The latest public works news from Iraq – reconstruction, housing, sewerage and more – brought to you by Iraq Business News
By John Lee. Belgian sewage and water treatment firm Turbo4bio have announced the completion of the new waste water treatment plant at Kufa. The 50,000 cubic meter per day capacity installation involves new technology developed by the company CEO Hans H. Badreddine. Badreddine remarked how pleased he was with the completion of work at the […]
With ports and pipelines blocked in Libya, North Africa, and civil war moving into its sixth month, Iraq is set to benefit, says The National. Meanwhile, Reuters reports that foreign oil companies in Syria are reporting business as usual, despite escalating violence. "Iraq is going to boom," Erin Miller Rankin, a construction and project lawyer in […]
It is a story that could fit in the national newspapers of any country in the world: "central government projects delayed". Yet Iraq seems determined to do something about the delays to these development projects, reports AKnews, as the government is voluntarily giving up central control to local councils to oversee the projects' completion, after […]
The next city to get some surgery to help restore Iraq's former glory is Najaf, a city of more than half a million inhabitants about 160km south of Baghdad, and home to the religiously important Imam Ali Shrine. Work on the historic center should begin soon and is expected to be completed on time for […]
The number of reconstruction and housing projects undertaken by the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) rose by 24 in 2010, with a value increased by $83m. According to the KRG Ministry of Reconstruction and Housing, in 2010 some 368 projects were completed in the three provinces. The overall value of the projects funded by the ministry […]
Baghdad municipality has signed a contract with a Turkish company, Akdneiz, to clean up the city while statistical figures show high unemployment rates. According to the contract, the districts of Karkh, Rusafa and Karrada [Karadah] in central Baghdad will be cleaned up by Akdeniz for a period of one year. Iraq's Central Statistics Agency (CSA) […]
One of the first acts of Iraq's oil minister is to announce that oil exports from the northern, semi-autonomous region of Kurdistan will begin again shortly, according to Associated Press. Abdul Karim al-Luaibi said exports will resume "in the coming few days." Al-Luaibi is independent, but with links to Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's Daawa party. Just a […]
Iraq's developing situation continues to astound me when I contrast it with much of the west. Take the UK, where Prime Minister David Cameron has on 20 October announced £81bn ($127bn) of cuts from total government expenditure of £661bn ($1,040bn), the largest budget cuts in decades by a large margin. All this it needs to […]
The increase in construction projects in Iraq is considered a positive indicator for Turkey's construction sector in the coming years, according to a report from World Bulletin. A report by the Undersecretariat of Foreign Trade (Export Development Research Center) said the construction and contracting sectors have entered a rapid growth phase in Iraq. The report […]
The Baghdad Mayoralty has allocated ID60 billion ($50m) on Tuesday to improve sewerage systems in the Iraqi capital. “The amount will be funded from the 2010 budget for the development of regions,” the mayoralty said in a press release received by Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
The Baghdad Provincial Council has decided to release ID102 billion [$85m] to the Baghdad Mayoralty, to complete a number of services projects in the Iraqi capital. “This is the second dispatch of funds allocated to the Baghdad Mayoralty according to the budget to develop regions,” the mayoralty said in a release on Monday received by […]
The Iraqi Water Resources Ministry began work on Tuesday to implement a water management project in Karbala province. “The project is to be executed by the ministry’s staff,” the ministry said in a release as received by Aswat al-Iraq news agency. It said that the project is funded by Iraq with ID5 billion, but executed […]
