Author: Paromita Dey

Dubai headquartered Beaver Gulf Contracting is part of Beaver Gulf Group, with diversified interests in Real Estate, Project Management, Construction, Interior Decoration, Hospitality and Education across the region. The company is a Turn Key Contractor with full-fledged in house Civil, Electro mechanical, air conditioning, steel Construction, joinery, aluminium, signage and cladding divisions. Beaver specialises in the construction of multi storied commercial and residential buildings, hospitals & telecom buildings, electrical substation buildings, warehouse complexes, LPG filling plant & bulk storage facility, and all other types of turnkey projects in UAE, Middle East and India. Clients: Town Square villa development, Dubai…

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Dar Alarkan is a real estate development company in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, specialising in residential real-estate and the development of master-planned lifestyle residential communities offering developed land parcels, apartments and villas. Based in Riyadh, Dar Al-Arkan was established in 1994 by six prominent business families with significant real estate development experience in response to the increasing demand for quality housing from the rapidly growing Saudi population. From July 2002 to January 2004, Dar Al-Arkan operated as a limited liability company with a capital base of $37mn. The company increased its capital to $1.44bn through a private placement in…

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The significant growth in Saudi Arabia and the region in general has given rise to a niche category of specialised and experienced companies, complementing this growth; Sumou Real Estate is the product of this development and aspiration. Inspired by its founder Ayedh Bin Farhan Al Qahtani, Sumou Real Estate is on course to be one of the region’s leading devlopers. Al Qahtani follows in the footsteps of his father who had a reputation as a leading businessman in Saudi Arabia after founding one of the largest contracting companies in the Kingdom in the 1950s. Within the company’s plans to enhance…

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With an engineering background, Faizal Kottikollon’s journey of success began when he came to the UAE in 1995 to set up his first business – Al Ahamadi General Trading in Ajman. The chairperson and founder of KEF Holdings started a foundry called Emirates Techno Casting (1997) in Sharjah, primarily manufacturing valves for the oil and gas industry. With time, Faizal invested in cutting edge technology and developed processes that were never used in the valve manufacturing business before. ETC went on to become one of the top three foundries in the world. It expanded until it was sold in 2012…

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Greg Kane was recently promoted to head the Middle East division of leading consultant WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff, replacing Tom Bower as managing director. As he approaches a decade in Dubai, the 39-year-old Dubliner spoke to Jason O’Connell about completing the integration of the newly merged company, while managing the challenges and opportunities presented by a regional construction market in a state of flux. Congratulations on the recent promotion. Was it unexpected? Not entirely. I was recruited three years ago to join the old WSP as operations director. There was always a succession plan of sorts but succession planning doesn’t…

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