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Contents

CONTENTS

EDITOR’S NOTE CONSTRUCTION ACTIVITY IN Saudi Arabia has been accelerating while most of the rest of the world has slowed down. With growth estimated at 6-7 per cent last year (it stalled in 2009) and the world’s second largest current account balance, Saudi Arabia is certainly a country which is going places fast. And since WTO membership was finally achieved at the end of 2005, the energydominated economy has been diversifying even faster; now it is a major supplier of a wide range of industrial merchandise to other GCC countries in particular. It all adds up to the Gulf’s largest single construction market by far, fuelled by central government schemes such as the Economic Cities programme (including King Abdullah and Jazan ECs, both pencilled in at US$27 billion, along with mega-industrials such as the NOC’s Yanbu Export Refinery Project, to cost US$10 billion), and major infrastructure schemes designed to boost power generation and water supplies and the telecoms facilities needed to knit it all together. Two forthcoming building events in the Kingdom, both covered in this issue – Big 5 and Buildex – will reflect the available opportunities in Saudi Arabia.

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Exhibitions & Travel

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Management Strategy

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Market News

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INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Cloud Computing

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How should companies differentiate between perceived and real security threats when it comes to cloud computing?

News & Developments

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Communications and IT news from around the region.

MANUFACTURING Analysis

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Why the GCC can become an aluminium ‘powerhouse’.

Glass

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Fire resistance is offered by many glazing systems, but proof of performance should always be obtained before selection.

POWER Middle East Electricity Review

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This year’s event was a record breaker.

Developments

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News from the regional power sector.

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Big 5 Saudi Arabia

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Construction activity in the Kingdom’s Eastern Province has been accelerating. The 14th edition of Buildex will help meet the demand.

Intermat 2012

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This year’s number one construction fair will take place in Paris.

News and Developments

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Project, contract and equipment news from around the region.

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Developments

BRIEFLY ■ MUBADALA DEVELOPMENT COMPANY is seeking to finalise a finance package by mid-year for a new US$4.5 billion construction phase at Emirates Aluminum that will almost double the smelter's production capacity.

Matthew Hurn, the executive director of Mubadala's treasury unit, was reported to have said

by Reuters that financing plans for the extension were well underway, but that no final decision had been made on the structure of the deal.

The second phase of Emirates Aluminium, approved by the company's board of directors last July, is expected to boost production capacity to 1.3 million metric tonnes of the metal per year. Mubadala owns 50 per cent of Abu Dhabi-based Emirates Aluminum, The remaining share of the company is held by Dubai Aluminium.

Government IT spending to rise 15 per cent IT SPENDING BY the government sector in Middle East and Africa (MEA) will increase by 15.1 per cent year on year in 2012 to reach US$7.41 billion, according to the global market research and consulting company IDC's 2012 predictions "The MEA region is highly diverse, comprising countries of different sizes and economic diversity, at various stages of development, and with dissimilar political and regulatory structures.

Understandably, the IT spending maturity of countries within the oil-rich Arabian Peninsula varies greatly from that of developing African nations," said Mukesh Chulani, senior analyst at IDC Government Insights MEA. He expects that government CIOs across the region will seriously seek to evolve their approach towards IT investments in 2012 by emphasising efficiency and cost-optimised capacity buildout.

"Tactically, this will mean a greater push by government IT decision makers to standardise applications and services within their organisations, evaluate various outsourcing solutions, and invest into IT 'game changers' – such as virtualisation, cloud, and mobility solutions – in order to help manage IT costs while providing better services to stakeholders," Chulani added.

IDC provided a number of predictions for government The IT sector will see sector IT investments and initiatives in Middle East greater investment and Africa in 2012. IDC predicted that due to publicsector financing gaps, the private sector will play a greater role in infrastructure investments. While, virtualisation will be at the forefront of governments' planned IT projects. IDC added that governments will continue to evaluate the applicability of cloud computing, with interest initially focused on private cloud solutions and governments will take a much more serious approach to IT security.

Jordan gets US$4 billion financial package from EU THE EU HAS agreed to provide financial assistance to Jordan with a package worth US$4 billion over the next three years, of which US$1.6 billion will be available in the coming 12 months.

EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice President of the European Commission Catherine Ashton made the announcement with Prime Minister Awn Khasawneh at the end of the Jordan-EU Task Force meeting held in Jordan.

Khasawneh said the meeting had been EU’s financial aid will help spur economic growth

“successful in tackling frameworks of cooperation and support that can be provided by the EU to Jordan's political and economic reforms.”

"The meeting sessions were very fruitful and we briefed our European partners on the economic challenges and legislative changes that have started" Khasawneh added.

Expanding on what the assistance package entailed, Ashton said the EU will make available an additional amount of US$92.4mn in line with the Principles

of the Communication of March 2011, making US$40mn available immediately.

She added that the EU support will focus on a limited number of priorities with particular emphasis on good governance and economic growth.

"The European Investment Bank is currently working on an extensive pipeline of already identified new projects with an estimated lending activities of up to 400 million euros over the next two years," Ashton said.

She added that: "Jordan will also be eligible for the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development's investment [that is] expected to build up over two-three years to an annual volume of around US$396mn depending on the needs and opportunities given."

On the sidelines of the press conference, the two sides signed US$19.8mn and US$6.6mn agreements, under which the EU will fund the second phases of the reinforcement of modernisation of the services, technology and innovation sectors.

Both sides also agreed to launch a dialogue on economic reforms to enhance competitiveness, including such key areas as attracting inward investments, boosting innovation and encouraging business start-ups, and expanding small and medium enterprises.

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BRIEFLY ■ IN 2011, TRADE between the UAE and US hit record levels of US$18.34 billion with increased trade across key sectors including manufacturing, infrastructure, and technology which drove the rise in last year's economic activity.

According to new 2011 US export statistics, the UAE remains a key export destination and the single largest export market for American goods in the MENA region. In total, the US exported a record US$15.89 billion worth of goods to the UAE in 2011; representing an impressive 26 per cent increase compared to 2010.

While the UAE exported US$2.44 billion to the US, more than doubling its 2010 export numbers to the states.

"These record-breaking statistics clearly illustrate America's role as a strategic and commercial partner to the UAE – a key export destination and gateway to important global markets," said Danny Sebright, President of the US-UAE Business Council.

CESI expands into the region CESI, A POWER system consulting company, is expanding into the region with the opening of its first Middle East office in the UAE in response to growing smart grid and renewable energy sectors in the region. Commenting on CESI’s expansion into the Middle East, Matteo Codazzi, Chief Executive Officer of CESI, said: “Establishing our first office in the UAE is a major milestone for CESI and evidence of our long term commitment to this important region. The Middle East is a key strategic hub for CESI due to its dramatic expansion into the transmission/distribution, smart grids and renewable energy sectors, and we are looking forward to sharing our deep knowledge and experience to benefit this market.”

Gianluca Marini, Director of Consulting, Solutions and Services Division at CESI, said: “The Middle East region is an attractive market, with a stable economic environment, significant growth rates and a receptive approach towards new business initiatives. The Engineering & Technical Consulting services market in the electricity sector is expected to grow rapidly in the coming years, particularly in the innovative fields of smart metering & smart grids and electrical interconnections (in particular HVDC), and we look forward to playing a part in this."

Mr Marini added: “CESI brings extensive technical expertise and experience to the Middle East market, being the only technical consultant who has worked on both of the two largest smart meter programmes deployed in the world. We hope to work on several such large scale projects in the Middle East.”

Floris Schulze, who was recently appointed Managing Director of CESI Middle East, said: “We have been operating in several Middle East countries for a number of years, and the opening of CESI Middle East will help us strengthen relationships with key clients in the region, enhancing the Matteo Codazzi, CEO CESI effectiveness and responsiveness of our operations.”

Lebanon’s economic growth to be slow: S&P INTERNATIONAL RATING AGENCY Standard & Poor (S&P) has stated that Lebanon’s economic growth faces challenges that will “constrain growth and hinder fiscal consolidation.” Furthermore, Lebanon’s ratings are constrained by the country's high public debt burden, large current account imbalances, and the divisive political environment.

S&P still maintained a stable outlook for the country. “The stable outlook reflects our view that the rising resident and nonresident deposit base will continue to support the government's financing needs. It also takes into account our expectation that tourism and foreign direct investment will rebound once the region stabilises, although we do not consider this likely before next year,” S&P said in its report.

S&P argued that Lebanon has maintained a greater degree of stability than a number of its neighbors in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region but it has not been immune from the political and economic turmoil in the region. “In particular, the growing instability in Syria, and the uncertainty caused by the Lebanon's extended political transition during the first half of 2011, have depressed investment,” the report added.

S&P does not expect growth to reach pre-2011 levels in the medium term. The rating agency estimates that GDP growth reached 1.5 per cent in 2011, after an average of 8.2 per cent between 2007-2010. The agency expects real GDP growth to recover to 3.5 per cent in 2012, rising to 5 per cent by 2014, supported by a recovery in tourism and levels of investment.

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BRIEFLY ■ DUBAI FDI, THE foreign investment office in the Department of Economic Development in Dubai, succeeded in attracting and promoting 77 companies in the emirate during 2011. The companies brought in foreign direct investment (FDI) worth US$940mn and a turnover of US$4.5 billion. The companies set up in Dubai represent different operations including logistics, construction, technology, chemicals and renewable energy, reflecting the growing diversity of enterprises leveraging Dubai to gain traction and service strategic growth markets.

■ SAUDI ARABIA'S NOMINAL gross domestic product (GDP) reached US$576.8 billion in 2011, up 28 per cent from 2010, data from the Central Department of Statistics and Information showed. The figure compares with the GDP of US$450 billion achieved in 2010.

Kuwait’s budget surplus widens OFFICIAL FIGURES SHOW that Kuwait'sbudget surplus widened to US$47.6 billion in the first nine months of its 2011-12 fiscal year, nearly double its level a year-ago due to higher than expected oil income and lower spending.

Central bank data showed that the surplus accounted for 37 per cent of the OPEC’s member's 2010 gross domestic product (GDP).

It stood at US$25.2 billion in the same period a year ago.

Revenues were US$77 billion in AprilDecember, while spending was US$29.8 billion, a mere 42.5 per cent of the full-year plan, the data posted on the central bank's website showed.

Kuwait's budget spending has tripled since 2004, with a record US$69.8 billion planned for fiscal year 2011-12, which started in April, fuelled in part by rising wage costs.

Kuwait also boosted social spending in 2011, including cash grants and free food rations for its citizens, following a trend seen around the Gulf as unrest swept through the Middle East.

Last year, Kuwait’s parliament agreed a US$110 billion development plan which aimed to diversify the country’s economy away from oil and boost the private sector, but so far little of

Higher oil prices have increased Kuwait’s budget surplus

this allocated money has been spent so far, partly due to political wranglings.

Following Feburary's parliamentary elections, ratings agency Fitch warned that ongoing 'friction' within Kuwait's government would continue to weigh on reforms and hinder political effectiveness.

The country of 3.6mn people has no plans to boost budget spending in the next fiscal year, nor does it expect budget cuts, its finance minister said towards the end of last year Oil revenue reached US$73 billion in AprilDecember, accounting for 95 per cent of the total, the data showed. The 2011-12 budget is based on an oil price of US$60 per barrel.

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Calendar

EXECUTIVES CALENDAR MARCH 2012 6-8

Commercial Vehicles Middle East

DUBAI

www.commvehicles.com

12-14

Middle East Coatings

DUBAI

www.coatings-group.com

10-13

The Big5 Saudi Arabia

JEDDAH

www.thebig5saudi.com

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Wetex

DUBAI

www.wetex.ae

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Buildex Saudi Arabia

DAMMAM

www.diec.com.sa

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Saudi Innovation Diversification & Investment

RIYADH

www.sidiforum.com

PARIS

www.intermat.fr

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Intermat Paris

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Gulf Rail 2012

22-24

Infrastructure Arabia /World Ecobuild

22-25 Cityscape Abu Dhabi 22-26

Gitex Saudi Arabia

24-26

gulfBID

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Project Qatar

DUBAI

www.gulfraildubai.com

ABU DHABI

www.abcexpo.me

ABU DHABI

www.cityscapeabudhabi.com

RIYADH

www.saudigitex.com

MANAMA

www.gulfbidexhibition.com

DOHA

www.projectqatar.com

MAY 2012 7-10

Saudi Elenex/Saudi Energy

13-15

WEPower 2012

13-16

Green Build Saudi Arabia

14-16

ICT World Abu Dhabi

22-24

The Airport Show

RIYADH

www.saudi-energy.com

DAMMAM

www.wepower-sa.com

RIYADH

www.bdi-arabia.com

ABU DHABI

www.ictworldabudhabi.com

DUBAI

www.theairportshow.com

JUNE 2012 5-8

Project Lebanon

BEIRUT

www.projectlebanon.com

10-12

Cityscape Jeddah

JEDDAH

www.cityscapejeddah.com

ERBIL

www.project-iraq.com

SEPTEMBER 2012 17-20

Project Iraq

OCTOBER 2012 8-10

Intermat Middle East

ABU DHABI

www.intermat-middleeast.com

8-10

Power & Water Middle East

ABU DHABI

www.powerandwaterme.com

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Gitex 2012

DUBAI

www.gitex.com

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The Big 5 2012

11-14

Saudi Build/PMV

DUBAI

www.thebig5.ae

RIYADH

www.recexpo.com

19-21

Gulf Traffic/Roadex Railex

ABU DHABI

www.gulftraffic.com

19-21

MEMEX 2012

ABU DHABI

www.memexnews.com

25-27

IFSEC Arabia

RIYADH

www.ifsecarabia.com

RIYADH

www.cityscaperiyadh.com

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Cityscape Riyadh

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Travel News

BRIEFLY ■ AFTER EIGHT YEARS since it was founded, Etihad Airways earned its first profit in 2011 with a net US$14mn (Dh51.4mn) for the full year.

The Abu Dhabi-based airline said it achieved US$4.1 billion in revenues last year, a 36 per cent increase over US$2.98 billion earned in 2010. "Five years ago, we said we would be profitable by 2011. Despite the global financial crisis, continued high oil prices, regional instability and natural disasters, we have delivered," said James Hogan, President and CEO. The carrier also said it flew 8.3mn passengers last year, up 17 per cent over the year before. "We will aim for strong growth again in 2012, in spite of the tough global economic environment, with a passenger traffic target of 10mn and a corresponding increase in profits," said Hogan.

Emirates passengers can amend bookings online EMIRATES SAID IT now offers passengers the option to change their bookings online. Until now Emirates' customers could only make changes to their bookings through an Emirates agent or a travel agent.

"Whether it is changing the time or date of travel, adding flights, or upgrading to first or business class, www.emirates.com gives passengers the freedom to change their

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bookings online," the carrier said in a statement. It added that regardless of whether passengers booked via the Emirates website, through an Emirates agent or on the phone, they can "alter or add to their travel itinerary online" any time of day.

"Adding the ‘change a booking' functionality online was a long-planned step to help our busy customers," Bob Kabli, Emirates vice-president for e-commerce, said in a statement.

He added that people can now change their booking by simply logging on.

Emirates also said it has implemented the online change functionality on all its global websites, in all languages, and that in order to make any changes, passengers simply need to log on using their "last name and booking reference number".

Emirates currently operates services to 121 destinations in 72 countries, using 169 wide-body Airbus and Boeing aircraft, with orders for an additional 236 aircraft worth over US$84 billion (Dh308.5 billion).

Cristal eyes Lebanon development CRISTAL HOTELS AND Resorts, based in Abu Dhabi announced the opening of its new branch in Lebanon after signing the agreement with two new partners, Elias Badr and Edmond Marjaba. The operations were due to start in February. This announcement comes in line with their major expansion and development initiative in the Levant region, which expects to bring a total of 10 new properties to their portfolio.

Cristal Group Holdings Incorporated is expanding internationally and the new branch in Lebanon will be the start, paving the way for the group's imminent regional expansion

Pictured from left Mr. Edmond Marjaba, Mr. Peter Blackburn and Mr. Elias Badr

drive. Currently operating two hotels in Abu Dhabi, Cristal Hotel Abu Dhabi and Cristal Salam Hotel, this new office will definitely increase their market presence and capitalize on future development projects.

