Oman’s Ministry of Housing and Urban Planning has awarded 1 billion riyals ($2.58bn) contracts for the development of Phase One of its mega project – Sultan Haitham City – in Muscat.
Spanning over a 5 million sqm area, the Phase One of Sultan Haitham City project will feature more than 7,000 residential units that can accommodate more than 39,000 people. The construction area will occupy more than 3 million sqm, reported Oman News Agency.
This phase will include the establishment of a central park, along the wadi, on an area of more than 1m sqm, the National Centre for Women and Children’s Health, a referral hospital, the buildings of Oman Medical Specialty Board, the Higher Institute of Health Sciences and Oman Health College on an area of 1m sqm and a government university, to be set up on an area of more than 299,000 sqm, and the College of Advanced Technology (which will accommodate 1,500 students and cover an area of more than 14,000 sqm), it stated.
It will also house a Youth Centre on an area of 20,000 sqm, a Rehabilitation Centre for People with Special Needs (on an area of more than 4,000 sqm), a complex of government schools that accommodate more than 6,900 students (that will occupy an area of 135,000 sqm), an international private school (on an area of more than 33,000 sqm), a police station on an area of more than 10,000 sqm, a civil defence centre on an area of more than 8,000 sqm, a national centre for craft industries on an area of 10,000 sqm and four health centres on an area of more than 63,000 sqm, it added.
More than 35 development and partnership agreements were inked yesterday at The Royal Opera House by the ministry with major players in the engineering, consulting services and real estate development sectors as part of its Phase One development works which will be completed in 2030.
These included nine consultancy service contracts, eight real estate development agreements, a technical co-operation agreement and 10 new site design and delivery agreements.
It also covered the implementation of projects for future cities, housing and urban planning in addition to layout projects, design of future cities and the preparation of a detailed plan and engineering designs for the “Al Khuwair Downtown” housing project, reported ONA.
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