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Sweeping Stories From UAE |
Ranger Kidwell-Ross, our webmaster and Editor of WorldSweeper.com, has made trips to Asia, Australia and Europe to provide news of how pavement sweeping is done in some of the countries around the world. The Asia portion of this travelogue won an APEX Award of Excellence in Online Journalism for 2002, while the European travelogue won an Apex Grand Award for 2004.
This WorldSweeper.com section on UAE was first developed via contacts visiting in that country. |
Table of Contentsposted in December 2025Waterless Chinese Sweeper Trucks Chosen to Cut Dust in Arid UAE RegionsDue to the country's arid climate, air quality maintenance in the UAE, is deemed critical. That's the reason given for the UAE's purchase a total of 42 waterless street sweepers from Chinese-based CSCTRUCK Municipal. This deployment – immediately operational across Abu Dhabi, Dubai, and Al Ain – confronts the 1.8 million tons of annual aeolian dust plaguing urban centers, where particulate concentrations exceed WHO safety thresholds by 230% during summer wind events. Read the story.posted in June 2010 Keeping Abu Dhabi's Pavement CleanAbu Dhabi, in the United Arab Emirates, has an image of being extremely clean, a reputation that includes its roadway system. This is somewhat surprising, given that most countries and their cities in that part of the world have massive sweeping difficulties since they are sited on sand and are surrounded by sand. Add to that scorching temperatures, high winds and the dust they create, and the result is all the right ingredients to make a sweeping program into a difficult task.Phileas Fogg, our globe-trotting WorldSweeper.com correspondent, interviews Tony Moran and Dan Ponder from Golder Associates, a global engineering consulting company. These two gentlemen, who are contract managers to the Abu Dhabi Centre of Waste Management, tell how they accomplish the task. Read the story.
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