Project: Hamad Medical City
Location: Doha
Cost: USD 600 million
Construction start: 2004
Construction end: 2008
Client: Ministry of Municipal and Agricultural Affairs and Public Works Authority

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Medical city gears up to host Asian Games

Work is well under way on the Athletes Village, the Doha Asian Games 2006, which will later transform into one of the largest of healthcare centres of its kind in the Middle East.

Set on a 63.5-hectare single city block in Doha, the project is expected to be completed before 2008 and is being designed and fitted out to the highest international health care standards.

The project was launched in 2003 and most of the contracts for the project have now been awarded.

“The client's brief was to produce a high-calibre hospital that would redefine medical care in the region, whilst at the same time creating a suitable environment, in the interim, to provide the best possible accommodation for the 10,000 to 12,000 athletes competing in the 2006 Asian Games. All this has to be fitted into the compressed time frame available for construction of the Village of less than two years,” says a spokesman for Fedcon (Federation of Design and Construction Services) of Thailand, the design and supervision consultant on the project.

To date, the client – Ministry of Municipal and Agricultural Affairs and Public Works Authority – has awarded at least 10 construction packages. Construction work is under way on all these packages and is scheduled for completion by early 2006.

In addition to these, sub-contracts that are yet to awarded include landscaping, hospital curtain-walling, low-voltage special systems and the hospital fit-out, says the spokesman.

“Once complete, the QR2.2 billion ($604 million) Doha 2006 Asian Games Athletes Village/Hamad Medical City will be a state-of-the-art medical facility that will have the best of equipment and staff that has been trained to the highest level,” says the spokesman.

Much of the focus of the project – which will eventually involve four hospitals – is centered on a 1,100-bed hospital, comprising paediatric, physical medicine and rehabilitation hospitals and a skilled nursing facility. Also part of the project is an oval 900-slot car park with access at the ground level as well as the basement level via four elevators and two escalators.

In addition to the hospital, the project also includes new residential accommodation for the hospital staff including a nurses’ hostel and apartment buildings for married staff.

The nurses hotel will accommodate about 2,400 nurses in eight-storey blocks, while the apartments will provide housing for 250 families in four-bedroom apartments.

These residential facilities will be provided with leisure and recreation amenities such as a nurses’ club and a married staff club containing suites of guest rooms. Both clubs will have swimming pools and tennis courts.
A seven-storey office block for the Ministry of Public Health will also be part of the project. It will include an open mall, a 300-seat auditorium, a 520-slot car-park and minister’s suite.

In addition, there will be an education centre containing a 300-seat auditorium and 16 classrooms. A daily mosque will be located within the married staff accommodation area and a larger Friday Mosque will be situated between the hospital and the ministry building.

The areas between the buildings will be extensively landscaped to provide not only ‘green cover’ but also leisure and meeting areas, and plazas will be laid out for both hospital visitors and staff.

The electrical and water requirements for the entire project will be serviced by a central energy plant (CEP), which will house a 66 kV gas-insulated switchgear primary substation. There will also be twelve 2,000-tonne capacity chillers to supply chilled water for cooling the various buildings. In addition, the CEP building will store and distribute potable, fire-fighting and irrigation water to the buildings and the landscaping.
Hill International Overseas is the project manager for the development.

Construction
Elaborating on the type of construction, the spokesman says: “Construction is generally reinforced concrete frame on pad foundation with post-tensioned concrete for the upper floors. The buildings are clad in pre-cast concrete panels and the interior finishes are of the highest quality with an extensive use of granite, marble wood panelling and other high-specification materials. High-quality double-glazed windows and curtain walling will be used on the project.

Work on the hospital and ancillary buildings will stop in the early months of 2006 and a ‘fit-out’ package will be undertaken, which will temporarily convert the buildings already completed by that time to become the Athletes Village for the 2006 Asian Games to be hosted by Qatar in December 2006.

Provision will be made to house the athletes and administrators in the residential units. Other needs of the games will be met by temporarily constructing a dining hall, a polyclinic for athletes and a range of leisure and recreation facilities along with administration and security requirements.
On completion of the games, the temporary structures will be removed and work on the hospital and ancillary buildings will be resumed, he adds.

