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Multi-billion Sea City in
Kuwait to be completed
in 25 years
Sabah Al Ahmad Sea City is regarded as a pioneering project in the region as one
of the major projects of the future. It is a residential landscape which embraces
the sea throughout the integrated development of residential, commercial, retail
and community facilities.
A multi-billion dollar city is
being built in Kuwait, close to Saudi
Arabian borders with the sea, and is
set to become a metropolis of 250,000
people.
Sabah Al Ahmad Sea City, which
will spread across an area the size
of Manhattan, is named Sabah Al
Ahmad, the 86-year-old emir of
Kuwait who came to power in 2006.
The project was inspired by the
late Khalid Yousef Al Marzouq, a
wealthy Kuwaiti property developer
who funded it entirely through his
La'ala company. It is now brought
to fruition by his son Fawaz Al
Marzouq with a select team of design
engineers, construction managers
and contractors. The whole project
involves around 2,500 workers from
20 countries. Millions of tons of
sand was moved by 29 bulldozers,
70 excavators and 113 giant dump
trucks. The sand was used to build
up the city so it could cope with
rising sea levels no matter how dire
the global warming predictions. Soil
experts are on hand to help nurture
new mangrove seeds so they can
withstand high water salinity. The city
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