Bahrain to host new building show.

(From Gulf Construction)

Manama Bahrain is set to host a world-class buildings and interiors exhibition early next year, enabling the kingdom to benefit from the multi-billion-dinar construction boom in the region

The Bahrain Convention and Exhibition Bureau (BCEB) signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Bahrain-based Al Hilal Group, and dmg world media Dubai, UAE, to launch the Gulf Building and Interior Design, gulfBID 2006

Organised by Hilal Conferences & Exhibitions - a division of the Al Hilal Group - and dmg world media Dubai and supported by the BCEB, the annual event will be held at Bahrain International Exhibition Centre (BIEC). The first event will take place from May 16 to 18 next year

gulfBID fills an important gap in Bahrain's event calendar and will provide an excellent annual forum for the building, construction and interior design industries and trading companies to source for new building materials, furniture and furnishing services that are available around the world, said Industry and Commerce Ministry assistant under-secretary for Foreign Trade and BCEB deputy chairman Shaikh Daij bin Salman Al Khalifa

The event will also be an excellent annual forum for information exchange, networking and to obtain regular information on new trends and developments in the global building and construction and interiors industry, he added

The exhibition is expected to attract experts and buyers from the Northern Gulf, in particular from Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar and other fast growing economies ...