Uploaded on 2014-10-15 by EAlarilla

[1]: https://edxuploads.s3.amazonaws.com/14133986843734236.jpg The photograph is taken at the back of the Dubai downtown. Construction never seemed so easy when it comes to building in Dubai. Evolution of the landscape in this city has been on the fast track for 30 years now and still rapidly growing. It is truly one of the best examples of a city with a heavy global economy input. Trying to define the local activity can be tricky. Construction activity is heavily reliant on imports of materials as well as manpower. As a rule of thumb, only around 10-20% is truly localized here. The remaining have become localized through time, but still started as foreign entities on the city. The emirate of Dubai is low on natural resources and wouldn't be able to produce building materials on its own. It relies heavily on the resources of neighboring emirates of Sharjah, where most factories are located, Abu Dhabi, and even within the GCC. Equipments such as cranes are mostly from Europe and Asia, China being one of the biggest material supplier to the city. Overtime, it has geared towards sustaining it's construction sector by producing the primary building materials such as Concrete and Steel. However, Stones, tiles, furniture, equipments are still imported from outside the country. Not to mention that all the skilled laborers are also imports, even around 90% of the construction professionals are expats. We could really see the globalization aspect of the construction processes very evident here, and most of the GCC countries. It has been somewhat helpful in the sustaining of the balance in the world economy by providing 'better opportunities' to the countries affected by the economic downturn. However, the way they achieved this is somewhat questionable in the sustainability aspect. One has to wonder, if the carbon footprint in Dubai, is even measurable.