The Dubai-Sharjah highway
Tender and Contract Documents. Dubai - Al-Sharjah Highway. Contract G729/SB01.
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.
Wrappers slightly soiled; rear wrapper a little creased near top left corner.









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