SSH, a leading design, construction supervision and project management firm in the Middle East, has won a major engineering consultancy services contract for a road project in Bahrain in partnership with Hyder Consulting.

The project, awarded by Bahrain’s Ministry of Works Municipalities and Urban Planning, is for the design of road and bridges as part of the widening and upgrading of the Sheikh Jaber Al Ahmed Al Sabah (SJAS) Highway in the kingdom.

The SJAS forms part of the strategic North-South link, connecting Manama, Sitra Industrial Area, Alba and the Southern Governorate. It also comes as a section of the Future International Transportation Corridor with the possible Bahrain-Qatar Causeway, said the company in a statement.

The project is aimed at reducing traffic congestion and delays during peak hours by upgrading the current highway to a motorway standard.  
 
According to SSH, the design services will be implemented in three phases.

In the first phase, a comprehensive traffic and transportation study will be conducted for widening and upgrading the highway to an uninterrupted motorway.

The second phase involves preliminary and detailed design for the four-lane dual carriageway, pedestrian and vehicular bridges, grade separators, tunnels and underpasses, service roads, and slip lanes, while the third phase is for construction, implementation and supervision services, stated the company.

SJAS is aimed at handling both the increase in car ownership and the rapid growth in Bahrain’s population from 1.4 million to an estimated 2.4 million residents by 2030.

The design will also cater to changes in the traditional growth areas across the country, including large-scale land reclamation, landmark real estate and tourism developments, it added.

The project is being supported by Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development as part of GCC Marshall Fund to Bahrain.-TradeArabia News Service