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RTA awards $191m Dubai Water Canal contract

DUBAI, May 28, 2016

Dubai's Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) has awarded a Dh703-million ($191 million) contract for the construction of the fourth and fifth phases of the Dubai Water Canal project.

The Dubai Water Canal project is a unique tourist landmark development offering a new lifestyle pattern in the heart of the city and the two sides of the canal linking the Dubai Creek with the Arabian Gulf.

The canal has a length of 3 km, a width ranging from 80 to 120 m, and a depth of up to 6 m with the tide. Bridges crossing the canal rise more than 8 m allowing 24-hour free navigation in the canal, which will add 6 km to the Dubai Waterfront.  

According to the RTA, the project, which involves the setting up of three marine transport stations along with major infrastructure upgrade, is due for completion by the end of September this year.

Phase Four of the Dubai Water Canal project, which costs about Dh307 million ($84 million), is part of infrastructural works required to serve property development areas on both sides of the canal, including roads and utility lines, said a statement from RTA.

The canal stretches 3.2 km from Business Bay Canal up to the Arabian Gulf via the Sheikh Zayed Road (SZR), Al Wasl Road and Jumeirah Road.

The projects to be constructed on the waterfront will be served by modern water transport means, and result in improved quality of water in the Dubai Creek, it stated.

Phase Five of the project, which costs about Dh396 million ($108 million) would link the Business Bay Canal with the Dubai Water Canal terminating at the Arabian Gulf.

Works include building quay walls of precast concrete slabs all along the stretch of the canal, and completing and diverting utility lines and key services to give way for completing the construction works of the canal as well as the removal of impacted services, said the RTA statement.

Works also include the treatment of hyper-saline water of the Business Bay Lakes, removing sand barriers in the course of the canal, and constructing three marine transport stations on both sides of it, it added.

Mattar Al Tayer, the director-general and chairman of the board of executive directors of RTA, said: "Construction works in the Dubai Water Canal are progressing according to the approved time chart, and the completion rate has reached 92 per cent in the bridge of the SZR."

"RTA has recently opened the northern bridge of the SZR in the direction from Abu Dhabi to Dubai. Completion rate in the Abu Dhabi-bound southern bridge has reached 81 per cent, and the bridge is expected to be opened in July this year," he stated.

The contract of Phase One of the project comprises the construction of a bridge of eight lanes in each direction on the Sheikh Zayed Road crossing over the canal in a way allowing free navigation round-the-clock. It also includes modifying lanes of affected roads to ensure integrated traffic movement between the two shores of the canal.

An 800-m-long sector of the SZR will be affected by this phase, which also includes diverting the existing utility lines affected by the canal course, fitting smart lights controlled via a smart app, in addition to fountains on the bridge.

Works under Phase Two of the project, including the construction of bridges on Al Wasl and Jumeirah roads, are progressing as per schedule with its completion rate so far clocking 86 per cent.

The contract includes the construction of bridges linking with the proposed peninsula to the south of the Jumeirah Park, diverting utility lines via conduits passing underneath the canal, in addition to laying spare utility ducts under the canal to cater to projected future needs.

According to Al Tayer, more than 75 per cent of Phase Three of the canal project has been finished, and works are well under way to complete the construction of quay walls, protect the utility lines, divert sewage lines on both sides of the canal, build a sewage pumping plant, and construct a coastal breakwater.-TradeArabia News Service




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