The Big 5 in Dubai: Preview of Middle East’s largest construction show

As construction events in the Middle East and North Africa go, they don’t come much bigger than The Big 5. In anticipation...

Interviews

ALEC chief exec Kez Taylor on why collaboration is key

Collaboration. For many a contractor in the GCC, that word represents something of a utopian dream. Look around the thousands of construction...

Analysis

Machinery sector moves with the currency markets

Competitiveness in the construction machinery sector is certainly a talking point in the region thanks to the euro (EUR) falling against the...

Features

Big machines, big data: What telematics means for Mideast construction

In our modern world, the idea of transferring information via telecommunication devices may not seem so groundbreaking. However, the application of such...

Features

Gulf bus sector on the move

In January, Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) reported that public transport in the emirate was used more than half a billion...

Interviews

Fit-out market picks up pace in the UAE

What are your thoughts on the fit-out market in the UAE in 2015? Alan McCready: Clearly, the growth rate for the fit-out...

Interviews

Principles for success: Arabian MEP Contracting’s Vasanth Kumar

It’s often said that a leader should never ask someone to do something the leader wouldn’t do. When it comes to construction...

Features

Meet the demolition men of Gulf construction

A drive around the neighbourhood of Karama in Dubai offers a glimpse of several old buildings erected decades ago, none of them...

Interviews

Case Construction Equipment’s long game in the Middle East

It was early 2013 when Construction Machinery ME first interviewed CNH Industrial’s head of Middle East and Africa, Franco Invernizzi. The occasion...