For Middle Eastern contractor ALEC, casino construction is a new specialism.
Although the engineering and contracting specialist has built plenty of luxury hotel resorts, museums and theme parks across the UAE, until late last year, like most construction firms in the Gulf, where large-scale gambling has been outlawed for decades, gaming facilities were absent from its projects list.
But in November 2023 all that changed when ALEC, which is part of the Investment Corporation of Dubai, won the main contract to build the country’s first gaming resort in the northern emirate of Ras Al Khaimah.
The Wynn Al Marjan Resort, located on a man-made archipelago of four islands off the coast of RAK, will be run by Nevada-headquartered casino operator Wynn Resorts.
