Doha-based Qatar Project Management Company (QPM) has awarded the contract to manage the construction of the $6.9bn Barwa New Cairo project in Egypt Berger Hill to a US-based joint venture of Hill International and Louis Berger.
The Barwa New Cairo project will be built on an 8.4 square-kilometre site on the east side of Cairo and take 12 years to complete.
The masterplan includes golf courses, commercial office buildings, medical facilities, schools, mosques, resort and business hotels, villas and apartments, parks and playgrounds, and a town centre with entertainment and retail shopping areas.
Contractors are scheduled to start construction work in the first quarter of 2010.
QPM provides project management services to Doha-based developers Barwa Real Estate and Qatari Diar Real Estate Investment Company.
Barwa first announced plans to build the city in August 2006. It also has international projects in Paris, Istanbul, Jeddah and Ajman (MEED 18:8:09).
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