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Team Assistant
Industry: Other
Location: Abu Dhabi, UAE -
MEP Construction Manager - Airports Experienc
Industry: Construction
Location: Tripoli, Libya -
Senior Welding Inspector/ Senior QA QC Inspec
Industry: Oil & Gas
Location: Muscat, Oman -
Concrete Works Engineer - Marine
Industry: Construction
Location: Tripoli, Libya -
Receptionist
Industry: Facilities Management
Location: Dubai, UAE
Wednesday, 14 October 2009
Carolyn McLean
Construction & Industry
Sustainability, Sullivan & the Cycle of Inaction.
Tuesday, 13 October 2009
Get to know: Shabu Sultan
Technology
Shabu Sultan has been a constant fixture at MTC for the past 5 years, playing a key role in its strategy development.
Steady operator
Technology
Qtel has made a steady stream of acquisitions across the Middle East, North Africa and Asia over the last few years, but now the focus is on consolidation, CEO Dr Nasser Marafih tells George Bevir.
Monday, 12 October 2009
Depot master
Construction & Industry
Al-Futtaim Engineering MEP division general manager SS Murali looks back on some of the MEP works involved at the Dubai Metro depots.
In the family
Transportation
Tom Nauwelarts of Al-Futtaim Logistics believes buying more trucks and bringing operations in-house was a smart move - despite the change in the market.
Palm Pilot
Energy
Palm Water is mixing green technologies and international plans in a bid to corner a slice of the all-important regional water market.
Sunday, 11 October 2009
Come together
Technology
The Oracle Application User Group held its first meeting earlier this year in Dubai and announced ambitious plans at the time. Five months later, ACN speaks to the group’s chairperson to find out how many have come true.
Planning finance
Technology
Two years into a mammoth strategic plan, Dubai Bank is firing on all cylinders in its quest to improve efficiency. Nathan Statz talks to Faizal Eledath, CIO of Dubai Bank, to find out more.
Kill the competition
Media & Marketing
Bloomberg chairman Peter Grauer speaks to Arabian Business on the rise and rise of the data dynamo.
Architecting enterprises
Technology
Enterprise Architecture (EA) as a field is still relatively unknown to the region. Tamás Nacsák, chief enterprise architect at HP’s EDS subsidiary and Peter Lakhegyi, regional sales manager for EA specialist AAM Technologies, clarify the field with Imthishan Giado.
Saturday, 10 October 2009
Private power
Energy
Petrochemicals Middle East visits Tasnee in Saudi Arabia's Al Jubail to meet the president of the petrochemical complex, Saleh Al-Nazha.
Rotary rules
Energy
Dirk Bosman of APS Technology says measurement and logging while drilling is now firmly in the domain of the region's local oilfield service companies.
Good downhole chemistry
Energy
Janet Giesselman, general manager of Dow Oil & Gas.
Show me the money
Media & Marketing
Arabian Business talks to Abdulhamid Juma, head of DIFF about coping with competition and promoting Arab film making.
Top Trump
Construction & Industry
After being whisked off from the Cityscape opening press conference by organisers last week, Donald Trump Junior was hurried into a private conference room for an exclusive chat with five senior journalists. Trump tells Construction Week editor Conrad Egbert his thoughts on the region.
Laying down the law
Construction & Industry
Abu Dhabi’s Department of Municipal Affairs is currently holding workshops set up to train industry professionals in preparation for new building codes, which will soon be released in the emirate. The department’s undersecretary Ahmad Shareef discusses what the programmes entail.
Friday, 09 October 2009
Rational thinking
Technology
After carrying out a series of restructuring measures in recent months, IT products distributor Almasa is looking to put the tough times behind it and get back on the attack again. In an exclusive interview with Channel Middle East, CEO Mehdi Amjad outlined how the company is gearing up for a new chapter in its existence.
Behind the label
Transportation
Jazeera Airways CEO Stefan Pichler plans to move the airline away from its low-cost model.
Silent leader
Transportation
Globelink West Star Shipping steps out of the shadows to celebrate its 20th anniversary as a market leader in the Middle East logistics industry.
Thursday, 08 October 2009
Unatrac bids to conquer Middle East market
Technology
After starting Egypt-based Mantrac’s IT distribution business more than a decade ago, business development director Ismail Abdel Aziz is now in charge of building up the company’s three-year-old Middle East operation, Unatrac. We sat down with him to find out more about the Dell distributor’s regional plans.
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