The Dubai-Sharjah highway

Dar Al-Handasah Engineers & Architects (Shair & Partners). Tender and Contract Documents. Dubai - Al-Sharjah Highway. Contract G729/SB01.

Beirut / Abu Dhabi, Dar Al-Handasah Engineers & Architects (Shair & Partners), [early 1970s].

4to (216 x 275 mm). (2), XIV, (2), 243 pp. (occasionally not paginated but foliated). Original half cloth over printed wrappers showing the arms of Abu Dhabi.

 3,000.00

Rare documents on the construction of a highway from Dubai to Sharjah, prepared by Dar Al-Handasah Engineers for the UAE government, Ministry of Public Works. Includes tender forms and guarantees, conditions of contract, labour agreements, materials, estimated costs and schedule, a bill of quantities, and some illustrated lists of required road signs. The present documents cover the construction of approximately 14 kms of the second carriageway of a divided four-lane highway linking the Dubai Airport Roundabout to the Sharjah Port Roundabout. The then-existing road between the two cities represented the first carriageway of such a highway.

Condition

Wrappers slightly soiled; rear wrapper a little creased near top left corner.