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Retrofitting: Why we must fight the ‘green painters’
Despite the Middle East becoming ever more aware of energy saving, many organisations are still reluctant to retrofit and make changes to existing buildings to decrease their carbon footprint. The...
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The industrialisation of construction
Take a moment and consider what is happening on our planet. There are global and industry issues creating human challenges that will be amplified in the future. There is also the opportunity of our...
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Abu Dhabi Q3 Market Review
Ghadan 21 is a three-year, $13.6bn Abu Dhabi Government programme aimed at boosting the economy through investment in four main areas: business & investment, society, knowledge & innovation and...
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Reconnecting Dubai
As global trends of urbanisation accelerate, there’s a need to connect increasingly dense urban centers. To alleviate symptomatic congestion and deliver healthy, sustainable environments, cities...
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Construction industry should look to proven tech to weather difficult times
With the Middle East construction sector under growing pressure as a result of a tightening economy, construction companies should be looking at ways to streamline their business processes, improve...
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Dubai real estate market reaches ‘attractive levels of affordability’ in H1 2019
Dubai’s real estate market has reached ‘attractive levels of affordability in the first half of 2019, a report from Bayut, a UAE-based real estate portal, has found. Based on a comparison of prices...
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Analysis: Oil price rise boosted construction in H1 2019
The MENA region is currently expanding at a moderate pace, with a significant construction project pipeline and sizeable schemes working their way through design and planning, according to a new report...
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Insight: JLL’s Thierry Delvaux on Dubai’s new higher committee for real...
One of the major factors contributing to the decline in real estate rents and prices in Dubai over the past few years has been the excess levels of new supply to the market. This week a higher...
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Righting the Balance: Industry reacts to Dubai’s real estate reforms
At the start of September, HH Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai, announced that a higher committee for real estate, headed by HH Deputy Ruler Sheikh Maktoum bin...
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Making rail the cornerstone of the region’s future mobility
The threat of human-made climate change, pushed by our continuing use of fossil fuels for energy and automotive transportation and the accompanying CO2 emissions, is one of the most urgent crises...
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Green facades – a case of Sustainability being only skin-deep?
In 1927, the acclaimed architect Le Corbusier published his Five Points of Architecture, destined to become the core blueprint for the Modernist movement. The second of the ‘Five Points’ was the...
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Why Evs and mobility services are driving the need for industrial edge data...
I recently wrote about how a couple of trends in the automotive industry are driving the need for manufacturers to invest in industrial edge data centres. But an additional pair of trends promises to...
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Smart Cities Report: The next generation of transportation is MaaS
For many cities, shared mobility as a service is emerging not only as a potential solution to improve transport services for their citizens, but also an opportunity to free up valuable urban space for...
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Confidence returning to Dubai’s real estate market, says Chestertons
Dubai’s real estate market could be seeing the first signs of growing market confidence. This is a result of a notable slowdown in apartment sales price declines and the stabilisation of rental rates,...
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Expert insight: A pathway to efficient resolution of construction disputes
Arbitration remains the preferred forum for finally resolving construction disputes in the region, though both in the region and internationally there are concerns that the process could be more...
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Global construction mergers and acquisition activity plunges by 44.5% in one...
The total value of merger and acquisition (M&A) deals in the construction and real estate sector globally for December was estimated at $6.98 billion, down by 44.5% when compared to the last...
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Coronavirus: It’s not only about the possibility of recovering time
We are in unprecedented times, amid a pandemic that has seen the rapid spread of the coronavirus (Covid-19) across the globe in a matter of weeks. This has resulted in extensive delay and disruption to...
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Market analysis: The driving force of JVs in Saudi’s mega infrastructure...
Driven by rising populations and urbanisation in emerging economies, it’s estimated that spending on global mega infrastructure projects accounts for around 8% of global GDP. In order to deliver such...
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Coronavirus: COVID-19 and its impact on the construction market in the region
We cannot ignore that the COVID-19 pandemic is having a global impact on the delivery of construction projects, and especially for the nations closer to home in the Middle East, says two of Omnium...
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Coronavirus: JLL report reveals Cairo real estate was stable in Q1 despite...
JLL has said that despite COVID-19 affecting the real estate market in Cairo, most sectors remained stable during Q1. The office sector is said to have been a strong performer. According to JLL’s Q1...
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