UAE precast company to build schools in Iraq
Contract part of Iraqi programme to build 1,485 schools across the country.
RELATED ARTICLES: Iraq suspends eight Siemens contracts | US official: Billions wasted in Iraq rebuilding | Bringing Basra Back The UAE-based precast contracting company, Gulf Precast, has signed a contract to build 65 precast schools across Central Iraq, it has been announced. With the initial part of production already underway in the UAE, the company is in the process of setting up a production plant in Iraq. The contract to build the schools are part of an Iraqi national programme to build 1,485 schools across the country this year. They will consist of six, nine, twelve, eighteen and 24 class rooms. The design of the schools and their boundary walls has already been finalised, Gulf Precast added. Omar Araim, the representative of Gulf Precast in Iraq stated: “The Iraqi government has launched an ambitious programme of construction development which can only be achieved if modern performing technologies such as precast are employed.” The factory will cater for the second production phase of the schools project as well as for the fast-track infrastructure and housing programme launched by the Iraqi government.
