Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, Oct. 3
By Huseyn Hasanov – Trend:
French-based Bouygues company is constructing a number of new major buildings in the business center of Ashgabat, Trend reports with reference to the TV channel "Turkmenistan."
President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov familiarized himself with the construction of these facilities.
A complex of buildings of the international congress center will be built on Chandybil Avenue, accordion to the report.
Considering that in recent years Ashgabat has become the venue for regular holding of major forums of regional and global level, the facilities being built there must fully meet high international standards, the Turkmen president said.
The president also familiarized himself with the construction progress of the Turkmenbasy and Senagat banks and proceeded to the new fashionable hotel "Arkadag", which includes a business center and an apartment hotel.
A man-made river will stretch across the adjacent territory of the hotel complex, there will also be an artificial lake, an outdoor pool with a hydropark, fountains and a summer restaurant.
Bouygues has long been represented in the Turkmen market. The French concern has implemented a series of projects, the total cost of which exceeded several billion US dollars.
Among the implemented projects, there are the presidential quarter, the administrative center in the downtown part of the capital, the university campus, a number of hotels and factories.