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Is Dubai ready for PPPs?
21 Nov '09 | Construction & Industry / Comment
... region. Proper legal and contractual advice must be sought and applied. One universal truth stands: without a sound foundation, any stronghold will collapse. A proper legal interface supported by a Sustainable Construction Public Private Partnership Task Group comprising of a team of experienced ...
Yards ahead
24 Nov '09 | Energy / Interviews
... when lines of credit for such expensive work may be thin on the ground, Saigal says that whilst not immune, such revenue streams are relatively untouched by the collapse of cheap credit. "Repair work typically does not require credit or financing from outside organisations, the owners plan for ...
Tamweel, Amlak merger seen in Q1 2010
20 Nov '09 | Banking & Finance / News
... suffering from a dearth of liquidity, absent or minimal property-related income and deteriorating asset quality as both were paralysed by the property collapse that hit Dubai last year.Like many other banks and mortgage finance companies, Tamweel was forced to raise its provisions for bad loans and ...
Plain sailing
30 Oct '09 | Transportation / Interviews
... , struggle to stay on its feet as the world economy collapsed. How does he see the future panning out for the newly-chastened city?He pauses. “Dubai was definitely hit, very, very badly. You talk to the businessmen and they’re all shocked. In the fall of 2008 and the spring of 2009, there was an air ...
Reasons for Dubai building collapse revealed
8 Sep '09 | Construction & Industry / News
... the fact that the building collapsed on itself from its middle."A committee was set up to identify the causes of the collapsed building by Dubai Municipality the day after the collapse.The investigation report will be released to the media after it has been viewed by the Executive Council. Lootah ...
6 workers injured in Sharjah building collapse
12 Oct '09 | Construction & Industry / News
... with an area of approximately 5,300 square meters, offering a total of 1,681 parking spaces.This latest accident follows the high profile collapse of a six-storey building in Dubai on Aug 16 when 11 construction workers fled for their lives as the building's facade started to collapse.On September 8 ...
Dubai Metro era
5 Sep '09 | Construction & Industry / Comment
I got back from my holiday only to be faced with a building collapse, a labour protest and of course the build up to the opening of Dubai Metro. This has got to be the most excitement we’ve had in over a year.The most important of these, hands down, has to be the building collapse that, strangely ...
Standard operations
19 Sep '09 | Construction & Industry / Features
... has to sign off the slab pour and we must show these documents before can get an occupation notice on completion of the building," he explains. So with the Deira building collapse fresh in everyone's minds, are the regulations for the region's construction industry likely to become stricter? "Not ...
Building failure — Part 2
12 Sep '09 | Construction & Industry / Comment
... pressure and demand on the engineers/consultants to create the most inexpensive and efficient design. However, this should not compromise safety. Building experts have a great liability to make sure that the safety of the buildings and infrastructures is to the maximum.Statutory bodies should be ...
Stand strong
10 Oct '09 | Construction & Industry / Features
... the benefits of emerging concrete technologies and how significantly they are set to improve the quality of buildings in the Middle East.Recent events, such as the building collapse in Deira, Dubai, have proved that compromising on the quality of building materials, such as concrete, can lead to ...
Public interest
29 Aug '09 | Construction & Industry / Comment
... s development is done in wide open spaces. Working in a more enclosed urban environment calls for a different approach, with much greater precautions. This building collapse is an opportunity for the industry to gain knowledge, prevent similar incidents and save lives. It would be a shame to waste ...
Jimmy no mates
4 Oct '09 | Technology / Interviews
... time about what went wrong.Jim Morrison is in a stinker. He’s in Scotland, it’s raining, and the company he has spent the better part of a decade building in Dubai has just gone “belly up”. He says his company’s demise is the result of a massive fraud, others say that it’s the inevitable end of the ...
Gulf Arab developers eye North Africa real estate
8 Oct '09 | Construction & Industry / News
... have declined by up to 15 percent and are set to stabilise at current levels for the rest of the year, according to EFG-Hermes in Cairo.It's not only the collapse of Dubai's once-booming property sector that will encourage developers to look at Egypt, but also the opportunity to tap an underserved ...
8 great cranes
21 Sep '09 | Construction & Industry / Features
... what is of great curiosity is the stones used. The three largest building blocks ever used in a man-made structure sit side by side on the fifth level of a wall, yet they have been placed with great accuracy. Even the largest of Dubai's mobile crane fleet would struggle with such a weight today, ...
Dangerous game
19 Sep '09 | Travel & Hospitality / Comment
... closely by average daily rate (ADR). This resulted in a sustained period of growth delivering unprecedented returns for several years.More recently, but well before the collapse of the world’s financial markets in September 2008, occupancy began to fall followed closely by ADR. The party couldn’t ...
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