The company will provide building and engineering services for the 360-bed hospital on Al-Sowwah island, which includes a 220,000-square-metre hospital, a central utility plant and parking for 3,200 cars.

Contractors are currently being prequalified for the contract to build the hospital.

Mubadala has asked contractors to demonstrate their experience in building large-scale medical facilities and delivering contracts worth more than AED3bn ($817m).

Contractors had understood that Mubadala would negotiate the Cleveland Clinic deal directly with the joint venture of the local Arabtec Construction and Greece’s Aktor.

Mubadala held talks with the joint venture in the third quarter of 2008 to execute the entire project on a design-and-build basis (MEED 1:4:09).

The Arabtec/Aktor joint venture is already working on the piling and enabling works.

The UK’s Driver Consult is the consultant. Local developer Aldar Properties is managing the construction on behalf of Mubadala.