The Abu Dhabi Midfield Terminal and the Dubai Opera House have won global construction awards at the recently held Tekla Global BIM Awards
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Saudi Arabia to build Red Sea bridge to Egypt

The proposed name of the bridge is King Salman bin Abdel Aziz Bridge. (Image source: CSongar Varga/sxc.hu)
Saudi Arabia?s King Salman Abdul Aziz has announced a plan to build a bridge over the Red Sea between Egypt and the Kingdom with the aim to boost trade exchange
Construction of housing units rises by 50 per cent in Saudi Arabia

Real estate off-plan sales projects have achieved solid growth during 2015. (Image Source: Richard Messenger/Flickr)
Saudi Arabia?s Ministry of Commerce and Industry (MCI) has announced that there has been a 50 per cent increase in the construction of housing units in the Kingdom in 2015
Atlas Copco appoints distributor in Iraq
Atlas Copco has appointed a new distributor ? Merkez Al-Madina for Machinery and Equipment Trading Company ? to boost business in Iraq
KSA and UAE eye US$3bn Suez industrial city in Egypt

The industrial city would have factories to manufacture various products, including food and cars. (Image source: Cycling man/Flickr)
A consortium of Saudi Arabia and UAE companies has expressed interest in setting up a giant industrial city in the Suez region of Egypt at an investment of US$3bn