Cristal Lebanon Hotels & Resorts Management Office will be responsible for all the development and operations of the upcoming hotels in Lebanon and the Levant region and the team will be led by Peter Blackburn, the company President and CEO. Commenting on the topic, Peter Blackburn said “While the global economy seems to show a recovery and the climate for interest in hotel looks encouraging, we are pleased that Cristal Group development pipeline is filled with potential growth for the company. We are confident of meeting the hospitality needs across all segments of travellers within this region and we are looking forward to start our new projects in Lebanon, Syria and Jordan, which will be great additions to our existing portfolio of hotels in the UAE.” He further added. “We see an opportunity across different segments and are equipped to meet the market needs with our various hotel brands for both mid-scale and upscale markets.

The overall strategy of offering high-quality accommodation and services with reasonable price is one that fits well at any time, especially now that everyone is looking for extra value," “Being able to cement our leadership position in the region with the opening of our new office in Lebanon is very gratifying and we are most grateful to our partners that continue to entrust their hotel assets to the Cristal Group for enabling this stellar performance. Adding this number of hotels to the network in the coming years has required us to invest significantly in our regional infrastructure to support both the new hotel openings as well as the existing hotel and in doing so ensuring our ability to sustain similar growth in the coming years.”

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Clipped wings at Royal Jordanian ROYAL JORDANIAN (RJ) announced that its board of directors decided to suspend operations to five destinations on its route network.

"The decision aims at reducing the operating costs brought by soaring fuel prices and at offsetting the decline in tourism to the region, the outcome of the Arab spring and the political unrest," the airline said in a press statement.

RJ President/Chief Executive Officer Hussein Dabbas indicated that the company is suspending operations to Brussels, Munich and Al Ain starting March and April respectively, and to two other destinations in the Gulf area, to be announced at a later time.

The decision was based on the assessment of the performance and www.rj.com economic feasibility of these stations.

In order to reduce costs, Dabbas said that the company has also decided to reduce the number of frequencies to destinations like Rome, Vienna, Zurich, Geneva, Amsterdam, Colombo and Khartoum.

"The company will cancel more flights during this year, to be decided by the amount of bookings to certain destinations, and will keep tight control on all aspects of capital expenditure," he added.

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Management Strategy

The smart system Fadi Al Sbinati, General Manger of Naffco Flow Control, spoke to Technical Review about how the NAFFCO subsidiary is really coming into its own and what it offers in the HVAC and water line systems arena.

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AFFCO FLOW CONTROL is a subsidiary of the NAFFCO group of companies and specialises in the supply of infrastructure & electromechanical products for water line, HVAC and fire fighting applications. This includes steel pipes and fittings, HDPE piping systems, valves and ventilation fans.

Mr Sbinati explained how Naffco Flow Control has, right from its inception established a growing presence in HVAC operations catering for piping systems, chilled water & plumbing valves and a full range of ventilation systems.

The shift from the supply of just piping systems for fire-fighting to other areas like valves and fans and the increase in the range of piping systems to include DI and HDPE came at a time

when other business were holding back due to economic uncertainties.

Sbinati proudly stated “It was due to the vision and direction of our CEO, Eng.Khalid Al Khatib that we were able to take this bold step.” The benefits of this decision are now beginning to be seen.

Having established business connections with several large European companies with vast product ranges and considerable technical know-how, it was pleasing to see these relationships producing positive results. Both his team and his clients have benefited through their explicit knowledge and experience in the field and the involvement in most cases extends right up to the commissioning stage.

Sbinati explained how the entire product range has all local and

international approvals. As a matter of fact, HDPE Pipes and Fittings uniquely have FM approval for the entire range of SDR 7.4, SDR 9 & SDR 11 products. This is a key factor in standing out from the competition.

He was also quick to point out that they not only supply quality products but also provide comprehensive solutions. With a wide range of pipes available for above and below ground fire/water and gas applications together with the supply of all types of valves and welding machines, Naffco Flow Control can compliment this with the provision of site technicians, offering a complete service to its valuable clients.

For ventilation systems, it also provides designs, assists in selection and offers tailormade solutions. The range includes all types of smoke extract fans and jet fans all with Civil Defence approvals.

Another attraction is the ESP (Electrostatic Prescipitator) for kitchen smoke extraction.

Market reach Naffco Flow Control is currently the exclusive agent for Cimberio HVAC Valves in the UAE, Qatar and Saudi Arabia and the agent of Elektrovent ventilation systems in the UAE. The company also plans to extend sales for all product lines to other Gulf countries such as Oman, Bahrain & Kuwait.

Naffco Flow Control has established a growing presence in HVAC operations catering for piping systems, chilled water & plumbing valves and a full range of ventilation systems Naffco Flow Contorl’s stand at last year's Big 5

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Management Strategy Beyond the Gulf, it is undertaking market studies in Africa and neighbouring regions, with a view to beginning operations there once marketing plans are in place.

Brands One of the main attractions of Naffco Flow Control is that it works with leading international brands that are well established and seen as experts in their field.

The division represents major companies such as: Shield and GPS in the UK ; Cimberio, Ritmo and Elektrovent in Italy ; PHD from the US and Surya from India.

Sbinati explained that: “We’re actually the exclusive agent in the region for a number of these brands. Italian company Cimberio for example has a 50 year history and a strong reputation for producing high quality valves to international standards.”

“They have recently launched an innovative valve designed to perform two different functions – regulation and control. This unique feature helps

reduce costs, balance operations, save energy and improve environmental control. These, along with many of their other valves, embrace green technology, reducing water and electricity consumption and result in being an economical, time efficient option to clients and end users.”

In addition he said “We also provide a total ventilation system solution from Elektrovent.”

We conduct a comprehensive study and provide advice as well as supply the system for commissioning on site.”

Expansion plans Sbinati expects that with the product offering and extensive experience of the team, that the company will develop even further in 2012. “We are definitely seeing increased interest in our products and services.”

He added: “We have a step-by-step plan for expansion in a range of other products too.”

“Having seen an increased interest in our business, we are committed to continually expanding our professional

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team. With a current storage facility in excess of 30,000sqm, strong after sales support and a good logistical advantage, we have become highly trusted in the market and we feel this has always been our main forte.”

Naffco appeal Sbinati explained that although the company comes under the corporate umbrella of Naffco, the Flow Control division is located and operates independently. However, being a part of the Naffco Group has distinct advantages, as over the years, everybody has come to trust and be reassured by the NAFFCO brand.

He concluded: “We want to move forward and evolve as a company – we don’t just provide a product or service, but rather a total solution. This is for the entire system – the smart system – the total flow control solution, from the beginning (the design stage) to the end (commissioning) and ultimately after sales. Naffco Flow Control is here to grow and we hope that one day we will be as big as our parent company – NAFFCO.” ■

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BRIEFLY ■ THE NUMBER OF industrial companies in Jebal Ali Free Zone (Jafza) stood at 593 at the end of 2011, up 4.5 per cent from the previous year, announced Jafza officials. Jafza saw 34 new industrial companies join the free zone last year, which included a number of multi-national companies such as MAN, David Brown, Allison Transmission, among others. 61 per cent of the new companies come from the Machinery and Equipment sector, 18 per cent are in Consumer Goods, 9 per cent each in Chemical/Petroleum and Steel and Metal and 3 per cent are in the Automotive sector. "In Jafza we have a robust manufacturing and industrial sector. Total trade generated by companies with a manufacturing license stood at US$19 billion, in 2010, which amounts to little over 30 per cent of Jafza's total external trade of US$63.5 billion," said Ibrahim Aljanahi, Jafza Deputy CEO.

Abu Dhabi firm to invest US$500mn in Oman GHANTOOT GROUP IS aiming to invest US$500mn in a number of projects in Oman, including two power plants and three hotels, according to a top official.

Rashid Al Balooshi, managing director of Ghantoot Group, said that the company is in discussions with government organisations to finalise the proposals.

"Over the past few years, Oman has taken huge strides in driving its economy forward and generating jobs for its nationals. We are keen to partner with the government and play a constructive role in the country's development," AlBalooshi said.

The expansion plans will be the company’s biggest ventures outside the UAE and will create up to 2,000 new jobs for Omani nationals.

According to a company statement, a 140MW power plant will be set up in Ras Al Khaimah, in the UAE, to supply electricity to Musandam, in Oman. A second 120MW power plant will also be set up in central Oman at a site to be finalised soon.

Al Balooshi pointed out that the proposed power for Musandam will be transmitted from Ras Al Khaimah, which is only 15km from the Oman border.

The investment in the hospitality sector will include three hotels in Musandam, with a total of 600 rooms.

In addition, Ghantoot will partner with a well known UK college to establish a specialised training centre, which will provide training for UAE and Omani candidates looking to work in the utilities sector. www.ghantootgroup.com

ABB awarded US$9mn aluminum contract in Oman ABB HAS WON a contract worth US$9 million from Oman Aluminum Rolling Company (OARC) to develop, implement and execute all maintenance activities at the company’s rolling mill plant in Sohar, Oman.

“We look forward to having ABB as a partner in the new rolling facility. ABB brings experience in Oman and gives us ABB’s technology will improve the efficiency at the aluminium mill

access to their global rolling capabilities of ABB for maintenance services and rolling technology support.

“The agreement is performance based and provides both parties incentives for success. OARC and ABB will work jointly to provide a high rate of Omanisation within the maintenance work force which is in the interest of our shareholders,” says

Buddy Stemple, chief executive officer of Oman Aluminium Rolling Company.

Through the ABB Full Service® concept, ABB will manage, develop, implement and execute the entire maintenance function at the plant including all mechanical and electrical maintenance regimes, shutdown management, planning and scheduling and reliability maintenance This Full Service agreement highlights ABB’s capabilities in providing comprehensive service solutions for the industrial sector.

Our innovative approach to performance-based services ensures improved production and equipment performance, energy efficiency and reliability for the entire facility,” Saeed Fahim, country manager for ABB in Oman, said.

ABB’s global expertise, tools and methodologies will assist OARC in allowing a successful start up of the plant. Additional customer benefits include ABB’s local presence in Oman and their capabilities in transferring knowledge to Omani nationals employed by ABB to support the government program to develop the competencies of the local work force.

The agreement involves directly 55 ABB employees and will start in June 2012 and continue for a minimum 5 year period.

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BRIEFLY ■ ABU DHABI SEWERAGE Services Company has awarded a consortium led by Aqualia (FCC's water management subsidiary) and local company Mace, a US$100.7mn contract to manage the sewage and water treatment system in Abu Dhabi. The deal includes the operation and maintenance of more than 2,400 km of sewers, 68 wastewaterpumping stations and 19 wastewater treatment plants in the city of Al Ain (eastern Abu Dhabi, on the border with Oman) and the surrounding areas. This is the first water management contract to go to a Spanish company in the UAE. This contract strengthens FCC's presence (through Aqualia) in the region, which is a strategic area for the company's global expansion. aqualia has been operating since 2011 in KSA, where it is implementing an innovative project to repair leaks in Riyadh's water network.

Perkins appoints regional distributor PERKINS HAS APPOINTED Power Systems Gulf LLC (PSG) as the regional distributor for the Arabian Gulf with responsibility for Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UAE and Yemen.

PSG, which is part of The Kanoo Group, will be based in Dubai, and will look after regional distribution strategy, the commercial operation and management of the Perkins engines distribution sales development and product support capability across the Gulf region.

The PSG/Perkins press launch

On a day-to-day basis, the business is tasked with providing consistent and seamless service and positive customer experience across the region.

This incorporates Perkins engine sales, brand and

product marketing, training, parts inventory optimisation and technical / warranty support.

PSG will provide a local platform for OEMs, distributors and end-users of Perkins products to have their technical and product support related queries addressed quickly; with a focus on minimised downtime. PSG will also handle Perkins engine sales and application / installation appraisals for OEMs. Parts availability is a key requirement in the region and specialist parts market analysts, working with PSG's inventory management and forecasting systems, will ensure stocks of genuine Perkins parts are on the shelves at each distributor branch.

A Perkins-certified regional training centre is also planned by PSG at its Jebel Ali premises in Dubai, which seeks to cater to the training needs of OEMs, OEM dealers, their customers and other end-users of Perkins engines in the market.

Howard Beeken, director EAME / CIS distribution, said: "This is an exciting development for PSG and Perkins. The Gulf is an important region for Perkins and we are confident that by working together with PSG we will ensure continued success here."

BT to expand its regional operations BT HAS ANNOUNCED that it intends to expand its presence in Turkey, the Middle East and Africa through a number of new initiatives.

These initiatives build on similar programmes in Asia Pacific and Latin America, where orders in the first nine months of this financial year were up over 50 per cent, the company said in a statement.

BT said that global companies investing in these regions, as well as local companies expanding further afield, will be supported by additional highly qualified staff, including professional services specialists.

According to BT’s research, the addressable market in Turkey, the Middle East and Africa was worth a combined US$8.5 billion in 2011. IT spending growth across the regions is expected to top 10 per cent in 2012.

As part of the new programme, BT will hire around 170 new employees across the three regions, including highly skilled professional services specialists to provide local support to customers and deliver consulting, integration and managed services.

Customers in the regions will be able to access a wider range of “intelligent” network services provided by the BT Connect portfolio. Local companies with global aspirations will fully benefit from BT Connect’s ability to provide services in 197 countries and territories.

Jeff Kelly, CEO BT Global Services said, “The Middle East already hosts some of the world’s main business hubs, and is a crucial region for many of our customers. New opportunities are rapidly emerging in the region, and we are now expanding from our thriving base in the United Arab Emirates. Turkey is

BT sees great growth potential in emerging markets

a key business bridge between Europe, Asia and the Middle East and is growing rapidly. We are also seeing the emergence of a new generation of local companies in these regions, eager to expand globally. Our new initiatives show that when we talk about global ambitions, we truly mean global.”

According to BT’s research, the addressable market in Turkey, the Middle East and Africa was worth a combined US$8.5 billion in 2011. IT spending growth across the regions is expected to top 10 per cent in 2012.

Three new network nodes are being launched in the Middle East, while additional network interconnections will be rolled out in Turkey.

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BRIEFLY ■ BLACK & VEATCH has moved its regional operations to a new Dubai location which will help strengthen support for clients in the UAE and is part of the company’s growth plan for the region, which also includes an office in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

The new operation enhances the company’s ability to provide local support to further the development of critical power, water and oil and gas infrastructure in the region.

Len Rodman, Chairman, President and CEO for Black & Veatch said, “Understanding that water and energy are inextricably linked is crucial for modern infrastructure planning. This is especially vital in arid areas such as the Middle East.

We bring together Black & Veatch’s globally recognised energy and water expertise in one location and combine it with our integrated project team approach. This allows us to better meet the needs of local clients.”

Bahrain Logistic Zone chosen as regional hub by Samel SAMEL SIGNED A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Bahrain Logistic Zone (BLZ) to set up its hub for its logistics operations in the Gulf Region in Bahrain.

SAMEL and BLZ will work together to set up an economical and efficient solution to store, handle and distribute different bulk materials. The layout, concept, and the feasibility study will be prepared by SAMEL according to terms agreed in the Memorandum.

The MoU was signed by Dr. Wolfgang Hoppmann, CEO of SAMEL and Mr. Hassan Ali Al Majed, Director General of the General Organisation of Sea Ports and Bahrain Logistic Zone (BLZ).

"This strategic partnership allows Samel and the Bahrain Logistic Zone (BLZ) to open the gates for highly specialized logistics in this region, with Bahrain playing an important role as a distribution hub for the GCC," Dr. Wolfgang Hoppmann, Samel CEO, said.

Factors such as Bahrain's competitive rates, worldclass import/export services and close proximity to the Khalifa Bin Salman Port, led to Samel's decision, Hassan Ali Al Majed, the director general of BLZ, said.

Dr. Wolfgang expects that other businesses, particularly in the bulk goods industry, will quickly Hassan Ali Al Majed, Director General of BLZ follow his company's path as Bahrain's competitive rates and investment opportunities become better known.

