Architects bid for Dubai Expo residential design

22 February 2015

Consultants also working on masterplan for event

  • Three firms submit proposals to Dubai World Trade Centre
  • Residential development will be built at the Expo site
  • Masterplan for the Expo site will be presented this year

Dubai World Trade Centre (DWTC) has received proposals from architects for the design of a residential development at the Expo 2020 site.

It is understood that three UK-based firms have submitted proposals. They are Broadway Malayan, Godwin, Austen & Johnston (GAJ), and RMJM.

The development will include serviced apartments and residential units split into four sectors sitting on top of podiums, together with associated infrastructure such as roads.

In November last year, DWTC appointed a team of US-based CH2M Hill and UK-based Mace Group for the programme management of the real estate development at the Dubai Trade Centre Jebel Ali development, which includes the site that will be used for the 2020 Expo.

The masterplan for the Expo site is being prepared by a team of US-based HOK and the UK’s Arup, which was appointed in August 2014 to further develop the preliminary masterplan that the team worked on for the Expo bid. A detailed masterplan is due to be submitted this year to the Expo’s organisers, the Paris-based Bureau International des Expositions (BIE).

It is estimated the Dubai Expo 2020 event will require €6.5bn ($7.4bn) of investment for development and operational costs until the end of the event.

Other projects that will support the Expo are also starting to move ahead. The largest is a new metro line that will carry an expected 25 million visitors to the site between 20 October 2020 and 10 April 2021.

Bid documents on the light rail scheme are expected to be issued to contractors in July, after expressions of interest (EoIs) are sought during the first quarter of this year. Suppliers and contractors have already been in contact with the client, the Roads & Transport Authority (RTA).

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