 homes in the Manarah District in Badrah as part of the Waterfront development in...