The design-build Waterfront project in Tripoli is a premium residential development providing a unique, quality environment targeted at mid-to-high income residents, and primarily the expatriate market in the Janzour settlement located along the coast line of the Mediterranean Sea. The project is being developed by  a joint venture between Qatari Diyar Real Estate Investment Company and Oyia. The first phase of the project will consist of a 270-room 5* hotel over an area of approximately 17 hectares. The second phase will include 61 hotel villas and 368 apartments over an area of 25 hectares. The project will also include the design of an onsite water booster station and onsite sewage treatment plant.

RW Armstrong’s services for this project are broken into three stages:
- Stage 1 - preparation of the infrastructure concept master plan.
- Stage 2 - preparation of environmental impact study (EIS), shoreline and marine study and infrastructure design and construction plans.
- Stage 3 - construction inspection and supervision of the site infrastructure facilities.

The developer requested that the infrastructure concept master plan as well as the infrastructure tender documents be completed in a six month time frame. RW Armstrong services involved an extensive shoreline and marine study that included bathymetric survey and hydrodynamic modeling to determine beach erosion, wave impact, run-up and flooding on the proposed development and design necessary damage preventative measures. In order to complete the infrastructure design in the time allotted, RW Armstrong is utilizing industry standard sewer modeling (StormNET) and water distribution modeling (WaterNET) software to serve as a design database and Autodesk’s Civil 3D software as the CADD system. The schematic level CAD drawings were imported into the modeling software for a system-wide evaluation of the schematic design against the specified design criteria. The hydraulic models were used to verify and optimize the schematic level design, as well as facilitate export of revised plan and profile into updated CAD drawings.

This approach allowed RW Armstrong to:
- Generate and evaluate the infrastructure systems at concept stage in greater detail.
- Evaluate the design in a holistic manner to verify the ability of the design to meet the desired performance criteria.