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Arabian Construction Company (ACC) has won a $204m contract to carry out work on Abu Dhabi’s carbon-neutral Masdar City project. The project which makes up the second phase of construction and is being managed by Abu Dhabi developer Aldar Properties PJSC – will add another 82,000 square metres to the campus and will include student lodgings, seven open laboratories, a conference facility, a swimming pool and a gym.
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| MASDAR CITY: Arabian Construction Company has won a $204m contract to carry out work on Abu Dhabi’s carbon-neutral Masdar City project (ITP Images) |
The $22bn Masdar project is the centrepiece of the Abu Dhabi’s government push to diversify the emirate’s economy away from hydrocarbons and into renewable energies. However, the ambitious plan has been hit by delays due to the global economic crisis.
Hamed Mikati, Director at ACC, said, "We are honoured to have been awarded this contract and look forward to building one of the world's leading scientific and technological institutes. As an experienced sustainability contractor, we are taking sustainable building practises and the reduction of embodied carbon into account and look forward to being a part of the future of green construction."
In October last year, Masdar confirmed that it had abandoned plans to make the city carbon-neutral from the start, adding that completion on the first phase of the project will be delayed by two years to 2015. The developer also announced that completion of the full Masdar City project could be as late as 2025.
Developed by the Abu Dhabi clean energy company Masdar, the state-of-the-art education facility sits at the heart of Masdar City, an emerging global clean-technology cluster that Masdar hopes will be the biggest carbon-neutral development in the world. Mist was established in cooperation with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to focus on clean-energy research and technological development.
