El-Seif Engineering and Construction of Saudi Arabia and Qatar-based National Industrial Construction Company (NICC) have won the first two of the total 12 contracts to build the Asian Games Village in Qatar.

The contracts awarded by the Municipal Affairs and Agriculture Ministry are worth QR86.6 million ($23.7 million).
The two contracts involve the construction of buildings – one set to accommodate single nurses at a cost of QR54.97 million and the other as family quarters of hospital staff worth QR31.64 million.
The two projects will have 871 accommodation units and both  the works are to be completed by December.
Hill International (Overseas), a wholly-owned Hill International subsidiary, is the management consultant for the project. Thailand-based Fedcon will be the designer and supervisor for the project.
The Asian Games Village covering an area of 420,000 sq m would cost $1.8 billion and house 10,000 athletes and several thousand officials who will be taking part on the 15th Asian Games in December 2006.
After the event, it will be retrofitted to make it suitable for use by the Hamad Medical Corporation, the original owners of the project.