Expo 2020 Dubai - recent updates

Despite Covid-19 there has been no slowdown in construction of the stunning selection of buildings and public areas at the Expo 2020 Dubai site, designed by the world’s top ‘starchitects’.

In an interview to Property Weekly, chief development and delivery officer of Expo 2020 Dubai, Ahmed Al Khatib updates about all that’s happening at the site.

He said that more than 220 million work hours have been completed so far, with work this year focusing on landscaping and fit-out of Expo-owned buildings.

He said, “We have also started to install signage, wayfinding and road markings, and are continuing to landscape the public realm, with hundreds of thousands of plants, shrubs and trees. In total, more than 340 different species have been chosen, many of which are native to the region”.

“We are working closely with our international participants as many of the country pavilions now reach construction completion. This includes, for example, Norway, which was the first pavilion to be completed and be awarded a Building Completion Certificate. Finland is also one of the most advanced, along with Austria, which announced it completed the external structure of its pavilion in September”, he added.

Al Wasl Plaza, the iconic centrepiece of the site, was crowned in September last year and inaugurated in January. The final finishing touches to the plaza area and public realm will be added closer to the start of the mega-event.