The eight kilometer long Barwa Commercial Avenue will be a center for retail, office and residential units. It will be built alongside the highway at Doha‘s southern fringe and comprise almost 900,000 square meters of gross floor space, which is equivalent to roughly 110 soccer pitches.
HOCHTIEF Construction already provided consultancy services to the client during the planning phase under the partnership based business model PreFair. PreFair is an innovative form of contracting model based on partnership between client, architect, engineers and HOCHTIEF, to counter price based competition.
First contract lots for excavation works and construction pit preparation with a combined value of EUR45 million ($59.6 million) have been realized since February 2008.
During the planning, HOCHTIEF employed innovative virtual construction technology. For example; subsidiary ViCon developed a customized, complex 3D model of the shopping center and on this basis calculated the precise quantities of required construction materials. In addition, modern Internet-based communication tools such as iRooms are used for project support.
Barwa contract signed on April 26, 2009, is the biggest single order contract in its corporate history.
