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Qatar inks key labour housing project contracts

DOHA, December 6, 2015

Qatar government has signed up three private companies - Shaqab Abela Catering Services, Gulf Systems for Contracting and Services and Redco International Trading and Contracting - for the construction of the Phase One of a massive labour accommodation project that will eventually house 179,000 workers, said a report.

Under this project, seven housing complexes will be built on an area of over 6.6 million sq m across the country in three phases at an investment of QR1.6 billion ($439 million). The project is expected to completed by the end of 2017, reported The Peninsula.

The Qatari move come as part of its efforts to provide a permanent accommodation for workers in a proper environment with all services and health, social, religious and entertainment facilities, said the report citing the Minister of Municipality and Urban Planning Sheikh Abdulrahman bin Khalifa bin Abdulaziz Al Thani.

These projects will come up on Umm Salal Mohammed, Birkat Al Awamer, Umm Ghuwailina, Al Wakrah and Al Shamal areas of Qatar, it stated.

Sheikh Faleh bin Nasser Al Thani, Undersecretary for Public Services, signed the contracts with Jassim bin Abdullah Al Misnad of Shaqab Abela Catering Services, Nabil Bu Issa of Gulf Systems for Contracting and Services and Saif ur Rehman Khan of Redco International Trading and Contracting.

The Umm Salal project will be executed by these private companies on a build-operate-transfer (BOT) basis. Under this system, they will get to finance, construct and operate the facility for 15 years.

The first housing complex will be built in Umm Salal Mohammad as the first phase of the project with the capacity of 24,000 workers, followed by more complexes at Barkat Al Awamer in the second phase and then at Umm Ghuwailina, Al Wakrah and Al Shamal.

The complexes will have full facilities for workers such as parks, sport areas, mosques, ambulance assembly points, dining halls and laundry, the report added.




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