December 2000 Ammar Khammash and Symbiosis Designs were chosen as finalists for the Amman Nature Center design competition that the Royal Society for the Conservation of Nature (RSCN) organized in September. The competition jury decided to award the design job to Ammar Khammash. (See the Architectural competitions section in the September 2000 news items. Image shown: entry by Symbiosis Designs.) Faris and Faris Architects provided architectural studies for a winning tender on managing and developing the Royal Diving Center in Aqaba. The architectural studies were part of the tender that Jordan Projects for Tourism Development Company and Pacific Consultants International (PCI) of Tokyo submitted to the Aqaba Regional Authority. (See also the Other news section the August 2000 news items.) The Jordan Projects for Tourism Development Company invited twelve Jordanian architectural firms to submit entries for a competition for the design of model chalet units for the Tala Bay Tourist Complex in Aqaba. The competition entries were submitted by Ammar Khammash, Bilal Hammad Associates, Darb (Design Associates and Research Bureau), Faris and Faris Architects, Farouk Tadros Designs, GDAR Group, Kayyali and Fasheh, Mohammad Abu Afifa, Osama al-Naji, Tahhan and Bushnaq Architects, Tibah Consultants, and S.M. Dudin Architects and Engineers. The Saudi Arabian Water and Sewage Authority organized a closed competition for the design of the authority's 15,000 square meter office building in Qasseem, Saudi Arabia. The project is expected to cost 8,500,000 JD (about 12,000,000 million $US). The Saudi Arabia-based architectural and engineering firm Omrania and Associates was among those invited to submit a competition entry, which the firm's Amman regional office designed.