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Hill International Receives Project Management Contract for OQYANA, the First Marine Community Designed for "The World" in Dubai.


MARLTON, N.J. & DUBAI, UAE (Uninterruptible Application Error) The name given to a crash in Windows 3.0. In subsequent versions of Windows, a crash was called a "General Protection Fault," "Application Error" or "Illegal Operation." See crash in Windows and abend.  -- Hill International (Nasdaq:HINT), the worldwide construction consulting firm Noun 1. consulting firm - a firm of experts providing professional advice to an organization for a fee
consulting company

business firm, firm, house - the members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments; "he worked for a
, announced today that it has received a contract from PROMAN Project Management to provide subconsultant project management services during the design and tendering of the OQYANA World First development in Dubai, United Arab Emirates United Arab Emirates, federation of sheikhdoms (2005 est. pop. 2,563,000), c.30,000 sq mi (77,700 sq km), SE Arabia, on the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman. . The contract, initially for a term of two years, has an estimated value to Hill of approximately $8.0 million.

OQYANA World First is the first marine community destination designed for "The World", an artificial archipelago of more than 300 islands in the Arabian Gulf Arabian Gulf: see Persian Gulf.  off the coast of Dubai. OQYANA World First comprises 20 reclaimed man-made islands. It is the most luxurious community, lying closest to the mainland with the best views of Dubai. OQYANA World First will provide a chic ocean lifestyle through a mixture of sea-view luxury apartments with panoramic ocean and harbor vistas, secluded water homes linked to islands via water bridges, exquisite canal homes and beachfront beach·front  
n.
A strip of land facing or running along a beach.

adj.
Situated along or having direct access to a beach: beachfront hotels; beachfront property.

Noun 1.
 villas and mansions. For more information on OQYANA World First, please visit their website at www.oqyana.com.

"We are very excited to be part of this hallmark project," said Raouf S. Ghali, President of Hill's Project Management Group (International). "OQYANA is a tremendous milestone for The World project," Ghali added.

Hill International, with 1,500 employees in 70 offices worldwide, provides program management, project management, construction management, and construction claims services. Engineering News-Record Engineering News-Record (widely known as ENR) is a weekly magazine that provides news, analysis, data and opinion for the construction industry worldwide. It has been published since 1874. It is owned by The McGraw-Hill Companies.  magazine recently ranked Hill as the 10th largest construction management firm in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . For more information on Hill, please visit our website at www.hillintl.com.

This press release may include certain statements that fall within the definition of "forward-looking statements" under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (PSLRA) implemented several significant substantive changes affecting certain cases brought under the federal securities laws, including changes related to pleading, discovery, liability, class representation and awards fees and  of 1995. Any such statements are subject to risks and uncertainties, overall economic and market conditions, competitors' and clients' actions, and weather conditions, which could cause actual results to differ materially from those anticipated, including those risks identified in Hill's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Accordingly, such statements should be considered in light of these risks. Any prediction by Hill is only a statement of management's belief at the time the prediction is made. There can be no assurance that any prediction once made will continue thereafter to reflect management's belief, and Hill does not undertake to update publicly its predictions, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.

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