Tower cranes standing over a structure at first light

Civil & infrastructure · Dubai since 2004

Ground work for buildings that outlast us.

Earthworks, deep utilities, marine and structural civils for developers and authorities across the Emirates.

21
years of continuous operation
6.2m m³
earth moved and reconciled
AED 7.1b
civil works delivered

Our practice

Civil work is judged years after the ribbon is cut.

So we build for the survey, not for the photograph —

levels recorded, volumes reconciled, ground left honest.

Two engineers checking setting-out over a rebar deck

The yard was founded in 2004 by three engineers who were tired of watching bulk digs settle into claims. Two decades on, we still self-perform every trade we sell, and we still walk every site before we price it.

486
Engineers, foremen and operators on payroll
9
Authority frameworks currently held
112
Machines owned and maintained in-house
6.2m m³
Earth moved since 2004
410 km
Pipeline and utility corridor laid
98%
Packages closed without a claim

Capability

Five disciplines, all self-performed.

Nothing on this list is sublet to a crew we met at tender. The people who price it are the people who build it.

01

Earthworks

Earthworks

Bulk excavation to 18 metres with GPS machine control, dewatering, shoring and a volume reconciliation issued every week.

  • Bulk cut & fill
  • Dewatering
  • Weekly reconciliation
02

Deep utilities

Deep utilities

Storm, foul and irrigation networks laid through live roads, with trenchless crossings where a diversion would close a lane.

  • Sewer to 12 m
  • Trenchless crossings
  • CCTV as-built
03

Marine & piling

Marine & piling

Quay walls, revetments and rotary bored piles to 1500 mm, tested for integrity before a single cap is poured.

  • Quay & revetment
  • Bored piles
  • Load testing
04

Structural civils

Structural civils

Substructures, basements and industrial slabs finished to tolerance, with our own steel fixers and formwork crews.

  • Basements
  • FM2 slabs
  • In-house formwork
05

Enabling works

Enabling works

Demolition, crushing and site clearance sequenced so the main contractor inherits a level, permitted, ready platform.

  • High-reach demolition
  • On-site crushing
  • Permit handover

Selected work

Three jobs, and what made each one difficult.

Jebel Ali berth extension

01Jebel Ali · 2025

620 metres of quay, built around a working port.

Sheet piling and revetment delivered in night windows while three berths stayed operational, with marine traffic coordinated shift by shift.

Jebel Ali berth extensionGulf Port Authority

Quay length
620 m
Sheet piles driven
1,840
Programme
26 months
Dubai South parcel 14

02Dubai South · 2026

1.8 million cubic metres, surveyed layer by layer.

A bulk dig through cemented sand with four metres of ground water, handed to the main contractor eleven days ahead of the platform date.

Dubai South parcel 14Northline Developments

Excavated
1.8m m³
Peak haulage
34 trucks
Handover
11 days early
Marasi basement & podium

03Business Bay · 2024

Three basements under a live boulevard.

Secant piled walls, top-down excavation and a podium raft poured in eight continuous hours, with the boulevard above open throughout.

Marasi basement & podiumMarasi Developments

Basement depth
16.4 m
Raft pour
4,100 m³
Road closures
None

Method

How a job runs from first call to defects.

The same four phases on a 30-million dirham dig and on a two-week enabling package.

  1. I

    Walk the ground

    Before a rate is offered, an engineer stands on the plot with the soil report and the survey. Assumptions get written down where you can see them.

  2. II

    Price the risk

    Ground water, obstructions, access hours and disposal routes are priced as named items, not buried in a preliminaries line.

  3. III

    Build to survey

    Every layer is set out and recorded. Volumes are reconciled weekly, so quantities are agreed while the machines are still on site.

  4. IV

    Hand over clean

    As-builts, test certificates and permits issued on the day of handover, with a named engineer on call through the defects period.

Sparks from a cutting disc on structural steel

Assurance

Safety, certified and audited — then checked again on site.

Our record is the reason procurement teams shortlist us, and the reason our operators stay for a decade.

0.21
LTIFR, rolling twelve months
11.4m
Man-hours without a fatality
312
Supervisors NEBOSH or IOSH certified
4
Independent audits each year
  • ISO 9001:2015
  • ISO 14001:2015
  • ISO 45001:2018
  • DM Grade 1
  • RTA framework
  • Trakhees registered
They priced the ground water instead of hoping about it. Twenty-six months later there was nothing left to argue over.
Head of Delivery · Gulf Port Authority

Enquiries

Tell us about the ground.

A drawing set is welcome but not required. An engineer will call within two working days, and we will walk the plot before quoting.

Office
Boulevard Plaza 2, Downtown Dubai

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