Among the largest projects in progress in Qatar is the $600 million Hamad Medical City complex, which will initially serve as the athletes’ village for the 2006 Doha Asian Games. J&P-Avax has won the $104 million deal for construction of a hospital and an underground car-park with a capacity for 556 vehicles while a $145 million finishing works contract awarded to Saudi Arabia’s El-Seif Engineering Contracting for married housing and nursing accommodation units (See page 117).

As part of the infrastructure required to host the Asian Games, construction of the Asian Games City is under way. Once completed, over 30 sports facilities will be in place. Existing buildings are being renovated as new ones are being built, including Al Sadd Stadium, Al Rayyan Sports Centre, Al Ilihad Sports Centre, Al Arabi Sports Centre, Swimming Centre (Aquatic) and Khalifa Stadium.

I saw the old hospital when I was in Doha about 4 years ago, but this is much better. I like the greenery.

USD100bn for Qatar projects

The Qatar Government plans to spend USD100bn on investment and infrastructure projects over the next few years, Minister of Economy Sheikh Mohammed bin Ahmad bin Jassem Al Thani told Al Sharq. Officials highlighted roads, sewage systems, 36 new schools, 20 kindergartens, Hamad Medical City, a cardiac hospital and other infrastructure schemes. Qatar has the highest per capita income in the GCC.

Qatar plans to spend $100b on infrastructure projects

Doha: Qatar is planning to spend about $100 billion (Dh367 billion) on investment and infrastructure projects over the next seven years, officials said.

The government has revised its current allocations for investment and infrastructure projects, said Shaikh Mohammad Bin Ahmad Bin Jassem Al Thani, Minister of Economy and Commerce, according to a report in the daily Al Sharq. The minister spoke during a seminar on investment opportunities in Qatar recently held in Spain.

The Public Works Authority (PWA) has chalked out a five-year road development plan, said Ahmad Sultan Al Kuwari, a PWA official who participated in the seminar.

PWA expects to spend 13.7 billion Qatari riyals (Dh130 billion) by 2009 on the road development plan, he said. Among the road projects under consideration is an effort to upgrade several major arteries in Doha, plus the construction of new subways.

PWA has identified 32 projects to be completed during the five-year plan, he said. Most of the infrastructure projects currently under way are slated to be completed by 2006.

Meanwhile, PWA's projected expenditures on projects over the next few years, including those in the road development plan, total about 26 billion riyals (Dh247 billion), said Ziad Mansour Al Khayarin, PWA's general manager.

During an official presentation at the Central Municipal Council, Al Khayarin said the 13.7 billion riyals for road projects was just one part of the overall vision for infrastructure development.

An additional 6.8 billion riyals (Dh64.8 billion) is to be spent on sewage systems and 5.6 billion riyals (Dh53.4 billion) on buildings construction and renovation, he said.

Plans for 36 new schools, 20 kindergartens, the Asiad Village, Hamad Medical City and a cardiac hospital are also under study, officials said.

PWA will work to ensure local companies have ample opportunities to participate in all projects under study, Al Khayarin said.

i would say this project is about 70% finished.

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Where will the souther hospital be built ?

Thanks for the pics, i really wanted to see more pics of how the final project will look. I think its a great thing they way Qatar is spending money to develop its health care system. I just cant wait to see the officials finally giving hamad medical a serious face lift, the place is so depresing.

It will be in al wakrah and It will cost 220 million QR, with a 200-bed facility.

New Hamad Hospital

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New Hamad Hospital

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This one in in The new Hamad Medical City, according to the contractor it is finished from outside for the asian games, but it will finish from inside in onother 6 months or so.

NICE

Good

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nice very nice

The two threads are merged :) The last two buildings remind me of houses in Germany.

Wonderful .... :)

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remainin later.....

WHAT ! 2011 !!!!!! this is way of to be considered completed i think the right word is reconstruction !

HMC children hospital to become operational in 2011

DOHA • The first exclusive children's hospital in Qatar, being established by the Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) is scheduled to go operational by the end of 2011.

Work on the 217- bed facility is in progress at the former Asian Games Village, located opposite the Hamad General Hospital, which has now been converted to the Hamad Medical City .

