Meed | Five bid to complete Dewa headquarters in Dubai

Five bid to complete Dewa headquarters in Dubai

20 June 2023

Dubai Electricity & Water Authority (Dewa) is evaluating offers from contractors for the contract to complete its Sheraa headquarters building in Dubai, as first reported by MEED Projects.

The bidders are the local Tiger International General Contracting with a price of $345.46m; the local United Engineering Construction (Unec) with a price of $401.5m; and the local Al-Shafar General Contracting (ASGC) with a price of $442.38m.

Austria’s Strabag and the local Alec also submitted offers.

Dewa confirmed last year that it terminated the consortium of local companies Ghantoot Transport & General Contracting and Ghantoot Gulf Contracting that was working as the main contractor on the project.

The Ghantoot consortium was awarded the AED982m ($268m) contract in 2019. That 30-month construction contract involved the construction of a 15-storey structure with a basement and four floors of parking, with a total built-up area of about 200,000 square metres.

It has been designed as the world’s tallest, largest and smartest government net-zero energy building.

The building will have more than 20,000 sq m of photovoltaic solar panels rated to more than 4,000 kilowatts. There will be 1,000 sq m of building-integrated photovoltaics. The building will generate more than 6,500 megawatt hours (MW/h) a year of renewable energy.

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Colin Foreman