From Abu Dhabi’s earliest skylines to the master plans shaping its next century, QAB has engineered the structures a region trusts. Forty-four years in, we’re still building, and there’s a great deal more ahead.
Founded in 1982 from a single office, QAB grew alongside the region it served, through boom years and quiet ones, one delivered project at a time. That kind of longevity isn’t built on a single landmark. It’s built on the thousands of ordinary decisions that keep a structure standing for decades after the ribbon is cut.
Today the practice spans eight countries and sixteen disciplines. The next chapter is already underway, and it carries the same standard the first blueprint did.
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From city-scale master plans to a single clinic extension, the same process and the same in-house team carry through.
From master planning to fire and life safety, QAB runs design and delivery in-house, so nothing is lost in translation between subcontracted specialists.
Architectural design, master planning, interiors, landscape.
Structural design, 3rd-party review, building assessment.
Mechanical, electrical, plumbing, fire & life safety, low current.
Roads, transportation planning, supervision & construction management.
We agree scope, fee and terms upfront, in writing, before a single drawing starts.
Budget, schedule and project management plan are locked before design work begins in earnest.
Concept moves through schematic and detailed design into full construction documentation, then tender.
We track progress, quality and cost against plan, and manage change without losing control of either.
Every project ends with a formal handover, a team debrief and a full archive, not just a finished building.
