Value, duration, status and the numbers that describe the build — cubic metres placed, floor cycle, snag count, slab flatness. Including the school we handed over three weeks late and paid AED 1.4 m of liquidated damages on.
Private developer · Substructure + superstructure + MEP
Height
G + 38 + roof
Concrete
46,200 m³ placed to date
Peak workforce
612
Cycle
6 days per floor
Two tower cranes, a 6-day floor cycle, and a raft pour of 4,100 m³ in a single 22-hour placement. The pour is the number worth checking on any contractor: continuous placement means no cold joint, and it takes eleven months of planning to achieve.
Education operator · Full construction, external works
Area
18,400 m² GFA
Capacity
1,450 pupils
Delay
3 weeks
LDs
AED 1.4 m, paid
Three weeks late, and we paid the liquidated damages without argument. The cause was ours — a late structural steel order for the sports hall — and it is on this page because a contractor who has never paid LDs has either never been late or never told you.
3PL operator · Design & build, PEB structure
Area
31,000 m²
Clear height
12 m
Slab
FM2 flatness, laser screed
Docks
24
A warehouse is a floor slab with a roof over it. Get the flatness wrong and the client's VNA forklifts cannot reach the top pallet — which is why the slab, not the steel, is where our attention went.
Family office · 24 villas + infrastructure
Villas
24, four typologies
Plot
9.2 ha
Snags at handover
1,180
Closed within 60 days
94%
We publish the snag count because everyone has one. Eleven hundred snags across 24 villas is normal; what matters is that 94% closed inside sixty days and the rest were tracked openly rather than argued about.
Master developer · Roads, storm water, utilities
Roads
6.4 km
Storm water
3.1 km
Live diversions
11
Downtime caused
0 hours
Eleven live utility diversions around a 132 kV DEWA feed with no outage. Infrastructure work is judged on what did not happen, which makes it impossible to photograph and easy to undervalue.
Hospitality group · Structural extension, occupied site
Keys added
88
Site status
Occupied hotel
Noisy works
10:00 – 16:00 only
Complaints
0 logged
Building next to paying guests means a six-hour noisy-works window and a programme that assumes it. Contractors who price this like an empty site lose money in month three and start asking for variations.