Hill International signed this week with Ilyas & Mustafa Galadari Group to become project managers for City of Arabia. The agreement was signed by Ilyas Galadari, Chairman of the Ilyas and Mustafa Galadari Group, Mustafa Galadari, Vice Chairman and Managing Director, and Robert Berger, Vice President Dubai operations who signed for Hill International. Ziad Khuri, Senior Project Manager, also attended.
Hill International is a leading international consulting firm that provides project management/construction management services to clients in major development projects worldwide.
Hill's services include Project Management/ Construction Management, Project Management Oversight, Troubled Project Turnaround, Project Management Support, Construction Claims Analysis, Claims Avoidance and Training.
Headquartered in Willingboro, New Jersey, Hill maintains offices in Washington, D.C, New York, N.Y, Los Angeles, Newport Beach, San Francisco, and San Diego, California; Las Vegas, N.V; Atlanta, G.A.; Philadelphia, P.A.; Tampa, FL.; London, U.K.; Athens, Greece; Doha, Qatar; Bucharest, Romania; Abu Dhabi and Dubai, U.A.E and Kuwait.
Hill has experience in the Arabian Gulf Region and our expertise is spread over several areas, such us tourism, hotels, offices, residential and commercial high rise towers, hospitals, education facilities and infrastructure.
The Ilyas and Mustafa Galadari Group is a dynamic company which was founded in 1998. The Group already owns a number of diversified companies in Dubai. The most important of these is the Ilyas and Mustafa Galadari Management Investment and Development Company, which is developing the key downtown area of Dubailand, the City of Arabia. This will be a new suburb of Dubai with around 40,000 inhabitants, which is situated on Emirates Road next to the Global Village. It will include the largest retail project in the region, and one of the largest in the world, the Mall of Arabia; a major theme-park, the Restless Planet, which will, with great realism, demonstrate the birth of our planet and the rise and fall of the dinosaurs, and which is being developed in collaboration with the Natural History Museum of London; the Elite Towers, which consist of 34 high-rise buildings for mixed commercial and residential use; and the Wadi Walk, a series of low-rise apartments alongside a flowing waterway, served by small electric water-taxis.
Sunseeker Middle East has now joined the Ilyas and Mustafa Galadari Group, who have declared their intention of increasing the market in the Gulf and Levant for yachts across the whole Sunseeker range, from 35 feet to 120 ft in length. The IMG Group is also a major player on the Dubai transport scene. It owns a large taxi-fleet, Metro Taxi, with an associated driving school, the Galadari Motor Driving Centre, and workshops, (the Metro Auto Repairing Branch), which together operate over 1100 vehicles of all descriptions. In addition the Group owns one of the largest cold stores complexes in Dubai. Ilyas and Mustafa Galadari also own a jewelry company, which deals in gems and precious stones, a kitchen equipment company, and a company which supplies upholstery to the automotive, boating and hospitality sectors, and specializes in customizing Range Rovers, Mercedes, BMWs and other luxury cars.
