After a delay lasting years, work is finally set to resume this month on Amman’s Jordan Gate. But critics of the controversial mega project still question whether it should have left the drawing board. By Laith Abou-Ragheb Work on the…
It’s only been up and running for around a year, but Aqaba’s LNG terminal has already proved itself indispensable to Jordan’s vital energy diversification drive. By Dina al Wakeel With several renewable energy projects under construction and a nuclear plant…
What’s happening? According to Al Ghad, the price of steel in Jordan dropped 23 percent to JD385 per ton in the first 10 months of the year, compared to the same period in 2014. The declining cost of the metal in…
Jordan has signed multimillion dollar funding deals for a wide array of new infrastructure projects. But not everyone is happy about who gets to build them. Jordan has inked more than $600 million worth of funding agreements in recent months,…
What should become of the half-finished real http://latana.ca/fiu-training-in-using-web-cam/ estate megaprojects that still litter Amman’s landscape from the heady boom days of the mid-noughties? Studio X Amman, the Jordanian branch of Columbia University’s global network of architecture and urban planning research…
The head of Jordan’s contractors association says his members are starting to suffer due to a downturn in their sector. By Dina Al Wakeel According to the Department of Statistics, the number of building licenses issued during the first five…
A growing number of international construction firms, particularly from China, are lining up to invest in the Gulf region’s trillion-dollar real estate sector, according to Deloitte. With $2.8 trillion worth of projects planned or ongoing in the Gulf Cooperation Council…
These are exciting times for MENA’s online industry. Traditional sectoral investors are starting to worry about the impact of low oil prices, a potential slowdown in construction and real-estate, and eroding margins in telecom and banking. On the other hand,…
This feature is part of a series highlighting some of the most prominent Jordanian businesswomen who managed to climb to the top of the corporate ladder in their respective fields in the Kingdom. Founder and Principal Architect at Maisam Architects and Engineers Meisa Batayneh…
Lamudi’s Khaled Anabtawi believes 2015 is shaping up to be another strong year for Jordan’s real estate sector. By Elisa Oddone Jordan’s real estate market, which makes up around 5 percent of the Kingdom’s GDP, seems to be in good…