CONTENTS
42 42 IN THE FIELD Niall McLoughlin, senior vice president of communicATION at Damac Properties, discusses the company’s first masterplan project and how it will be a sought-after destination in the region
46 REAL ESTATE Construction Business News ME analyses the current state of the residential market in UAE’s capital
48 PROJECT REVIEW As Cayan Group’s high-end project, CMC, in Riyadh officially
breaks ground, Construction Business News ME speaks with president and chairman Ahmed Alhatti
50 SUSTAINABILITY With the recent launch of Emirates Green Building Council’s
retrofit guidelines, this feature analyses how buildings could be made more sustainable and how companies could save on massive energy spending
54 Q&A Eng. Khaled Awad, chair and founder of Advanced Construction Technology Services talks about how international standards act as a collation of industry knowledge used as a reference for the construction industry in the Middle East
60 FACILITIES MANAGEMENT Multi-billion dollar construction projects lead to multi-
billion dollar FM contracts. But how should the facilities management sector evolve?
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24 As CEO of one of the first energy management consultancies in the UAE, Samuel Lehain sheds light on how developers can reduce chiller costs
56 Shivram Mukherjee analyses the North Africa’s resources and its potential to embrace renewables
58 As architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) firms
prepare for upcoming BIM mandates, Louay Dahmash writes about the ways to transition your business into one that is BIMfriendly
62 Vasanth Kumar writes about how the uncontrolled appetite for higher revenue growth amidst volatile market conditions may pose serious risks to contractor
64 SAVE THE DATE 66 EDITOR’S PICK 4 construction business news me AUGUST 2015
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