Thakral Corporation has been contracted to build a further 56 houses in Australia as part of the Gladstone LNG export project.

The outfit, which recently finished the first tranche of buildings under phase one of the housing project, has already kicked off construction and will complete the work by early second quarter 2013.

The houses will be leased on a long-term basis to GLNG to allow its permanent executives to be based in Gladstone, Queensland.

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