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Habtoor Leighton awarded Dhs500m contract for DIFC’s Gate Avenue

The Gate Avenue development is DIFC’s largest current project

Payments to construction firms will rise – Saudi finance minister

The construction industry has been hit hard this year by state spending cuts

Saudi Oger seeking buyers for $1bn Arab Bank stake

A small number of potential buyers from Saudi Arabia and the wider Middle East have started negotiations, sources said

Dubai’s Drake & Scull denies legal case from Saudi developer

Reports earlier this month suggested Lamar Investment and Real Estate was filing a SAR200m lawsuit against the company

Dubai builder Drake & Scull appoints new CEO

Khaldoun Tabari will continue to serve as a non-executive board member and vice-chairman

Dubai’s Drake & Scull says hopes to resolve Lamar dispute

The builder was blamed for delays to a project on Jeddah’s corniche

Saudi Binladin receives new funds to pay workers

Binladin is said to have finished paying months of back pay to 70,000 workers

Hundreds of Saudi Oger workers fly home with unpaid dues

The Pakistanis are among thousands of workers owed back pay by the troubled construction firm

Dubai’s DEWA awards contract for world’s first 3D printed lab

The lab will be used to conduct research on drones and 3D printing technology

Saudi builder Binladin says government started to pay dues

The firm was hard hit last year as low oil prices forced the government to delay payments

Dubai’s RTA confirms Bluewaters Island bridges to be ready in December

The Dhs475m bridges project is currently 85 per cent complete

Mecca mayor says no delays on pilgrimage expansion projects

The total cost of the expansion work, including both land and infrastructure, is about $100n

Construction firm Saudi Oger faces huge debt restructuring

The Saudi government has ended talks to save struggling construction firm Saudi Oger

Habtoor Leighton Group CEO released in Dubai without charge

Jose Antonio Lopez-Monis was detained by Dubai police on August 17

Dubai municipality inspecting 25,000 buildings under construction

Officials are undertaking the engineering supervision of the buildings

Dubai’s Drake & Scull says it has not hired adviser to seek investment

An earlier report claimed the contractor had asked advisers for proposals to find strategic investors

Dubai contractor Drake & Scull seeks new investors

The firm has been hit hard by an economic slowdown in the region due to low oil prices

Habtoor Leighton Group CEO arrested in Dubai

No details have been revealed about the reason for his arrest

Dubai’s Drake & Scull records Q2 net loss

DSI had reported worsening earnings in eight of the preceding nine quarters

Dubai’s Arabtec Q2 reports seventh straight quarterly loss

The contractor made a net loss of Dhs186.4m in the second quarter

Saudi Oger owes $800m to workers, banks – reports

The troubled firm has been the subject of thousands of complaints by workers

Saudi govt discussing rescue of construction company Oger

Oger has been hit hard by a slowdown in the Saudi construction sector

Saudi’s Binladin appears to have dodged financial collapse, but what next?

Facing a severe cash squeeze, it has been forced to halt work at a string of projects and lay off thousands of staff

Dubai’s Drake and Scull wins Dhs 226m contract for Iraq’s Zubair oilfield

Drake and Scull will construct a water injection network project at the Zubair oil field

Saudi Binladin seeks loan extension after Grand Mosque payment delay

The company has been hit by government spending cuts and its suspension from receiving new state contracts

Mandatory for UAE construction firms to hire Emirati health officers

The new rule will be applicable from 2017 on companies with a 500 plus workforce

Arabtec secures $109m loan from shareholder Aabar

The loan comes after the firm posted a $12.63m net loss for the first three months of the year

1,300 workers protest in Ajman following non-payment of salaries

Police forces attended the scene but no arrests were made

Saudi regulator forms interim committee to oversee builder MMG

MMG’s board quit last week when the CMA sentenced three of its executives to jail

Dubai Expo 2020 site infrastructure work to begin this summer

Major construction on the site is expected to be complete by October 2019