"Ultimately, this will lead to a drastic increase in the number of companies with specialized expertise and operational skills, especially in the bulk market, setting up shop in Bahrain, which will help support Bahrain's economy in the future," Dr. Wolfgang Hoppmann, Samel CEO, said.

SAMEL is a joint venture between Schmidt Heilbronn and Agility.

DIFC could double in size by 2016 DUBAI INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL Centre (DIFC) could double in size over the next five years, according to the CEO of the DIFC Authority (DIFCA).

DIFC announced that the number of active companies rose by 7 per cent to 848 as of December 31, 2011, compared to 792 in 2010.

An additional one million square feet of commercial space came on stream in the DIFC, with the volume of leased space rising 14 per cent to around 2.13m square feet.

Going forward, the financial hub has the potential to continue its extraordinary growth, according to the CEO of DIFCA. “The centre does have the potential to double in size in the next five years because of the rate of progression we have seen so far,” Abdulla Mohammed Al Awar, CEO of the DIFC Authority, was reported by Trade Arabia as saying.

Occupancy of DIFC- owned commercial offices in the Gate District (Gate Building, Gate Precinct and Gate Village) remains above 95 per cent of the leasable space.

Occupancy was also up significantly in DIFC-owned retail space (from 72 per cent in 2010 to 95 per cent in 2011) and commercial office space within third-party developments (from 44 per cent in 2010 to 72 per cent in 2011), said the statement.

DIFC saw a strong end to 2011

DIFC issued 135 new commercial licences in 2011, 71 of which were registered in the second half of the year, representing a 19 per cent annual increase in registrations (113 registrations in 2010).

The DIFCA said that the geographical diversification of total regulated firms illustrates the global integration of the centre with approximately 37 per cent coming from Europe, 26 per cent from the Middle East, 17 per cent from North America, 11 per cent from Asia, and 9 per

cent from the rest of the world.

Al Awar reported the number of staff employed in the free zone last year rose to around 12,000, a rise of over ten percent since 2010.

“Although the past two years were exceptionally challenging from a global perspective, the community in DIFC was resilient and this was noticed in the net positive growth in the number of clients that tapped the DIFC during this period,” he added.

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BRIEFLY ■ INVENTORY LOCATOR SERVICE, LLC (ILS) selected Gael Ltd to represent and promote their Supply Chain Solutions across the Middle East region. The partnership gives ILS an expanded reach in the rapidly developing market and provides Middle East organisations a local expert to assist with aviation and marine supply chain management, safety and compliance solutions.

Don Wilson, vice president at ILS, said: "Our new relationship with Gael Ltd will allow more continued direct contact and timely support for our clients in the region, including Etihad, Abu Dhabi Aircraft Technologies, Qatar Airways and Kuwait Airways."

CEO of Gael Ltd Ashley Marron stated, "We are excited about representing ILS because their product offerings are complimentary to ours and of significant interest within the marketplace in which we currently operate."

Emirates completes one year of operations to Basra EMIRATES COMPLETED ITS first full year of operations to Basra at the start of February with the Dubai airline operating over 400 flights between Dubai and Basra.

Emirates currently operates a four weekly Emirates Basra route has proved profitable service to Basra and daily service to Baghdad.

"Basra is a strategically important market for Emirates. The success of this destination paved the way for our second Iraqi gateway, opening up a significant new passenger segment for us," said Haitham Al Battaway, Emirates Manager, Iraq.

"We have a strong and dedicated team of staff working for us in Basra who have collectively helped to make this route successful. Since coming online, Basra has become one of our most lucrative routes, yielding strong and consistent revenue."

A total of 43 Iraqi Nationals are working for Emirates across Iraq, supporting the airline's two destinations, Basra and Baghdad.

Emirates' office in Basra offers five customer service desks enabling customers to book their flights as well as offering assistance with visa application, Skywards enrolment and shortly Emirates Holidays bookings.

One of the key outbound destinations for passengers from Basra is Kuala Lumpur where Iraqi travellers receive a free visa on arrival.

Since operations began one year ago, China has also become a key destination from Basra due to the significant trade opportunities across the country. India also receives good patronage from Basra due to the country's strong medical facilities.

US$6.9 billion will be invested in Saudi Arabia’s new mining city THE SAUDI ARABIAN Cabinet endorsed the Waad Mining City in the North of the country and agreed that the new industrial zone will receive US$6.9 billion in preliminary investments including the setting up of a US$5.6 billion phosphate company.

Petroleum and Mineral Resources Minister Ali Al-Naimi said that the government would spend US$1.2 billion on building the infrastructure of the city covering an area of 440 Sq-km, northeast of Turaif.

"The aims at creating more jobs for Saudis and realising the balanced development of the Kingdom's regions," he added.

Al-Naimi said the city would add US$4 billion to the country's gross domestic product (GDP). The city will have a railway and an electricity supply system.

Three wharfs will be constructed in Ras Al-Khair Port as part of the project, reported Arab News.

Mansour Al-Maiman, secretary-general of Public Investment Fund and chairman of SAR, said his company would link the city with a 100 km railway system.

Prince Faisal bin Turki, an adviser at the Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral

Petroleum and Mineral Resources Minister Ali Al-Naimi

Resources, said the project would boost economic and social development. "It will contribute to the establishment of a sustainable industry that would accelerate the region's economic growth," Prince Faisal said.

Saudi Arabian Mining Company (Maaden) has conducted initial

feasibility studies over three years to set up an integrated mining city, northeast of Turaif.

Khaled Al-Mudaifer, CEO of Maaden, said the availability of large quantities of phosphate near gas wells in the north and the presence of a railway system would boost phosphate industry as well as downstream industries.

Al-Mudaifer added that Waad city would offer 20 investment opportunities for the private sector and create 2,700 direct jobs and more than 22,000 indirect jobs.

"We have agreed with the ministry to set up an advanced centre to train Saudi youths. There will be another centre to help investors."

He disclosed plans to establish seven large factories in the city with an annual capacity of 16mn tonnes to produce phosphate concentrates, sulfuric acid, phosphoric acid, calcium phosphate, concentrated phosphoric acid and sodium tri poly phosphate.

“We’ll also establish another plant to produce ammonia and a number of factories for phosphate fertilisers in Ras Al-Khair,” Al-Mudaifer said.

He addied that the new factories would begin operation by the end of 2016.

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Siemens, Saudi Electricity establish training programme SAUDI ELECTRICITY COMPANY (SEC) and Siemens have set up an Expert Development Program which will see SEC’s engineers receive training from Siemens with the aim of expanding their knowhow in the fields of energy and grid technology.

Eight selected engineers of SEC have already started their training at Siemens in Germany as part of an Expert Development Program. The Saudi engineers will receive training based on a proven Siemens dual-training concept, which combines theory with practice. The theoretical instruction will be held at the prestigious Siemens Technik Akademie in Berlin and Nuremberg, while practic0al training will take place at locations including the Siemens state-of-the-art gas turbine manufacturing plant in Berlin and its transformer production facility in Nuremberg.

"I'm delighted that we've concluded this cooperation agreement with SEC. Over the course of a year, we'll be training these young people in the latest technologies at Siemens. This cooperation is a further milestone in our long-term relationship with SEC and our commitment to the development of local Saudi talent," Arja Talakar, CEO of Siemens in Saudi Arabia said.

"Saudi Arabia and the region are undergoing highly dynamic growth and have a major demand

Roland Fischer, CEO of the Division Fossil Power Generation at Siemens Energy, and Ali S. Al-Barrak, CEO and President of SEC

for sustainable energy supply. That calls for technological know-how and creates opportunities for ambitious, well-trained people," commented Dietmar Siersdorfer, CEO of Siemens Energy in the Middle East.

Siemens has also announced this year that it intends to invest hundreds of millions of USDollars in the construction of a manufacturing and engineering centre in Dammam. It will house a gas turbine and rotating equipment manufacturing and a service centre. With this new centre, Siemens will create jobs for local and international experts in Saudi Arabia. With a particular focus on the advancement of young people, Siemens will also offer various training and educational programs.

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BRIEFLY â– THE ROADS & Transport Authority (RTA) has awarded a 13-year maintenance contract for the Al Sufouh tram project in Dubai to a consortium comprising Alstom and Cofely-Besix.The maintenance contract covers the rolling stock and fixed installations under phase 1 of Al Sufouh tram project. The deal includes an option for a five-year extension, the RTA said in a statement. The contract also has the potential of awarding Alstom the maintenance deal for phase 2, which includes providing 14 additional tramsets, a 5 km-long track and six additional stations, said Mattar Al Tayer, chairman and executive director of the RTA. Al Tayer said: "The selection of Alstom for the maintenance of Al Sufouh Tramway was prompted by the fact that it is the only company in the world that manufactures tramsets powered by a modern, safe and catenary-free power supply system."

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A low cost tier of storage

Don’t let security issues ‘cloud’ your judgement Expert Steve Bailey from data management company CommVault explains how companies should differentiate between perceived and real security threats when it comes to cloud computing.

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HAT COMES TO mind when you think about cloud security? Do you think about application security or protecting corporate data? Perhaps you fear virus or phishing attacks? For the past several years, cloud security has been one of the biggest concerns among IT decision makers as they consider how best to transition applications and data out of the corporate data center and into the cloud.

The real question is one of perception versus reality.

Steve Bailey, Regional Operations Director at CommVault Systems says that a perceived lack of cloud security can sometimes stop an IT organization dead in its tracks when they look at the cloud as an

option for data storage. Many industries, like healthcare and financial services, have always been held to a higher standard than other organizations when it comes to regulatory compliance and data retention, which prevents them from taking a “risk” on the cloud. This unjustified fear of lax cloud security also means they lose out on all of the business, cost and operational benefits that can come with storing data in the cloud.

There are many aspects to securing data in the cloud

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Economic benefits The reality is that all of the pieces are in place to enable secure and compliant cloud-based storage environments, and the technology is sound. It’s time that IT organizations rethink their position on cloud security by looking at the facts.

The economic benefits that come with storing data in the cloud are too great to ignore for any IT organization struggling with data management. Because cloud storage providers leverage multi-tenant architectures, infrastructure costs are shared across many users. This helps lower costs substantially versus on-site solutions, which require additional provisioning, power, cooling costs, and more.

As data volumes continue to increase, many companies find themselves pushing the capacity, cooling and power limitations of their existing data centers.

Attractive Meanwhile, regulations require many businesses to keep ever-growing amounts of data for compliance purposes. This three-way balancing act between capacity, compliance and cost requires a flexible, multi-tier approach that makes cloud storage an attractive alternative.

While many organizations benefit today from keeping online, deduplicated data copies available for fast recovery, massive growth will still require more disk and tape to contain exploding amounts of data.

Cloud storage offers a low-cost tier of storage that enables several new compliance, disaster recovery, and data backup solutions. More readily available than offline vaulted data, cloud-based

storage delivers these key use cases to help solve today’s data management problems, including: ■ Tiering data retention to cloud storage, alleviates the need to expand data center capacity or operational costs ■ Archiving stale data to cloud-based storage to free up existing space within the data center ■ Cost-effective Disaster Recovery for Small-and-Medium Enterprises without large upfront and operational investment ■ Content indexing data before moving to cloud to meet Compliance requirements and minimize search/retrieval times during eDiscovery operations ■ Remote office backup directly to cloudbased storage There are many aspects to securing data in the cloud. People who move application and email servers into the cloud are

The economic benefits that come with storing data in the cloud are too great to ignore for any IT organization struggling with data management

Steve Bailey, Regional Operations Director, CommVault Systems

concerned with spam, hackers and phishing attacks. Those who are considering the cloud to store data for long-term archiving/retention or disaster recovery are concerned with others gaining access or visibility into vital corporate data.

In healthcare, organizations are concerned with regulatory compliance.

Security There is also physical security and the spectre of some nameless individual strolling into a cloud service provider’s data center and walking away with a jump drive full of intellectual property. Many IT decision-makers are worried about all of the above.

Think about the data in terms of your own data center. You have anti-virus and filtering software tools that monitor and prevent email attacks as well as encryption and data storage technologies to meet your needs for compliance, recovery and retention. And it’s a safe bet that cloud service providers have guards protecting their physical sites.

There are a few things that you should look for, however, to ensure that your data is being protected in the cloud. Your cloud solution should include: ■ Embedded encryption that secures data backup and archive data in-flight or stored within cloud storage ■ Integrated alerting, reporting, and data verification functionality help ensure that data has safely reached the cloud without the risk associated with manual scripting or standalone gateway appliances ■ Native REST/HTTP integration to deliver seamless data and information management across on-site and cloudbased storage architectures ■ Integrated features like deduplication and compression to enable efficient movement of backup and archive data across a network for long-term cloud storage It is inevitable that IT organizations will turn to the cloud to keep pace with business demands. It may take time to overcome the fear inherent in handing over control of your data to someone else, but consider this, there was a time when using a credit card online invoked the same type of fear. Nobody wanted to be first to dip their toe in the pool. The technology needed to keep secure, protected and recoverable is here today and adoption will grow. It’s just a matter of time. ■

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Masdar deploys energy management software MASDAR, ABU DHABI’S multi-faceted renewable energy company, and C3, an energy and emissions management solutions provider, announced that Masdar is using C3’s energy management technology in Masdar City to monitor and optimize energy, water, sustainable transportation and waste. The C3 solution is also being implemented to manage Masdar’s portfolio of international renewable generation projects and track the company’s global portfolio of CDM (clean development mechanism) carbon abatement projects and carbon credits.

“Improving energy efficiency is a critical step in optimizing operations, reducing demand and lowering waste,” said Dr. Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, CEO of Masdar. “C3 delivers a cutting-edge, energy and emissions management solution that will further our goal of producing renewable energy, developing a world-class sustainable urban development and implementing carbon reduction projects globally.” The first phase of the C3 implementation has been completed, providing Masdar the ability to track all aspects of Optimising performance with C3 software resource use across Masdar City – the low-carbon, low-waste city. This system includes monitoring and managing energy production and consumption, transportation efficiency, waste production and recycling, and water usage. The C3 analysis confirms that Masdar City’s residential buildings are highly efficient, with a 56 per cent reduction in electricity demand versus the ASHRAE 90.1-2004 standard, and a 70 per cent reduction versus the average Abu Dhabi multi-unit residential building.

“We selected C3 because it has the vision, leadership and breadth of solution capability that Masdar City requires to achieve its sustainability goals,” said Alan Frost, director of Masdar City. “The company was selected after a careful and thorough market and technical analysis of energy resource management solutions.”

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BRIEFLY ■ ORACLE CORP IS escalating its rivalry with German businesssoftware maker SAP AG with a US$1.9-billion (Dh6.97 billion) purchase of Taleo Corp, a company that helps businesses hire and manage their employees.

The proposed purchase extends Oracle's offerings in a growing arena of computing known as the cloud.

With such an approach, businesses don't run software and services in-house. Instead, those tasks are dispatched over the internet to remote locations operated by companies such as Oracle, SAP and IBM Corp.

■ THE EXPATRIATE CUSTOMER base will be at the fore even as former monopoly Oman Telecommunications Company (Omantel) gears up to provide Long Term Evolution (LTE) 4G technology for consumers in Oman. A tender was already floated to select a LTE-4Gtechnology provider.

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BRIEFLY ■ FRANCE TELECOM SAID it had signed a non-binding accord to acquire most of the stake held

by Egyptian mobile phone services company Orascom in their ECMS cellphone joint venture.

■ BANKMUSCAT SAID IT has achieved a unique disaster recovery capability covering all of the bank's IT-based operations. The scale and complexity of the solution, implemented by HP, makes the BankMuscat capability the first of its kind in Oman and the region.

■ THE MIDDLE EAST and Africa is stronger market for Nokia in terms of market share and specially the UAE for high replacement rate of device. This was stated by the Finnish company chief executive officer Stephen Elop during a roundtable meeting in Dubai.

STC – a powerful IT engine THE STC GROUP continues to maintain its top rank, with its global network powerful enough to make it the main engine of communications and information technology sector in the Middle East.

The company is committed to brave the future challenges by providing up-to-date technologies and services in the region to enable other regional operators to take advantage of its wide-spread networks.

