Whats a very rough price for a parking lot of 30,000 Sqft. Just now the land is unused sand. So it have to be dug out etc etc.

Thanks Chris

Any plot of unused sand can be turned into a working car park for the amazing price of zilch, zippo, squat by simply driving upon said sand.

It is a little known fact about a grain of sand that it has an amazing ability to act in unison with other grains of sand and so on and so forth until it becomes a solid base unto which vehicles of many tonnage can be driven upon with very little trouble whatsoever.

* The above advice has not been approved for Dubai Municipality Building Permit Department submission purposes.

In that case, I'll have two, please.

I know of a company (from Pakistan) who are brilliant at civil engineering, here is a small example of the high levels of professionalism they display for any and all projects:

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=276075395927223

on the contrary Dr. Watson, if said vehicle is parked on said piece of land with said particles of sand, the RTA will probably either fine the said vehicle or have it towed. One has to pay through every orifice for everything as long as one is living in do-buy

Here's some info, from the UK in 2006 (prices won't have changed much since then - COPI has been relatively flat since the 2007 crash, but I'd add +20% weighting for the Middle East).

What's wrong with that?

I'd rather things were done the right way rather than the Dubai way. Yes am aware compact the sand and all will be fine but really not the way i'm trying to go with the project


Yeah, I wont be calling them. But thanks for the heads up in case they try and quote.


Much appreciated will have a read through and see what i can make sense of.

Chris

A typical Client !! Total lack of any Specification.
When the car park ends up being 3 basements, and 5 elevated floors, half with electric vehicle charging facilities, state of the art automatic barriers and charging systems and the contractor puts his bill in, the Client will say but you should have known that this was what was required. Your not getting any extra.

Show us your drawings then we give you an estimate..

All i want is a flat surface of approx 30,000Sq Ft, no less no more!!

Flat surface of what? Sand, gravel, tarmac, grass? Do you want it edged? Should it be drained, if so what sort of drainage? Entry & exit lanes, signage?
I guess you've never written requirements

oh gawd, no more talk of drainage please! worked with some boys out of belfast making an airport runway, they were ALWAYS talking about drainage and pipes and bloody bichumen!
5 years of such exciting conversations and now I get excited watching the grass grow ffs!

you're all focusing on the surface: No one has asked it is covered or uncovered.

a more pertinent initial question might be where?

and when