Buildings

Details: Created: 17 March 2010

Aamal Company (Aamal), a GCC-diversified conglomerate, announced that its subsidiary Aamal Cement Industries has officially commenced operations at its newly opened cement block manufacturing plant in Messaid, Qatar.

Details: Created: 05 January 2010

INFRASTRUCTURE SPENDING BY Gulf countries is expected to reach US$205 billion by 2013, according to recent estimates by Standard Chartered Bank. Although funding has emerged as a big challenge in the context of the global credit crisis, economists expect governments to support most infrastructure projects, and bond issues will be a major source of funding for many of these projects.

Details: Created: 12 August 2008

GCC countries are expected to earn US$4.7 trillion in oil exports by 2020 going by the Opec targeted floor price of US$50 per barrel, a recent report by Ernst & Young says.'This will be 2.5 times their [GCC countries'] oil earnings over the last 14 years.

Details: Created: 12 August 2008

gulfBID ready for business again

Construction and Interiors will be featured in separate linked areas at the Bahrain Exhibition Centre in the first week of May ? an ideal opportunity to see specifically what?s on offer in four-plus countries of the Northern Gulf

Details: Created: 07 July 2007

Insulating a building ? a matter of life or death

HIGH TECHNOLOGY INSULATION materials that protect buildings in a fire are being installed in major projects across the Middle East as regulations are introduced to help save lives in the event of a blaze, according to an international industry leader.