Construction & Industry
Qatar has always been somewhat of an anomaly, politically and economically, says Rob Wagner.
Construction & Industry
In the concluding part of the series, Jeffrey Badman, director of Hill International, discusses how the effect of acceleration measures can be magnified.
Construction & Industry
As you probably know, January saw the latest installment of the World Future Energy Summit in Abu Dhabi. Various environmental experts joined politicians and journalists to discuss how the world is going to meet energy targets and switch to renewable consumption and so on.
Construction & Industry
I don't know about anyone else, but I'm tired of it. On a macro level of I'm tired of hearing about how the global economy has taken its worst ever tumble and how it'll take years to recover.
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We’re one of the few industries that can protect lives and livelihoods.
Construction & Industry
A by-product of building things in a boomtown is that the rumour mill is rampant. No matter what is said or who says it, someone will say the exact opposite.
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In a two-part series, Jeffrey Badman, director of Hill International, discusses how acceleration measures can help a contractor in case of project delays.
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Law firm Holman Fenwick Willan’s Dubai partner, Michael Pilkington, and Peter Smith, a partner with the London office, discuss the effects of the economic slowdown in Dubai.
Construction & Industry
We knew we would have to look at the impact of the global financial crisis on the MEP sector sooner or later, but how to do so without driving our readers to despair?
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Fortune favours the bold, said the Roman slave come playwright, Publius Terentius Afero. In a big white house in Washington, where the 44th president of the USA is just settling in, they would probably agree. It takes great great boldness to convert a ‘no, you can't, because nobody ever has' into a ‘yes, we can'.
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Stephen Marney, MD, PSDI, UAE, looks at the direction of the construction industry and the impact on FMs going forward for 2009.
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Electrolight director Paul Beale tells us the importance of luminosity and how lighting is one of the most vital factors in bringing out the ambience of a project.
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Much vaunted Masdar City's lofty ambitions may not be a laughing matter after all, Rob Wagner finds out
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As the local landscape in construction is affected by a global financial decline and the cancellation of many projects, Antonios Dimitracopoulos, partner at Bin Shabib & Associates (BSA), examines the constituent elements that first need to be present for contractors to embark on what is anticipated to be a large scale legal battlefield.
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If you were at Intersec last month, I hope you had a good show. It was great to meet up with old friends and make new ones, and apologies to anyone exhibiting if I didn't get a chance to meet you - as you can imagine, over 700 companies in one place tends to take a toll on shoe leather!
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I had a JFK moment while watching President Obama's inauguration last month. Not that I was born when the man who carried the hopes of a nation, if not the world, was assassinated, but those who were say they will never forget where they were, and what they were doing.
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In the event, the arrival in the Gulf of the global economic crisis proved more sudden and more brutal than anyone could have expected, with the construction and design industries taking the full force of the impact.
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Who says there is no silver lining to be found in the dark economic clouds hovering over the UAE?
Construction & Industry
In the concluding second part, Omar Al Saadoon, senior associate, construction and engineering practice - Al Tamimi & Company, discusses issues affecting the industry.
Construction & Industry
Michael Jolly, associate director of Hill International, discusses on the importance of the price escalation clause in labour and materials project site contracts.
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