Residential Design & Plan

Kusile Power Station

KUSILE is one of two Coal-Fired power station being built by South African state company Eskom as part of its multi-billion rand expansion, with completion scheduled for 2017.

The new base-load power station, which will consist of six generating units generating a total of approximately 4 800 megawatts, is situated close to the existing Kendal power station near the town of Witbank in Mpumalanga province.

SAMA Contracting

SAMA CONTRACTING , M&R AND THE LAGOONS PROJECT

Sama Contracting LLC is a Sama Dubai company , managed by Murray & Roberts, responsible for the delivery of a new US $18bn project, The Lagoons www.lagoons.ae . The project will be completed over a 5 – 7 Year time period. A second multi-billion US$ project namely Jumeira Hills is currently in the planning phase and construction will commence in the 1st quarter of next year.

Some key features of the Lagoons project are :

• US$ 18 billion in value ( ZAR 132 billion)
• Will employ 140 000 employees at peak
• 1 750 buses delivering and collecting labour on site each day
• Sama Contracting will employ 350 employees on site
• 25 Million Cubic meters excavation
• Converting 6 square km of desert land to waterways and islands
• Over 480 plots of land , each with a building , not one of them the same in shape
• Some of the buildings “iconic” in terms of shape and features
• Highest building will be 95 stories , followed by 85 , 75 and 65 , all of them “snake-like “ in shape, and twisting simultaneously (Looks like candles flickering in the wind)
• The 95 storey building will be the 2nd highest building in the world after the Burj Dubai currently under construction
• Concrete trucks will arrive on site at a rate of one truck every 30 seconds
• At peak the project will place 10 000 cubic meters of concrete per day
• The area will be provided with service from 9 massive electrical substations and 6 district cooling plants
• Below the main island and water level there will be parking for 45 000 vehicles
• The infrastructure will include some 15 bridges (some of them“iconic”) and 15 km of connecting roads between the various islands and buildings
• 40 km of Quay walls
• Controlled water depth of 5m within the area
• Canals up to 250m wide in some places
• Borders a world renowned wildlife sanctuary which is home to thousands of non-migrating flamingos

Murray & Roberts are South Africa’s leading diversified contractor, established for over 100 years with an excellent reputation.

Established in Dubai in 1997 with their sponsor partner Al Habtoor Engineering www.habtooreng.ae, they are responsible for some of the region’s landmark buildings, notably, in Dubai, the Burj Al Arab hotel, www.burj-al-arab.com, the Shangri-la Hotel, the Madinat Jumeirah, and currently three quarters through the fit-out of the new terminal at Dubai Airport. In Qatar, the Khalifa Sports Stadium, in Bahrain, the Bahrain World Trade Centre, in Abu Dhabi, the national oil company’s head office as well as recently being awarded the new Ethiad Airways terminal building and finally in Egypt, the San Stefano development. For more information, please have a look at their website www.murrob.com.

Sama Dubai are the international property developers of the Dubai government, responsible for new mega projects in Dubai, Qatar, Bahrain, Morocco and Oman www.sama-dubai.com. They come under the umbrella company Dubai Holdings www.dubaiholding.com