RMD Kwikform has introduced specialist composite bridge falsework product Paraslim into the Omani construction market for the widening of the Athabia Flyover in Muscat.

Saudi Arabia hassigned 16 contracts worth more than US$600mn for the construction of 969 km of roads in various parts of the Kingdom.

Bauer International is working on building a tunnel at Nation Towers, in Abu Dhabi, which will go under the existing Corniche Road and will link the shopping complex and other components to a purpose built beach club.

Sezai Turkes-Feyzi Akkaya (STFA), a Turkish construction company, was awarded a major road construction contract worth US$305mn in Oman.

Atlas Copco Group recently created a fourth business area, Construction Technique, that will enable the company to intensify the focus on construction customers and products and to optimise the synergies between its construction-related divisions.