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01 January 2002

Girls school to expand

Bahrain's first all-girls private school is set to expand with the opening of three new grades and the construction of a new BD1 million ($2.65 million) building.

Shaikha Hessa Girls School, which opened its doors last September, currently caters for youngsters from nursery to grade three at its premises near Awali.

Work on the new building to accommodate extra classrooms, a cafeteria and gymnasium will begin next month.

The building is expected to be completed in September 2003.

Work on new hotel to start

Dubai: Work on a new five-star deluxe hotel on Shaikh Zayed Road in Dubai will start shortly.

The new 28-storey property to be called Taj Towers Dubai will have 320-room and will be managed by the Taj Group of Hotels, Dubai.

Bin Suloom General Enterprises, which owns the property, will build the facility which is expected to be completed by mid-2003.

Sharjah to upgrade airport

Sharjah: Sharjah Civil Aviation Department plans to upgrade its airport at a total cost of Dh200 million ($54.46 million) over the next five years.

Work is set to start on a Dh40 million arrivals hall expansion to enhance its capacity and enable it to handle peak season demand, a report said.

Also planned is a Dh15 million complex to house the civil aviation and airport management, and provide additional offices for airlines, freight firms and other companies, said Mohammed Saif Al Hajri, the civil aviation director general.

QP builds waste treatment unit

Doha: A hazardous waste treatment plant being set up at Mesaieed by the Qatar Petroleum is likely to be ready by 2004, a report said.

The QR70 million ($19.25 million) plant, the first one of its kind to be established in Qatar, will be able treat industrial waste left behind by units across the country, Mohamed Jassim Al Maslamani, QP manager (safety, quality and environment), said.

Initially, the plant would have a capacity to treat between 5,000 and 6,000 tonnes.

Industrial park takes shape

Manama: Work has started on Bahrain's first private sector industrial park, which will cover a million sq m area near Alba.

The multi-million dinar Ras Zuwayyid Industrial Park is being developed by Saraya, which has completed a series of housing complexes in Saar.

Dubai upgrades sewerage system

Dubai: Four sewerage projects worth Dh117 million ($31.9 million) will be completed in Dubai, UAE, within the next 20 months, a top civic official said.

Hussain Sulaiman Al Marzoui, head of the drainage office at the municipality's drainage and irrigation department, said modern technology was also being introduced to maintain the entire sewerage network.

The construction work began last November and is scheduled to the completed by July this year.

"We will be using modern technology and remote control to control the pumping stations all over Dubai. About 200 pumping stations will be connected to the remote control system," he said.

Al Dana resort to open in June

Manama: The BD10 million ($26.5 million) Al Dana resort project in Bahrain is expected to open by June.

The Al Jazira Tourism Company's project, located alongside the old Muharraq causeway, will be managed by French firm Accor Leisure Tourism, under its brand name Novotel. The project is being built over an area of 32,000 sq m by main contractor Ahmed Mansoor Al A'ali.

"The five-star resort project will consist of 180 chalets, and 25 of them will be floating chalets," said Al Jazira Tourism Company vice-chairman and managing director Dr Kadhem Rajab.

The project has been designed by Gulf House Engineering and is supervised by Gredeco Ansari Consultants.

Sharjah improves public facilities

Sharjah: Infrastructure projects costing more than Dh100 million ($27.19 million) have been carried out recently at Sharjah Industrial Area.

These projects were part of a comprehensive plan to enhance public facilities and services throughout the emirate, said a report.

The projects implemented included the Dh10 million Al Mada'in Road, the Dh7 million intersection between Al Mada'in Road and the First Industrial Road, the Dh9 million roundabout at the Second Industrial Area, and the Dh3 million road between the industrial areas numbers 12 and 13.

Fertiliser plant to take off

Muscat: Construction work on a $969 million fertiliser plant in Oman is expected to start this year following the signing of an initial agreement between India and the Sultanate, officials said.

The project is a joint venture between the state-run Oman Oil Company and India's Krishak Bharati Cooperative (Kribcho) and the Indian Farmers Fertilisers Cooperative (IFFCO). It is expected to go onstream in the first quarter of 2005.