To meet the increasing demand for residential units, Kuwait is presently working on several large-scale housing projects. These projects include South Saad Al-Abdullah City, South Sabah Al-Ahmad City, and Al-Multaa City. These big projects were expected to house thousands of citizens and present big chances for foreign businesses to get involved, especially in the building and infrastructure sectors.
With a projected population of 400,000, Al-Mutlaa City is one of the three major housing projects currently being carried out by the Public Authority for Housing Welfare (PAHW). In two other major projects, South Saad Al-Abdullah City and South Sabah Al-Ahmad City, the pace of infrastructure completion was accelerating. The first contract for main substations in the city was signed by the PAHW in September, for the installation of electrical substations in the South Sabah Al-Ahmad housing project. The contract was valued at KD 44 million, or roughly USD 145 million.
Additionally, PAHW and an international company signed an infrastructure contract for 6,568 housing units in the South Sabah Al-Ahmad City project, valued at approximately KD 109 million (or USD 329.7 million). Three contracts totaling 20,380 housing units were signed to implement the project’s infrastructure, with two contracts covering 7,623 housing units and the second contract focusing on 6,189 housing units.
Concurrently, the PAHW is still working on the city’s main road network contract, which covers building, finishing, and maintaining the main roads and infrastructure networks in addition to the rainwater tank. This contract’s completion rate in September was 26.54 percent, which was 14.79 percent ahead of schedule. The South Saad Al-Abdullah City project, the second largest after Al-Mutlaa, advanced 5.148 percent ahead of schedule by the end of September, with a completion rate of 7.428 percent.
Three packages covering residential and investment suburbs made up the project, and tenders were sent out to global contractors—that is, local or foreign businesses with expertise in road construction and infrastructure services. Commencing in November 2023, the project comprises 23,551 residential units, and the contract is anticipated to be finished by November 2027. The PAHW tender committee gave its approval to the release of three tenders to build and finish the project’s irrigation tanks, electrical substations, and residential suburb infrastructure.
The 1,080 day tenders cover all of the city’s residential suburbs as well as four investment suburbs. They also cover the building of irrigation tank buildings, 649 electrical substations, roads in residential suburbs, rainwater and sewage networks, and 23,551 housing units’ worth of infrastructure. In August, 32,122 building permits were granted to residents for the three housing projects; these included 27,489 units in Al-Mutlaa City, 3,237 plots in South Abdullah Al-Mubarak, and 1,396 units in South Khaitan.