The Group has already established strategic partnerships to extend current agreements in Jordan notably on internet-support services. Similarly in Kuwait, it has signed a number of commercial agreements, in addition to completing a partnership agreement with Djibouti, wherein an international presence port (POP) would be established to provide a host of services, taking into consideration the strategic location of Djibouti in Africa.

Considered as the Eastern Gate of the continent as well as being interconnected with Jeddah by several maritime cables, the agreement achieves greater significance.

This new Djibouti-situated POP would help in reaching out to the regional markets in Ethiopia and Somalia.

The agreement is in collaboration with the Sudanese Sudantel which aims at breaking into new markets, especially, in the southern Sudan.

Pertinently, the STC Group has managed to establish itself as the regional leader through its achievements, like the expansion www.stc.com.sa of four continental and international cables, where the Group has stakes, an advantage that betrays other regional operators.

STC Group is a partner in more than 10 maritime cables across the region besides owning spare capacities in other overseas cables. It commands huge capabilities to communicate with different countries in the world by providing world-class services.

Regional middleware trends highlighted THE ROLE OF middleware software as a crucial component of automating businesses will continue in 2012, but the ways in which it plays a part in automating businesses will inevitably change. New platforms, technologies and ideologies continue to present themselves, and enterprises' needs and demands for middleware are evolving.

Judging from the advancements in Mobile Computing in 2011, it is safe to

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assume that the market will grow exponentially in 2012. Developers are moving from building small mobile apps for iOS and Android, to full-scale integration with backend applications – integration that will tie into customer relationship management, enterprise resource management systems and more. More people and applications will not only be using mobile phones, but also incorporating many types of remote devices, including remote sensors.

Middleware will be necessary to support these types of applications through advanced messaging and complex event processing (CEP) technology.

This year, the industry is likely to witness the intersection between middleware and big data. CIOs and decision-makers look at big data as a way to store and analyze vast amounts of information.

Middleware can help to leverage and extend that information into applications via a more robust process and analytics platform.

Cloud computing – the buzzword of 2011 in the IT world – will continue to be huge.

As Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) solutions continue to mature, and the need for PaaS solutions to support more enterprise-related applications continues to increase, cloud-based

solutions will grow beyond the core application server to include other middleware capabilities such as integration, workflow and process management.

This is because organizations are eager take advantage of everything cloud has to offer – more effective economics, the shift to operational expenses from capital expenses, increased ability to scale, quicker time to market, etc. As was the case during the early stages of onpremise applications, a lot of organizations have raised concerns regarding the development of cloud standards. Although the market is still young, standards will play a key role in its subsequent success.

A side-effect of increased migration to the cloud is that more developers are handling deployments in addition to development. A major pain point echoing through industry has been the need to scale businesses. As the global economy meanders through continued malaise, organizations are battling to maintain growth- emphasizing the need to scale without increasing fixed costs. CIOs are focused on avoiding vendor lock-in and enterprises continue to express interest in more standards-based, open technologies.

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BRIEFLY ■ THE CONTACT CENTER Company (CCC), a joint venture providing customer care service to Saudi Telecom Co. (STC) customers in Saudi Arabia, has announced plans to create 10,000 job opportunities over the coming five years.

■ THE MIDDLE EAST and Africa is a growing market for Leviton and the company expects significant growth in the region in 2012 on its ability to provide complete energy management solutions, a top official of the company said.

Leviton creates sustainable and intelligent solutions in wiring devices, lighting management products and network infrastructure. The company’s sales doubled last year, compared to 2010. The company opened its Dubai office in 2009. The office covers all company divisions, including Lighting & Energy Solutions, Commercial & Industrial and Network Solutions products.

Moroccan IT sector sees massive growth MOROCCO'S IT SECTOR is growing at a double-digit pace. Internet access has expanded by threequarters in 2011, while the mobile phone market increased by more than 14 per cent, according to the National Telecoms Regulation Agency (ANRT).

The rapid expansion "necessitates a proportional investment in content and services to satisfy the growing demand" of internet and mobile phone users, according to Mobiblanc CEO Mohamed Benboubker.

The kingdom boasts a total of 36.5mn mobile phone subscribers, representing a penetration rate of just over 113 per cent. The market, however, is still dominated by pre-paid packages. There are only 1.5mn subscribers for post-paid deals, according to the ANRT. Plenty to talk about The Internet sector has expanded thanks to the growth of 3G. Out of three million internet subscribers, more than 2.5mn have 3G access.

Meanwhile, high-speed connection accounts for just 18 per cent of the market.

The trend is taking a toll on the landline market, which shrank by 4.8 per cent last year.

Another telling sign of the market's development is e-commerce. There are now over 200 online retail sites affiliated with the Maroc Telecommerce platform. Internet users can purchase groceries, clothes, books, mobile phone credit, electronics, insurance and many other products and services without leaving home.

More and more people opt for using credit cards. More than 6.7mn cards are held by Moroccans, which represents a 10 per cent increase from 2010. This year, Maroc Telecommerce is set to launch a new multi-channel payment platform.

Etisalat looks to access Libyan market ETISALAT, THE GULF'S largest telecom firm, wants to acquire a licence in Libya or invest in one of the North African country's existing operators, its chairman told Reuters.

Libya has two state mobile operators, Madar and Libyana, while another government-linked firm Lap Green Networks is active in several African countries including Uganda and Ivory Coast.

"We have shown to the Libyan government our interest (in) the possibility to participate in the development of the telecoms market in Libya, either by a new licence or even by operating or investing in one of the existing mobile licences," Mohammad Omran said on the www.etisalat.com sidelines of an event in Tripoli.

When asked if Etisalat was in negotiations with the Libya government on potentially buying into the telecoms sector, Omran said: "There are no official talks."

Abu Dhabi-based Etisalat bid for Libya's third mobile licence in 2009, but the licence was never awarded.

The former monopoly, which is 60-per cent-owned by the government, is active in 17 countries in Africa, the Middle East and Asia, yet its home market provides about three-quarters of revenue, according to its Q3 results.

Etisalat's foreign acquisitions have been mixed. Recently, it

wrote off the US$827 mn value of its operation in India. But its Saudi Arabian affiliate Mobily is among the top picks for Gulf telecoms analysts.

Meanwhile, Etisalat, has launched a commercial LTE network in the country. The service will offer customers mobile LTE-based broadband using E398-LTE USB modems, which it said were available immediately from Etisalat Business Centres and other outlets.

The USB dongles can be picked up free on contracts by signing up to Etisalat’s MyDataPlan ‘Ultra’ pack on a six-month or 12-month contract with a 20GB data allowance. The dongles can also be purchased contract free for AED799 (US$218).

Matthew Willsher, chief marketing officer for Etisalat said in a statement that, “We are very excited about introducing the first real 4G (LTE) experience to our customers in the UAE. The launch of the service and USB modems follows user trials that showed exceptionally satisfying performance. In coming months, our customers can expect a range of LTE compatible data-centric wireless routers and tablets, and 4G enabled phones, as and when they are available in the market.”

Etisalat has deployed 1000 base stations in the UAE and cover 70 per cent of the population.

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GCC to become aluminium powerhouse Frost & Sullivan, Metals & Minerals Practice provide an outlook on the aluminium industry in the GCC

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HE MIDDLE EAST and North Africa (MENA) region traditionally has been a net exporter of the major portion of its production of primary Aluminium. The GCC is poised to become a primary aluminium production powerhouse with the expectation that the region will contribute to over 13 per cent of the world’s aluminum production by 2013. The total primary aluminium production in 2010 (Fig 1) stood at 3.17 Mn Metric Tonnes (MT) and reached 3.69 Mn MT in 2011 at 16 per cent growth over 2010. The growth has primarily been due to Qatalum reaching full capacity of its first phase in 2011, after power outage issues in the second half of 2010, when production was halted resulting in losses.

Fig 2: The GCC has some of the world's largest aluminium smelters in the world

Aluminium industry are currently estimated at around US$30 billion and may reach as much as US$55 billion by 2020.

Challenges and Opportunities

Fig 1: A graph showing the total GCC primary aluminium production in 2010

Predominant end-user segments include construction followed by electrical, industrial and packaging for the aluminium industry in this region. The aluminium industry in the GCC is expected to see a large growth over the next decade, which will put it among the top aluminium producers in the world. The Aluminium industry in GCC contributes 4-12 per cent to the regional Gross Domestic Product (GDP). GCC contributes in a big way to the primary aluminium growth in the MENA region. The UAE, Oman, Bahrain and Qatar are all home to some of the largest aluminium smelters in the world (Fig 2) . In 2010, the aluminium industry provided over 11,000 direct employment opportunities and added another 30,000 jobs to the industry through supporting small and medium sized businesses.

According to Frost & Sullivan, growth of the primary Aluminium industry in the GCC will outperform the rest of MENA. Key GCC countries like the KSA, Qatar, Oman and UAE (Abu Dhabi) will have increased primary production either due to new commissioning of aluminium smelters or phase two expansions of their existing capacities. Frost & Sullivan also state that investments in the GCC

Hazardous waste generated from aluminium production is a concern, as currently GCC has no means to treat it. However, GCC is actively looking to secure third party services to cater to the region’s six smelters and effectively treat this waste in the coming 3-5 years.

Political instability in the region especially in Bahrain and Oman has served as a cause for reluctance in new investments especially in downstream production.

The transformation of scrap into recycled aluminium alloys requires approximately five per cent of the energy input needed to produce primary aluminium from bauxite. This phenomenon is catching up in the MENA region; as a result many downstream aluminium players and primary Aluminium smelters are taking up greener initiatives to reduce their carbon footprints. It is expected that in the next 10 years the secondary aluminium market in the GCC would be a key contributor to the recycling Industry and will create employment opportunities.

Overall Strategic Conclusion The Aluminium industry in the MENA region is expected to grow in the short and medium terms (two to five years) provided the primary aluminium smelting capacities are commissioned, as per plan. The Aluminium downstream industries will have a great scope to localise products which are currently imported from a few regular import partners. The ability to deal with constant fluctuations in London Metal Exchange (LME) prices of aluminium would be the greatest challenge going forward, along with the economics of scale, regular supply of feedstock and environmental issues. The substitution threat of Aluminium from various metals and materials will continue but may not be a huge threat, as major plastic and metal companies are investing in research and development inclined on weight reduction strategies including automotive, industrial applications, refrigeration and chillers, etc. Key countries in the GCC region where Aluminium downstream development would increase are KSA, UAE, Oman and Qatar as they are surging investments backed by Aluminium smelters and Family Investment groups in the Middle East. ■

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SE OF SPECIAL fire-resistant glass within purpose-made glazing systems can make a major contribution to the safetyintegrity of any modern building, even if only as the result of refurbishment.

However all elements of the complete system (individual panel or aperture) must be compatible and approved by the designer/architect, the responsible fire authority(ies) and the insurance company appointed, right down to details such as the dimensions of glazing beads and edge coverings as well as all the materials themselves.

With any major newbuild project a full risk assessment is normally carried out before the construction is approved, and all aspects of fire safety, including the extent to which glazed elements like doors, windows and internal partitions will slow its spread, have to be included in this.

A Fire Certificate is then normally issued after independent inspection of the completed structure; this covers the whole building, not just the resistance components. Each of these needs its own performance assessment report before it is selected. GCC suppliers routinely advise on this.

Fire resistance is offered by many glazing systems

Fire resistant for additional safety Fire resistance is offered by many glazing systems but proof of performance should always be obtained before choosing. Attention to detail is vital and all components must be compatible.

Types of glass that may be approved for fire resistance purposes include some ceramics, thermally-strengthened soda lime silicates, resin and gel laminates as well as various specified special 'safety' materials. All need to be fitted within specially designed frames or doors, and suppliers throughout the Gulf advise on the construction of these as a matter of

course. Their actual performance will depend on the type of glass used, the pane layout including orientation (vertical etc.) and dimensions of the individual elements and of the complete system in which they are installed.

Equally important Different materials will need different fitting instructions e.g. the width of edge cover that should be provided to provide maximum resistance to the spread of fire.

Glaziers never make the material fit too tightly within the frame, and this is especially important with toughened materials including conventional wired products.

Note that standard toughened glass is generally not suitable for fire resistance purposes because it cannot stand up to thermal shock adequately. And that different materials need to be finished

with purpose-designed details such as edge coverings, beads and seals.

Throughout the installation process, all these details should be checked against the specifications and for quality of workmanship. Substitution and “mix and match� are never acceptable when resistance to the spread of fire, and adequate insurance cover, are the objectives.

Note that standard toughened glass is generally not suitable for fire resistance purposes

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Physical impact Specific questions are often asked about the use of fireresistant glass within fire doors that are fabricated locally out of standard timber sections, an important employmentcreating artisan activity wherever cities are growing as fast – and as tall – as they are in the Gulf today. The burning qualities of the various timbers imported here vary greatly of course, and should therefore be checked and specified (including coating treatments) by the system supplier – there is also a limit to the size and thickness of individual panes of fire-resistant glass that can be safely incorporated in such a door, which will depend in part on the type of glazing system employed and in part on the extent of physical impact that the product can be expected to meet in a crisis situation – and in everyday use beforehand, too.

Tested Different glass materials have different impact ratings and the shape of acceptable openings to maintain these are usually defined by the supplier. Many will only supply finished units.

In general metal framing systems are acceptable for use with fire-resistant glass materials but only if they are specially fabricated as part of a standard glazing system; local metal workers should never be allowed to substitute run-of-mill (i.e. not fire resistant) frames or components.

Within the Gulf so much highrise newbuild activity is now taking place that materials often run short and some glass suppliers are willing to sell on a supply-only basis; such materials must always be system-fitted into proper frames that incorporate the seals and beads that have been both tested and approved for that particular system and material.

Design process Test evidence of performance of the complete system must always be seen and all fire-resistant glass materials should be incorporated into approved complete systems only. This is particularly important when a refurbishment or upgrade programme is being carried out; it is the continued integrity of the complete fire-resistance system including the condition of any reused aperture frames and doors that matters.

In conclusion, fire resistance is the result of a design process that is quite separate from insulation for comfort or energyconservation purposes. Nevertheless, a good designer will ensure that the materials complement one another in this respect wherever this is possible.

And finally, fire-resistant glazing systems are always installed as barriers in order to prevent the spread of fire, especially in escape/access routeways within the building. They are therefore rated in terms of the time they can buy. Fire prevention is a separate but equally important subject. ■

Licensed for use DUPONT GLASS LAMINATING Solutions has licensed its DuPont™ SentryGlas® Expressions™ digital interlayer technology to Alumco LLC, Dubai.

Established in 2003 Alumco is a company specializing in the production of high performance structural and architectural glass products.

The agreement allows Alumco to produce and distribute high-definition, decorative laminated safety glass to meet growing demand for custom designed imagery and aesthetics in

laminated glass. Alumco was chosen by DuPont Glass Laminating Solutions to help expand the use of SentryGlas® Expressions™ through its decorative market access and its reputation for high-quality laminating. Both the printing and the lamination of the polyvinyl butyral (PVB) decorative interlayer will be done in their facility, providing a faster, efficient response to customer needs.

“In response to growing demand for innovative ways to combine safety and aesthetics in buildings, we are licensing

trusted, quality oriented partners to provide our decorative interlayer technology to architects, designers, builders and contractors," said Valerie A. Aunet, global marketing manager for DuPont™ SentryGlas® Expressions™.

“By increasing our collaboration and cooperation with important customers, such as Alumco, we can continue to deliver the high-quality imagery and design textures of SentryGlas® Expressions™ to unique projects around the world.”

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HIS YEAR’S EVENT took place over three days from 7-9 February and was opened by HE Dr Rashid Ahmed Bin Fahad, Minister for Environment and Water. Hundreds of companies launched new products at the show. Including Ducab, which revealed its new range 66kV to 400 kV High Voltage (HV) cable systems.

“The 2012 Middle East Electricity (MEE) Exhibition broke all previous records on exhibition space occupied and the number of exhibitors. The show posted a YOY growth of 15 per cent and had over 1,000 exhibitors from over 55 countries. More than 50 per cent of the exhibitors have rebooked for the 2013 edition which is a clear testimony of the success of the event.” Anita Mathews, Exhibition Director.

