The companies have overseen some of the world’s largest complex construction projects. Los Angeles-based Aecom is currently working on New York City’s new Second Avenue subway and Saadiyat Island, a $30 billion development off the coast of Abu Dhabi.
The Tourism, Development and Investment Company has granted an extension to companies submitting tenders for the main contract for Abu Dhabi’s Louvre museum by almost four weeks.
Plans for just under 500 luxury flats on Saadiyat Island have been unveiled at Cityscape Abu Dhabi. The 495 apartments will be part of a three-plot development eventually comprising almost 1,000 flats on Saadiyat, a 27-kilometer man-made island expected to be home to 160,000 people when it is completed in 2020.
MEED reported that Abu Dhabi’s Tourism Development & Investment Company has told companies that it will now procure contractors for its estimated USD 1 billion Zayed National Museum project on Saadiyat Island using a series of traditional lump sum contracts.
Tourism Development & Investment Company (TDIC), the master developer of major cultural, residential and tourism destinations in Abu Dhabi, has this week showcased its flagship development, Saadiyat Island, to the global travel industry at ITB in Berlin, Europe’s leading international travel trade show, as the island marks the significant achievements of the past year and reveals its forthcoming tourism milestones.
No longer content with simply relying on the vast wealth that it pumps from its huge oil reservoirs, Abu Dhabi has ambitions to become one of the world’s top cultural destinations. The United Arab Emirates’ capital is spending $100 billion to diversify its oil-reliant economy into a tourist hub, which it hopes will attract 2.3 million visitors by 2013.
That project is one year away — the reason for that delay is not only constructional, it’s also management. We made a decision and that decision is the right one I’m sure. So that set us back a bit, but what’s interesting about that is we were the first into Saadiyat Island.
The Tourism, Development and Investment Company has granted an extension to companies submitting tenders for the main contract for Abu Dhabi’s Louvre museum by almost four weeks.
The companies have overseen some of the world’s largest complex construction projects. Los Angeles-based Aecom is currently working on New York City’s new Second Avenue subway and Saadiyat Island, a $30 billion development off the coast of Abu Dhabi.
“TDIC’s Cultural Department has been leading up toward the opening of these museums by presenting a variety of high-profile public programmes and educational projects. Today, we have united all of the Emirate’s main institutions in supporting these same goals,”
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