First
Construction
Fit-out, structure, MEP, cladding and approvals, on our own contract and with our own crews.
What we buildAbout
A new company that employs old hands
The company started in Dubai in September 2026. We are not going to dress that up, because it takes a minute to check and pretending otherwise would be the fastest way to lose your enquiry. What follows is everything else: what we do, who does it, what we will not take on, and what you can enforce against us if we get it wrong.
In one paragraph
What we are
ALS Building Contracting is a building contractor in Dubai. We take on fit-out and finishing works, building and structural works, MEP, exterior cladding, and the authority submissions that go with all of them. We work on the Dubai mainland, in the TECOM areas and in the Nakheel communities, and the approvals route differs in each.
What separates us from most firms of our size is who does the work. Twelve trades are staffed in-house rather than subcontracted: block mason, steel fixer, carpenter, plasterer, gypsum installer, tile mason, painter, electrician, plumber, HVAC technician, MEP technician and general helper.
Those crews are also the second half of the company. When a contractor or an owner needs those trades on his own site, we supply them. It is the same people, the same supervision and the same standard of work, which is the only reason we are willing to put our name on both.
ALS MANPOWER BUILDING CONTRACTING L.L.C · DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
Contractor first
Two halves of one company
ALS Manpower Building Contracting does two things, and the second one exists because of the first.
We are a building contractor. We take on fit-out, structural works, MEP, cladding and the authority submissions that go with them, and we carry out the work with crews on our own payroll rather than subcontracting each trade. That is the first half, and it is the one the company is built around.
Employing twelve trades directly means we run a standing workforce rather than assembling one per project. So when a contractor or an owner needs those trades on his own site, we supply them. Same people, same supervision, same standard, and we are willing to put our name on both because it is genuinely the same workforce.
The order matters and we are not going to blur it. We are a contractor first. The manpower side is what a contractor with its own crews can offer that a management layer cannot.
Second
Manpower
The same twelve trades, on your site instead of ours, under the same supervision.
How manpower worksTwelve on the payroll
The trades we staff ourselves
Twelve trades are on our own payroll. In build order: block mason, steel fixer and carpenter for structure and shell; plasterer, gypsum installer and tile mason for surfaces; electrician, plumber and HVAC technician for services; painter, MEP technician and general helper to finish and to keep the site moving.
The usual arrangement in Dubai is different. The contractor you sign with subcontracts each trade, takes a margin, and manages the interfaces between firms that have no relationship with each other and none with you. It works while everything goes to plan. When it does not, the delay travels down the chain and arrives at your handover date.
Where a package genuinely needs an outside specialist, we name them at the scope stage, before you sign, and they go into the contract as a named subcontractor. What we will not do is present ourselves as the builder and then introduce you to four companies you have never heard of.
Structure and shell
- Block Mason
- Steel Fixer
- Carpenter
Surfaces
- Plasterer
- Gypsum Installer
- Tile Mason
Services
- Electrician
- Plumber
- HVAC Technician
Finishing and support
- Painter
- MEP Technician
- General Helper
Decennial liability
The law gives you ten years, and we cannot sign it away
On 1 June 2026 the United Arab Emirates replaced its Civil Code. Decennial liability, which used to sit in article 880, now sits in articles 821 to 824 of Federal Decree-Law No. 25 of 2025. Anyone still quoting article 880 at you has not read the new code.
What it says: where we hold the main contract on a building, we and the engineer are jointly liable to you for ten years from handover for total or partial collapse and for defects that threaten the stability or safety of the structure. Liability does not depend on proving we were at fault. It cannot be excluded or limited by agreement, and a clause that tries to do so is void. You have three years from discovering a defect to bring a claim, and the defect has to arise inside the ten-year window.
We point at this rather than at a guarantee of our own, and the reason is worth stating. A guarantee from a company incorporated in September 2026 is worth whatever the company is worth. The statute is worth the same whoever signs the contract, and it is the floor under every conversation you have with any contractor in this country, including the ones who have been here forty years.
Two honest limits. It attaches to the main contractor, and the new code expressly leaves subcontractors out of that regime, so where we work under a main contractor on your project the chain runs through them. And it concerns structural safety and stability, not finishes. A defective tile is a defects liability period question and it belongs in your contract, which is where we put it.
The questions that do affect whether it is worth anything are whether the company still exists in year seven, whether it carries insurance, and whether there is a guarantee behind its performance. Those are the right questions to put to us, and we would rather you asked them than took our word for anything.