A record number of visitors attended the 2012 show

Power sector boosts MEE Middle East Electricity 2012 had a record show as the leading energy event focused on the power, lighting, electricity and water sectors benefited from the booming regional energy sector The show included free-to-attend technical seminars, which proved popular and gave visitors a technical insight into the latest innovations in the power sector.

According to the event organisers, Informa, the popularity of MEE can be seen in the official numbers from this year’s show. Over 15,000 visitors from 114 different countries attended the 2012 show. Official statistics showed that 96 per cent of visitors stated that visiting Middle East Electricity was a good and productive use of their time.

On the exhibitor front, MEE 2012 had the highest number of exhibitors it has every had with 1,043 exhibitors from 56 countries. With 94 per cent of exhibitors stating that MEE was successful in establishing contacts for future sales.

“The exhibition has been very important for us to build awareness of our brand in the Middle East region. We have developed plenty of new leads as a result and we have been provided with plenty of exposure to showcase our capabilities in the innovative products we have to offer,” said Pieter Zijlmans, General Manager Dialight Middle East.

This year featured MEE Awards for the first time, established to recognise outstanding achievements of departments, teams or organisations that have contributed to the growth and development of the energy industry in the region. A gala dinner attended by 1,000 of the region's power professionals and companies was held for the inaugural MEE awards ceremony.

29 projects competed for various awards across six different categories.

Abu Dhabi Municipality and Ruud Lighting Arabia won the Project of the Year Award for their joint collaboration on the Salaam Street and Tunnel project in the UAE capital. Other winners included global leaders in power and automation technologies ABB Power for their 'ABB Transmission & Distribution' project in the CSR Initiative of the Year category.

The pivotal role that MEE plays in region’s power industry was highlighted

by Sanjeev Sardana, Managing Director, Yamuna who spoke to Technical Review about the importance of the show and

what his company has benefited from attending.

Sanjeev said: “The Middle East Electricity show is one of the best events for the power sector in the region that sees some of the tops companies around the world come and display their product, technologies and services.”

He added: “We have had tremendous return on our investment on the time we spend with Middle East electricity. We have created a lot of good contacts and today our company is very well known in the Gulf thanks to publicity and exposure at MEE. We look forward to continue our participation in this show for many years to come.”

Yamuna started operating in the region in 1989 and “we got our first order for US$1mn through the help of Khalfan Al Qubaisi, Chairman of AlHamad Group.

Today we do more than US$15mn worth of business in power cables around the Gulf,” Sanjeev explained.

“We have major expansion plans in the pipeline and in the long term we are looking to set up manufacture facilities in the Gulf.

We currently have three manufacturing facilities around the world, with two in India and one in China,” ended Sanjeev.

MEE will return next year and will take place between 12-14 March 2013 at the Dubai International Convention and Exhibition Centre. ■

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BRIEFLY ■ THE ISTANBUL ELECTRICAL Electronics, Machinery and IT Exporters’ Association organisation took part in the year’s Middle East Electricity (MEE) 2012. They were part of the Turkish Pavilion which proved to be very beneficial for the association as it gave them added exposure throughout the show. The Turkish electricity generation and distribution and cable sector’ received a lot of attention from buyers visiting the stand. The great majority of visiting firms were from Gulf countries, especially UAE, Saudi Arabia and Oman. On the sidelines of MEE, the association and Turkish firms visited DEWA and had a meeting regarding possible cooperation with DEWA. Also, association board members had a meeting with the manager of Jebel Ali Free Zone about the possibility of Turkish firms being set up in Jafza in the future. The company expects to be back at MEE in 2013.

Perkins launches new range of diesel engine PERKINS LAUNCHED THE 1600 Series Electropak diesel engine for the electric power market at Middle East Electricity 2012. Designed to meet key market nodes, the new line up fills the gap between the company’s current 1300 and 2000 Series ranges. The 1600 Series Electropak family comprises a range of full authority electronic control, turbocharged, air-to-air charge-cooled engines that have been developed to provide prime and standby power.

The six cylinder, 9.3 litre range offers outputs up to 300kVA (240 kWe) prime power and 330 kVA (264 kWe) standby power at 1500 rpm – both key nodes – though the intention is to release a 350kVA 1600 Series Electropak diesel engine (280kWe) standby version later in the year.

For OEMs and genset packagers the key benefits include the combination of higher power density and load acceptance, which effectively means that the 1600 Series can achieve outputs normally associated with much bigger displacement engines, while offering a space saving opportunity during installation.

The tropical radiator, which is fitted as standard, ensures that there is high ambient clearance at even the highest temperatures, making it suitable for applications such as supersound canopies.

With little or no derate, the unit can produce its maximum output virtually anywhere in the world. Its global acceptability has also been enhanced through the simultaneous launch of versions for both nonregulated and EU IIIa territories. This versatility has been further increased with the inclusion of switchable models which both reduces parts inventory and supports the needs of the rental market.

Built for durable and economic use, its operating and maintenance costs are reduced, thanks to its frugal consumption of fuel – around 200g/kWhr – while whole life costs are enhanced by the 500 hours service intervals and Perkins standard warranty.

Atlas Copco showed off its new generators and lighting masts ATLAS COPCO SHOWCASED its latest range of diesel powered generator sets and lighting masts at Middle East Electricity 2012, including the ultra tough HardHat design QAX range of portable generators.

With a canopy constructed of linear medium density polyethelene (LMDP), the QAX30 30kVA portable generator is designed to be exceptionally durable, able to withstand the harshest of conditions and treatment.

This was most aptly demonstrated during

the three-day exhibition when visitors passing the stand were offered a sledge hammer with which to inflict as much damage upon the canopy of the generator as they could.

Michael Sagermann, Regional Business Line Manager at Atlas Copco Middle East said, "Inevitably generators are bumped and scratched to various levels that make the machine look old and unattractive," said Sagermann, who added that the lifespan of the QAX20 lasts years longer than normal

portable generators, while holding an increased amount of its original price tag for resale versus conventional steel.

"The LMDP is structurally strong, does not scratch or dent thereby keeping it looking very new and upon reaching the point of time for replacement increases its resale value on the second hand market.

In addition to the QAX30, Atlas Copco will also showed the QLTH40 lighting tower and the QAC1000 containerised generator for the first time at Middle East Electricity."

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BRIEFLY ■ VOLVO PENTA WAS present at MEE 2012 and reaffirmed its ‘Green Commitment’ by showcasing the core green values of its engines.

Volvo Penta devotes a large amount of development resources to develop products that satisfy customers’ demands for increased productivity, high performance and reduced environmental impact.

Environmental care in all operations is an integral part of Volvo Penta’s commitment which is why the company has proactive environmental programmes covering the whole company including product development and production. This is why Volvo Penta gives extra attention to energy efficiency, manufacturing, emissions and noise, material efficiency, technology for the future and environmental management. Volvo’s Penta uses the latest advances in engine technology to ensure all engines meet existing and future emission legislation.

Megger’s new relay test sets new standards The SMRT410 provides a complete multiphase test system for commissioning of protection systems. With up to 4 voltage channels a 6 high currents, the SMRT410 meets every testing need. The SMRT410 VIGEN modules also provide high power in BOTH the voltage and current channels to test virtually all types of protective relays.

The SMRT410 test system has the ability to be manually controlled with Megger’s new Smart Touch View Interface™ (STVI). The STVI, with its, full color, high resolution, TFT LCD touch screen allows the user to perform manual, steady-state and dynamic testing quickly using the manual test screen, as well as using built-in preset test routines for most relays.The STVI eliminates the need for a The SMRT410 model computer when testing virtually all types of relays. Tests results can be saved to a memory stick to transfer or print test reports.

Each current channel is rated for 30 Amps @ 200 VA continuous, up to 60 Amps @ 300 VA for short durations. It has a unique flat power curve from 4 to 30 Amps that insures maximum compliance voltage to load at all times.

THE MEGGER SMRT range of relay test sets with STVI Touchscreen control has set new standards in the industry for high power, low weight and ease of use. The high power enables the testing of modern digital self-powered relays as well as the very popular new relays with redundant power supplies. The latest addition to the range is the SMRT410 model.The SMRT410 has the “smart” combination of high compliance voltage and high current to test all electromechanical, solid-state and microprocessor-based overcurrent relays, including voltage controlled, voltage restraint and high impedance directional ground overcurrent.

Kirloskar’s regional focus SHRIKANT PATASKAR, GENERAL Manager, Kirloskar Middle East spoke to Technical Review at MEE about his outlook for 2012.

Pataskar stated that Kirloskar had expended their product range to cover larger section of the market and have also expended their distribution and service network in the region. “Local assembly of generators is on the rise due to flexibility in operations and product acceptance. This has given rise to sale of diesel engines to generator OEMs for local assembly. All these factors have contributed to our business growth,” he added.

“We have seen a 100 per cent growth in our order books. The contributing factors have been market growth, introduction of new products and entering new market segments. We are expecting a similar growth in 2012,” he said.

Pataskar said: “business has been growing for us with Saudi Arabia and Qatar offering more opportunities.” All the markets in the region are attractive for generator business – with Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, Libya and Iraq having maximum potential for business. The infrastructure development projects and construction projects in Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Kuwait are the key projects. FIFA 2022 will also give rise to a lot of development projects in Qatar.

Pataskar concluded: “The two biggest challenges facing generator industry are retaining customers and protecting the bottom line. Effective service is the key for retaining customers.

Thus, suppliers need to invest in trained manpower and spare parts stocks. Availability of generators will also be key.”

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Fluke introduces new power quality analysers FLUKE CORPORATION HAS introduced new Fluke 430 Series II threephase power quality analysers that are the first to use a patented algorithm to measure energy wasted in electrical systems and calculate the cost.

The 430 Series II helps facilities reduce electrical power consumption and improve the performance and lifespan of electro-mechanical equipment by providing the ROI justification to mitigate power quality distortion.

With the new, patented Unified Power function of the 430 Series II, electricians, utility technicians, electrical engineers, field service technicians, and energy consultants can automatically determine how much power is being wasted and calculate exactly what the extra consumption costs with a single handheld tool. Unified Power marks the first time that any test tool has provided the ability to automatically quantify the energy wasted by harmonics and unbalance, and by inputting the utility rate structure, the user can even calculate the monetary cost of the wasted energy.

In particular, the new analysers allow facilities to assess the impact of new energy-efficient, electronically-driven systems from lighting to motor controls to HVAC. While these new models consume less energy as individual installations, they increase the level of power quality disturbance in the overall electrical system,

increasing waste energy due to harmonics and reducing the total potential energy savings. They calculate the monetary cost of that waste energy.

The 430 Series II Inverter Efficiency function simultaneously measures the input and output power of inverters in solar systems, wind turbines and uninterrupted power supplies, allowing the operator to see how much electricity the inverter itself is consuming and whether it is operating efficiently. The measurements enable operators to adjust settings or make a case for a replacement unit.

The Fluke 430 The updated 430 Series II models feature Series II analyser three new measurement functions as well as hardware, software and firmware improvements. New models have up to 32 GB (8 GB standard) memory, a swappable SD memory card and USB connectivity for longer power and energy logging and faster data download.

The 435 model includes PowerWave, a “fast capture� system that displays waveforms and half cycle RMS voltage and current values in full detail so motor and generator operators can measure the interaction during switching operations. This allows facility and utility service electricians, electrical contractors, and generator suppliers to easily gather measurements with a single tool for load profiling, to prevent motor/drive/load mismatches, and for motor and generator commissioning and start-up testing.

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MEE Review Siemens will deliver 44 wind turbines

Siemens wins wind turbine deal SIEMENS ENERGY HAS won its first wind turbine orders with a total capacity of 100 MW for two power plants in Morocco. Nareva Holding and Siemens signed a contract for the delivery of a total of 44 wind turbines for the Haouma and Foum El Oued wind power plants.

The scope of supply includes the delivery, installation and commissioning of the wind turbines, as well as a five-year service contract for each project. Both wind power plants are expected to commence commercial operation by summer 2013.

The Haouma Wind Farm project will be built in Northern Morocco. At 50 MW, Haouma will feature 22 Siemens SWT-2.3-93 wind turbines. Foum El Oued will be built in one of the windiest areas of Morocco in the municipality of Laâyoune, 9 km south east of the port of Laâyoune in Southern Morocco.

Also at 50 MW, Foum El Oued will feature 22 SWT-2.3-101 wind turbines "These two orders mark Siemens Wind Power’s entry on the African wind market," said Felix Ferlemann, CEO of the Siemens

Wind Power Division.

The Moroccan government has set the target of raising the contribution of renewable energy to 20 per cent of national electricity consumption by 2020.

Ducab agrees technology deal DUCAB HV HAS signed a collaboration agreement with J-Power Systems Corporation (JPS) covering all areas of high voltage cable technology. The deal aims at accelerating the introduction of world-class high voltage technology in the UAE. “We are now furthering our commitment to the rapid delivery of excellent HV products by partnering with J-Power Systems, one of the world’s leading companies in HV technology,” Jon Vail, the chief executive officer of Ducab HV said in a company statement.

Ducab HV’s collaboration, which came after a detailed evaluation of all qualified global cable companies, extends up to the 400 kV range, which is the highest voltage in use in the UAE, said Vail.

“We are very happy to enter this agreement with Ducab HV, and look forward to working together to transfer expertise and knowledge to the UAE to ensure that Ducab-HV products meet highest international standards,” said Fukunaga, the president of JPS. "Technology transfer is a key part of the agreement and will take place through a combination of Ducab HV engineering teams visiting Japan, as well as experienced JPS engineers stationed in the UAE to train Ducab HV staff,” Fukunaga added.

Ducab HV is a JV between Ducab, Dewa and Adwea. JPS is a JV between Sumitomo Electric Industries and Hitachi Cable.

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BRIEFLY ■ SETRA_SCHNEIDERSETRA E.VISION has awarded Schneider Electric a US$32mn deal to provide automated lighting controls system for Presidency of Meteorology and Environment (PME) centre, Jeddah.

Schneider will install KNX products in the building that control and monitor lighting systems including presence sensors, switching and dimming which will create a green building that saves the energy and make it more efficient.

The project is scheduled to be finished in August 2012, a company statement said.

■ THE IRAQI CABINET awarded the Baiji gas-operated power station implementation contract to Egypt's Orascom at a cost of US$363mn a project. The power station will situated in Baiji, 180 km north of Baghdad. The project will take 21 months to be completed. Six gas units with a capacity of 169MW for each will be installed.

Lamprell launches wind farm installation vessel LAMPRELL SUCCESSFULLY LAUNCHED the Fred.

Olsen Windcarrier Brave Tern, the first wind farm installation vessel of its size to be built in the region.

The launch of the Fred. Olsen Windcarrier Brave Tern

With a transport weight of 12,200 tonnes, this load out which took place yesterday, is also the heaviest vessel land move ever to take place in the Middle East and one of a few worldwide. At delivery, scheduled for Q2 of 2012, the Brave Tern will weigh 14,800 tonnes.

The Brave Tern, one of two vessels contracted to the Group in 2010, is a GustoMSC NG-9000 design self-elevating and self-propelled offshore

wind turbine installation vessel with an overall length of 131.72 metres, deck area of around 3,200 square metres, four 80 metre selfelevating legs and an 800 tonne ‘wrap around the leg’ crane at 24 metre outreach (102 metre over deck).

The Brave Tern can accommodate up to 80 people.

Nigel McCue, Chief Executive Officer, Lamprell said: “This milestone is significant to the Group as it once again demonstrates the quality of our project management in meeting key project milestones, which is of particular importance given that the Brave Tern is the largest wind farm installation vessel to be built and loaded out in the region."

Commenting about the load out, Tor Erik Andreassen, Managing Director of Fred. Olsen Windcarrier said: “Two years after signing the contract with Lamprell, the move of the first vessel from the construction site and into her natural wet environment is an important event marking a large step towards a successful delivery of our new build.”

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Logistics

A railway communications revolution underway Technical Review spoke to Michel Clement, VP Railways at Kapsch CarrierCom, about the challenges and opportunities of bringing GSM-R railway technology to Algeria, the first country in the region to implement digital train communication.

