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  • Perspective: Rushing to fail: Understanding construction disputes in Saudi Arabia

    The case for change is clear. Construction and engineering projects in the Middle East are subject to more delay than in most other regions.
    Our integrated research programme, CRUX, shows that contractors across the Middle East sought extensions of time averaging 81.6% of planned project schedules.
    The Saudi average was 98.8%, meaning the extra time sought nearly doubled the time originally specified.
    Claimed costs in Saudi Arabia typically amounted to 29.8% of original contract values, lower than the 37.4% average elsewhere in the Middle East.
    There are clearly legacy challenges in the Kingdom, and now also recognition that things need to change.

  • Saudi Arabia: 20,000m2 vertical farm construction kicks off

    Constructed by YesHealth, the new vertical farm will be 15 meters tall with a total growing area of 20,000m2, spread over 19 layers, and is capable of producing up to 2,200 kilograms of leafy greens per day. Produce will include full-size lettuces, cruciferous vegetables, baby leaves, and specialty crops such as edible flowers.

  • SCG International opens a new office in Saudi, expanding its ‘global connector’ role with resilient supply chain solutions, eyeing new opportunities in the Construction sector driven by Giga-projects

    SCG International is vigorously expanding its business into the market of KSA, an economic powerhouse. Its strategy focuses on comprehensive supply chain solutions with the flexibility to deal with disrupting global supply chains. SCG International opens a new office in Saudi, expanding its 'global connector' role with resilient supply chain solutions, eyeing new opportunities in the Construction sector driven by Giga-projects

  • Six Flags Qiddiya Sneak Peek Construction Footage

    In recent footage we get a glimpse of the Qiddiya City project including Six Flags Qiddiya which is 59% completed ahead of a late 2024 opening, there are also glimpses of Falcon’s Flight the worlds tallest, longest and fastest rollercoaster.

  • Bechtel in new initiative to promote construction jobs for women in Saudi Arabia

    US-based engineering and construction firm Bechtel has launched a new partnership with Saudi Women Engineers Society (SWES) to promote construction careers for women in Saudi Arabia. Bechtel said it would support not-for-profit SWES with professional development, skills enhancement, and career advancement opportunities for Saudi national women engineers. It said the new partnership was in support of Saudi’s Vision 2030 goal to empower women in the region by increasing career opportunities, including development and training, for women in the workforce.

  • Saudi Arabia Condemns Israel for Targeting HQ of Qatari Committee for Gaza Reconstruction

    In a statement, it said the attack was part of a “broader pattern of Israeli violations of international laws and norms.” It underlined Saudi Arabia’s solidarity with Qatar in the face of this blatant attack.

    It reiterated the Kingdom's call for the international community “to fulfill its responsibilities by promptly putting an end to Israel’s ongoing violations and holding it to account in line with international humanitarian law” in wake of the “atrocities it has committed against civilians, hospitals, and critical infrastructure in the besieged Gaza Strip.”

  • Saudi Arabia’s construction pipeline for next 8 years is worth $2.1tn: top executive

    Saudi Arabia’s construction sector has projects worth SR8 trillion ($2.1 trillion) in the pipeline for the next eight years, according to a senior executive. Speaking on the sidelines of the Future Investment Initiative in Riyadh, Jerry Todd, head of the National Development Division at the Public Investment Fund, told Arab News that the Kingdom’s well-established construction and building material sector is set to grow “very rapidly.” He said: “We are currently looking at SR3 trillion of spending on building things at the PIF level and about SR8 trillion at the country level over the next eight years.”

  • World’s tallest skyscraper restarts construction in Saudi Arabia

    Jeddah Tower will hold a Four Seasons hotel, residences, offices as well as the world's highest observation deck on a constructed building. The first images of the prospective tower were released in 2011, and ground was broken in 2013, but the project has been harried by constant starts and stops.

  • Saudi Construction Boom Hands Firms Contracts Worth $250 Billion

    Property and infrastructure projects valued at $1.25 trillion have been announced across the country including the high-tech new city of Neom, on the kingdom’s west coast, according to property consultant Knight Frank LLP. The government has also unveiled vast new tourism and entertainment projects that aim to attract visitors from around the world, while also encouraging Saudis to spend more domestically. “Saudi Arabia will become the world’s largest construction site,” said Faisal Durrani, head of Middle East research at Knight Frank. “It is a mammoth task,” he said, and “modern methods of construction like 3D printing, modular construction and off-site manufacture must be embraced.”

  • Middle East’s hotel construction pipeline hits all-time high at 597 projects by Q2 2023

    Saudi Arabia leads Middle East countries with the highest number of projects in the construction pipeline in the second quarter, reaching an all-time high of 276 projects and 72,144 rooms. The UAE follows with 106 projects and 27,921 rooms, Egypt (91 projects/20,814 rooms), Qatar (43 projects/10,267 rooms) and Oman (33 projects/6,792 rooms).