about
UCI
Union Construction and Investment (UCI) is one of the largest and most innovative real-estate development companies and social-impact investors in Palestine with over $48M AUM. Established in 2005, UCI has changed the culture of Palestine’s residential and commercial development.
UCI has constructed landmark buildings including the Energy Globe Award winning and environmentally-friendly UCI Headquarters Building in the Masyoun Heights of Ramallah, the Arcadia Residential Complex, and the Etihad Villas, a 62 semi-detached villa housing project – a first of its kind for the Ramallah community. In addition, UCI has recently sold out of its 64 unit Masyoun Gardens 1 building and has launched its new Masyoun Gardens 2. Moreover, UCI has created one of the most popular real-estate projects in Palestine, TABO – a project that revolutionized the real-estate market in the West Bank by creating title deeds in unregistered areas and making new affordable lands available. A highly ethical project, TABO has helped protect over 1 million square meters of Palestinian land from Israeli settlement expansion. Finally, since 2011, UCI has outperformance all publically listed competitors in the real-estate market in Palestine.
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Who
We Are
UCI was a coming together of a group of distinguished international business leaders, underpinned with decades of experience and united by a vision of an established and prosperous Palestine.
Established in 2005, with head offices in Ramallah, Palestine, UCI embarked on a mission to advance the development of Palestine. Bringing together international and local investors, UCI has grown to be one of the country’s largest and most reputable real-estate development and investment companies.
Our management team combines experience, talent, and an unwavering belief that we can do “better”: a better home, a better city, a better workplace, a better environment, a standard of living, a better world.
Leadership
CEO & Vice Chairman, UCI
Khaled Sabawi is an award winning Canadian serial-entrepreneur who has successfully founded and continues to lead multiple unique international businesses in the fields of renewable energy, real-estate, and investment.
Khaled’s businesses include MENA Geothermal, a green energy start-up and two-time recipient of the Energy Globe Award, that grew to install the largest geothermal system in the Middle East at the American University in Jordan. UCI-TABO, a social-impact company with over 1,500 shareholders, expands property rights in developing economies and has led its national real-estate market for the last 5 years.
As CEO of UCI-TABO, Khaled manages over 30 employees and over $40M in assets.
Khaled is a graduate of the University of Waterloo’s Computer Engineering Program where he was recently awarded the Young Alumni Achievement Medal. Khaled’s Executive Education includes the Harvard John F. Kennedy School’s Global Leadership and Public Policy for the 21st Century Program and the Oxford Said Business School’s Leadership at the Edge Program.
Khaled is a former TEDx speaker and has lectured about entrepreneurship at Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, McGill University, and the University of Toronto.
Awards and Distinctions:
Selected as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.
Awarded prestigious Young Alumni Achievement Medal from the University of Waterloo’s Faculty of Engineering in Canada.
Featured on the cover of Forbes Middle East with “Industry of the Impossible” caption and feature article titled “The Good Deed”.
Awarded Young Entrepreneur Award by the Takreem Initiative in Paris, France.
Two-time recipient of the Energy Globe Award , World Energy Globe Award for Sustainability.
Named "One of the World's Top Energy Entrepreneurs" by Global Post.
Board
of Directors
A well-known businessman with more than 40 years of experience in administrating commercial businesses and development projects in the Arab Gulf, Canada and Palestine.
A well-known businessman in the real estate development field and an expert in underground thermal energy in the MENA region.
She has a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Ain Shams University in Egypt in 1973 and she is a member of the Board of Directors of Al Ahlia Insurance Group
A well-known lawyer with long and distinguished experience in various fields of law, he is the founder and managing partner of Ittqan Consulting Services, one of the largest law firms and legal consultation in Palestine.
A well-known businessman in Palestine, Mr. Awadallah is the Chairman of Baraka Insurance among many other businesses in Palestine.
Having served as Executive Director of the Business Women Forum (BWF) in Palestine for 15 years and currently works as an independent expert in entrepreneurship, focusing on enhancing women's leadership roles in business in Palestine.
What
We build
Over the past 13 years, UCI has changed the market and, indeed, the culture of residential and commercial development in Palestine. Our Etihad Villas is the first complete residential community in Palestine providing residents with unique designs, complete amenities, and excellent finishing. Our award-winning UCI Headquarters Building is a Ramallah landmark and is the city’s most desired commercial address; the Arcadia Residence is the newest addition to Ramallah’s prestigious Masyoun area. In addition, UCI has recently sold out of its 64 unit Masyoun Gardens 1 building and has launched its new Masyoun Gardens 2.
How
We Build
At UCI, we are constantly searching for a better way to build. We utilize the latest in construction methodology and materials, and have been pioneers in the area of sustainable construction in the Middle East region. We employ ideas as simple as proper insulation, and as ambitious as the LEED certification in our commercial buildings.
In fact, through our award-winning subsidiary company, MENA Geothermal, we have installed energy saving geothermal heating & cooling systems in each of our residential and commercial projects.
Excecutive
Team
