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Bahrain Bahrain ( ; ; ar, البحرين, al-Bahrayn, locally ), officially the Kingdom of Bahrain, ' is an island country in Western Asia. It is situated on the Persian Gulf, and comprises a small archipelago made up of 50 natural islands and an ...

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public housing Public housing is a form of housing tenure in which the property is usually owned by a government authority, either central or local. Although the common goal of public housing is to provide affordable housing, the details, terminology, def ...

mega-project under construction in the Kingdom of Bahrain. Proposed in 2014 by the Bahraini Ministry of Housing, the project involves

land reclamation Land reclamation, usually known as reclamation, and also known as land fill (not to be confused with a waste landfill), is the process of creating new land from oceans, seas, riverbeds or lake beds. The land reclaimed is known as reclamati ...

of 253 to 540 hectares (5.8 million square metres) off the eastern coast of Sitra island. Once completed, the reclaimed islands are estimated to consist of 3,157 housing units, serving more than 20,000 citizens.Disha Dadlani
Construction on $689.6m East Sitra Housing Project begins
''Constructionweekonline.com'', 28 December 2020 The project is part of a concurrent series of 245 million BHD ($649 million) public housing projects launched in the country in the 2010s, such as the

Northern City Northern City Islands () are a group of islands in the archipelago of Bahrain, lying west of the capital, Manama, on Bahrain Island. Description The proposed plan for the city was made in 2000. It is a residential area that is being reclaimed an ...

and

East Hidd City East Hidd City ( ar, مدينة شرق الحد) is a planned city under construction in eastern Muharraq, Bahrain. Planned by the Bahraini Ministry of Housing, it is a 242 hectare public housing project east of the existing town of Hidd. Built o ...

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The project plans for six separate man-made islands to be reclaimed from the sea, off the east coast of Sitra. It is estimated that up to 600 hectares of land were reclaimed. AECOM are the chief planners of the project. Nature Environmental Studies and Consultations served as environmental consultants, WS Atkins & Partners Overseas are the architects, and Masterplan and Infrastructure served as design consultant. The city will include a 2.6km sea front and 13km of bicycle lanes.Housing Minister visits East Sitra Town project
, ''Bna.bh'', 4 April 2021 255 hectares were donated by the King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa. The reclamation work was assigned to the National Marine Dredging Company (NMDC).Ministry of Housing to Build 5,000 Homes in Sitra
''Medium.com'', 16 June 2014 An estimated 25 million cubic metres of dredged

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were required to reclaim land. In addition to serving as a housing project, the city will host facilities for Bahrain's oil sector and other government use. In June 2014, the Ministry of Housing of Bahrain signed the agreement to draw the detailed blueprint of the project. In June 2015, Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa laid the first stone of the project. The construction has been awarded to the Chinese company

China Machinery Engineering Corporation China Machinery Engineering Corporation (CMEC) is a construction and engineering company, forming one part of the China National Machinery Industry Corporation (Sinomach) group of companies. A specialization of CMEC is construction of power proje ...

in December 2019. The construction project has three phases. Phase 1 (construction of 1,077 units) started in December 2020. Phase 2 will see the construction of 1,800 units, and phase 3 of 500 units.BD260m East Sitra City project is progressing according to timetable
''Newsofbahrain.com'', 22 July 2021

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Sitra Artificial islands of Bahrain {{Bahrain-struct-stub

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