Work starts on Dubai's iconic One Za’abeel tower

UAE-based Al Jaber Engineering and Contracting (Alec) said it has completed the early works including site excavation, preparatory works, shoring and piling on the site of One Za’abeel, a 36-storey mixed-use project from Investment Corporation of Dubai (ICD), and has now begun construction of a seven-floor basement. An ambitious project from ICD, the state's sovereign wealth fund, One Za’abeel is located between the Dubai World Trade Centre and Za’abeel Park. It consists of two towers (residential and commercial) linked by a suspended bridge. With a total built up area of 480,000 sq m, the two-tower, high-rise mixed-use development incorporates luxury residences, a luxury and ultra-luxury hotel, serviced apartments, office spaces, a retail podium, known as The Gallery, and a panoramic sky concourse, The Linx, that connects the two towers of One Za’abeel, said Alec, a multi-disciplinary builder with operations in Dubai and Abu Dhabi besides Oman and Qatar. One Za’abeel will consist of three separate towers that will be inter-connected at the top and will have a common podium at the base. In a first for the region, a highway will run through the development. One Za’abeel will also be in close proximity to two Metro stations. The unique complex will include a residential tower with 450 apartments, a five-star hotel tower with 370 rooms and a commercial tower offering 500,000 sq ft of office space, said the statement. The project was named One Za’abeel as it carries the address 1 Za’abeel, located strategically between the old and new business districts of Dubai on Sheikh Zayed Road,