Oman’s Ministry of Housing and Urban Planning has signed contracts worth RO228 million ($590 million) for the infrastructure development of Phase One of Oman’s mega Sultan Haitham City project at the Urban October Conference and Home & Building Expo held last month in Muscat.

Spanning an area of 5 million sq m, Phase One of Sultan Haitham City project will feature more than 7,000 residential units over an area of more than 3 million sq m.

These contracts included six partnership and cooperation agreements, reported Oman News Agency (ONA).

Among the agreements signed was a deal to establish networks for electricity, water, sewage, irrigation, telecommunications, and district cooling networks at  a cost of RO82.7 million, it stated. The project, to be completed within 24 months, will be implemented by Towell Infrastructure Company, it added.

Sarooj Construction Company has been signed up to construct main roads, tunnels and culverts worth RO63.2 million, for completion within 30 months.

A RO6 million agreement was signed with Al Faniah Oman Company to build three transformer stations (11/33 kV), within 15 months.

The Ministry of Endowments and Religious Affairs sealed a deal to establish integrated service stations valued at RO6 million, as part of its Al Birr and Al Ihsan project. 

Additionally, a memorandum of understanding (MoU) was signed to allocate a 8,000 sq m plot of land for the Security and Safety Services Foundation. Further, a cooperation agreement was signed to develop the technological framework for smart cities within Sultan Haitham City.

In a major boost to the Sultan Haitham City project, a number of new neighbourhoods within the mega project were also inaugurated.