This story dates back to the 1960s, to that moment in time destined to forevermore be marked in the history of the world. Oil had first been discovered in Abu Dhabi in 1964, which left the soon-to-be-founded UAE with vast amounts of wealth at its doorstep. The UAE, which officially came into being in 1971 consequently witnessed a construction boom wherein, being a flat desert, everything had to be built from scratch.