Concrete block price in the UAE: hollow, solid and thermal blocks

Published block rates, checked 28 October 2026

The table keeps every UAE block figure printed on a page opened for this guide. QS Mind’s market day is 28 October 2026, and each row has its own checked date. Its 6 inch hollow block is 400 × 200 × 150 mm at AED 4.30, a Dubai factory price for a truckload of 1,296 blocks, excluding 5% VAT, checked 21 October 2026. Its 8 inch hollow block is 400 × 200 × 200 mm at AED 4.50, truckload 1,080, the same VAT line and the same checked date. Ducon Industries, on 800blocks.ae, prints 6 inch hollow at 400 × 150 × 200 mm, AED 4.30 each, 1,296 per truck, truck total AED 5,572.80, and 8 inch hollow at 400 × 200 × 200 mm, AED 4.50 each, 1,080 per truck, truck total AED 4,860.00. The page does not state VAT or delivery, and it does not print a price date. The matching dirhams are shown beside each other and are not averaged, because the VAT lines do not match.

A shop price and a parity rate are different rows. FEPY lists Hard Block Factory hollow block at AED 6.49 excluding VAT and AED 6.81 including VAT for both 6 inch and 8 inch, and AED 5.99 excluding VAT and AED 6.29 including VAT for 4 inch. GCCPricing’s UAE rows are reference parities, supply only, last updated 26 October 2026: AED 5.70 for hollow 150 mm, AED 6.40 for hollow 200 mm, AED 6.80 for solid 150 mm and AED 7.80 for solid 200 mm. The governance note says UAE figures are calibrated parities, not a verified merchant survey. Turner & Townsend prints 400 × 200 × 100 solid blocks at AED 3,250 per 1,000 in Dubai and AED 4,000 per 1,000 in Abu Dhabi, for schemes with more than 10,000 blocks, and blockwork in a 200 mm solid wall at AED 180 per m² in Dubai and AED 145 per m² in Abu Dhabi for a 10,000-block job. The per-square-metre line is installed sample blockwork, not a supply price, and it is not added to any row above. A QS Mind 12 inch hollow row of AED 7.87 was labelled estimate, not yet confirmed, so it is omitted. The same page says a 110 mm insulation insert is about AED 10.15. That word “about” is not used as a table price.

What a block price must include

Ask each yard to quote the same size, the same hollow, solid or insulated unit, and the same address. A 6 inch label is not one dimension string. QS Mind prints 400 × 200 × 150 mm for 6 inch hollow, and Ducon prints 400 × 150 × 200 mm. Both strings are copied. Thickness still does not change the face count when the face module is the same, which is the point of the blocks-per-square-metre guide. Strength, weight and a thermal insert are specification lines. No opened page priced a strength class in dirhams, so that part of the price depends on the quote.

Separate the piece rate from delivery, a minimum truck, offloading and VAT. QS Mind’s hollow and thermal rows say excluding 5% VAT. Its solid 8 inch row says VAT is not stated and delivery is excluded. Ducon does not say whether VAT or delivery is inside the dirham. FEPY prints both an excluding-VAT dirham and an including-VAT dirham. GCCPricing says supply only. Turner & Townsend’s per-1,000 line is for schemes above 10,000 blocks, and its per-square-metre line is a sample construction cost. None of those labels is a pump price or a mortar price. Mortar for the joint is a different quantity in mortar for a block wall per square metre.

• Emirate and address: a Dubai truckload rate is not a price for Sharjah, Ajman, Ras Al Khaimah or Fujairah.
• Quantity: one shop piece, one truck and a scheme above 10,000 blocks are different offers.
• VAT: use the line the page actually prints. Do not add 5% to a row that already says including VAT.
• Delivery: if the quote says delivered, do not add haul again. If it is silent, the haul is still open.

