NIC: Baghdad International Fair exhibiting period had witnessed high demand for Bismayah project’s housing units

 

 

NIC pavilion in Baghdad International Fair which was held for the period (20-29/10/2014) had witnessed big number of visitors of those willing to register to buy Bismayah housing units.

An NIC authorized source stated that Bismayah registration management office in coordination with the NIC media office shall work together to conduct field visits to Bismayah site for people willing to know more about how work is going there before buying a housing unit in the said project.

NIC pavilion also included booths for some other big important projects supervised by NIC like al- Mustaqbal city with 30 thousand housing units and Janat Baghdad city with 20 thousand housing units which are to be constructed in Baghdad while Dhifaf Karbala project with 40 thousand units in Karbala province and Basra New city project with 100 thousand units in Basra province.

NIC Chairman. Dr, Sami al- Araji, and during his inspection visit to the Fair, described the NIC participation in such economic activities as a fundamental pillar for investment promotion process in Iraq inviting companies to invest available investment opportunities in the country and the big incentives and facilitations granted by investment law No. 13 for the year 2006 as amended.

Meanwhile, NIC and implementing companies representatives submitted elaborated explanations about all work phases, mechanisms of implementation and ways of registration in the projects.

A number of officials and global companies representatives visited the NIC pavilion and viewed the exhibited investment projects and the available investment opportunities in the different sectors and discussed the possibility of opening new cooperation horizons between the two sides.

Baghdad International Fair also witnessed the participation of the provincial investment commissions as (Baghdad, Babylon, Karbala, Salahadeen, Dayala, Diwanyia, Thi Qar, Wasit) where implemented and under construction projects in these provinces were exhibited in addition to promoting the available investment opportunities in various sectors like commercial, health, housing, and industrial sectors while preliminary agreements were signed with some visiting companies to exchange visits.

During a press conference in Bismayah housing project site

NIC Chairman: Work in Bismayah project is proceeding according to Schedule

NIC Chairman, Dr. Sami al- Araji assured that the work in Bismayah New City project is proceeding according to schedule agreed upon overcoming all difficulties and obstacles, simultaneously he praised the positive role played

by official entities in supporting the project and Hanawah Company strong commitment to implement all its obligations.

The announcement came during the big press conference organized by NIC at the 14^th of October/14 to show the media all progress achieved when Dr. Sami revealed accomplishing all buildings in A1 sector which consists of 10 thousand housing unit with full services shall be delivered to registrars during the year 2015 while implementing the commercial centers shall start on 2017. The master plans for 16 project of building schools, sewage plants and medical centers have also been done waiting to be started soon.

 

NIC Chairman also revealed the intention to start up a company in cooperation with Hanawah co. to run Bismayah city according to internationally adopted management systems for housing compounds against regular fees to be paid by dwellers referring that there will be 7 entrances for the city provided with high standard security system.

Al- Araji also added that the NIC had contracted with UNIGAS Lebanese company to provide liquidized gas to the housing units in the city through the pipes in coordination with NIC and Iraqi Ministry of Oil. Coordination had also been done with the Iraqi Ministry of Housing AND Construction to expand Baghdad- Kut road to reach New Diyala bridge ending with Bab al- Sharqi point. NIC also is studying with the Iraqi Ministry of Transport the possibility of implementing a project of Metro that connects Bismayah with the center of Baghdad through announcing the project as an investment opportunity.

Hanawah Co. declared that (8) km out of (20) km total length of the services tunnel that contains electrical wires and telecommunication lines had been accomplished, while the company is keen to increase its equipments and heavy vehicles from 1600 to 20600 during the next year and increase its staff number which is 6500, 650 of whom are Korean expats by adding 550 more Korean expat.

The conference, which was held in the marketing tower just accomplished in the city, was attended by a big number of media channels and journals.

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This notification has come after discovering some fake accounts with the name of Dr. Al- Araji which have already been reported as shouldn’t be on Facebook.

 

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Bismayah’s Milestones Became Clear

 

Despite the exceptional circumstances Iraq is running through and difficulties faced in obtaining the logistic supplies, Bismayah project is witnessing recognizable development represented by expanding the work progress ground in several sites of the project.

