Category: Oversight for the building of the Ministry
of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade Building
Cost: $666 million
Project Year:
2018
Project Managers: Urban Development Corporation
General contractor: Jiangsu Jiangdu Construction
Group Ltd
Narrative: The
construction of the new 11-storey Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade
on Port Royal Street, downtown Kingston. The new facility will provide adequate
accommodation for staff, meeting and conference rooms, and waiting areas for
diplomats and other visitors.
The project forms another element
of the ongoing redevelopment of the downtown Kingston Business District which
is also benefiting from the completion of the nearby Grace Kennedy headquarters
and Caribbean Place (formerly Oceana Hotel) on real estate sold by the UDC and
the Victoria Pier property which was leased by the UDC to Yosamini Holdings Ltd
and rehabilitated by that entity.
Category:
Denham Town Housing Development – 28 Housing Solutions
Project
Year: 2018
General
contractor: SM Quality Construction
Narrative: Denham Town is a predominantly
residential neighborhood in western Kingston, Jamaica. The Housing Development
was conceived to assist residents that were displaced by fire. Twenty five (25)
households with a population of 87 persons were affected. The ave rage
household comprised 3.5 persons with the largest household having five (5)
members. Forty-four per cent of the 25 households were single member
households, and 24% (6) were three (3) member households. Four (4), two (2)
Bedroom Apartments and twenty-four (24) Studio Apartment Units at Metcalfe
Street and Wellington Street in Denham Town, Kingston.
Category:
Kennedy Grove Treatment Rehabilitation Project (Sewage Plant)
Project Year:
2017-2018
General contractor: W.G Nothover Associates Limited
Narrative: Kennedy Grove, a development of 220
homes, completed in 1999 as a joint venture between KID and the Housing
Ministry. In this joint venture, Government put in the land and KID
concentrated on the other aspects of the development. The contract was awarded
rehabilitate the Sewage Plant.