Mumbai: L&T, India''s leading engineering and construction conglomerate, has won a contract for the construction of a 15-storey hotel and service apartments in Bahrain. The order for the hotel, which will be L&T''s first in the kingdom of Bahrain, is valued at 15.6 million US dollar (about Rs. 703 million).

Located in the posh Manama city in Bahrain, the new buildings will be part of a major expansion project of the Diplomat Hotel of the Radissons Group. L&T will be engaged in providing civil, structural and electro-mechanical services for the 22,000 square meter hotel. The project is scheduled to be completed within seventy seven weeks. The contract was signed in Bahrain on March 14, 2004, by His Excellency Ahmed A. Al-Zayani, Chairman of the National Hotels Company, Bahrain, and V. B. Gadgil, Vice President (West Zone), L&T.

The project is a fresh addition to the company''s growing list of engineering and construction projects in the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman and Jordan.