New faculty buildings will be located at the Sabah al-Salem University campus
Kuwait University has extended the bid deadline to 9 November for the contract to build the Faculty of Arts and Faculty of Education buildings at the new $3bn Sabah al-Salem University campus.
The previous submission date was 24 October. It is believed that the bid deadline was extended to allow more contractors to submit bids for the contract. At least 26 consortiums have prequalified for the project.
The work involves the construction of the faculty buildings and associated facilities, site improvements and landscape development. Both colleges will comprise five-storey academic buildings, faculty offices and administrative office buildings.
The College of Arts will occupy two new buildings. One will be for undergraduate males and graduate students and the other will be for undergraduate women and the faculty staff.
The two College of Arts buildings combined will cover approximately 54,000 square metres. In addition to the facilities for the Faculty of Arts, the new college building will contain general facilities to be used by students of other colleges. These facilities will include a 500-seat auditorium, a multi-purpose hall and dining facilities.
The work involves the construction of the faculty buildings and associated facilities, site improvements and landscape development.
The College of Education will also occupy two new buildings, one for males and one for females. Combined, the two buildings will cover a total area of 55,000 sq m. The male section will contain approximately 15,000 sq m, and the female department will contain about 40,000 sq m. The College of Education will also contain a 250-seat auditorium, learning resource centre and a dining facility.
The 26 consortiums that have prequalified for the project are:
| Local Al-Arabi Trading & Real Estate Centre Company/Italy’s Societa Italiana per Condotte Dacqua | Local Abu Shaiba General Trading & Contracting Company/Turkey’s Mesa Mesken Sanayii |
| First United General Trading & Contracting Company/Spain’s OHL | Athens-based Consolidated Contractors Company (CCC) |
| Local Kuwait Company for Process Plant Construction & Contracting (KCPC)/ Italy’s Impressa Pizzarotti | Local Al-Hani Construction & Trading Company/China’s Sinohydro Corporation |
| Local Copri Construction Projects Company/South Korea’s Hyundai Engineering & Construction | Local High Slant Contracting Group/South Korea’s Hyundai Amco |
| Local Sadeem al-Kuwait General Trading & Contracting Company/Saudi Oger | Local Syed Hamid Behbehani & Sons Company/South Korea’s Posco Engineering & Construction Company |
| Local Combined Group Contracting Company/UAE’s Arabtec Construction | Local Hayat Group General Trading & Contracing Company/UAE’s Al-Nasr General Contracting Company |
| Local Abdul Rahman al-Bisher Sons General Trading & Contracting Company/Turkey’s Nurol Construction & Trading Company | Local Mushrif Trading & Contracting Company/Singapore’s Sembawang |
| Local International Building Company/UK-office of SNC Lavalin | Local Khaled Ali al-Kharafi & Brothers Construction Company/Metallurgical Corporation of China (MCC) |
| Local Al-Ahmadiah Contracting & Trading Company/France’s Bouygues Batiment International | UAE’s Al-Saqar General Trading & Contracting Company/Malysia’s Pembinaan |
| Local Arab Kuwait Contractors Company/Egypt’s Arab Contractors (Othman Ahmed Othman & Partners) | Local Gulf Construction, Marine Works and General Contracting Company/China Communication Construction Company |
| Local Al-Aamar Engineering Roads & Bridges Contracting Company/Saudi Binladin Group | Local Alghanim Combined Group General Trading & Contracting Company/Turkey’s Ant Yapi |
| Local Burhan International Construction Company/Egypt’s Orascom Construction Industries | Local Boodai Construction Company/Italy’s Rizzani De Eccher |
| Local Alghanim International Trading & Contracting Company/UAE’s Al-Habtoor Leighton Group | Local Sai General Trading/Greece’s Aktor |
The Sabah al-Salem campus will be located at Shadadiyah, 20km west of Kuwait city.
A consortium of Malaysia’s Pembinaan and the local Al-Sager General Trading & Contracting was the low bidder with a price of KD136.4m ($483m) (MEED 26:810).
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