News - Agom gains the prestigious Bahrain Financial Harbour tender

16/02/2007

Agom pot bearings have been chosen for their quality and optimised design for the construction of the first four bridges in the prestigious Bahrain Financial Harbour project, a USD 1.3 billion integrated master-planned development.

Bahrain Financial Harbour (BFH) is a master planned development aiming to create a complete financial city, a self contained community, in the centre of Manama, Kingdom of Bahrain.

The Bahrain Financial Harbour Development Project covers a prime seafront property where reclamation and infrastructure development will be undertaken. The property will be developed into a diversified range of office, residential, retail, leisure and dining components that will cater to all needs.

A USD 1.3 billion integrated master-planned development, the Bahrain Financial Harbour will be home to the entire value chain in the financial services sector.

Key Features: Unique waterfront development designed for commercial, residential and leisure purposes. 30 individual development units, spreading over 380,000m² of reclaimed land offering office, residential, retail, dining & leisure space. The Financial Centre, the hub of all monetary activities includes the Dual Towers, the Financial Mall, and the Harbour House Ample lifestyle options with up-market residences, retail and leisure outlets including a luxury hotel and the Bahrain Performance Centre Exciting alternatives for relaxation with an array of seafront walkways, shopping boulevards, promenades, a marina, water pathways, water taxis, coffee shops and dining facilities. Urban Structured Planning ensuring prime location A Hydrodynamic Study used to assess the impact of the reclamation project on the seawater environment, showed that the proposed new shoreline posed no flushing problems and the sediments from the dredging operations also proved non problematic. A Traffic Impact Study was also commissioned to calculate additional traffic and its impact on the existing traffic situation. Based on the findings, appropriate infrastructure developments have been proposed to meet the high flow. Strengths Unique ownership framework based on freehold and strata title. Single window for financial institutions' licensing and registration process. Unique waterfront and marine access. Holistic lifestyle offering living, working, retail, dining and leisure facilities. Structurally and architecturally designed to balance aesthetics with practical functionality. Fulfilling corporate social responsibility by instituting environmentally sound practices such as controlled reclamation, construction and hydro-dynamically designed marina to ensure seawater quality. Efficient water supply, electricity supply and drainage systems in place. Convenient vehicular access with well-developed road network plans. Ample indoor parking area based on international standards.