US-based Hill International has been awarded a contract by Qatari Diar Real Estate Investment Company Morocco to provide quantity surveying and cost management consultancy services on the Al-Houara Coastal Resort.

The resort is being built on a 947,000 square metre site on the Atlantic coast at Tangier. with a built-up area of about 270,000 square metres.

The development includes a mixed-use golf and beach resort including a 300-key hotel, 150-key resort and spa, apartments, beach- and golf-view villas, a club house, an 18-hole golf course and various entertainment amenities.

The award is the latest for Hill in Morocco. In 2012 the US firm won a contract to provide project controls services for the construction of the $590m Casablanca Marina in Casablanca.