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HE RAPID EXPANSION of railway projects across the MENA region has not just seen thousands of kilometres of tracks being laid down in Algeria, Saudi Arabia and Oman, but also the implementation of the latest communication technology, enabling the railway networks to run more safely and efficiently. Kapsch CarrierCom completed the acquisition of Nortel’s GSM business in April 2010 which effectively gave Kapsch access to Nortel’s GSM-R (Global System for Mobile Communications-Railway) business globally.

“It is important to understand that Kapsch is now the owner of the whole GSM-R product portfolio, which allows us to pursue and continue to evolve our technology,” said Michael Clement, VP Railways.

The acquisition enabled Kapsch to capture key customers, such as Network Rail in the UK, Deutsche Bahn in Germany and RFF in France. The 1,759 km track in Algeria, where the company is implementing GSM-R end-to-end solutions, forms the company’s first foray into the MENA region. ”We are the first company to work on a project for new signalling and telecommunication activity in Africa. Algeria presents a critical customer for us and the dimension of the project is as big as the one in France. We are providing Algeria with the most up-to-date technology,” said Clement. “IP for the core and based on our BTS 9K and 6K. We are also able to provide GPRS.” Clement added that the system is being implemented by ANESRIF, before going on to discuss the various challenges of bringing this technology to the Middle East for the very first time.

“Algeria was our first experience in a very difficult environment with high temperatures and vast desert areas. It was interesting for us to do that and also very educative,” he said. “The interesting thing is that normally we introduce GSM-R where there is a high concentration of people, but in Algeria we had to implement GSM-R around the entire track. In a lot of cases this is in areas that are unpopulated and do not have any kind of infrastructure.”

“Kapsch is actually the first company worldwide which has realised such a project under such harsh environmental circumstances. We are becoming specialists for extreme

Michel Clement “Algeria is a critical customer”

environmental challenges. Here in North Africa temperatures can reach up to 58 degrees.”

Kapsch CarrierCom carried out the first ever GSM-R call in Africa at the end of last year, a considerable achievement for the company. The call was made by the Minister of Communications between Algiers and Bechar, in the south of the country.

Kapsch CarrierCom’s focus extends across the region. The company is involved in all tenders for Etihad Railway, has been involved in Saudi Arabia since the start (as Nortel), has ongoing tenders in Morocco and is in advanced discussions with Egypt.

The company also opened an office in Abu Dhabi recently and sees high potential in Libya and Tunisia.

“We are now present in this area as we are convinced of the great potential in this region,” said Clement. “We are involved in interesting conversations with Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Oman, who have decided to go for the GSM-R standard and who show genuine interest in implementing state-of-the-art technology. In North Africa, the decision on the technology has already been made. It was decided it would be GSM-R.” Clement pointed out that an important aspect of the regional railway boom is that various projects are starting from scratch.

Employing wireless technology is a smart and more costeffective move. In contrast to Europe, where the market has evolved slowly over time, the Middle East presents the opportunity to employ the latest technology immediately, without going through periods of trial and error.

Clement said that the outlook for railway projects this year is bright. “2012 will be a major year for projects to be started,” he said. “In North Africa and the Gulf countries, these projects are identified and are on their way.” ■

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Formwork

Cost-effective formwork solutions

Customised solutions for region’s bridges With tailor-made formwork and scaffolding solutions, PERI was able to tackle a variety of challenging bridge projects over the past few years.

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N ORDER TO meet project requirements and customer expectations, PERI offers standardised, rentable system components, construction-compliant connecting means and supporting structures to deliver cost-effective formwork for the respective structure.

With well-trained design engineers, as well as continuous site supervision along with large stock capacity, PERI is able to support any construction project to ensure its timely completion.

With PERI in the UAE for over 10 years, a large variety of bridge projects have been realised. Among these is the Northern Ring Road Project, located in Al Ain, which will connect the city to the Emirate’s transport network via bridges, tunnels, and intersections. The construction includes a new dual carriage way, a threelane flyover bridge, three underpasses, the building of Wadi Bridges and the upgrading of the existing ring road. The

contractor is Saif Bin Darwish Company.

The PERI systems fulfil the needs of the construction company for flexibility and high productivity.

The formwork solution for the superstructure is realised with GT 24 formwork girders, SRU steel walers and SLS spindles. This construction could be accurately adapted to the structure’s geometry. PD 8 shoring towers support the formwork, they are extremely costeffective as large units and for high clearances.

One of the largest and most challenging bridge projects in the region has been the landmark Saadiyat Bridge. It connects Abu Dhabi City and Saadiyat Island – which lies about 500 m off the coast. With a length of 1,455 m and an impressive width of 60 m, the construction is one of the widest bridges in the world. Eight foreland piers in the west and a total of eleven on Saadiyat itself serve to support the three pre-stressed concrete hollow boxes with spans ranging between 45 m and 135 m.

The main bridge has a span of 200 m and is carried by two V-shaped, 20 m high

PERI is able to support any construction project to ensure its timely completion

identical sets of piers per section. The formwork and scaffolding solution for the individual supports, with inclinations of more than 27°, consists of two sets of VARIO GT 24 side formwork, a forward inclined VARIO formwork element with integrated working platforms as well as a reverse-inclined raised formwork unit. Due to the high concreting loads, this was carried on PERI UP shoring.

The bridge piers were constructed alternatively in four climbing steps with concreting cycle heights of 4.70 m as well as by 2.44 m in an outward direction in each case due to the pier inclination. The PERI concept allowed the supporting frame construction to be pulled outwards on the steel girders after striking had been completed as though being guided along rails.

For efficient realization of the required supporting and platform levels, three tower modules each with a 2.00 m base and a 4.65 m extension height could be vertically coupled together.

Connections were carried out with the time-saving PERI section spindle and the extension units could therefore be accurately adjusted to the required height.

Through the extensively dimensioned moving units, it was possible to construct the total of 48 casting segments with only four sets of formwork extremely cost-effectively. ■

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HE SECOND EDITION of The Big 5 Saudi, the spin-off from the long running and hugely successful Big 5 Gulf regional event in Dubai, will be open in the southern city of Jeddah from 10-13 March. This bustling and well linked port is a major industrial centre in its own right, a key part of the Kingdom’s visionary planning to bring the full benefits of energy production, including sustainable construction, to the vicinity of the Holy Cities.

Under the patronage of HRH Prince Mansour Bin Mutaib Bin Abdulaziz, this event is again being fully supported by the local Chamber of Commerce/Industry, with major commercial sponsorship coming from Emirates Steel and Al Arabiya.

As with the parent event in the UAE, Big 5 Saudi will focus on all aspects of building and construction. A special feature of this second event, expected to be larger than last year, will be a focus on training for building designers and practitioners, specifically in concrete repair and LEED-certificated sustainable design and construction practice (special Zone and Workshop details below).

Immense Said local Chamber deputy chairman Mazen Batterjee of the inaugural event on the Red Sea coast in 2011: “Such an important exhibition plays an essential role in delivering the immense infrastructure projects taking place currently. Next year, I expect the exhibition to grow more.”

www.thebig5saudi.com

Open for business on the Red Sea coast Big 5’s new Saudi Arabian offshoot is back in Jeddah this year, bringing to a hugely important region a full range of international building/construction products and services from national, regional and international sources.

Training workshops are being offered for the first time.

Indeed it shows every sign of doing so, with exhibitor bookings exceeding 400 at the time of writing as against just over 300 last year. More than 9,000 individual business visitors attended the launch event and more are expected from neighbouring countries this year when a special outdoor display/demonstration area is being used at the Jeddah Forums & Events Centre.

But to encourage more local building professionals through the doors, a special series of information-cum-networking sessions are being arranged for Jeddah this year, each in its own quiet dedicated area.

These are: The Concrete Zone – incorporating a special USA Pavilion but exhibitors from many other countries like Germany – which is being set up to explain to local professionals just some of the advantages of the many new products and materials that the industry has been coming up with in recent years. These include a wide range of new admixtures designed to improve the flow and hardening properties of various forms of concrete made with Gulf raw materials.

As with the parent event in the UAE, Big 5 Saudi Arabia will focus on all aspects of building and construction

Globally famous Most of the building product categories, for which Big 5 events have become globally famous over more than 30 years, will be on display, with few export manufacturers in any other part of the world able to justify turning down an opportunity to exhibit in such a critical sales region.

Also new types of quick-erecting formwork will be shown along with a wide range of machinery for precision batching of dry supplies, producing durable and attractive blocks and tiles (including small-scale manufacturers) and other structural elements, and testing after the required period for cure.

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Concrete Repair Workshop – a new training programme is being offered this year which has been specially commissioned from practitioners Concrete Repairs UK. Specifically prepared for the hot and saline atmosphere of sites on the Red Sea coast, this has been designed to fully inform local professionals of the latest techniques and ideas that can be used to prevent concrete decay in the first place – corrosion of rebars is the most common cause, along with cracking and rainwater ingress and fungal growth – and to repair it permanently and properly when this has happened.

The Kingdom could see a boom in facilities management

Safety products for work zones Road hazard warning equipment

Mobile crash barrier systems

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Most of the building product categories, for which Big 5 events have become globally famous over more than 30 years, will be on display The Facilities Management Zone – dedicated to the efficient pre-construction design and post-completion day-to-day operation of a wide variety of buildings and infrastructure facilities, this dedicated exhibition area is being provided at Big 5 Saudi because of the expected boom in all aspects of modern FM practice in the burgeoning Kingdom – now an established profession in its own right.

This will be where building commissioners, owners and other operators can learn how to make their very costly structures perform optimally, effectively and at lowest cost, with expected lifespans being extended at the same time.

Finally, the brand-new LEED 201 Core Concepts & Strategies Workshop is being offered to all visitors to learn the very latest about sustainable green building principles and products.

Standing for ‘Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design’ USderived LEED standards are rapidly becoming internationally accepted as the benchmark for environmentally responsible, high performance ‘green’ buildings that both function profitably and are healthy to work in (more details of the principles and where they can be seen in the Gulf at www.usgbc.org/LEED/). ■

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Big 5 Saudi Arabia Exhibitor Listings

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Big 5 Saudi Arabia Exhibitor Listings

KLACCI. Hall 1 Kryton International Inc. Hall 1 KTI Saudi Hall 1 KUNWOO Machinery Co.,Ltd. Hall 1 KVM Industries Hall 1 La Dorika Hall 1 Laticrete RAK Co. LLC. Hall 2 Lavorwash S.P.A. Hall 2 Leadergrate LLC Hall 1 Levantina Hall 2 Liftek FZC Hall 2 Liftnshift Equipment Trading LLC Hall 1 LINTEC GmbH & Co. KG Hall 1 Loibl Allen-Sherman-Hoff GmbH Hall 1 Lusavouga – Industrial Hardware and Tools Hall 1 LYKOMITROS STEEL S.A. Hall 2 M/S. Al-Nafie Steel Co. Ltd. Outdoor Area Maani venture Hall 2 Maaz Impex Private Limited Hall 2 MABER Hall 2 Made in Vicenza Hall 2 Magnetic Middle East Hall 1 Malaysia External Trade Development Corporation (MATRADE) Hall 1 Mammut Industries Hall 1 Manar Al-Omran Company Hall 2 Manitowoc Cranes Hall 1 MARCHET - Ancona Agency for the World Market Hall 2 MARESTONE TECHNOLOGIES Hall 1 Marina Platforms Hall 2 MARIS POLYMERS SA Hall 2 Marjan Marble Industry Hall 1 Marketing Solutions Hall 1 MARMI GRANITI MANOLOGLOU S.A. Hall 2 MARMYK ILIOPOULOS Hall 2 Masa GmbH Hall 2 Maschinenfabrik Gustav Eirich GmbH & Co.KG Hall 2 Mashail Future Trading (+GF+) Hall 2 Mattex Geosynthetics/Green Vision Hall 1 MAVROGIANNAKIS S.A. - EKTOXEFTIS Hall 1 Mazaya Aluminium Hall 1 Mazzer Materie Plastiche SNC. Hall 2 MBK Maschinenbau GmbH Hall 1 MCC Hall 2 MEKA CONCRETE BATCHING PLANTS Hall 2 Meridian Systems Hall 1 Metal Engineering Hall 1 Metalcertima S.A. Hall 2 Metex Metal Expansion Factory Hall 1 METSA LIGHT CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY Hall 1 MEZ-TECHNIK GmbH Hall 1 Middle East Insulation LLC Hall 2 Miro Europe Srl Hall 2 MMP Group Hall 1 Modern Machinery Trading Est. Hall 1 Modern Plastic Industry LLC Hall 1 Mohammed Abdullah Balbaid Est Hall 2 Motahar A Al -Amoudi for Trading Est. Hall 2 Motif Foreign Trade JLT Hall 1 MUFLESYSTEM Hall 2 Multi Industries (Bartek) Hall 1 MUT MECCANICA TOVO Hall 2 N.R. Koeling B.V. Hall 1 Naffco KSA Outdoor Area NANJING MEISHUO BUILDING MATERIALS CO., LTD. Hall 1 Nano Innovation "Green" Paints & Coatings Hall 1 NAPCO Middle East Ltd Hall 1 National Marketing Est. Co. Hall 2 National Water Works Co. Hall 1 NERU FORMWORK AND SCAFFOLDING SYSTEMS Hall 2 NFT Specialized In Tower Cranes LLC Hall 1 Nicoll SAS Hall 2 Nikolidakis Group S.A Hall 2 NINGBO UNION FAVOUR INTERNATIONAL TRADE COMPANY Hall 2 Nobel, Xilinakis D. & Co. Hall 2 Obeikan Technical Fabrics Hall 2 Obeikan Tensile Structures Co. Ltd. Hall 2 OGMAC BLOCK MAKING MACHINES Hall 1 OGUZ MERMER SAN. TIC. LTD. STI. Hall 1 Omar Al-Midfa Building Material Est. Hall 2 OMS Group Hall 2 ONUR MARBLE CO. Hall 2 Open Aire Inc. Hall 1 Optimal Hall 2 Orbital Horizon Est. Hall 2 ORKA AHSAP URUNLERI SAN. VE TIC. LTD. STI. Hall 1 Oryx Hall 2 Oscam S.P.A. - Italy Hall 2 PAHM Co Ltd/ MEMS const Eqp Trd LLC Hall 1 Pallikaris Hall 1

1 F65 1 B30 1 E05 1 G19 1 F03 1 B52 A 19 E 87 1 B51 C 28 A 23 1 E64 1 E14 1 F12 1 A17 C 05 OS 90 E 78 G 56 F 15 F 15 1 A50 1B71 1 D25 E 103 1 F11 G 08 1 G34 B 86 C 18 1 G41 1 A84 B 05 C 15 E 48 F 40 A 65 1 F73 1 B31 1 B61 G 80 1 E10 E 50 B 38 1 F24 1 A71 G 74 1 E70 1 C18 1 F40 B 40 D 10 1 C41 1 G23 1 B50 A 91 C 98 1 A57 F 10 1 G72 E 18 1 E27 OS 70 1 F54 1 A86 1 A82 F 70 1 B37 C 31 1 D23 B 80 C 14 C 77 D 19 F 101 B 94 1 C48 1 D10 D 29 E 30 A 30 1 B32 G 34 F 71 1 C11 G 92 D 88 1 G21 1 C38

PANTHER T&H INDUSTRY CO., LTD. Park Games Equipment (M) SDN BHD PATTA INTERNATIONAL LIMITED Pearl Industries LLC PEDAX A/S Peikko Pentagono Rubinetterie Petra Tiles Philip A Tabone International PHILIPP GROUP Pidilite Industries LTD Pilomat Pinnacle LGS. USA Pipeco GRP Water Tanks Planet GDZ AG Plast Italia Pleasant Wishes POLOPLAST GmbH POLSER FRP PANELS INC. Polytron Technologies (Xiamen) Co., Ltd Poollock Powers Fasteners Europa B.V. Pozolan-Product-Factory Prime-focus Alc Industries LLC, Dubai Progress Maschinen & Automation Progress Maschinen & Automation AG Pro-Landscape Structure Prospec Specialties PT Matic PTE Strand Co Inc Qatar National Aluminium Panel Company Qatar Steel Company (Q.S.C.) Quadra QUANZHOU CITY SANLIAN MACHINERY MANUFACTURE CO., LTD. Rajay International - Duegi Rajhi Steel Industries Co. Ltd. Ltd RAMPF FORMEN GmbH Randa co. for Automatic doors and Windows Rasec Retail Ratec RE. Co. Reckli GmbH Red-White Valve Corp.

