James L. Williams was one of the largest and the most experienced services contractors established in Australia, having been established in 1875.
JLW started with general plumbing and street lighting (gas lighting), throughout time completed a lot of Australian projects, including first air-conditioned building, first 6 star Green-star building with ESD standard, airports, Pixel building achieved the highest LEED rating amongst 44,000 buildings worldwide.
The Middle East operation was started in the United Arab Emirates in 2008. Today the operation continues an aggressive and steady expansion in the Middle East, Africa and South East Asian Region.
A key factor to JLW Middle East’s success is its engineering capabilities, and ability to deliver. JLW Middle East niche is its engineering expertise; this combined with the ability to deliver a high quality installation has set JLW apart from the contracting market in the Middle East.
In a short time, JLW Middle East has successfully delivered the electro-mechanical works for shopping centres, medical centres, commercial developments, hospitals and data centres.
JLW has an impressive collection of high profile projects that are completed and an array of projects in the pipeline. These projects are based in the UAE, mainly Dubai and Abu Dhabi. Currently JLW are working on WAFI Hotel Complex & Mall Expansion with MKM Commercial Holdings, Expo – Sustainability District with Al Futtaim Carillion for Expo 2020, Masdar Neighbourhood Housing 2 with Six Construct for Mubadala, ICD Brookfield Place with Multiplex Ssangyong JV for ICD Brookfield, Al Maryah Central with Multiplex for Gulf Related, Bluewaters Development with Multiplex for Meraas, The Dubai Mall – Za’abeel Expansion with Dutco Construction for Emaar Properties.
