The project idea and the design of the palm islands was conceived by the prince of dubai himself. The main objective behind this was to increase tourism to increase revenue as the oil reserves are getting depleted at a very fast rate.
The project was handed over to the nakheel properties which is a government owned real estate developing corporation and was given a time period of 4 years by the prince.
The Nakheel corporation further hired the key persons that were involved in the process of construction were
Robert Berger who was appointed as the project manager.
Mounir Haidar was hired as the team’s chief of planning. Scott Hutchinson was hired as the Apartment Construction Engineer.
Hill International was the first outside international consultant to be approached as he was familiar with mega projects of a similar scale.