Arabtech-Jardaneh Consulting Engineers and Architects, in association with the Arab Engineering Bureau of Doha, Qatar, completed designs for the Qatari embassy and ambassador’s residence in San’a, Yemen.  The 6,000 square meter project is expected to cost 3.2 million JD (4.5 million $US).

The following projects have been funded by the Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA) through the Jordanian Ministry of Tourism, and are expected to be tendered in the year 2001:

Jafar Tukan and Partners and Pacific Consultants International (PCI) of Tokyo, Japan completed designs for the Jordanian National Museum in Amman.  The 10,000 square meter project will be located in the Ras al-‘Ain area, in the same complex that includes the headquarters of the Municipality of Greater Amman.  The project is expected to cost 9 million JD (about 13 million $US).

Tibah Consultants and Pacific Consultants International (PCI) of Tokyo, Japan, in association with TURATH (Heritage Conservation Management and Environmental Design Consultants), completed designs for the conservation of the historical Abu Jabir House in Salt.  The 2,700 square meter structure, which was built during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, will be adapted into a visitor’s center and heritage museum.  The project is expected to cost about 700,000 JD (1 million $US).

Tibah Consultants and Pacific Consultants International (PCI) of Tokyo, Japan completed designs for a series of trails, plazas, and panoramic lookouts for historic parts of the city of Salt.  The project trails will extend about 3 kilometers.  Landscape designs for the project, which is expected to cost about 1.28 million JD (1.8 million $US), were carried out by Sanabel for Agriculture and Consultancy.

Tibah Consultants and Pacific Consultants International (PCI) of Tokyo, Japan completed designs for the Raghdan Bus Terminal in central Amman.  The site of the project covers about 34,000 square meters, and the built up areas occupy about 12,500 square meters.  Landscape designs for the project, which is expected to cost 5.6 million JD (7.85 million $US), were carried out by Sanabel for Agriculture and Consultancy.

Tibah Consultants and Pacific Consultants International (PCI) of Tokyo, Japan completed designs for the development of tourist streets, trails, and lookouts in central Amman.  The project will include the design of street furniture, pavements, landscaping, as well as streets and trails that will extend about 4 kilometers.  Landscape designs for the project, which is expected to cost about 1.25 million JD (1.75 million $US), were carried out by Sanabel for Agriculture and Consultancy.

The Consolidated Consultants for Engineering and Environment and Pacific Consultants International (PCI) of Tokyo, Japan completed designs for the development of tourist streets, trails, observation areas, and a visitor’s center in the city of Karak in southern Jordan.  These elements are intended to allow visitor’s to better experience the city’s famous twelfth-century Crusader period castle.

The Consolidated Consultants for Engineering and Environment and Pacific Consultants International (PCI) of Tokyo, Japan completed designs for the Dead Sea Panoramic Complex that includes a museum and a panoramic lookout terrace overlooking the Dead Sea