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Guangdong Chuanhui Group, a Chinese company, is expecting final approval to take charge of 41,000m2 to construct a 58 Storey five star hotel in Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa.

The building is expected to be one of the five tallest buildings in Africa.

GCG submitted a request for land for the project two years ago one of five proposals from domestic and international investors according to the city administration.

Eyob Girma Consulting and Architects secured the design for the 13 Storey building for Africa Insurance Company, Ethiopia. The consultants competed against four other finalists to win the bid to draw up the plans and 50,000 birr.

The Insurance company expects to invite bids for the construction of the building in the next Ethiopian fiscal year which will begin in July according to Kiros Jiranie, CEO of Africa Insurance.

Negotiations will be launched with the architects in the coming weeks for a fully detailed proposal and consultancy of the building project he said. The Insurance company has finalized negotiations for a 600 m2  piece of land from the administration of Addis Ababa.

Ultimate Plan Private Limited Company and UK firm Aedas won the bid for an architectural design re-tender for the mega conference hall for the Ethiopian Orthodox Church.

The conference hall, with an expected capacity of 13,000 seats, will be constructed at the Ethiopian Orthodox Church Patriarch’s palace in Arada district. The hall is planned to be powered by solar energy and will host outside facilities such as access roads, footpaths and landscaping.

Flintstone Engineering, Ethiopia is to construct light industry shops furnished with all necessary machinery and equipment for sale.The shops are to be constructed for the manufacture of accessories, printing, leather, apparel and printing.

The shops will be built on land it has leased from the Addis Ababa City Administration.

Flintstone plans to construct 300 manufacturing shops in the first phase of the project with each unit ranging from 10m2 to 40 m2 explained Tsedeke Yihune, Founder and Chief Executive of Flintstone.

The Bank of Abyssinia, Ethiopia signed a contract with Universal Consultants for the design and contract supervision of the construction of its headquarters building last week.

The bank has requested that the consultants make changes to the original design which won the architectural design competition held a year ago.

An agreement between the two parties was reached after long and exacting negotiations according to the President of Abyssinia.

The Tendaho Drinking Water Supply Project, Ethiopia is 90% complete according to Kumelachew Abebe, Communications and Public Relations Process Owner with the Ethiopian Water Works Construction Enterprise.

The project is expected to take 97 million birr and will be utilized by the nomadic Afar peoples and the employees of the Tendaho Sugar Development project, a total of almost 70,000 people in the area around the project.

The Tendaho Dam and Irrigation Project management buildings, also being constructed by the EWWCE, are also 90% complete at an estimated cost of 200 million birr said Kumelachew.

The Board of Directors of the Addis Ababa Chamber of Commerce and Sectoral Association is to request land from the city administration of the Ethiopia's capital to construct its headquarters reported sources.

The board of the AACCSA reached the decision to build its own headquarters three months after the resolution between it and the national chamber over the ownership of the seven-storey building housing both chambers.

The leaders of both chambers decided that the building will be owned by the national chamber with the AACCSA making using of two floors free of charge.

The Metal Engineering Corporation has issued an invitation to all Grade one licensed contractors in Ethiopia to participate in its projects according to sources.

Seven companies of a total of 44, who presented their company profiles in response to the invitation, were selected.

The seven companies include Sunshine Construction plc, Tekleberhan Ambaye Construction plc and Sur Construction plc. The companies will form a consortium to consult the Corporation on its construction processes.

The collaboration of Beza Consultants and Engineering plc and American A1 Consulting Group is in competition with the partnership between Ultimate Plan plc and Egyptian Arab Consulting Engineers for design review and contract administration for the construction of the Commercial Bank of Ethiopia, Head quarters.

The Bank is in the process of evaluating international construction firms to handle the ‘design and build’ turnkey contract to construct its 46-storey Head Quarter building to be located in Addis Ababa.

CBE officials were not able to comment on the status of the bidding process at this time. 

Ethiopian Airlines, Ethiopia’s flag carrier, is seeking international contractors to construct a four star hotel near Bole International Airport, Addis Ababa. The airline plans to have the hotel completed in two and a half years.

Ethiopian requested international construction firms to put in their bids for the ‘design and build’ of the hotel project on a turn-key contract basis.

It is to be remembered that the airline had cancelled a previous invitation for consultants for this project made in 2009 wishing to evaluate other alternatives.