You are right; further construction delays can be seen in the majority of projects across Dubai. It is very understandable in developments like 'The Palm', where new construction ideas & technology are being use to recreate new land in the sea.

What I cannot understand is why developers in say The Lighthouse don't come clean with their investors, with the reasons behind all the delays. When you witness the construction of JBR, the multiple towers have gone from ground preparation work to huge towers in not much more than 12 months. In comparison TLH has taken 10 months to dig one hole & start laying foundations.

As a general comment I think the take up of development across Dubai has been so rapid, it has caught the control/design people & systems 'on the hop'. There is now a lot of retrospective planning being introduced, like the news of several new road junctions & schemes to link the various projects together. To an observer it was very obvious the existing road network could not accommodate the planned projects & expected population growth.