More staff are expected to arrive in Baghdad to contribute the construction of the project in order to expedite the building construction process and to cover larger areas. Among those staff, there would be engineers, supervisors and workers planned to be deployed on more workplaces.

As for the latest developments on the ground, specifically in town (A), they can be summarized as follows:-

• Pile Driving Process

Recently, the pile driving works have been expanded in construction site to cover most of Town (A) blocks, where the pile driving and foundation works of Block (A-2) have been finished in preparation for the launching of building erection process, after the erection of Block (A-1) buildings to the ninth or tenth floor. On the other hand, the pile driving process rates have reached an advanced level in the Block (A-3), and pilot pile driving is being conducted in the Block (A- 6), in addition to the on-going work on the land development in the other Blocks of Town (A).

• Foundations and Buildings Construction

Coordinating construction of all nine Blocks of Town (A) is a difficult task. Some buildings are erected to reach the tenth floor (Last Floor). On the other side, the foundation casting process is being continued in other neighboring Blocks, as the block (A-2) building foundations have been completed along with significant progress in other neighboring Blocks. Regarding water tanks in Town (A) which are (9) tanks, known as (Break Tanks), 3 out of (9) have been constructed so far.

• The Infrastructure (Water, Sewage Networks, and Electricity) The work is ongoing in full swing to complete all infrastructure of BNCP, the most notable ones are water, sewage, electricity and communication networks. All Bismayah City Towns will be supplied and fed with huge underground networks to cover the entire area of the project. The underground water, sewage and electricity networks have been fully laid down in the Block (A-1), while similar networks are about to be finished in Block (A-2). In addition, the work is in progress to complete rain water and sewage systems in Block (A -3).

Meanwhile, the company had constructed giant silos in Bismayah’s plants that have the capacity to store large amounts of cement that can be used in the events of emergency.

During his Participation in the Economic Mobilization Conference

NIC Chairman: Most of the Investment Companies are continuing their activities in Iraq including Bismayah project Executing Company

During the conference held by the General Committee of Integrity in coordination with the NIC under the slogan of “the Economic Mobilization is a vital source to support official efforts to overcome Terrorism” , NIC Chairman, Dr. Sami Al- Araji assured that most of the global companies working in Iraq are still going forward in implementing their different projects and at the forefront of these companies is Hanawah South Korean company executing Bismayah New City project.

NIC Chairman added that the recent military actions Iraq had witnessed affected certain provinces, the matter that led to temporary withdrawal for some of investment companies due to the shutdown of borders outlets of importing equipment and raw materials for these companies stressing that the stoppage shall continue for a temporary period as NIC is working continuously to meet with these companies and their countries ambassadors in addition to provincial investment commissions and the Iraqi private sector to lay down plans and draw a road map in consistence with the forthcoming phase.

Dr. Al- Araji also said that NIC is comfortable with Iraq economic status denying all tendentious rumors broadcasted to distort the image of the Iraqi economy and confirming that work is proceeding well especially in the middle and southern provinces while adding that NIC had directed provincial investment commissions to document the continuation or withdrawal of companies to discuss the relative economic and legal aspects of each situation.

NIC Chairman stressed the importance of the role played by the Iraqi private sector in economic mobilization through supporting defense fronts and supplying them with what they need of food, clothing and other supplements by donations or big facilitations adding that one of the most big challenges that NIC faced is closing roads and border outlets the matter that was solved by the private sector which suggested opening new outlets especially with Iran.

Meanwhile, Dr. Al- Araji praised the role of the economic organizations and unions which were able to control vital commodities prices in the Iraqi market especially those that enter within Iraqis everyday life indicating that there is an operation room that works around the cloak in coordination with the private sector to deal with all developments might occur on the ground.

The conference was attended by Chairman of the General Committee of Integrity, the Judge Alaa Jawad Al- Saaedy, the economic advisor in the Prime Minister office Dr. Abdul Hussein al- Anbaki, Deputy Ministers of Planning, Dr. Mahdi al- Alaq and Dr. Sami Maty in addition to a number of Ministries and Unions representatives.

