Construction Review Africa

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Kenya

Egypt

Tunisia

GS Inima to set up a desalination plant

New US$45.5m multistorey car park at Nairobi City Hall Nairobi has announced a tender notice for the construction of a 3000 multistorey car park in Nairobi’s Central Business District. The project involves developing an AT Sunken Car Park building at a cost of US$45.5m. The project will be undertaken through a public private partnership where the Government of Nairobi County is expected to provide the land for the project, while investors will provide the funds needed. Parking slots in Nairobi’s CBD is not adequate to cater for the number of cars in the city centre. The move to construct the building was made in anticipation of the large commuter buses for the planned metro transportation system that are to start operating in the capital soon.

GS Inima announced that it had won a deal to set up a desalination plant in Tunisia. The Djerba plant construction deal involves a 50-50 consortium between GS, a South Korean

New Suez Canal lane in the offing Construction of an extra 45-mile lane to be added to the existing Suez

Association Partners

will see conversion of 50,000 tons of sea water into fresh water.

The announcement was made by the President of Egypt Abdel Fatah

The project is based at Djerba, a

al-Sisi. This is expected to boost trade in one of the most important

resort in southern Tunisia. This is

canals for global trade. Through the canal, ships from Europe to Asia and vice versa do not have to pass through the Southern Africa.

the first time a Korean company will be entering a North African country construction market and

However, the current state at the canal is that ships have occasional

GS will own a share of 34.7

room to pass each other since it is a one-way traffic canal. Addition

million Euros. The news of

of the lane will see ship travel at both directions for less than the 101 miles long canal. The current canal is an artificial sea-level waterway creation. The addition will cut down hours spent travelling along the canal from 11 to about 3 hours.

- Architectural Association of Kenya - Institute of Quantity Surveyors of Kenya - Institute of Engineers of Kenya - Association of Consulting Engineers of Kenya - Association of Professional Societies of East Africa APSEA) - Kenya Property developers Association - Institution of Surveyors of Kenya

- ASAQS - SAICE - South African Council for the Quantity Surveying Profession - Khuthaza ( Women for Housing) - Concrete Manufacturers Association - Green Building council of SA - South African Property Owners Association - Master Builders South Africa

Ethiopia

- Association of Ethiopian Architects - Ethiopian Association of Civil Engineers

was charged with setting up of two desalination plants in

Namibia Institute of Namibian Quantity Surveyors Association of Consulting Engineers of

Institute of Botswana Quantity Surveyors

Tanzania

Ethiopia

- Tanzania Institute of Quantity Surveyors - Construction Regulation Board (CRB)

Construction Contractors Association of Ethiopia

Ghana

better news after the company

Namibia

Botswana

- Zimbabwe Institute of Quantity Surveyors - Zimbabwe Institute of Engineers - The Construction Industry Federation of Zimbabwe (Cifoz)

winning the contract should be

Algeria, a neighboring country.

- Tanzania’s Registration Board of Architects and Quantity Surveyors (AQSRB)

Zimbabwe

South Africa

Institute of Surveyors of Uganda

management company. The plant

Canal has begun, to allow more ships to be using the canal each day.

Kenya

Uganda

firm and Aqualia S.A, a water

- Ghana Institute of Engineers - Architects Registration Council - Ghana Institute of Surveyors - Ghana Green Builders Association - Ghana Institute of Planners - Association of Building and Civil Engineering Contractors of Ghana

September 2014

Nigeria - Association of Consulting Engineers Nigeria

- Association of Professional Women Engineers Of Nigeria - Council of Registered Builders of Nigeria - The Nigerian Institute of Architects - American Association of Petroleum Geologists Africa Region - Nigeria Society of Engineers - Nigeria Institute of Architects - Building and Construction Skilled Artisans Association of Nigeria(BACSAAN) 5


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