The Public Works Authority (Ashghal) has announced the completion of services for about 3,000 sub-divisions, as part of the Roads and Infrastructure Development Project for New Citizens’ Sub-divisions in Al Wukair South.
Assistant Roads Projects Department manager at Ashghal, Engineer
Salem al-Shawi, said that the Roads and Infrastructure Development Project for New Citizens’ Sub-divisions in Al Wukair South, known as Muaither Al Wukair, is one of the roads and infrastructure development projects implemented by Ashghal in Al Wakra Municipality, to meet the needs of the expanding population.
The project covers an area of 1,338 hectares.
Besides residential plots, it serves 16 schools, 32 mosques, and 17 commercial entities.
Al-Shawi said that the infrastructure elements provided for these plots include 221km of high-quality safe road networks, 100km of sewage networks, 114km of storm water drainage networks, and 123km of drinking water lines, electricity and streetlight lines and associated facilities.
He also said that the project works included development of two main roads at North and West of the project to facilitate traffic flow, reducing travel time for commuters, as these roads are to be linked soon with the New Al Wakra Road and Al Wukair Main Road within other Ashghal projects under pipeline to be awarded soon.
Head of South Areas Section of Roads Projects Department, Engineer Ahmed al-Obaidly, said that Ashghal will start a new project next week, which is Package 8 of the Roads and Infrastructure Project in Al Mashaf West, to serve about 1,462 plots, of which around 650 plots are within Al Wukair South.
The project valued at QR515mn includes roadworks of about 41km, 1,737 lighting poles, 650 parking slots, 64km of surface and ground water drainage networks, a 22km sewage network, and a 2km long TSE (treated sewage effluent) network, he said.
Roads Projects Department project manager Engineer Hamad al-Mejaba said: “Due to Ashghal’s commitment to support local manufacturers and products, most of the works in all the above packages of Roads and Infrastructure Development Project for Citizens’ Subdivisions in Al Wukair South were executed using local materials and manufacturers … the local components used in the project amount to 65% of materials.”
“Ashghal is keen to accelerate the pace of works, motivating contractors and urging them to deliver projects as per schedule,” he said. “Ashghal achieved the works in all four packages of the project with a record of 11mn man-hours without lost time injuries (LTI).”
Package one of the project covered construction of an internal road network, a sewage network, an electricity network, and a drinking water network to serve all residential and commercial units.
Of this, 37km of road network, 28km of sewage networks, and 34km of rainwater and groundwater drainage network have been completed, serving 1,026 plots.
For package two, which serves 1,052 plots, 22km of sewage networks and 25.8km of rainwater and groundwater drainage networks were completed, besides 72km of the drinking water network, and 52km of roads.
The completed works within package three include 20km of drainage network, 29km of storm water and groundwater drainage network, and internal and external roads network of about 75km, to serve 349 residential plots.
Package four of the project served 809 plots and included completion of 28km of the drainage network, 27.4km of the rainwater and groundwater drainage network, 20km of the potable water network, and construction of 57km of the internal
and external roads network, besides communications and electricity networks to serve residential and commercial units in the area.
