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Article: Dubai Pearl achieves key construction milestone.
- Article from:
- TradeArabia (Manama, Bahrain)
- Article date:
- August 31, 2009
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Byline: Dubai
Pearl Dubai, a leading real estate developer in the UAE, achieved a key construction milestone at Dubai Pearl with one of the Middle East's largest foundation rafts being installed at Tower 1 of the integrated luxury development.
Each of the four towers at Dubai Pearl will have a foundation slab 3.25 metres thick and 3,072 square meters total area. Excavation of the four towers was completed in eight months. Excavation is 8.07 meters in depth from the bottom of the raft to ground level. An elevation of five levels is to be achieved on the main structure by the end of this year.
The main construction is being undertaken by the Al ...