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The South of Shamkha project is located some 50 km from the heart of Abu Dhabi Island, which will become a regional centre of activity for shopping, health support services and entertainment, providing for the growing local population of residents of Abu Dhabi estimated to be around 500,000.

In November 2006, KEO International Consultants were engaged by the Abu

Dhabi Municipality (ADM) to prepare a Master Plan for up to 15,000 new single

family villa sites.      

The development has been planned under the following concepts;

• Developing the Neighborhood Structure
• Green Open Space
• Each neighborhood would include homes with internal open green space connecting the pedestrian to a central neighborhood center for convenience retail, health club facilities, a mosque, clinic, children’s playgrounds, sports fields, and other life-style support facilities. Each neighborhood would have the required kindergartens, and be connected to a system of primary schools shared by adjacent neighborhoods depending on their needs.
• Throughout the neighborhood, ample green open space links the people to each other and to the central facilities and into the adjoining neighborhoods. These eventually connect to a wider green belt that winds it way through the district spine and links the District Centers to the City Center and Central Parks.
• Series of green belts that ties the district of over 30 neighborhoods together, and creates a live able, walk able City that is unified and active.

In fact the design of infrastructure utilities that will serve the future development in South of Shamkha.

KEY INFRASTRUCTURE ELEMENTS INCLUDE:

• All infrastructure systems have been designed to meet current standards     

• Overall implementation of the master plan will be accomplished within a defined time frame to be defined in later stage

• Environmental constraints have been addressed.

• All the infrastructure systems have been planned constructability methods in mind

• Time and Cost factors have been considered

• The facilities of the neighborhood have been carefully studied

• The different facilities have been planned to minimize operation and maintenance requirements.

• The planned system have been designed with provision for future planning

•Road/intersection layouts reduce the traffic impacts to maintain acceptable levels of service.