Contract awarded for $490m Dubai Conference Centre
Arena will include Sheikh Rashid Hall, which will cater for 10,000 people and span an area of 190,000 square feet
Dubai Municipality has awarded a contract for the planned AED 1.8 billion ($490m) conference centre being built in the runup to the Expo 2020.
The Dubai Conference Centre, spread over an area of 55,000 square meters, is to be located in the Al Jaddaf area, facing Dubai Festival City, according to the UAE state news agency WAM.
The name of the contractor that won the work and the project completion date were not disclosed.
The Dubai Conference Centre will include the Sheikh Rashid Hall, catering for 10,000 delegates, with a height of 30m and an area of 190,000 square feet. The hall will include seating designed like a theatre, and be used for international conferences, seminars, meetings, music concerts and theatrical shows.
The three-level hall will have five sub-halls with a total area of 10,500 square feet, each of which will be able to accommodate up to 1,000 people.
A concourse building will link the halls with hotel buildings and offices. This covered and air-conditioned glass corridor, with shops and restaurants, will be 25 metres high, 150 metres long, and have an area of 50,000 square feet.
There will be two hotels: A three-star hotel on thirty three floors with an area of 250,000 square feet, and a four-star hotel comprising forty-eight floors, with an area of 410,000 square feet. The 36-floor office building will span an area of 310,000 square feet.
The announcement was made during a press conference attended by Hussain Nasser Lootah, Director-General of Dubai Municipality, and Mohammed Al-Mashrom, the Director of the General Projects Department.
Lootah said the Dubai Conference Centre (Arena) project is one of the largest to be carried out by the department to host the World Expo 2020.