Refrigeration House Group Rekers GmbH Maschinen- und Anlagenbau Rexcon LLC. Reynaers Aluminium RIFENG ELECTRIC CABLE CO., LTD RI-MAC GmbH Roll Roy UK Rothbucher Systeme ROTHO RS - Rothbucher Systeme RSG Stones SABIC SAES MAKINA SANAYI TIC. LTD. STI. Safi Sajo Glass Sami Ali Alghamdi for Trading Samih Al-Bashir Factory for Heavy Industries Saudi BASF for Building Materials Co. Ltd Saudi Bitumen Industries Co. LTD. Saudi Canadian RICAF Saudi Insulated Blocks Company (SIBCO) Saudi Pipe Systems Company Saudi Setra Blinds Factory Co. Savio Spa SCAN ASIA CORPORATION Schlatter Industries AG SCHNELL spa Schüco Middle East Secalt Sa - Tractel Luxembourg Semix Concrete Batching Plants Senda SHANDONG QIANNENG STEEL CO., LTD. SHANDONG SHENGQUAN CHEMICAL CO., LTD. Shuttlelift Sika Saudi Arabia SITCO Smart City Inc. Smart Structures Sodeca-Envirosystems SOGEGA SRL Sommer Anlagentechnik Middle East L.L.C. Souliman Al Namlah Institution Commercial Space Structures Company Ltd. Spancrete Global Services SPC Heat Pipes FZCO

Hall 1 Hall 1 Hall 1 Hall 2 Hall 1 Hall 1 Hall 2 Hall 1 Hall 2 Hall 1 Hall 1 Hall 2 Hall 2 Hall 1 Hall 2 Hall 1 Hall 1 Hall 2 Hall 1 Hall 1 Hall 1 Hall 1 Hall 1 Hall 2 Hall 1 Hall 1 Hall 1 Hall 2 Hall 2 Hall 1 Hall 1 Hall 1 Hall 2

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Hall 2 B 74 Hall 2 G 100 Hall 2 D 60 Hall 2 C 44 Hall 1 1 C61 Hall 2 C 89 Hall 1 1 D13 Hall 2 G 29 Hall 2 D 41 Hall 2 F 20 Hall 2E 80 & 1 C20 Hall 2 G 40 Hall 1 1 F11 Hall 1 1 E58 Hall 2 C 71 Hall 1 1 F18 Hall 2 E 28 Hall 2 F 41 Hall 2 G 51 Hall 2 F 41 Hall 2 A 27 Hall 2 C 60 Hall 1 1 C17 Hall 1 1 E28 Hall 1 1 A80 Hall 2 C 95 Outdoor Area OS 20 Hall 1 1 D31 Hall 2 E 70 Hall 1 1 A31 Hall 2 D 101 Hall 2 C 65 Hall 2 A 79 Hall 2 E 10 Hall 1 1 G64 Hall 1 1 E11 Hall 2 G 12 Hall 2 A 69 Hall 1 1 B01 Hall 1 1 G15 Hall 2 A 88 Hall 2 C 75 Hall 1 1 F57 Hall 1 1 F11 Hall 1 1 E21 Hall 2 E 30 Outdoor Area OS 60 Hall 1 1 F11 Hall 1 1 B21 Hall 2 E 19 Hall 2 G 44 Hall 1 1 E74 Hall 2 C 103 Hall 1 1 F11 Hall 2 E 20

SPECO LTD Hall 1 Spiro international SA Hall 1 SPIROTECH B.V. Hall 1 Starkem SRL Hall 1 Staunch Machinery Outdoor Area STM Conveying Systems S.R.L. Hall 1 STV Serrature Hall 2 Sudesa Melaminas Y Postformados Hall 2 Suhner Abrasive Expert LTD Hall 2 Suhner Abrasive Ltd Hall 2 SUMEC BUILDING MATERIAL Hall 2 SUNFLOWER CORPORATION Hall 1 SUQIAN STRONGER BUILDING MATERIAL CO., LTD. Hall 1 TAIAN YUESHOU ROAD BUILDING MACHINERY CO., LTD Hall 2 TAIZHOU BAIYUN JIXIANG DECORATIVE MATERIAL CO., LTD Hall 2 TAIZHOU XINWEI WELL COVER CO.,LTD Hall 2 Talents Technologies Trading & Cont. Co. Ltd Hall 1 Taliah Trading & Industrial Co. Hall 1 Talleres Felipe Verdes, S.A. Hall 2 Taltos SRL Hall 2 Technical Review Middle East Hall 1 Technical Trading Company Limited Hall 1 Technoguards bahrain Hall 1 Tecnocom S.p.A. Hall 1 Tekla ME Hall 1 TELMA - DELTA srl Hall 2 TEPE BETOPAN YAPI MALZEMELERI SAN. VE TIC. A.S. Hall 2 TES.CAR. Srl Hall 2 The Wyco Tool Co. Hall 1 Thermic Ltd Hall 2 Thermoins - Aswaq Hall 1 THERMOWATT spa Hall 2 TJK MACHINERY(TIANJIN) CO., LTD Hall 1 TMR Urusharta Hall 1 Tognetti Gianfraneo & E.sas Hall 2 TOSEVA GROUP Hall 1 Tre Emme/Landi Group Hall 2 Trelawny SPT Ltd. Hall 2 Trespa International B.V. Hall 1 TREYSAN PREFABRICATED STEEL CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY AND TRADE CORP. Hall 1 TSSC Hall 2 Tweha Export B.V. Hall 1 Tyne Flow LTD - Mena Office Hall 2 Ultra Span Building System Co. Hall 1 Unidecor Hall 2 Unique Factories Hall 2 Unique Scaffolding Hall 1 United Steel Industries (Unisteel) Hall 2 Universal Metal Coating Co. LTD (Unicoil) Hall 2 USAKLIGIL FENCE SYSTEMS Hall 1 Valbruna Stainless Steel Hall 2 Van Doorn Lighting B.V. Hall 1 Ventures Middle East Hall 1 Verti-Crete, LLC. Hall 1 Visaka Industries Limited Hall 1 Voeller Mixers, Inc Hall 1 Wadi Maramer Trading Outdoor Area Wadimaramer Trading Est. (WAMCO) Hall 2 WASA GmbH Hall 2 Waterworks Technologies Hall 1 WEHRHAHN Hall 2 WEIFANG HENGLIDA STEEL STRUCTURE CO., LTD Hall 1 WEILER GmbH Hall 2 Westpoint International Hall 2 Wickham Hardwood Flooring Hall 1 WIGGERT & CO. GMBH Hall 1 Win-Stone Industries (INDIA) Pvt Ltd Hall 1 Witzenmann GmbH Hall 2 WITZENMANN GmbH Hall 2 Wms Metal Industries LLC Hall 1 Xpelair Hall 2 XSPlatforms BV Hall 1 XUZHOU LONGTENG INTERNATIONAL TRADE CO.,LTD Hall 1 ZAN - Topcon Sole Agent Hall 2 Zawya Hall 1 Zero Creative B.V. Hall 1 ZHE JIANG HONG TANG INDUSTRY & TRADE CO., LTD Hall 1 ZHEJIANG HUIER COATING ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION EQUIPMENT CO.,LTD Hall 2 ZHEJIANG HUZHOU SCVE MACHINE & MOTOR.CO.,LTD Hall 2 ZHENGZHOU YIFAN MACHINERY CO., LTD Hall 1 Zubiri SL. Hall 1

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New opportunities in the region’s largest market Construction activity in the Kingdom’s Eastern Province has been accelerating while most of the rest of the world has slowed down. The 14th edition of the Buildex exhibition will be there in March to meet the demand.

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ITH GROWTH ESTIMATED at 6-7 per cent last year (it stalled in 2009) and the world’s second largest current account balance (and third in forex and gold resources), Saudi Arabia is certainly a country which is going places fast. And since WTO membership was finally achieved at the end of 2005, the energy-dominated economy has been diversifying even faster; now it is a major supplier of a wide range of industrial merchandise to other GCC countries in particular.

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Cities programme (including King Abdullah and Jazan ECs, both pencilled in at US$27 billion, along with mega-industrials such as the NOC’s Yanbu Export Refinery Project, to cost US$10 billion), and major infrastructure schemes designed to boost power generation and water supplies and the telecoms facilities needed to knit it all together. New supportive legislation on mortgages, and last year’s unexpected boost to the low-medium cost housing sector has certainly helped. And all underpinned by a currency which seems to continue unperturbed against the dollar whatever happens elsewhere in the financial markets, a level of incoming foreign direct investment that far exceeds movement the other way, and a sound banking system.

Of course, the underlying reasons for some this positive activity are not so rosy, with the authorities in Riyadh concerned about such issues as unacceptable levels of youth unemployment, shortages of industrial training facilities generally, and the perennial problem of how to compensate for declining levels in the underlying aquifers.

Being OPEC’s ‘swing’ producer is not an easy role, either.

Project expansion Much of the construction frenzy that free-to-enter Buildex 2012 is designed to satisfy arises from the pressing need to solve these problems while the energy balance remains so much in the Kingdom’s favour.

So, 18-21 March is an excellent time for Dhahran International Exhibitions Co in association with Italian specialists IES Srl to be staging this year’s edition of the long established Buildex International Building & Construction Exhibition.

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Once again the splendidly equipped Dhahran International Exhibitions Center will be the venue; full details including a comprehensive event brochure can be accessed at www.saudibuildex.com; phone contact numbers are given below.

Dammam is of course the business and administration centre of the KSA’s main energy producing province as well as being one of the Gulf’s key airline hubs.

Buoyancy The last Buildex easily drew in more than 20,000 visitors to see the products and services of well over 200 individual exhibitors.

Following recent announcements about project expansions and new schemes altogether, this year’s event is certain to be a major draw for even more international companies with interesting and problem-solving new products to show – and no other international markets in any way equal to the Kingdom’s buoyancy and scale in which to display them.

Most are aware of the ready access to and from this expo centre that is available for businessmen in neighbouring states such as Kuwait, Bahrain and Abu Dhabi, to and fro in a day with no visas being required for GCC citizens of course.

Technical Review is pleased to have been asked to serve as Official Publication for this major nation-building event in the Kingdom’s energy province. ■

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A show of strength as Intermat returns This year’s number-one construction trade fair takes place in Paris.

Intermat Middle East was launched last year; this is the parent event at which more than 1,500 company and institutional exhibitors are expected.

This year’s Intermat will be the best place to see the very latest construction plant

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From 16-21 April it’s the turn of Intermat in Paris; next year (15-21 April) it will be BAUMA in Germany, and from 4-8 March 2014 CONEXPO-CON/AGG in Las Vegas.

Few equipment suppliers can afford to miss any of these key construction events.

What is special about Intermat is that it has now become annually established in Abu Dhabi, too, with co-organisers Comexposium staging Intermat Middle East from 8-10 October next in association with Clarion Events ME2. This spin-off event will be co-located at ADNEC with Arabian Construction Week.

The parent exhibition is always coordinated in Paris by the French equipment manufacturers’ associations CISMA (contractors’ plant in general) and SEIMAT (suppliers of equipment for the civils, mining/quarrying, construction and hoist sectors). Intermat has been successfully running since 1988.

Most interest All three of these rotated core events are simply huge. The last edition of Intermat itself (2009) drew in more than 184,000 visitors, one-third of them coming from outside France, with a significant contingent (12 per cent) from MENA and the rest of Africa. Regionally, most interest was expressed predictably from Algeria and Morocco. More than 1500 exhibitors look likely this year, once again more than

two-thirds of them originating outside France.

It’s always difficult to estimate how the different internal spaces (plus a large external display area) within an event like this will be allocated category-wise, but the breakdown in Paris last time was as follows: earthmoving equipment 38 per cent; components, ancillary equipment and accessories 15 per cent; materials lifting and handling machinery 12 per cent; concrete plant, formwork and scaffolding supplies nine per cent; drilling and boring equipment eight per cent; road building seven per cent; raw materials extraction/processing six per cent; transport vehicles three per cent; and general engineering and professional/technical services two per cent. This breakdown makes it clear that

More than 1,500 exhibitors look likely this year, once again more than two-thirds of them originating outside France

this really is the best place to see the latest crop of heavy-plant range additions anywhere this year, including up-andcoming new suppliers from China likely.

A special new feature in 2012 will be a 30,000m2 demonstration area which is added alongside, with promised ‘lively performances’ by a range of backhoes, mini excavators, loaders and graders. We interpret that as high jinx with earthmovers.

Major location The French equipment industries – all sizes, all categories – form a key part of the European Construction Industry Federation, usually known by its Frenchlanguage initials CECE. Roughly 30 per cent of the global industries’ output is now in the hands of this umbrella group’s 1,200 members, with a major slice of this located in metropolitan France. This key manufacturing country is also a major location for multinational manufacturers, companies of the size and status of J I Case and John Deere, to locate European operations, usually manufacturing facilities that specialise in particular product ‘families’.

Of course, Paris is a top attraction for visitors in its own right. The French capital is a tourism centre of the first order, with a range of cultural, recreational and

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A large number of visitors are expected in Paris

accommodation facilities that are second to none. France is a leader in many other forms of engineering, including railways and nuclear power. It is also one of the most well connected cities on earth, with particularly good services by all means to EU neighbours, and by air to the business centres of North Africa and the Middle East. It is also the headquarters of a large

number of international organisations like the OECD and International Energy Agency. Following recent diplomatic and defence developments, relationships with the Gulf states are particularly strong.

In short, few Intermat visitors from the Arab world are likely to have anything but a plenitude of other business and other calls to make while so conveniently located

close by the heart of the European Union.

The Villepinte exhibition centre itself is conveniently located near to the wellserved Roissy CdG Airport, and from other metropolitan nodes – most international visitors want to have meetings beyond the exhibition doors – it is readily served by the excellent RER rapid-transit system – the inspiration of so much light rail planning in the Gulf.

Paris Nord is also well served by the high-speed TGV rail network, the performance and details of which were so closely studied when Saudi Arabia’s brand-new lines were being planned.

This now serves most corners of Europe’s largest country.

The experienced event organisers point out that Intermat in Paris this year is the ‘Key event of the construction industry in 2012’; certainly for Gulf readers outside the near-abroad that is. It will also have a notably ‘Green’ theme, fully in line with so many of the Gulf’s sustainable Building Codes today. Officially described as showing ‘Equipment and Techniques for Construction and Materials Industries’, this three-yearly event cannot be missed by anyone who needs to see what’s latest and best. ■

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BOBCAT WILL BE demonstrating why the company is one of the leaders in the global compact equipment market. The complete range of new generation compact loaders and mini-excavators from Bobcat will be shown for the first time at Intermat and the company will be celebrating 25 years of success in the compact excavator market. Bobcat will also be showing the new high horsepower TL470HF telescopic handler and the comprehensive display will include a wide selection of Bobcat attachments such as the new sonic tracer system for use with the company’s two largest 244 and 274 cm (96 and 108 inch) heavy duty grader attachments.

This year, Bobcat celebrates 25 years of success in the compact excavator market. From what began as an important diversification for Bobcat as the premier manufacturer of skidsteer loaders, the last 25 years have seen the company evolve to become one of the world's leading compact excavator manufacturers and lay claim to being the global leader in compact construction equipment.

Now, the Bobcat compact excavator range sets the standard worldwide for performance, quality, reliability and durability.

The range currently comprises 13 different models of compact excavators with operating weights from 1-8 tonne, including both conventional and zero tail swing designs. Visitors to Intermat will see the very latest from Bobcat with a display of the new E Series excavators, including the new 2.6 tonne zero tail swing E26 compact excavator, offering all the advantages of the E Series: high reliability, exceptional operator comfort, smooth and precise workgroup operation and superior hydraulic performance.

