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			<description><![CDATA[Public Works Authority chief admits problems with contractors on various projects.]]></description>
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			<title>Penalty imposition – a real life experience in Qatar</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Chandana Jayalath believes that time extension provisions are not for the benefit of the contractor and liquidated damages for the employer.]]></description>
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			<title>Qatar's $2.19bn motorway project faces further delays</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Sources say two contracts cancelled for the ambitious Doha Expressway.]]></description>
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			<title>When to leave site</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[If your employer's payment is way overdue when do you know if it is time to suspend or terminate a project? Legal experts Drew Baiter and Dr. Chandana Jayalath offer advice.]]></description>
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			<description><![CDATA[A new rail link has been proposed to run through all GCC member states, with the intention of reducing the number of tankers and general heavy trucks  on the road.  ]]></description>
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			<title>Finding solutions to Qatar’s rising costs</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[  The Qatari government is taking steps to protect it's thriving construction industry.    ]]></description>
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			<title>Qatar reworks contracts to cover price increases</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Qatar's Public Works Authority (Ashghal) is revamping its contract system to include price escalation clauses to help contractors cover the cost of raw material price fluctuations.]]></description>
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			<title>Boost for mosques and Quran centres</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Qatar's Public Works Authority to spend $6.6mn on construction of mosques and Quran centres. ]]></description>
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			<title>Keppel cleans Qatar’s water</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Singapore's Keppel Seghers has won a US $1.5 billion (QAR 5.4 billion) design-build-operate contract for what is being billed as the largest waste water treatment and reuse plant in the Middle East.  ]]></description>
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			<title>Keppel wins US $1 billion Qatar contract</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Singaporean environmental solutions and services provider Keppel Seghers has been awarded a design-build-operate contract worth about US $1 billion from ASHGHAL, the Public Works Authority (PWA) in Qatar.]]></description>
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			<title>Schools award for Tadmur</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Qatar's Public Works Authority has awarded a US $71.2 million (QR259 million) contract to the local Tadmur Contracting Company for the construction of seven new schools in Doha.]]></description>
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			<title>Heavy rainfall slows construction sector</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Estimated US $8.1 million lost in Dubai this month as rain delays work on several projects]]></description>
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			<title>Blacklisting will not work in UAE</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Demand for projects would put scheme on back foot.]]></description>
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