An 11-storey building at the site has been redesigned for the proposed hospital, which will offer all medical and surgical services for children under one roof, Dr Abdullah Mohammed Al Kaabi, project director said in a press conference yesterday.

" The interior of the building needs to be redesigned to make it suitable for a children's hospital. This work is expected to be completed in two years. It will take another year to bring and install all the necessary equipment. The hospital is scheduled to go operational by the middle or the end of 2011," said Al Kaabi.

HMC has already signed a partnership agreement with the Canada-based Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), affiliated with the University of Toronto, to develop the facility.

" We considered seven hospitals for the partnership and SickKids was finally selected because of its reputation as the most research-intensive hospital in Canada," said Al Kaabi.

The new facility has also been envisaged as a research centre, while providing high-quality health care in a child-friendly atmosphere. SickKids will help in all stages of its establishment from designing up to administration.

A team from the hospital will visit Doha next month to check the existing facility and chart out an implementation plan for the project, said Al Kaabi.

The hospital will cater to all children aged up to 14 years, nationals as well as residents, in the initial stages.

"We will seek permission from the authorities to extend the age limit up to 18 years," said Al Kaabi.

The hospital will offer all major specialties including pediatric cardio-vascular programmes, emergency care, ENT, ophthalmology, among others. It will also focus on obesity and diabetes among children.

The premises will include children's play areas and entertainment facilities to create a child and family friendly atmosphere. Even the colour of the building will be decided with this aspect in view.

There is also a plan, at a later stage to a set up special forum for parents to involve them in the functioning of the hospital.

Asked if the 217 bed-facility is sufficient to meet the increasing demands of the country in the pediatric sector, Al Kaabi said, " There are other facilities for children coming up in the country both in the private and public sectors. A super specialty hospital for women and children- Sidra Medical and Research Center- is being established by the Qatar Foundation at the Education City premises. The new hospitals coming up in various parts of the country will also have facilities for children."

As for the cost of treatment at the new hospital, Al Kaabi said, it will be decided later by the HMC management, in line with the system followed in other HMC facilities.

What can I say?! Add it to the list of delays ...

il mishkila I don't understand my country guys... rather than finish things, we just demolish the new stuff and rebuild it. Lol wtf is going on?!

my mother said that the nurses working in hamad hospital will be transferred there.
does anyone know when?,. i'm excited to move there but it's taking too long...

^^ yeah part of the project is a doctor and nurse's housing, i am guessing its reopening in 2011..... hey it seems this hospital and sidra both will open in 2011 nice quincidence

2011??,... i dont think i can wait that long... what are they doing with it?!,.
It seems ready to me,...

^^ there building from the inside because there rebiuilding it and changeing it so that it transforms from an athleats village 2006 to a brand new hospital.....

^ oww,.. i see,... ok,. point taken.. but it think its too long, or am i just excited to go there,.. :)

^^ there building from the inside because there rebiuilding it and changeing it so that it transforms from an athleats village 2006 to a brand new hospital.....

you mean refurbishing?:)

yeah kind of refurbishing and renovation :D

bump,.. :lol:
any updates on this?!,.

its completed........ but refurbishments and renovations are going on since the buildings are already 2 years old....

hmm,. no, what I mean is,
example: are there "significant" changes?!, is there "anything new"?! or when will it open?!?!,.. :?

exterior there are some parts of the project in renovation but interior is undergoing major refurbishment, there is a part of the project which is for the minestry of health that is open with offices and people working day and night, the whole thing will open by 2011 btw 2011 seems to be a great year !! 2011 is the year where sidra mediacal hospital in education city will open putting qatar on the map of health sidra hospital will be a paperless hospital ! meaning its all technology, also in 2011 qatar will host the asian indoor games and the asian football cup !!! are there any more important occassions in 2011 in qatar tha i missed ???

iam looking for my old partner DR bu mahmmad :) so that is HMC i hear about it so many times ... great

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they're adding two new buildings from the other side, you will see it if you go from almarmar palace R/A, its weird though, they have few empty buildings in there, why build more empty ones ???

they're adding two new buildings from the other side, you will see it if you go from almarmar palace R/A, its weird though, they have few empty buildings in there, why build more empty ones ???