With Storage Capasity of 53 thousand Piece of Concrete

Hanwah Company Constructs Warehouses in Bismayah city factories

Hanwah Company for Construction and Engineering adopted the self- sufficiency sustem by constructing Bismayah factories complex which is considered the first of its kind in Iraq and the biggest in the world to be aligned with the immensity of Bismayah Project and the importance of implementing it in the perfect way . the complex consists of more than 14 main and subordinate factories in addition to other vital aminities.

The factories production of the materials used to construct the project represent a qualtative jump in the constructional industries in Iraq by means of quality and quantity as the external walls factory produces concrete panels that are sufficient to construct 80 housing units a day while the concrete pillers factory produces about 260 pillers a day the matter that pushed Hanwah company to construct one of the biggest and most important supplementary facility for the factories which is the storing warhouses.

A specialized technical source in Hanawah company said that the main function of the warehouses is storing the precasting concrete produced in the external walls factory, the internal incisors factory, seilings and floors factory and the light blocks factory in addition to special storage for the concrete pillers and the plastic pipes factories production.

From the other side, warehouses were designed to be divided in to 11 partitions, 4 of which are currently being used while the others will be used when reaching the work prime and it is worth to mention that the total storage capacity for the 11 partitions will be 53 thousand concrete piece .

The National Investment Commission: Work in Bismayah Project is proceeding according to Schedule

NIC confirmed that work in Bismayah city project is proceeding according to schedule agreed upon with the excuting company despite the exeptional conditions Iraq is going through, clarifying that the company had accoplished the infrastructure of the first housing compound in the project while it is comleting the construction of its housing units simultaneously with leveling the land and laying the pillers and the building bases in the neigbouring housing compounds.

Meanwhile, the finishing work in the housing units constructed is moving ahead according to the latest scientific technologies.

On the other hand, Hanawah Compan had submitted offers with complete designes to the conserned ministries regarding the services needed for the project represented by power grid, water networks, roads conecting the city to baghdad, kindergartens and schools, police and fire extinguishing stations, post offices, gas stations and others as NIC is negotiating with the company to sign a contract to implement the aforementioned works in the same time of completing the constructions and other utilities in the project site.

In line with the latest construction technology

Bismayah Project Management inserts Tower cranes to accelerate work progress in the city

NIC announced that Bismayah project management had inserted giant  tower cranes in to the project in order to accelerate the process of constructing the housing units which are the new form of balanced cranes through which the latest methods of construction technology in terms of height and lifting capacity is used.

An official source in the executing company confirmed that the number of the tower cranes used in the project reached to (15) with a length of (63) meter and (12) tone load for each, it is hoped to increase this number according to work progress.

The source indicated that the tower cranes used widely in construction and other industries to lift and transport materials.

Worth mentioning that Bismayah New city is located to the eastern south of Baghdad with a far distance of 10 KM from the capital borders on the international road that connects Baghdad- Kut and is designed to inhabit 600,000 people.

Launching actual production in the Plastic Pipes and frames plant in Bismayah project

Hanawah Korean company , the executing   company of Bismayah project, started the actual production in the plastic pipes and frames  factory  (PVC) as a part of the company’s plan to operate the supporting factories of the project  amounting to (11) in addition to the three other basic  ones.

This was announced by an official source in Hanawah Company, indicating that the factory began its actual production after getting the official approvals from the National Centre for Engineering Consultations, National Centre for Laboratories and Construction Researches in addition to Department of Senior Engineer belongs to the Ministry of Construction and Housing.

The source added that the(PVC) material  has a high hardness characteristic and considered as very good for producing the sewage Pipes and windows frames for its low cost, high resistance to chemicals , ease of installation , lightweight , in addition to being good insulator of sound ,heat, wind with high resistance  to corrosion .

The factory produces the (PVC) material that is used in a wide range of Construction industry because it doesn’t need a lot of maintenance when used in plumbing and sanitation.

The source noted that the factory is divided into two essential stations, the first one gathers raw materials and produces (PVC) in different lengths and volumes while the second station gathers pipes in network forms to be used in constructing the housing units.

It is worth mentioning that Hanawah Company had began producing windows frames in 1986 in South Korea through its factory which is today considered as the most famous in the world in the field of manufacturing construction materials.

Under the Patronage of H.E Prime Minister Nuri Al- Maliki

Granting 80 free of charge Housing Units in Bismayah Project for Iraqi Families