Shapoorji Pallonji wins QR676m Barwa City contract

Barwa City will cost QR4.89 billion, according to estimates

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Barwa Real Estate, the Qatari developer, has awarded a contract to Shapoorji Pallonji Qatar WLL to build the Phase I Amenities at Barwa City worth QR676 million.

The Barwa City complex will stretch 2.7 million square metres in Musameer, just outside the centre of Doha, and will comprise of 128 apartment buildings, 6,000 flats and 1024 studio units and will house 20,000 families.

Phase I will cover 1.4 million square metres, with the work consisting of 6,000 residential units as well as utilities and infrastructure features including a district cooling plant, and the biggest liquid petroleum gas network in Qatar.

Shapoorji Pallonji Qatar is to build 13 building as including a mosque, a bank, a multi-purpose park and a kindergarten, according to Radhak Krishnan, project manager, although not the flats, which are being built by German contractor Bilfinger Berger.

“Phase I is still at design stage with input from our company,” Krishnan said. He added that Shapoorji Pallonji Qatar had submitted a tender only in May.

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The schools are QSAS Certified and have sought to include sustainable elements.

“I wish Shapoorji success and prosperity in their new endeavour,” said Barwa City Real Estate general manager, Khalid Al Nasr. “This is a substantial milestone for the project.”

Barwa had originally slated that the project was to be completed this year, in two phases. The second phase will include construction of 42 of the 128 buildings, along with seven schools, a 200 bed hospital, nurseries, banks, and commercial complexes.

The total estimated cost of the project is QR4.89 billion.

Work on the City began in the first quarter of 2006 with a joint venture of Redco and Pakistan-based NLC doing the enabling work – a QR300 million undertaking since the site had for many years been used as the country’s dumping ground.

Shapoorji Pallonji Qatar WLL is a subsidiary of the Mumbai-based parent firm, Shapoorji Pallonji & Co Ltd. Two years ago Shapoorji Pallonji International FZE, another subsidiary, re-entered the UAE market, announcing eight projects worth AED2.2 billion, having left the market in the 1990s due to the drop in oil prices.

Krishnan said the company would be interested in working on Phase II but believed the design for this time would take some time.