Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) has appointed US engineer Parsons to project manage construction of Dubai Metro’s new Blue Line.
Costing $5.6bn and expected to open in September 2029, the 30km-long route will link Dubai International Airport with nine city areas including Dubai Silicon Oasis, Academic City, Ras Al Khor Industrial Area, Dubai Creek Harbour and Dubai Festival City.
It will expand the total length of Dubai’s metro system to 131km.
Roughly half its length will be overground and half underground. It will have nine elevated and five underground stations.
The five-year assignment sees Parsons providing design review, procurement support, construction supervision, and project handover.
In December last year, RTA appointed a consortium of Turkish contractors Mapa and Limak, with Chinese railway systems supplier CRRC, to build the line.
Work kicked off last month.
Parsons noted that the line supports Dubai’s D33 Economic Agenda to make Dubai one of the world’s fastest, safest, and most connected cities by 2033.
RTA’s director of rail planning, Malek Ramadan Mishmish, said the authority wanted to work with leading global companies “to make the Emirate the smartest and happiest city in the world”.
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