Quick Facts
- Location: Port waterfront, Benghazi
- Hotel: 144 rooms, 12 floors
- NOC Tower: 18 floors, capacity 1 470 staff
- Healthcare: 120-bed specialised medical centre
- Residences: 10-floor staff complex
- Construction: Mobilisation planned late 2025
Vision & Context
Occupying a 22-hectare strip along Benghazi’s commercial harbour, Jalyanah is imagined as a “city-within-a-city” that reconnects Libya’s eastern capital to the Mediterranean economy. The masterplan rotates its tallest mass the National Oil Corporation tower toward prevailing breezes to reduce solar gain, while stepping down to a waterfront esplanade activated by cafés, craft kiosks, and shaded mangrove gardens. Public walkways extend 600 metres along the quay, opening long-restricted wharf frontage to citizens for the first time in decades. Integrated transport hubs water-taxi pier, BRT stop, and e-bike docks tie the precinct seamlessly into Benghazi’s wider mobility network. Below grade, a district-scale basement houses logistics, waste segregation, and a seawater heat-exchange plant, freeing the ground plane from service traffic and enabling a pedestrian-first environment that blends commerce, healing, hospitality, and living in one cohesive waterfront narrative.
Key Components
Hospitality. A 144-room five-star hotel with column-free ballrooms and rooftop infinity pool addresses international delegations and port-side cruise tourism.
NOC HQ. The 18-storey tower consolidates 1 470 employees previously dispersed across nine buildings, offering 2,000 sq m floorplates, modular trading floors, and mission-critical backup systems.
Healthcare. A 120-bed specialised medical centre delivers tertiary care in cardiology, orthopaedics, and tele-oncology reducing patient referrals abroad by an estimated 35 %.
Residences. A 10-floor serviced-apartment block provides on-site accommodation for key staff, visiting clinicians, and conference guests, topped by a sky-garden shared with hotel patrons.
Retail & Amenity. A breezeway-linked podium hosts a 4,000 sq m retail gallery, co-working loft, and harbourfront food hall curated around Libyan coastal cuisine. All components meet LEED Gold and WELL Silver benchmarks, with grey-water reuse and façade-integrated PVs supplying 18 % of annual energy demand.
Strategic Impact
The project is projected to inject €520 million in direct construction spending and create roughly 6 000 site jobs over a four-year build phase. Post-completion, an additional 3 400 permanent positions span healthcare, corporate services, hospitality, retail, and facilities management. For Benghazi’s economy, Jalyanah rekindles maritime trade by modernising quay infrastructure and adding 300 metres of new berthing capacity for general cargo and cruise vessels unlocking an estimated €70 million in annual customs revenue. The specialised medical centre becomes the region’s leading referral hub, reducing outbound medical travel and associated foreign-currency leakage. Socially, the public promenade and open-air amphitheatre offer year-round community programming concerts, start-up fairs, and sports events fostering civic pride and safe evening activation of the waterfront. Sustainability metrics target a 30 % reduction in potable water through seawater desal-hybrid systems, while native mangrove belts absorb ~400 tonnes of CO₂ yearly, providing a living shoreline buffer against storm surge.
Project Status
With municipal approvals in place, detailed architectural and infrastructure plans are progressing. Construction mobilization is scheduled for late 2025, supported by ongoing collaboration with local authorities on environmental and urban integration.
