Gulf Construction Online - Beach games site on track

Oman

On site ... Phase One completed.

Beach games site on track

01 February 2009

Omran, the Oman government’s tourism development and investment arm, has announced that the crucial first phase of construction of the Second Asian Beach Games site has been completed.

Omran is developing the purpose-built site near the coastal town of Musannah, an hour’s drive from Muscat, and is committed to ensuring that it would be fully functional in time for the games in December 2010. The project is being built on behalf of the Ministry of Sports Affairs and the Oman Olympic Committee.
The first phase of development included the construction of platforms for the Athlete Village, games court, hotel, marina apartments, car-parks and the main entrance area.
Work has also progressed on the waterfront elements, including the sailing park and swimming area, the platforms for which are now complete pending dredging work on the marina. The marina itself is nearly 25 per cent complete, and has seen some 200,000 tonnes of rock delivered to the site for the construction of the breakwater.
The project will feature world-class sporting facilities, a three-star hotel and meeting and conference facilities, which will act as a magnet for future luxury developments. There are active plans to repurpose the site once the Games are over as a sports-themed mixed-use development, retaining much of the buildings developed for the Asian Beach Games themselves.