Key Facts
- Client: EMAAR Properties
- Balfour Beatty company involved: Dutco Balfour Beatty Group and Balfour Beatty Management
- Balfour Beatty has been working in Dubai with its partner, the Dubai Transport Company (Dutco), since 1977
- In 2004, the Dubai Mall joint venture, formed of Dutco Balfour Beatty and partner Al Ghandi /CCC, was awarded the £400 million contract to build the Burj Mall retail development, the world’s biggest shopping centre, in Dubai
- It will incorporate 1.3 million square metres of shopping space over four floors and will include one of the world’s largest aquariums
- It is anticipated that the mall will attract 50,000 customers at peak times
- The Burj Mall and the Burj Dubai, the world’s tallest tower, will together form the heart of a major new complex, Downtown Burj, being developed by EMAAR Properties
- Balfour Beatty Management is supporting the project with tenant fit out and co-ordination, and the delivery of specific packages of works
