Hill International has been awarded a contract to provide construction management services to the Saudi Jordanian Fund for Medical Educational Investment Company (SJFMEI), a subsidiary of the Saudi Jordanian Investment Fund (SJIF), for a hospital public-private partnership (PPP) project in Amman, Jordan.
The US$400 million project involves the construction of a 110,000 sq m university hospital with 330 beds, 72 outpatient clinics, a children’s hospital and a medical school with the capacity for up to 600 students with a projected enrollment of 100 students annually. The project includes five medical centers that will deal with the treatment of non-communicable diseases in the fields of cardiology, oncology, neurology, gastroenterology and orthopedics. The medical centers will support research through four centers in genomics and precision medicine, stem cells and regenerative medicine, health systems and public health and bioinformatics.
Engineering design and project supervision services will be provided by Hill and Dar Al Omran. The hospital's academic partner will be the medical school of University College London (UCL) and the clinical partner will be UCLA Health in Los Angeles.
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