Kuwait’s Public Authority for Housing Welfare (PAHW) has awarded Turkey’s Limak Insaat the contract to execute an infrastructure package for the South Abdulla al-Mubarak project, according to a source with knowledge of the scheme.

The contract entails the construction, completion and maintenance of a roads and infrastructure network for 3,260 plots as well as electrical substations.

PAHW has been actively awarding and tendering consultancy and infrastructure packages for several of its multibillion-dollar housing projects.

The most advanced of these projects is the South Al-Mutlaa City, located on a104 square-kilometre area in Kuwait’s Jahra governorate, to the west of the capital Kuwait City.

Local firm KEO International Consultants has been awarded a one-year contract for the phasing and packaging strategy of the entire development, including the scheduling of tenders for the houses, mosques, supermarkets, clinics and sports centres, among others.

PAHW awarded several infrastructure packages for the city over the past few weeks. They included roads for a block that includes 4,999 plots, which was awarded to Turkish firm Polat Insaat ($165m), and another contract for a block of 4,770 plots, which was awarded to another Turkish Contractor, Cengiz Insaat ($163m).

Last year, PAHW awarded China Gezhouba Corporation a $708m contract for the second major infrastructure works package. This follows the award in 2016 of the first major infrastructure package, worth $954m, to a team comprising Italy’s Salini and Turkey’s Kolin.

PAHW has been seeking to involve the private sector as it works to provide affordable housing for Kuwaiti families and reduce upfront costs. The authority has a backlog of over 100,000 applicants, with an average waiting time of seven to 18 years.