EQUATE Project

Architectural / Engineering Design
Location

Shuaiba, Kuwait

Client

Ahmadiah Contracting and Trading Co, on behalf of Equate (a Union Carbide / Petrochemical Industries JV)

Services

Architectural / Engineering Design

Cost

KD 6.0 million

Data

100,000 m2 control and Warehousing facilities, together with 30,000 m2 ancillary buildings

Status

Completed 1997

Associate

None

The EQUATE project comprises major ethylene, glycol and polyethylene production plants, associated buildings and warehousing in Kuwait’s southern industrial area of Shuaiba.

Gulf Consult were commissioned on a design/build basis to undertake the design of 11 separate buildings on a fast track basis. The control building and warehousing facilities are approximately 100,000 m2 in area, and form the Middle East’s largest warehousing complex.

Ancillary buildings include administration and maintenance buildings, safety shelters, laboratories, cafeteria, mosque and sheltered car parking facilities.

Due to the sensitive nature of the project, the photographs of the scheme are not allowed to be published.