Oman’s Ministry of Housing and Urban Planning has awarded contracts worth US $2.58bn for the development of Phase One of Sultan Haitham City, in Muscat.
Spanning an area of more than 5m sqm, Phase One of Sultan Haitham City will feature 7,000 residential units with a capacity for 39,000 occupants. The construction area itself will cover 3m sqm.
This phase will include the creation of a central park (along the wadi), the National Centre for Women and Children’s Health, a referral hospital, the buildings of Oman Medical Specialty Board, the Higher Institute of Health Sciences and the Oman Health College. There will also be a government university, to be set up on an area of more than 299,000sqm, and the College of Advanced Technology, which will be home to 1,500 students.
It will also house a Youth Centre, a Rehabilitation Centre for People with Special Needs, a complex of government schools, an international private school, a police station and a civil defense centre.
As part of these Phase One development works, more than 35 development and partnership agreements have now been finalised by the ministry with major players in the engineering, consulting services and real estate development sectors. The raft of activities is set to be completed by 2030.
