BESIX awarded contract for tallest African skyscraper in Ivory Coast
F Tower will stand 935ft tall and will be located in the heart of Abidjan
BESIX, the leading Belgian infrastructure group, has announced that it has been awarded a major contract to provide site management, as well as the civil engineering works for a skyscraper in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, which will be the tallest tower in Africa.
Standing at 935 feet, the F Tower is a project being developed by PFO Africa, with the support of the Ministry of Construction, Housing, and Urban Planning. It is an initiative of the Ivory Coast, which is one of the leading economic powers in French-speaking Africa.
It is the second project associating PFO Africa and BESIX and carried out for the Ivorian government. It adds to the La Mé drinking water plant, currently under construction, one of the largest installations of its kind in West Africa, which will produce 30% of Abidjan’s drinking water needs.
Pierre Sironval, Deputy CEO of BESIX Group: “BESIX is extremely proud to participate in the construction of the F Tower. This is our second contract in Ivory Coast, a country that offers a favourable business environment and is economically dynamic. In PFO Africa, the leading construction company in Ivory Coast, we have found a high-quality partner.
“Together we were already building one of the largest drinking water production plants in West Africa. We look forward to strengthening this alliance by participating in the construction of a building as iconic as the F Tower.”
He added that the works carried out by BESIX will start in this month of July 2021, with the launch of the structural works on the basis of the existing foundations.
The F Tower, whose architecture was designed by Pierre Fakhoury, is located in the Plateau district, in the heart of Abidjan. Included in the urban development plans since 1970, the F Tower is the sixth tower of the city’s Administrative City.
Philippe Dessoy, General Manager Business Development said: “BESIX’s strength lies in its ability to carry out the most technically complex works, including buildings, ports and terminals, and environmental infrastructure. Our group owes this to the expertise developed by its internal Engineering department, as well as to the experience accumulated over the last 110 years in Europe, Africa and the Middle East in particular.”
BESIX is active in 25 countries and 5 continents in the construction, real estate development and concessions sectors. Its iconic achievements include the Burj Khalifa, the world’s tallest tower in Dubai. The group’s engineering department enables BESIX to carry out complex and unique projects, particularly in technical and environmental terms.
BESIX has built many high-rise buildings around the world, notably in the Benelux and France, as well as in Australia and several Middle Eastern countries through its subsidiaries BESIX Watpac and Six Construct.
In Ivory Coast, BESIX and PFO Africa are completing the construction of one of the largest drinking water production plants in West Africa, in La Mé. This plant is equipped to supply drinking water to more than one and a half million Ivorians.
On the African continent, BESIX is currently contributing to the construction of the Grand Egyptian Museum (Egypt), the Mohammed VI Tower (Morocco) and the Nachtigal hydroelectric project (Cameroon), which will produce a third of Cameroon’s electricity.
