Client through its subsidiary Leisure and Resorts Company (L.L.C), signed technical services and management and operation agreements with Corinthia Hotels, for ‘Corinthia Gewan Island Qatar’ hotel, and its connected golf course and beach club in Gewan Island.

This Hotel will be an architectural jewel combining urban luxury and neo classical design. It is envisioned to become a unique landmark on Gewan Island and a benchmark of high-end hospitality in Doha. It will also include many leisure activities and amenities such as a luxurious Beach Club with stunning chalets and exquisite restaurants, Gewan Golf Club stretching over six hectares of parkland, and a kids club. Shaping the borders of Gewan Island, is a set of 26 waterfront villas with private pontoons and 21 beachfront villas with private beaches in addition to six private island mansions at Gewan’s crest which will have an area of 4,500 sqm to 9,500 sqm and can accommodate ultra-luxurious mansions and a private yacht harbor, in addition to being accessible via a private driveway. Marine works including reclamation, shaping of the seabed, forming of private beaches, creating a new navigational channel for boats and placing of rock groins to separate the villas, have already been finalized. Meanwhile, to ensure the safety of mariners, tower lights, blinkers and temporary marker buoys have been installed, which will be replaced by 25 navigational buoys in accordance with the guidelines of the International Association of Marine Aids to Navigation and Lighthouse Authorities (IALA). To reduce the waste of the project during the construction stage, a temporary recycling plant is also being installed to recycle waste concrete and water generated from construction works for reuse in other works. Once completed, Gewan Island will enrich the urban landscape of the West Bay area, as it is located adjacent to The Pearl-Qatar spanning 400,000 sqm and accommodating 3,500 residents and a similar number of visitors daily. The client is expected to be award hotel and beach club construction works in the second quarter of 2021.

China Railway 18th Bureau Group has been appointed as excavation contractor on this scheme.