Fairmont Hotels & Resorts Inc. is building a 300-room luxury resort with 460 vacation ownership residences. The resort is being built on be on The Palm, Jumeirah, an extensive development project on the Arabian Gulf that is currently being completed.

The Palm project, under development by Nakheel, includes The Palm, Jumeirah and The Palm, Jebel Ali, which will feature hotels, marinas, residential, leisure and entertainment facilities. Together, these man-made islands will increase Dubai's shoreline by 120 km and are expected to enhance the city's position as a premier global tourist destination. Each island is built in the shape of a palm tree and consists of a Trunk, a Crown with 17 fronds and a surrounding Crescent island. The Palm, Jumeirah measures 5 km by 5 km, with the Crescent island providing another 11 km of available land, and will feature 15-20 hotels and 6-7 marinas.

The entire Fairmont component will be located on the prime southwest side of the Trunk portion, in close proximity to the island's core features. The Fairmont Palm Hotel & Resort will feature extensive meeting space, outdoor leisure facilities including a beach club and beach restaurant, a pool complex and children's activity centre; as well as a variety of internationally themed dining facilities featuring sea, garden or pool views and a 1400 sq. m Willow Stream spa.

Rainsmart Solutions is proud to be associated with this high profile project in Dubai, where it has supplied > 25,000 sqm of 30mm Nero Cell for podium and roof garden application. When it came to choosing the 30mm Nero drainage cell product, based on the high crush strength and water retention properties far superior than other, the Client & Landscape contractor had no hesitation at all.