Work on $300m mall beginsDamascus: Work has started on the UAE-based Majid Al Futtaim (MAF) Group’s $300 million shopping mall project in the Syrian capital Damascus following approval from the government, a report said.
The Training College Consortium (TCC), comprising UK’s Serco Group and Oman’s Bahwan Engineering Group, has been selected the preferred bidder for the planned Joint Technical College, Oman (JTC Oman). The RO538.3 million ($1.4 billion) project is a 30-year private finance initiative (PFI) offering a design, build and operate contract.
The Pentagon has named a new group of seven US and British contract winners to rebuild Iraq, kicking off a fresh phase of the US-funded reconstruction of the war-shattered country. The deals cover management of programmes involving six infrastructure sectors from oil to electricity.The biggest deal, valued at $28.
Construction work on Qatar's mega multi-bilion-dollar freehold resort has been launched with the start of dredging work on the project.
Iranian Offshore Oil Company (IOOC) has awarded the Dh245 million ($66.7 million) EPC contract of Kharg Island gas gathering and NGL recovery project to Abu Dhabi-based Gulf Piping Company (GPC) and Iran’s Petrochemical Industries Design and Engineering Company (Pidec).
A new consultant has been appointed to help steer the development of the $1 billion (BD378 million) Durrat Al Bahrain city resort. Chartered quantity surveyor HAJ (Hisham Abdulrahman Jaffer) Consultancy will be responsible for the study of the overall cost and estimate preparation for the project.
The four-day Front exhibition debuted last month in the Middle East to showcase the latest range of doors, windows, blinds, roofs, walls and products and technology used in fabricating and maintaining them.
The UK arm of Foster Wheeler Energy Limited has been awarded the Oil Sector Program Management Office (SPMO) support contract in Iraq by the US Department of Defence, said a company spokesman.
CII Group Middle East has been appointed the consultant on the $800 million tourism and residential resort project called The Wave in Muscat. Work on the project is expected to start in December 2005. The resort will stretch along 7.3 km of beachfront between Al Azaiba and Al Seeb, occupying an area of two million sq m.
Work on a four-star hotel and a Skylounge of restaurants is one of the several projects that have got under way at the Amwaj Islands project. The first phase of the hotel project will have 300 rooms and will cost BD12 million ($31.9 million), said an official.
Manufacturers from 26 countries including Singapore, the UK and Oman will once again join a line-up of leading global hotel suppliers in Dubai for the Hotel Show next month (May 17 to 19).
Ten companies have applied to prequalify for a consultancy contract on the multi-million dollar Wadi Dayqah dam and water supply project in Oman. The consultant will be responsible for design and supervision. On completion, the dam will deliver 35 million cu m a day (cm/d) of water – 19.