DOOSAN INFRACORE CONSTRUCTION Equipment is launching new crawler excavators, wheel loaders and articulated dump trucks (ADTs) specially designed for Middle East and African markets.

Replacing the previous SOLAR models, the new Doosan crawler excavators offer high robustness The new DX225LCA crawler excavator with a number of important new functionalities and technical improvements, including the latest Tier 2 engines, new cabs and top quality materials and components, all particularly suited to the specific needs of the MENA markets. The new DX225LCA model will form part of the Intermat stand display. The new range of Doosan wheel loaders for markets in the Middle East and Africa region builds on the design of the previous Mega range, offering several improvements for better performance, greater operator comfort, easier handling and serviceability, as well as increased durability.

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Construction News

BRIEFLY ■ HABTOOR LEIGHTON GROUP (HLG) has been awarded a US$515mn contract by the Al Habtoor Group as part of the US$1.33 billion Habtoor Palace hotels development in Dubai.

Under the agreement, HLG will be responsible for the construction of what will become the largest integrated hotel complex in the region, comprising a five-level podium, one 36-storey tower and one 25-storey tower within a total GFA of 350,000 sqm. Design for the development commenced on January 1, 2012. Demolition of the existing Metropolitan is scheduled to start at the end of March with early works likely to begin in June 2012. The development is scheduled for completion in the second half of 2016. "Our future growth will come from major infrastructure projects in markets outside the UAE, particularly Qatar and Saudi," HLG CEO and MD Laurie Voyer said.

Enhancing crane productivity TRIMBLE AND MANITOWOC Cranes, a part of The Manitowoc Company, Inc., announced that they have signed an agreement to collaborate on the development of solutions that can harness precise positioning technology, wireless communications and comprehensive software capabilities to enhance productivity in the construction lifting industry. Trimble and Manitowoc intend to develop solutions that will transform the way in which crane operations and information are managed on a construction site. By combining the strengths of Trimble and Manitowoc Cranes, the companies intend to develop a solution tailored for the lifting industry that provides real time, centimeter-level positioning data for multiple cranes working on a construction site. The solution would be able to measure crane position in absolute coordinates using rugged, easy to install, non-contact sensors that can be installed on both fixed and mobile cranes. It is planned that the in-cab displays of cranes that are fitted with the developed solution will permit operators to view the site, multiple working crane zones, forbidden zones, target locations and other site information. The companies also expect to develop an ‘Intelligent Environment’ database for their solutions capable of receiving constant updates of data from Building Information Modeling (BIM) tools and other site sensors working in tandem. In addition, an anticipated feature of the solution would enable a user to program an alarm or even halt crane operation upon detection of unplanned work activity on the construction site. To enhance jobsite awareness and management, a wireless local area network (WLAN) will share the crane position information across the www.manitowoc.com construction site.

The need for infrastructure development is at an all-time high: KPMG A NEW GLOBAL construction industry survey by KPMG revealed that the need for infrastructure development is at an all-time high.

This demand is pressuring the engineering and construction industry to accelerate as never before to meet the challenge, putting their efficiency and risk management processes to the test.

KPMG 2012 Global Construction Survey, The Great Global Infrastructure Opportunity, surveyed 161 engineering and construction companies around the world with revenues ranging from US$250mn to more than US$5 billion.

52 per cent of respondents were from EMEA, 31 per cent from the Americas and 17 per cent from the Asia-Pacific region.

Nearly 40 per cent of respondents from Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA), believe that the energy sector will have the biggest impact on revenues.

Second behind energy were roads/bridges at 27 per cent followed by residential at 25 per cent.

While 49 per cent of respondents expect their backlogs will grow from 5 per cent to over 15 per cent in the next year, 71 per cent of respondents cite

Roads and bridges will be a major focus of future infrastructure projects

economic uncertainty as their biggest ongoing concern followed by a skills shortage (31 per cent) and thirdly, government deficits (30 per cent).

Meanwhile 62 per cent said that they expect margins on current bids to remain unchanged from their current backlog.

“The future for the infrastructure industry in the region lies in optimising costs, streamlining supply chains, improving IT systems and growth through mergers and acquisitions,”

KPMG partner and head of building, construction and real estate, Middle East and South Asia region, Wirtschaftspruefer Ernst Weber, said.

Cost cutting still remains a challenge for companies as well, with organisational culture seen to be culprit for implementing the cuts for 61 per cent of respondents globally, and 78 per cent in the Americas. And a surprising 17 per cent of respondents globally said that cost reduction was not a priority at all.

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Technical Review Middle East - Issue Two 2012

Construction News

BRIEFLY ■ THE 161-STOREY KINGDOM Tower, which will be the world's tallest building, has been approved by the Jeddah authorities. Jeddah's Mayor Dr. Hani Abu Ras announced that the mayoralty issued a license for constructing the tower in North Obhur. He said that the Jeddah Economic Company has received the permit, reported the Saudi Gazette. The tower will be over 1,000 meters high and the project will cover an area of 5mn sqm. The work on the project is expected to begin soon and is projected to be completed in 63 months.

■ BASRA INVESTMENT BOARD has agreed to a housing bid worth of US$107.7mn. Khalaf Badran, head of Basra Board, was reported by AK News as saying that the Iraqi Falcon Company will carry out the project which includes construction of 1,857 housing units on 227 donums in Rabet Kabir area, in Southern Iraq.

Infrastructure tenders for Bahrain’s Health Island issued TENDERS WERE SENT out for Bahrain’s US$1.6 billion Dilmunia Health Island, comprising the first of four infrastructure development phases. The tender encompasses work relating to the 125 hectare island's highways, bridges, landscaping and its power, portable water, sewerage and drainage, and telecommunications networks.

Development manager Ithmaar Development Company (IDC) has invited a selection of prequalified local, regional and international contractors to tender for the contract from more than 30 contractors bidding to be pre-qualified Concept design of Dilmunia Health Island for the job.

The successful contractor will be appointed during Q1 2012, and will be expected to fully launch its operations during Q2. Phase 1 infrastructure works will take approximately 24 months to complete, but will enable the completion of various sub-developments within the same timeframe, meaning that end-users can be handed the keys to their units by mid-2014.

Preliminary development, including dredging, reclamation and rock protection works, have already been completed.

"This first phase will include most of the work related to the island's highways, bridges, landscaping, as well as its power, portable water, sewerage and drainage, and telecommunications networks, which together add up to approximately 50% of the services of Dilmunia. It will be followed by a second package of works, expected to later in 2012, which will include the installation of the Grand Canal. Phases 2, 3 and 4 will see the completion of the Grand Canal and other infrastructure work for the remainder of the development," said Mohammed Khalil Alsayed, CEO and Board Member, IDC.

RMD Kwikform’s Paraslim comes to Oman RMD KWIKFORM HAS introduced specialist composite bridge falsework product Paraslim into the Omani construction market for the widening of the Athabia Flyover in Muscat. Having developed and utilised Paraslim across the globe, RMD Kwikform has introduced the system into the Omani market for the first time.

RMD Kwikform recognised the need for a falsework and formwork system that specialised in the construction of composite bridges in a region of the world where an ever-evolving infrastructure demands an effective, safe and efficient method of bridge construction. The introduction of Paraslim to the market effectively meets the needs of the Omani market .

Faced with the task of widening the Athabia Flyover on the Sultan Qaboos Road, a major road in Oman’s capital city Muscat, building contractors Larsen & Toubro Oman LLC approached RMD Kwikform for a solution that could meet the tight programme times and safety concerns of the project.

Commenting on the reasons for bringing Paraslim to the Middle East and its use on the Athabia Flyover project, Steve Phillips, Resident Director – Oman said: “Paraslim is ideal for this kind of bridge work where the existing flyover is widened to

accommodate an additional lane to ease the traffic flow. There is live traffic over and under the bridge and it is practically impossible to close the traffic below to put up scaffolding. Paraslim maintains simplicity in its application while overcoming complex engineering obstacles, efficiently keeping projects on time and on budget.

RMD Kwikform on the Athabia Flyover

“As well as its simplistic application and timesaving capabilities, Paraslim embodies innovation towards site safety with the ability to be preassembled offsite and only brought on site when preparations have been completed, leading to a cleaner and clearer site.”

RMD Kwikform was able to supply a bespoke Paraslim system with the ability to overcome the technical constraint of shoring the Athabia Flyover without

relying on a grounded support system that would obstruct the flow of traffic travelling underneath it while the project is underway.

RMD Kwikform Sales Engineer Bellphine Campbell commented: “For this project RMD Kwikform specially designed a brand new component to tackle the unavoidable problem of up-lift of the paraslim decking.

The Paraslim Tie Guide Channel is fixed with the Paraslim Bracket cast to prevent the uplift of the platform due to wind. We sold a solution rather than a product as using Paraslim has reduced the cost for the contractor in terms of labour, equipment, traffic diversion & time.”

The modified Paraslim falsework has been a success for the project allowing Larsen & Toubro Oman LLC to pursue the project as planned, casting the cantilever slab without the need for shoring from the ground, overcoming a major obstacle in the project through an innovative engineering solution Mr. James D’Souza – Construction Manager of Larsen & Toubro Oman commented: “The use of Paraslim has been so successful that despite its size, the Athabia Flyover development has become a showcase project in Muscat and has generated a lot of interest through Oman and the construction industry.

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ADVERTISER INDEX ADVERTISER INDEX Company ...................................................................................................Page ALAA Industrial Equipment Factory....................................................................6 Arminox Gulf FZCO .........................................................................................23 Billets Elektro Werke Limited ..........................................................................39 BME Global (WEPOWER 2012) ..........................................................................41 Cargotec Fzco ................................................................................................49 Central Power Research Institute ....................................................................29 Charlotte Pipe and Foundry .............................................................................57 China Import and Export Fair (China Fair 2012) ..................................................11 CIFA S.p.A......................................................................................................63 DiPerk Power Solutions ..................................................................................40 Domus Engineering Ltd ...................................................................................21 Doosan Infracore............................................................................................61 Expocentre Sharjah (Arabia Mold 2012) ...........................................................27 First Forever Co Ltd .........................................................................................15 FLUKE Europe B.V. ..........................................................................................59 Galva Coat for Galvanizing & Light Poles ..........................................................54 Glastech Produktionsund Verfahrenstechnik GmbH .........................................................................35 Greaves Cotton Limited ....................................................................................7 HES Hacilar Elektrik San Tic A.S (HES KABLO) ...................................................46 Himoinsa .......................................................................................................37

IFP Group Ltd (Project Qatar 2012) ...................................................................31 International Exhibition Services SRL (Buildex 2012) ....................................8, 58 IronPlanet .....................................................................................................67 JCB ................................................................................................................45 Jotun Paints U.A.E. Ltd (LLC) .............................................................................2 Kaeser Kompressoren FZE ...............................................................................33 Liebherr Export AG .........................................................................................53 Marelli Motori S.p.A........................................................................................17 Mecc Alte Limited...........................................................................................25 Messe MĂźnchen .............................................................................................13 Montgomery Libya (Infrastructure Libya 2012)..................................................65 Peri L.L.C........................................................................................................51 Peter Berghaus GmbH ....................................................................................54 Saccal Enterprises .........................................................................................44 Saudi Electric Industries Company Limited ......................................................47 Schneider Electric IT Logistic Europe ...............................................................19 Shanghai Renle Science & Technology Co., Ltd ................................................29 Success Electronics & Transformer Manufacturer .............................................39 Tiger Profiles & Insulation ................................................................................9 Volvo Penta International .................................................................................5 Welland & Tuxhorn AG ....................................................................................43 Zahid Tractor & Heavy Machinery Co Ltd...........................................................75

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‫اﻟـﺪﻛـﺘـﻮر ﻋﺒﺪ ا ﻏﻮل‪ ،‬اﻟﺮﺋﻴﺲ اﻟﺤﺎدي ﻋﺸﺮ‬ ‫ﻟﻠﺠﻤﻬﻮرﻳﺔ اﻟﺘﺮﻛﻴﺔ‪ ،‬ﻗﺎم ﻣﺆﺧﺮا ﺑﺰﻳﺎرة ”ﻣﺼﺪر“‪،‬‬ ‫ﺷﺮﻛﺔ أﺑﻮﻇﺒﻲ ﻟﻠﻄﺎﻗﺔ اﻟﻤﺘﺠﺪدة واﻟﻤﺘﻌﺪدة‬ ‫ا‪0‬وﺟـﻪ‪ ،‬وﻛـﺬﻟﻚ ﻣـﻌـﻬـﺪ ﻣﺼﺪر ﻟـﻠﻌﻠﻮم‬ ‫واﻟـﺘـﻜﻨﻮﻟﻮﺟﻴﺎ‪ ،‬اﻟﺬي ﻳﻌﺘﺒﺮ أول ﻣﺆﺳﺴﺔ‬ ‫ﻣـﺤـﻠـﻴـﺔ ﻟـﻠـﺒﺤﺚ اﻟﻌﻠﻤﻲ واﻟﺪراﺳﺎت‬ ‫اﻟـﻌـﻠـﻴـﺎ‪ .‬وﺗـﻌـﺘـﺒﺮ ﻫﺬه اﻟﺰﻳﺎرة ا‪0‬وﻟﻰ‬ ‫ﻟــﺮﺋــﻴﺲ ﺗـﺮﻛﻲ إﻟـﻰ دوﻟـﺔ ا‪A‬ﻣـﺎرات‬ ‫اﻟﻌﺮﺑﻴﺔ اﻟﻤﺘﺤﺪة ﻣﻨﺬ ﺧﻤﺴﺔ ﻋﺸﺮ ﻋﺎﻣﺎ‪،‬‬ ‫وأول زﻳـﺎرة ﻟـﻠـﺮﺋـﻴﺲ ﻏـﻮل إﻟـﻰ دوﻟﺔ‬ ‫ا‪A‬ﻣـﺎرات ﺧـﻼل ﻓـﺘـﺮة وﻻﻳﺘﻪ‪ .‬وﻳﺮى ﻓﻲ‬ ‫اﻟﺼﻮرة ﻣـﻊ اﻟـﺪﻛـﺘـﻮر ﺳﻠـﻄـﺎن أﺣﻤﺪ‬ ‫اﻟﺠﺎﺑﺮ‪ ،‬اﻟﺮﺋﻴﺲ اﻟﺘﻨﻔﻴﺬي ﻟﻤﺼﺪر‪.‬‬ ‫ﺗﻜﻨﻮﻟﻮﺟﻴﺎ اﻟﻤﻌﻠﻮﻣﺎت ﺻﺤﻔﺔ ‪٤‬‬ ‫ﺣﻤﺎﻳﺔ اﻟﺒﻴﺎﻧﺎت ﻟﻠﺸﺮﻛﺎت اﻟﺼﻐﻴﺮة واﻟﻤﺘﻮﺳﻄﺔ اﻟﺤﺠﻢ‬

‫اﻟﺘﻄﻮرات ﺻﺤﻔﺔ ‪٦‬‬ ‫إﺟﻤﺎﻟﻲ اﻟﻨﺎﺗﺞ اﻟﻤﺤﻠﻲ اﻟﺴﻌﻮدي ﻳﻈﻬﺮ أرﺑﺎﺣﺎ ﺿﺨﻤﺔ‬ ‫ا‪.‬ﻣﺎرات وﻗﻄﺮ ﺗﺘﺼﺪران اﻟﺰﻳﺎدة ﻓﻲ ﻋﺪد اﻟﺴﻜﺎن‬ ‫اﻟﻤﻨﻄﻘﺔ ﺗﻮاﺟﻪ ﻋﻘﺒﺎت ﻓﻲ اﻟﺘﻤﻮﻳﻞ‬ ‫اﻟﺤﺎﺟﺔ إﻟﻰ ﻣﻠﻴﻮﻧﻲ وﻇﻴﻔﺔ ﺟﺪﻳﺪة‬ ‫ﺗﻔﺎؤل ﻣﺼﺮي ﺑﺎﻧﺘﻌﺎش اﻗﺘﺼﺎدي‬