Worked example: a 10 × 3 m wall

Block cost = blocks × one printed price per block, or blocks × one printed price per 1,000 ÷ 1,000. The count comes from blocks per square metre. A nominal 400 × 200 mm face that already includes its joint is 12.5 blocks/m². Gross area = 10 × 3 = 30 m². Net count before openings = 30 × 12.5 = 375 blocks. An actual 400 × 200 mm face plus 10 mm joints is the other reading on that guide, about 11.61 blocks/m², and it is not used in the products below. Openings are not deducted here. An illustrative 5%, the allowance that guide labels as an example, is 375 × 1.05 = 393.75, and the purchase count rounds up to 394. Confirm the allowance and the supplier’s pack.

Using only the truckload 6 inch hollow price of AED 4.30, 375 × 4.30 = AED 1,612.50 and 394 × 4.30 = AED 1,694.20. Using only the truckload 8 inch hollow price of AED 4.50, 375 × 4.50 = AED 1,687.50 and 394 × 4.50 = AED 1,773. Using only the FEPY 8 inch hollow price of AED 6.49 excluding VAT, 375 × 6.49 = AED 2,433.75. Those are alternative lines. They are not added together and not averaged. Per 1,000 blocks, the same truckload unit prices are AED 4,300 and AED 4,500. That multiplication is this page’s arithmetic. Ducon and QS Mind print the unit price, not a per-1,000 heading.

The Turner & Townsend wall line is a different product. 30 × 180 = AED 5,400 in Dubai and 30 × 145 = AED 4,350 in Abu Dhabi, for blockwork in a 200 mm solid wall on a 10,000-block job. This wall is 375 blocks, so that job size does not match, and the dirham is per square metre of installed wall rather than supply of blocks. The 100 mm solid line is AED 3,250 per 1,000 in Dubai and AED 4,000 per 1,000 in Abu Dhabi, also for schemes above 10,000 blocks. 375 × 3,250 ÷ 1,000 = AED 1,218.75 and 375 × 4,000 ÷ 1,000 = AED 1,500 only if that large-scheme rate applied, which this wall does not. AAC at AED 7.80 is a 600 × 250 mm face, so it is not multiplied by 12.5. Delivery, VAT on a row that excludes it, and mortar stay outside every product.

Dubai, Abu Dhabi and the other emirates

A city split is stated only where the page states one. Turner & Townsend prints Dubai and Abu Dhabi on the per-1,000 solid-block line and on the per-square-metre blockwork line. QS Mind prints Dubai. Ducon’s address on the page is National Industries Park, Dubai. FEPY says it delivers across the UAE and does not print a second price by emirate. GCCPricing prints one UAE parity per block and does not split Dubai from Abu Dhabi. No hollow-block dirham was opened for Sharjah, Ajman, Umm Al Quwain, Ras Al Khaimah or Fujairah, so those emirates depend on the quote.

Distance, a part truck and a thermal insert are the usual reasons two yards disagree on the same nominal size. The opened pages do not print a dirham per kilometre. Leave that line for the quote. A 4 inch hollow block on Ducon is AED 4.10, so the 6 inch and 8 inch pair is not the lowest hollow price that opened. Prices still vary by emirate, quantity and delivery.

Related quantity and price pages

The concrete block calculator repeats the 10 × 3 m count at a nominal 400 × 200 mm face. The module itself is explained on blocks per square metre. Qatar’s comparison of a 200 mm AAC wall and a hollow-block wall, in riyals, is AAC versus hollow block cost. It is not a dirham rate.

Ready-mix in dirhams per cubic metre is in concrete price per m³ in the UAE. Saudi block prices, where a page was opened, are in concrete block price in Saudi Arabia. Villa construction in dirhams is in villa construction cost in the UAE. The other GCC construction guides stay on quantities unless they name a price. A dated boundary-wall cost per running metre is in boundary wall cost per metre.

Questions people ask

Sources and calculation basis

Source links support the points named beside them. Worked quantities are Construclytic calculations using the assumptions shown above. A price in a table is the figure that source printed on the date it was read. It is not a quotation for your site, and it does not replace the project specification.

