Bahrain-based Eureka has won the smart buildings award for its premium project Violet at the Bahrain Smart Cities Summit 2021. The first building at Amwaj Islands with smart home solutions, Violet offers a mix of one-, two-, and three-bedroom apartments.
MANAMA, 6 hours, 9 minutes ago Bahraini officials said work is moving at a steady pace on the East Sitra Town project, which once completed, will be home to 3,000 residential units. To be implemented in three phases, the project will boast key facilities and services that serve about 20,640 citizens, reported
BNA. These include schools, kindergartens and nurseries, public parks, children’s playgrounds, houses of worship, health, social and cultural facilities, a youth club, commercial centres, petrol stations, water treatment station and a centre for visitors’ services in addition to a 2.6-km seafront promenade and 13-km-long bicycle lanes. The accelerated pace of work at housing projects reflects the government’s seriousness in meeting the citizens’ housing demands according to schedule, remarked Housing Minister Bassim bin Yacoob Al Hamar.
Al Namal wins contract to build 132 residential units in Bahrain
MANAMA, March 1, 2021 Bahrain s Housing Ministry has signed up Al Namal Contracting and Trading Company to build 132 housing units and necessary infrastructure on a government-owned land in Al Lawzi area of the kingdom. This comes as part of the kingdom s government-owned lands’ development programme, being implemented in cooperation with the private sector. The scheme was launched by the Housing Ministry as one of the initiatives aimed at involving real estate developers and contracting companies to implement social housing projects for the citizens who meet the eligibility criteria. Signed today (March 1) by Housing Minister Bassim bin Yacoob Al Hamar and Al Namal Contracting and Trading Company’s Chairman Dr Varghese Kurian, the contract is the first of the pilot phase of the government-owned lands’ development programme.