{"id":13905,"date":"2019-10-24T06:10:05","date_gmt":"2019-10-24T06:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onplan.ae\/dewa-awards-aed-1bn-contract-for-new-headquarters-constructions\/"},"modified":"2019-10-24T06:10:05","modified_gmt":"2019-10-24T06:10:05","slug":"dewa-awards-aed-1bn-contract-for-new-headquarters-constructions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onplan.ae\/ar\/dewa-awards-aed-1bn-contract-for-new-headquarters-constructions\/","title":{"rendered":"DEWA awards AED 1bn contract for new headquarters constructions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p> The Dubai Water and Electricity Authority (DEWA) has awarded AED 981.96 million contract for the construction of its new headquarters, Al-Shera\u2019a, to a consortium comprising Ghantoot Transport &amp; General Contracting and Ghantoot Gulf Contracting.<\/p>\n<p>Under the contract, the construction of the project will be completed within 30 months, according to a statement released on Saturday by Government of Dubai\u2019s media office.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy building Al-Shera\u2019a, we establish a global benchmark for buildings that achieve a balance between development and the environment, to protect the right of future generations to live in a clean, healthy and safe environment,\u201d CEO of DEWA Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer said.<\/p>\n<p>DEWA previously awarded an AED 46 million contract for the first phase of construction to Dutco Balfour Beatty, bringing the total cost of construction to more than AED 1 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Al Shera\u2019a will have 15 floors, a basement, and 4 floors of car parking. It will comprise more than 20,000 square metres of photovoltaic solar panels rated to over 4,000 kilowatts.<\/p>\n<p>DEWA\u2019s new headquarters will be directly linked to Jadaf metro station by a bridge, which will encourage the use of public transport for the reduction of traffic and the carbon emissions.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p> The Dubai Water and Electricity Authority (DEWA) has awarded AED 981.96 million contract for the construction of its new headquarters, Al-Shera\u2019a, to a consortium comprising Ghantoot Transport &amp; General Contracting and Ghantoot Gulf Contracting.<\/p>\n<p>Under the contract, the construction of the project will be completed within 30 months, according to a statement released on Saturday by Government of Dubai\u2019s media office.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy building Al-Shera\u2019a, we establish a global benchmark for buildings that achieve a balance between development and the environment, to protect the right of future generations to live in a clean, healthy and safe environment,\u201d CEO of DEWA Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer said.<\/p>\n<p>DEWA previously awarded an AED 46 million contract for the first phase of construction to Dutco Balfour Beatty, bringing the total cost of construction to more than AED 1 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Al Shera\u2019a will have 15 floors, a basement, and 4 floors of car parking. It will comprise more than 20,000 square metres of photovoltaic solar panels rated to over 4,000 kilowatts.<\/p>\n<p>DEWA\u2019s new headquarters will be directly linked to Jadaf metro station by a bridge, which will encourage the use of public transport for the reduction of traffic and the carbon emissions.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13906,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[938],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-real-estate"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onplan.ae\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onplan.ae\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onplan.ae\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onplan.ae\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onplan.ae\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/onplan.ae\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onplan.ae\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onplan.ae\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onplan.ae\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onplan.ae\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}