Work on sports city leaps ahead (16/04/08)


The engineering and technical cadres in the National Center for Laboratories and Building Researches of the ministry of Reconstruction and housing have started the soil analyses of the site proposed for Basra sports city.
 
 
The city has been chosen to host the 2013 Gulf 21 Championship, and the government has commissioned a specially built facility for the event.

An official source in the said center has told Al-Sabah newspaper that the total area to be occupied by the sports town is 580 acres, pointing out to the ongoing work at the center which include carrying out preliminary soil investigation by digging 15 test pits each one of which is 30 meters deep, conducting site and laboratory tests on them, submitting results and recommendations according to the needed specifications.

The source explained that the work of the center is regarded as the main foundation stone for starting the execution of projects incorporated into this town by completing laboratory and site analyses as well as analyses for the building, chemical and physical materials which will be used in the project as well as conducting tests to the concrete used in building the residential complexes and buildings in general and the tests relevant to roads and highways, their pavement, resurfacing, etc., and submitting reports about their suitability for execution.

The center will periodically monitor work at the sports town till it is entirely completed.

Iraq's Ministry of Youth and Sports has announced on April 1st a highly ambitious project to build a 538 acre sports city in Basra that it claims will, upon completion, be the largest facility of its kind in the Middle East.

Source: Noozz


 

   
 
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