KUWAIT: The Public Authority for Housing Welfare (PAHW) announced the signing of all contracts for the construction and maintenance of roads, infrastructure networks for residential suburbs, irrigation tanks, and substations in the South Saad Al-Abdullah City project, in the presence of Minister of State for Municipal Affairs and Minister of State for Housing Affairs Abdullatif Al-Meshari and the Chinese Ambassador to Kuwait, Zhang Jianwei.

Acting Director General of the Authority, Rashid Al-Enezi, stated in a press statement on Monday that three contracts were signed with a local company and an international company to implement road and infrastructure works for the entire city’s suburbs at a value of KD 261.7 million (about $863 million), with the implementation period set at 1,095 days for each contract.

Al-Enezi added that the project includes identifying the corners of 23,551 residential plots and implementing the first and second asphalt layers for all roads in the city’s residential suburbs, as well as rainwater drainage, sewage, irrigation, treated water, fresh water, telephone networks, road lighting, traffic networks, and electrical cable culverts.

He explained that the contracts include the implementation of 52 irrigation tanks of different sizes, in addition to 649 sub-electricity stations, stressing the commitment of the engineering teams under the supervision and follow-up of the Minister of Housing to accelerate the implementation of the South Saad Al-Abdullah project, which is witnessing progress in actual achievements beyond the monthly contractual percentage.

He pointed out that the Housing Authority has indeed begun implementing the contracts that were signed earlier, achieving progress in completing the infrastructure of the main roads by 26 percent, which is 17 percent ahead of the schedule that includes the rainwater drainage network and tunneling for sewage. He noted that work has commenced on road lighting, retaining walls, the sewage network, rainwater tanks, and treated water in some suburbs according to the prepared timetable, adding that the actual implementation also encompassed bridges, tunnels, and networks for fresh and brackish water. — KUNA