DHA Multan
10,600 Acre Residential Development
Development Advisory & Project Management of a Self-Contained, Socio-Economically Diverse Suburban City
(10,600 Acres)
PROJECT HIGHLIGHTS
10,600 Acres
Total Area (Greenfield Site)
160 Billion PKR
Estimated Infrastructure Development Cost
~370,000
Target Population
Phased Implementation
Staged Through Integrated Construction Contracts
130+ Technical Staff
On-Site Resources Deployed at Peak
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
Responsibilities as Development Advisor:
- Planning an inclusive product mix catering to a full socio-economic spectrum: from affordable plots to luxury housing (including a signature golf course precinct).
- Conducting location assessments, financial viability studies, and formulating development strategies.
- Recommending planning densities, development charge regimes, and cash flow-linked inventory release schedules.
- Structuring staged habitation and early livability strategies through selective development of destination precincts (golf course, gated villa community, etc.).
- Providing advisory on PPP frameworks, welfare components, and institutional capacity building for DHA.
Responsibilities as Project Manager:
Complete multidisciplinary design coordination, including:
Complete multidisciplinary design coordination, including:
- Master planning
- Architectural design
- Engineering design (roads, water, sewerage, stormwater, power, etc.)
Managing a staged construction strategy:
- Implementation synchronised with sales revenues
- Phased execution to minimise capital risk and improve project agility
- Supervising multiple simultaneous infrastructure contracts:
- Required due to non-contiguous land parcels and evolving land acquisition
- Ensuring design and implementation integration across disjointed plots
Overseeing:
- Construction scheduling, contract documentation, specifications, and QA/QC standards
- Contractor performance, claims management, and project documentation
Key Challenges Addressed
- Planning and managing a non-contiguous land parcel while maintaining continuity of master plan.
- Designing infrastructure within flat, agricultural terrain while maintaining gravity-based utility systems.
- Creating a development model that allowed for progressive monetisation, consistent with market absorption and investor confidence.
- Balancing welfare and commercial objectives without compromising financial sustainability.
- Identifying ideal contract packaging to align with local construction market capacity.
KEY SERVICES
Development Advisory
- Site selection & product positioning
- Planning & delivery strategy
- Phasing, feasibility & viability modelling
- Budgeting and cash flow planning
- Inventory release & sales-linked monetisation strategy
- PPP structuring and investor engagement
Multidisciplinary Design Management
(In collaboration with affiliate firms LOCii Inc. and Infraplan)
- Master planning
- Architecture & landscape
- Infrastructure design (roads, water, sewerage, power, drainage)
Project Management & Supervision
- Construction programming & scheduling
- Technical supervision (resident engineers)
- Quality control and assurance
- Contract documentation, management & claims analysis
- Stakeholder coordination & reporting