1150 articles on construction, property, finance and technology.
Cooling dominates energy use in Saudi buildings. The retrofit measures worth paying for, the order to take them in, and the costs that appear once work starts.
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A commissioning sheet is a set of measurements an owner can check. This example reads a real looking air balance report and shows what the numbers reveal.
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Window treatments are quoted as a fabric price and delivered as a measured, made and installed system. These are the lines that actually move the total.
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A comparison of operating inside the Cloud Computing Special Economic Zone versus a mainland Saudi setup for cloud and data centre businesses.
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Small businesses adopt software that suits large ones and abandon it. A sequence for choosing what fits.
Read MoreThe beliefs foreign owners bring to a Saudi construction appointment, tested against how a build is actually controlled, priced and supervised in the Kingdom.
Read MoreAn illustrative calculation showing how an owner moves from a list of loads to a generator rating, a UPS autonomy and an honest annual running cost.
Read MorePerceived quality comes from alignment, consistency, light and restraint, not from the price of materials. These are the beliefs behind interiors that cost a lot and read badly.
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Enclosed malls and open-air community centres compared for Saudi retail investors: demand, tenants, costs, risks and when each format wins.
Read MoreThe cost lines of a co-living or student housing project in Saudi Arabia, from design and furnishing to operations, and how to keep them under control.
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Moving a wall after first fix looks like a small change. Here is how the cost assembles once rework, sequence and delay are counted.
Read MoreTwo ways out of a joint venture disagreement explained in plain terms, with the cash, valuation and timing consequences each one creates for a foreign investor.
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