HELLO AND WELCOME to February ’ s edition of Construction Global .

Our first feature this month looks at five of the key trends for the building industry in 2018 . Construction industry expert Saeed Al Abbar , of leading Dubai-based consultancy AESG and Chairman of the Emirates Green Building Council , talks us through what he expects to be the key topics and trends for 2018

Continuing with the theme of trends , we speak to Universal Electric Corporation , the manufacturer of Starline , and a global leader in power distribution equipment about the latest trends in data centre construction .

One pressing issue within the data centre industry is the tremendous amount of electricity required to power the equipment and cooling systems . We speak to Equinix , one of the world ’ s largest data centre providers , to learn more about how the company is leading the way to sustainable data centre service provision .

We also speak exclusively to a number of construction ’ s top companies about the prescient trends and pressing issues in the industry .

Alongside this , we also look at the top 10 most expensive buildings in the world .

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