1. QS Mind: bricks and blocks prices in the UAEOpened 28 October 2026. Market day 28 October 2026, Dubai, AED. Hollow 6 in AED 4.30, checked 21 October 2026, truckload 1,296, excl. 5% VAT. Hollow 8 in AED 4.50, same check and VAT, truckload 1,080. Solid 4 in AED 5.30 and solid 6 in AED 5.50, checked 23 October 2026, excl. 5% VAT. Solid 8 in AED 5.70, checked 26 October 2026, delivery excluded, VAT not stated. Thermal 8 in AED 8, checked 21 October 2026. Thermal 10 in with 60 mm insert AED 9, checked 23 October 2026. The 110 mm insert is described as about AED 10.15 and is not used as a price. Hollow 12 in AED 7.87 is labelled estimate, not yet confirmed, and is omitted.
2. Ducon Industries: 800blocks.ae block listOpened 28 October 2026. 4 in hollow AED 4.10, 1,584 per truck, truck total AED 6,494.40. 6 in hollow AED 4.30, 1,296 per truck, AED 5,572.80. 8 in hollow AED 4.50, 1,080 per truck, AED 4,860.00. 4 in solid AED 5.30, 1,320 per truck, AED 6,996.00. 6 in solid prints AED 5,280 for 960 and no unit price. 8 in solid prints AED 4,104 for 720 and no unit price. 8 in insulated prints AED 8,640 for 1,080 and no unit price. 12 in insulated, 400 × 300 × 200 mm, AED 11.75, 720 per truck. 10 in insulated truck totals AED 8,100 and AED 9,135 have no piece count, so no unit price is stated. VAT, delivery and a price date are not printed. Address on the page: National Industries Park, Dubai.
3. FEPY: concrete blocks categoryOpened 28 October 2026. Hard Block Factory hollow 8 in and 6 in AED 6.49 excluding VAT, AED 6.81 including VAT. Hollow 4 in AED 5.99 excluding VAT, AED 6.29 including VAT. Solid 8 in AED 7.41 excluding VAT, AED 7.78 including VAT. Solid 4 in AED 6.26 excluding VAT, AED 6.57 including VAT. No price-list date is printed. Thermal listings on the category page had no price in the reading, so none is used.
4. GCCPricing: CMU hollow block 150 mmOpened 28 October 2026. UAE AED 5.70 each for 400 × 200 × 150 mm hollow. Reference parity rate. Supply only. Last updated 26 Oct 2026. The governance note says the UAE row is a calibrated parity, not a verified merchant survey.
5. GCCPricing: CMU hollow block 200 mmOpened 28 October 2026. UAE AED 6.40 each for 400 × 200 × 200 mm hollow. Reference parity rate. Supply only. Last updated 26 Oct 2026.
6. GCCPricing: CMU solid block 150 mmOpened 28 October 2026. UAE AED 6.80 each for 400 × 200 × 150 mm solid. Reference parity rate. Supply only. Last updated 26 Oct 2026.
7. GCCPricing: CMU solid block 200 mmOpened 28 October 2026. UAE AED 7.80 each for 400 × 200 × 200 mm solid. Reference parity rate. Supply only. Last updated 26 Oct 2026. The page title says AED 8, which does not match the table’s 7.80. The table figure is the one used.
8. GCCPricing: AAC block 200 mmOpened 28 October 2026. UAE AED 7.80 each for 600 × 250 × 200 mm. Manufacturer field Ytong/Siporex. Reference parity rate. Supply only. Last updated 26 Oct 2026. The face is not the 400 × 200 mm module, so it is not priced at 12.5 blocks/m².
9. Turner & Townsend: UAE Market Intelligence 2025, construction cost performanceOpened 28 October 2026. Material costs: concrete block 400 × 200 × 100 solid, per 1,000, for schemes with more than 10,000 blocks, Dubai AED 3,250, Abu Dhabi AED 4,000. Sample construction costs: blockwork in wall, per m², 10,000-block job, 200 mm solid, Dubai AED 180, Abu Dhabi AED 145. The two lines are not the same scope and are not added.