Bahrain's Works, Municipalities Affairs and Urban Planning Ministry is set to complete the infrastructure design work for the $1-billion King Abdullah Medical City in October and the project will be put out for tendering by the end of this year.

Work is set to begin on July 30, 2018 and will last for 18 months, said a statement from the ministry.

The infrastructure works include the setting up of a 66 kV main power station, a sewage treatment plant, water collection tanks, storm water drainage networks and sewerage networks, in addition to irrigation networks, internal and external road networks, lighting, telecommunication networks and aesthetic works on the project location, it added.

Saud Consult of Saudi Arabia is the consultant for the King Abdulla Medical City Project which will be developed in two phases.

Phase One includes the construction of an academic medical centre, an administration building, staff accommodation, child care centre, parking lot and infrastructure works, while Phase Two comprises expansion works to the academic medical centre, scientific research laboratories, convention centre, medical hotel, rehabilitation centre hospital, staff accommodation, storage facilities and parking lot.

A financing contract worth BD16.5 million ($43.4 million) has been signed between Bahrain government and the Saudi Development Fund in this regard, stated Ahmed Al Khayyat, the works affairs undersecretary at the ministry.

He was speaking at a meeting with President of the Arabian Gulf University Dr Khalid Al Ohali and a delegation accompanying him from the university, in addition to a number of engineers from the Ministry.

Al Khayyat explained that the Works Ministry has been assigned with the implementation of the infrastructure works and facilities needed for the project, as per the BD16.5 million funding contract signed between the Government of the Kingdom of Bahrain and the Saudi Development Fund.

The ministry has prepared the preliminary designs of the project and is working on completing the detailed designs, he added.-TradeArabia News Service