US-based construction consulting firm Hill International has received a contract from Oman’s Ministry of Transportation and Communications to provide project management services for the construction of Sections 1 and 2 of the Bidbid Sur Road.

The contract will last for three years and its value for Hill is estimated to be approximately $4m.

The $1.1bn project includes the construction of nine interchanges, two underpasses, two overpasses, associated retaining wall structures and roughly 171 reinforced concrete culverts.

"The positive impact of the highway on commerce and tourism will benefit all of Oman."

The cities of Bidbid and Sur will be connected by a 247km-long six-lane highway.

Hill Project Management Group Middle East managing director and senior vice-president Mohammed Al Rais said: "The positive impact of the highway on commerce and tourism will benefit all of Oman."

In the first half of this year, Oman’s Tender Board awarded various road projects, which included the second phase of the Bidbid-Sur Road dualisation.