Reimagining smart city design post-pandemic

Dr Harpreet Seth, Head of Architecture Studies, Heriot-Watt University Dubai looks at how urban planners and the design community will now need...

Deep rooted change is needed for the construction sector to tackle climate change

Turner & Townsend’s Miriam Al-Alawi explores how the UAE is currently tackling climate change, the likely steps it will take to become...

Dar Al Arkan launches $218mn residential tower in Dubai

Construction of the tower is already underway and is expected to be complete before the end of 2023. Developer Dar Al Arkan...

Diyar Al Muharraq completes key project for its integrated city in Bahrain

Developer says construction work on main entrance junction has been completed. Diyar Al Muharraq, the Bahraini real estate development company, has announced...

KSA and Egypt sign $1.8bn worth of contracts with consortiums to connect the nations’ power grids

Electric grid interconnection project between the two countries aims to exchange electrical capacities amounting to 3,000MW with a 500kV HVDC technology. Saudi...

ServeU launches mobile app for its FM operations at Expo 2020

Union Properties-owned company to also operate all-electric fleet for its facilities management work at the site. UAE-based facilities management company ServeU has...

Autodesk holds virtual annual global design and make conference

Company’s ‘University 2021’, held online for second consecutive year, to explore the possibilities of its software solutions in several spheres related to...