MEP works in Dubai: electrical, plumbing and AC

What the work covers

Electrical, plumbing and air-conditioning works inside an apartment or a villa: the part of a renovation nobody photographs and everybody lives with. We carry out MEP within our building contracting and finishing trades, which include plumbing and electrical fittings. What belongs to the building — risers, meters, the utility connection — or needs a specialist approval is arranged with the developer or the building management, and we coordinate their approved contractor rather than replace him.

Electrical and lighting

• New distribution boards, cabling and circuits sized to a calculated load
• Lighting design: general, accent and decorative light on separate circuits
• Sockets and switches placed for the furniture layout, not for the bare room
• Smart home, dimming, motorised curtains, audio and network cabling

Plumbing and drainage

• Replacement of water supply and drainage pipework
• Relocation of bathrooms and kitchens where the building allows it
• Waterproofing with a flood test before tiling
• Concealed mixers, wall-hung sanitary ware, walk-in showers

Air conditioning and ventilation

• Relocation and replacement of fan coil units and ducting
• Linear slot diffusers instead of standard square grilles
• Access hatches hidden in the ceiling design
• Balancing and commissioning after installation

What we agree with you before the walls close

• Where the bed, the sofa, the desk and the television stand: that decides the sockets, not the empty room
• How each room is lit, and which fittings come on together as one scene
• Switch positions, heights and groupings at every door
• Where the indoor units, return air paths and diffusers sit, and where the access hatches end up
• Taps, shower positions, falls to the drains and every height in the bathrooms
• What stays: a board, a pipe or an AC unit in good condition is not replaced to pad a quotation

Coordination with the building

A tower sets its conditions before anything starts: approval of the fit-out, permitted working hours, the route materials may take, a booked service lift, and notice for anything touching sprinklers, smoke detectors or the building's air conditioning. In a villa community the rules are lighter but just as real. We handle that correspondence and keep the site to those hours.

Done before the finishes

Every route goes on the drawings before the walls are closed, is photographed before the ceilings go up and is tested before the finishes start: pressure on the pipework, a flood test on the waterproofing, checks on the circuits. That is why the sequence never changes — services first, then closing up, then finishes and joinery.

After the handover you keep the as-built drawings and the photographs of the open walls, so any electrician or plumber who comes later knows what is inside them. You can see what that planning buys in the apartment in Azure on Saadiyat Island: the linear diffusers sit inside the ceiling design instead of on top of it.

The estimate and the free site visit

The site visit costs nothing. We look at the distribution board, the existing pipework, the AC units and the ceiling void, and tell you what has to be replaced and what can stay. The itemised estimate then gives every circuit, point, unit and run of pipe its own line, so you can compare it with another offer instead of weighing up two lump sums called MEP.

The work runs inside a renovation or on its own, in Dubai and Abu Dhabi: a villa may need new air conditioning without touching the interior.