The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport announced that the Korea Land and Housing Corp. (LH) signed a contract of KWR 4 trillion with Kuwait's housing and welfare ministry to develop the master plan for South Saad Al-Abdullah New City in Kuwait.

During a Korea-Kuwait summit in 2015,  the latter proposed Korea to create the new city plan for Kuwait with highly evaluated our experience in developing new mega-cities.

In 2016, the LH announced the international competition for the new city development project and APPIA organized the consortium, comprised of a group of Korean & International urban architects & engineering firms, won the project after 8 months of prolonged proposal preparation.

Due to the complexity & strict requirements of the project, it was challenging to establish a competitive team with highly skilled and experienced experts all over the world. However, APPIA successfully managed to organize the best consortium with more than 15 professional firms in various fields & diverse regions and to develop the winning proposal against world-class engineering firms. 

The South Saad Al-Abdullah New City project is one of the nine new cities that Kuwait plans to build. Located 30 kilometers to the west of Kuwait City, the area of land to be used is 64.4 square kilometers and will provide homes for at least 25,000 households.

Since 2017 we dispatched specialists in new city development to examine the site and start design work of a master plan to construct a futuristic city connected which will be anticipated  approval in 2022.

South Saad Al-Abdullah New City is the first example of a Korean smart city design being exported overseas. When the project is successfully completed, Korean firms will have the upper hand in city development projects in the Middle East, which has much demand for cities thanks to its increasing working-age population.

Kuwait plans to make New City an example of a global smart city as well as the first environmentally friendly city in the Middle East. It is likely to provide more business opportunities for Korean construction companies as well.

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Site Area : 64.42 km2

Household : 25,000~40,000

Scale : Triple of Song-do, Bundang New City

Design Fee :  USD 39million

Scope of Work : Urban Design / Arch. Design