By the way what is the history of this palace? It has been revamped not long ago, do you know what's its current use right now?

It was built for the Asian games athleats village, then the residential part of the project has been renovated and NOW it serves as nurses/doctors accommodation and their families,,,, the hospital buildings however are under a recently signed contract for refurbishing them and according to latest news the buildings will house a women's hospital and a children's hospital.,,,

By the way what is the history of this palace? It has been revamped not long ago, do you know what's its current use right now?

it is still being used as a guest house for the GCC leaders.

It was built by Sheikh Ali as a guest house for King Saud of Saudi Arabia since he used to visit Doha a lot. that's all I can remember.

^^thanks Salman, you taught me something!

Concerning the hospital, the fit-out contract was awarded end of last year to Koreans Hyundai. The pics posted by weld el dafna are I think a positive indication that on-site work is to start very soon! Finally!


Ashghal and Hyundai sign QR1.9 bn deal for furnishing and equipping three new hospitals at Hamad Medical City

Doha 28 Dec. 2010: Dr. Hanan Al Kuwari, The Managing Director of Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) witnessed the signing ceremonies of QR 1.9 billion contract signed between the Public Works Authority (Ashghal) and the South Koreas Hyundai Engineering & Construction Company .

The contract is for the furnishing and equipping three state-of-the-art hospitals and a research center built at the Medical City in Doha. The complex will have a combined bed strength of over 500 include a womens hospital, a surgical day-hospital and a physiotherapy and rehabilitation centre in addition to a research center.

The project, which is scheduled to kick-off as from early February 2011 is expected to be over within 35 months and handed over in December 2013.

President of Ashghal, Engineer Nasser Ali Al Mawlawi, and President of H y u n d a i Engineering and Construction Company , Joong Kyum Kim signed the agreement on behalf of their respective organizations. The Ambassador of South Korea to Qatar, HE Chang See-Jeong and a host of dignitaries, also, attended the occasion.

Dr Hanan Al Kuwari affirmed that the three hospitals, when opened at Hamad Medical City, shall not only significantly improve healthcare in Qatar, but also boost research in the field of medicine and health sciences and materialize Qatar vision for the year 2030.

She said all the three hospitals shall offer the best in healthcare, comparable with the services available anywhere in the world.

The whole complex occupies a total built-up area of 216,000sqm.It includes a Womens Hospital with 190 single rooms, 60 examination rooms, more than 60 bassinets for newborn babies, five operating theaters 21 delivery rooms in addition to integrated management services for cesarean and accident emergency operations, triage rooms, X-ray rooms, treatment rooms and emergency delivery rooms.

The surgical day-hospital has 11 surgical operations rooms equipped with all resuscitation requirements, investigations and radiology ward, treatment rooms, 12 ENT examination rooms in addition to main daily care ward. The same building, also, embraces, on a surface area of 3400 sqm, diabetes center with 30 examination rooms and 59 day care rooms.

The physiotherapy and rehabilitation centre secures a total capacity of 200 beds with all relevant services. It also hosts the longest hydrotherapy ward for adults in the Gulf region. The physiotherapy OPCs include; 12 treatment rooms, four sports halls, socio-therapy room and main ward for education and support. The OPCs services also cover occupational therapy and organs transplantation.

The designers of the hospitals took into consideration the highest medical standards and the latest international technologies to make of them the best pioneering healthcare facilities in the region.

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Your welcome :)

its good to know that we are having more ER in the area, its really needed, and the same for the women hospital. hopefully they will finish on time, December 2013

The complex will have a combined bed strength of over 500 include a womens hospital, a surgical day-hospital and a physiotherapy and rehabilitation centre in addition to a research center.

To be done in December 2013.... Lets say Q1 2014.

Sounds good, as long as Wakrah general and Sidra Hospitals open soon. We need these two municipalities to have their own Main healthcare services ASAP.

oh and BTW, WHERE IS THE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL THEY PROMISED US !!! >=C Think about the poor children :ohno:

the one in alsadd is for children since I was born :P we do need a new one.