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31 July 2013, 9:35 GMT | By Andrew Roscoe
Work will involve constructing distribution networks, pumping stations and reservoirs
The Beirut and Mount Lebanon Water Establishment (BMLWE) has invited contractors to submit bids for the contract to carry out work for Zone C on the Greater Beirut Water Supply project (GBWSP).
Contractors have until 24 September to submit bids for the contract, which will involve providing and building distribution networks, pumping stations and reservoirs in Zone C of the scheme. Zone C includes the villages of Dammour, Naameh, Aaramoun, Khaldeh, Haret el Omara, Chouayfat and Kfar Shima.
The Zone C work will be financed from a loan received from the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD).
In April, the Council for Development and Reconstruction (CDR) invited consultants to submit bids for the construction supervision contract for the GBWSP.
The GBWSP is designed to strengthen the capacity of the BMLWE, the utility responsible for the operation and efficiency of the urban water supply in the area. The project is planned to improve water supply for more than 2 million people in southern Beirut.
Experts have warned that unless Lebanon upgrades its water network, the state could suffer from chronic shortages as soon as 2020.
World Bank Group to insure Jordan wastewater plant expansion
25 July 2013, 12:50 GMT | By Andrew Roscoe
Upgrade will increase sludge treatment capacity of facility by 80 per cent
The Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (Miga), the political risk insurance arm of the Washington-based World Bank Group, has signed an agreement to insure the existing As-Samra wastewater plant and its expansion, located northeast of Amman in Jordan.
The As-Samra facility is the biggest wastewater treatment plant in Jordan, and is the first build-operate-transfer (BOT) project in the country. The $184.3m planned expansion will increase the existing 840,000-cubic-metres capacity of the plant by 37 per cent. The sludge treatment capacity of the plant will increase by 80 per cent.
The expansion scheme is scheduled for completion by December 2016, and will service more than three million residents in the governorates of Amman and Zarqa.
Miga’s guarantees of $13.1m cover equity investments by Samra Wastewater Treatment Plant Company, which consists of France’s Suez Environment and Infilco Degremont, and the US’ Morganti Group.
17 July 2013, 12:07 GMT | By Andrew Roscoe
Wastewater plant will be located in the central Iranian city of Birjand
Iran’s Southern Khorasan Water & Wastewater Company (SKWWC) has invited companies to prequalify for the contract to build a wastewater treatment plant in Birjand city, located in the South Khorasan province in the centre of the Islamic Republic.
Companies have until 21 August to submit prequalification documents for the project. The work will involve the design, supply of materials and construction of the expansion of the Birjand wastewater plant. The contract will also involve the installation of a 9.5-kilometre transmission line for the plant.
The expansion of the plant will increase the plant’s capacity to 540 litres a second. The project is being financed by the Economic Cooperation and Organisation (ECO) Trade & Development Bank.
Indonesian firm plans Mecca towers project
30 July 2013, 11:28 GMT | By Colin Foreman
Several real estate schemes under way in the holy city
Indonesian state-controlled construction company Wijaya Karya is considering plans to build a $1.1bn real estate development in Saudi Arabia.
The seven-tower hotel complex, which will be developed with a local partner, will be built in Mecca. Each tower will have 1,000 rooms.
There are a number of major real estate schemes currently under way in Mecca as the city builds new facilities for visiting pilgrims. Earlier this year, Saudi Binladin Group (SBG) won the estimated SR13bn ($3.5bn) contract to build the Abraj Kudai mixed-use development.
The contract involves building 12 towers ranging in height from 30 to 45 storeys. The towers will be built on top of a large podium and three basement floors. The two 45-storey towers will be built at the centre of the development and will have a single dome structure topping both buildings. The other 10 towers will be 30 storeys high and will be built around the two central buildings. Altogether, the towers will have 10,150 residential units and hotel rooms. The podium will have a bus station, shopping mall, restaurants, food courts, a conference centre and car parks. The total built-up area of the development is 1.5 million square metres.
The development will be built in the Manafia area in central Mecca, 1.7 kilometres away from the Grand Mosque. The 64,000-square-metre plot is next to Ajyad road in the east, and the Kudai and Birka tunnels to the west.
30 July 2013, 11:29 GMT | By Colin Foreman
Some of the world’s largest contracting companies are now working for the authority in Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia’s Arriyadh Development Authority (ADA) awarded more than $22bn of construction contracts on 28 July for the construction of Riyadh’s new metro system.
The awards are among the largest infrastructure deals ever awarded in the region and have made ADA one of the most important clients for local, regional and international construction companies working in the region for the coming decade and beyond.
Founded in 1982, the authority is the executive branch of the High Commission for the Development of Arriyadh and is responsible for the planning, development and implementation of programmes and projects for the city of Riyadh.
The metro and the overarching Riyadh Public Transport Project that it is part of is ADA’s largest current project. It combines a city-wide metro, rapid transit bus, and park and ride services to tackle congestion as the city’s population is projected to rise 40 per cent by 2030, and daily travel demand set to increase by 60 per cent.
In June, four consortiums submitted bids for an 83-kilometre bus rapid transit system, two circular routes, as well as community bus lines and feeder buses that will eventually support the metro.
Other major ADA projects include the Diplomatic Quarter, which houses most of the Riyadh-based embassies, consulates and permanent representations of foreign governments and major multilateral organisations, the King Abdullaziz Historical Centre, the world acclaimed Wadi Hanifah regeneration project, as well as a historic village of Atturaif, a Unesco World Heritage site.
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