>Like a beacon of hope, the pristine precast concrete towers of Bismayah, Iraq, rise more than 100 feet out of the desert six miles southeast of Baghdad. >In March 2010, the Iraqi Government announced the ‘National Development Plan 2010-2014’ with a need of 3 million housing units with a plan to supply 2 million housing units over five years. >Iraq's National Investment Commission (NIC) designates Bismayah, located 10km southeast of Baghdad, as the first city development project.
>As Iraq's biggest city development project ever in its history, the Bismayah New City Project sprawls across an area of 1,830 hectares, with plans to accommodate up to 600,000 occupants within 100,000 residential units; in addition, infra-networks such as roads, electricity, water and waste management, along with a cohesive social groundwork of public facilities for commerce, education, and welfare, will make this project a perfect execution of modern urban construction.
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>There are 2 kinds of unit type in Bismayah housing. >The traditional Type is ideal for carrying Islamic values in everyday life, especially respecting the privacy of the family, where the kitchen and bedrooms are independent from living room. >The modern Type is ideal for current living with efficient use of the space, especially boasting the large living-kitchen lay-out. >The kitchen and living room interconnected with each other for a larger use of space.
>The new city, roughly the size of 3,425 football fields, is located 10km south east of Baghdad on the Baghdad-Kut Highway and will contain a central business district surrounded by 834 U-shaped apartment towers >and in each of them, buyers can choose from three sizes of apartments – 100m2, 120m2 and 140m2. >The contract amount was US$7.75 billion and it is planned to accommodate around 600,000 occupants.
