As the managing director of the DRA Group of companies, Deepak Arora’s industry experience has helped his firms land a series of lucrative contracts during an otherwise quiet period for the regional construction industry. Arora’s companies include City Diamond Contracting, MEPTech, Giant Star Trading, DRA Product Design, DRA Group, DRA Logistics, DRA International and Al Wahda Contracting. Priority lies in the company’s main projects, but each subsidiary firm is free to pursue contracts individually. This means that the parent company not only presents a formidable united front when bidding for major contracts, but its subsidiaries can compete for contracts in their specialist fields. Arora’s City Diamond Contracting is currently breaking new ground – literally – as it works on Kleindienst’s Heart of Europe project, part of Dubai’s The World archipelago project.