'Lego Big 5' logo unveiled.Byline: Dubai As the doors to The Big 5, the leading international building and construction exhibition in the Middle East, get ready to open on Monday Monday: see week. , a "Big 5" logo constructed from Lego has been unveiled at Convention Gate in Dubai World Trade Centre. Keen to encourage the future generation of construction engineers, The Big 5 worked with Lego and Year 2 children from Horizon School to build the 2m x 1.5m Big 5 logo from over 40,000 Lego bricks. Reflecting the multi-national reach of The Big 5 show, Horizon children from a variety of nationalities from across the GCC GCC: see Gulf Cooperation Council. (compiler, programming) GCC - The GNU Compiler Collection, which currently contains front ends for C, C++, Objective-C, Fortran, Java, and Ada, as well as libraries for these languages (libstdc++, libgcj, etc). and globally were involved in the 3-day build of The Lego Big 5. The Big 5 Exhibition, which runs till November November: see month. 26 in Dubai, will feature over 3,000 exhibitors, ranging from major global suppliers to regional agents and distributors, along with 52 National Pavilions from all major exporting countries. Paula Al Chami, event director of The Big 5, organised by dmg world media, said, 'We loved the idea of bringing together tomorrow's construction engineers with today's construction industry and working with Lego, as one of the world's leading manufacturers of building play materials, was the perfect way to do this.' 'The children took on the job of constructing the Lego Big 5 sculpture with great enthusiasm. I should like to thank Lego for their support in this project in addition to the children at Horizon School for helping us build it! It looks fantastic and everyone should come and see it for themselves at Convention Gate!' Anil Shahani, from Whitebird Trading, the sole distributer Dis`trib´u`ter n. 1. One who, or that which, distributes or deals out anything; a dispenser. Noun 1. distributer - someone who markets merchandise distributor of Lego in the Middle East, said this is the first time a project of this kind has been taken on by Lego. 'The key for us is that children have fun whilst learning, and the idea of children constructing The Big 5 logo appealed to us, because of the importance of the construction industry in the UAE,' he noted.- TradeArabia News Service Copyright 2008 www.tradearabia.com Copyright 2009 Al Hilal Publishing & Marketing Group Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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