Following the completion of the Great Man-Made River project in Libya, a 30×40 km expanse of land was selected for a new agricultural settlement. In 1991, ENKA signed a frame contract for the turnkey construction of 150 villas and 600 farm houses, including social and technical buildings, water reservoirs, pipelines, roads and infrastructure, with a total construction area of 180,000 m². Under this comprehensive contract, the project’s objective was to transform arid desert into cultivatable land and a habitable settlement materialized in several stages between 1991 and 2001.

Turn-key construction of 30 minister houses and 221 farm houses, each with its own stable, all of which were one-storey buildings with a total floor area of approximately 50,000 m². In addition to these houses, a 10 classroom school, a clinic, a police station, infrastructure for the 40 houses already constructed at Harawa, a cafeteria, guest houses, a club building and 18 water reservoirs, each with a capacity of 1,000 m³ and two water reservoirs each with a capacity of 240 m³. The housing project was designed in accordance with the local requirements and traditions. Groups of housing units were dispersed along a route of approximately 40 km. The columns were precast in reinforced concrete and houses’ roofs were of a flat slab type reinforced concrete construction, utilizing specially manufactured flying table forms. The project also included all building, mechanical and electrical installations, potable water systems and local infrastructure works.