Tag Archives: Middle East

Major civil engineering firms linked to work at the Neom giga-project in Saudi Arabia have remained silent in the face of Arcadis’ exit from the Middle East.

Arcadis is in the process of winding down its Middle East operations due to issues with getting paid by clients, but is positive about the wider economic outlook and is confident about its own success and ethics, according to the company’s chief executive.

A new sustainable building block with similar properties to low strength concrete but made out of excavation waste material and vegetable oil has been launched.

Dubai is set to have the world’s largest solar photovoltaic (PV) plant with a capacity of more than 1000MW.

Consultants Systra and Aecom have been awarded phases two and three for the extension of Dubai’s Light Rail Transit system.

Swissboring, a subsidiary of Trevi, is undertaking foundation works for a new 54-storey tower in Dubai.

Geotechnical contractor Keller has been awarded a major contract to undertake ground works in Port Said, Egypt.

The semi-finals of Dubai’s Hyperloop Design Competition will take place in Dubai in October, Dubai Future Foundation has announced.

Tower cranes and pumping concrete 1km up – the unprecedented engineering behind the $1.2bn (£900M) Jeddah Tower, is elegantly simple and brutally complex.

Ground improvement work for what will be one of the largest oil refineries in the Middle East has been completed by Van Oord.