Dubai Islands, near Port Rashid ... a construction technique called vibro-compaction stabilises sand and gravel, to ensure it does not shift with the tide. Huge amounts of sea sand is dredged ...

He shares the challenges behind constructing the Palm Jumeirah, Dubai’s first artificial island, and how it almost cost him his life ... Al Maktoum He searched globally for the right team to put the ...

He shares the challenges behind constructing the Palm Jumeirah, Dubai’s first artificial island, and how it almost ... project into action but it was the sand which would also throw up new ...

Dubai is one of the most beautiful cities in the world, but if you look closely, cracks start to appear. The structure of the ...

Al Marjan Island, a man-made archipelago in Ras Al Khaimah, is offering an antidote to Dubai’s frenetic energy. I was told by ...

When reading about Dubai over the years, the Palm Islands were inevitably one of the ... of dredging up 3,257,212,970.389 cubic feet of sand from the Persian Gulf and then spraying it into place ...