All Middle East articles – Page 66
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NewsDubai's $7bn finance hub to rival Wall Street
Business Bay scheme set to take city into next stage of rapid development to compete with New York, London and Paris as a global financial centre, and attract permanent businesses and residents
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Just the job: Malcolm Clulow on Ski Dubai
Malcolm Clulow tells Emily Wright how he found himself filling a building with 7000 tonnes of snow
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Holyrood boss to head £2bn Dubai scheme
Alan Mack, the man in charge of the construction of the Scottish parliament building in Edinburgh, is leaving Bovis to become the project director of Carillion’s £2bn Festival City project in the Gulf state of Dubai.
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Laing O’Rourke may import steel from Dubai
Ray O’Rourke is considering importing steel from Dubai to the UK as part of a plan to utilise a massive production factory he has assembled in the region.
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Capita Symonds wins £30m Dubai rail contract
UK firm furthers transport infrastructure expertise with Rapid Rail Link deal.
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NewsCurrie & Brown to buy Dubai consultant
Quantity surveyor Currie & Brown is on the verge of extending its presence in the Middle Eastern market by buying a consultancy firm based in Dubai.The move has come as the practice also looks to acquire small firms in the UK to alleviate its skills shortages.The firm’s chairman Angus McLean ...
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NewsDubai plans real Jurassic Park
Architect Furneaux Stewart and the Natural History Museum have teamed up to design a real-life version of Jurassic Park in Dubai.
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Skanska wins 25m Czech railway project
Contractor to rebuild 6 km stretch of line between Prague and Decin as part of overhaul of northern Czech network.
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Minister signs green building alliance with Sweden
Environment minister Elliot Morley launches initiative to swap eco ideas with Sweden.
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NewsGetting into the Gulf
NG Architecture, a Beirut-based practice, has designed this mixed-use waterfront development in the city of Khobar, in eastern Saudi Arabia.
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NewsMultiplex faces High Court action from Saudi Sheikh
Cleveland Bridge owner set to fight Wembley contractor if result of adjudication next week is unsatisfactory
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UK firms stay put in Saudi despite fatal siege
Davis Langdon has moved two of its staff in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, from western compounds to a safe house in the city following last week's terrorist attack in which 22 hostages died.
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Come out to play
From a desert ski resort and consumer paradise to a financial hub with perfect feng shui, Dubai's developers are throwing their vast wealth at some of the world's most hedonistic projects. We find British firms joining in the fun
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News£300m mega-mosque takes shape in Abu Dhabi
Third biggest mosque in the world enters its second phase, six years after work started on the Gulf state site.
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Halcrow wins two major design contracts in Qatar
British multidisciplinary consultant beats off international competition to take projects worth £210m.
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NewsConstruction firms on alert after Saudi suicide attacks
American contractor Bechtel takes steps to safeguard staff after terrorist bombings kill 34
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Atkins pulls employee out of Kuwait
Consultant Atkins has withdrawn an employee working in Kuwait amid fears over terrorist attacks in the run-up to an invasion of Iraq.