Building owners now evaluate construction partners on a facility’s operational outcomes, making handover excellence a differentiator, writes Rachael Jones, JLL’s Head of Specialist Services for Project & Development in Saudi…

A Webuild-led consortium involving India’s Larsen & Toubro, Saudi Arabia’s NESMA and France’s Alstom has won a contract to extend Riyadh Metro’s Red Line by 8.4km for the client, the…

Construction has begun on a third runway at Riyadh’s King Salman International Airport (KSIA) by a team of Spain’s FCC Construcción SA and Saudi Arabia’s Al-Mabani General Contractors. The 4,200m-long…

Saudi Arabia threatened to turn Qatar into an island in 2018. Now, they’re building a high-speed railway. At the start of the decade, construction firms eyeing work in the Gulf…

UK-headquartered engineer Buro Happold has been appointed lead design consultant to masterplan and design the public realm, landscape, infrastructure and utilities for Expo 2030 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. It will…

Saudi capital Riyadh could generate 17,500 gigawatt hours (GWh) of electricity a year – 40.7% of its annual consumption – if it put solar panels on 158 sq km of…

Saudi Arabia’s Diriyah Company has awarded Parsons Corporation a $56m five-year contract to lead design and construction supervision for the next phase of the Kingdom’s flagship heritage-meets-modernity megaproject.

Saudi Arabia’s state-backed AI company Humain has partnered with AirTrunk, the Asia-Pacific data centre operator owned by Blackstone, to invest $3bn in a hyperscale data centre campus in the Kingdom,…

Saudi Arabia’s Qiddiya Investment Company has awarded a construction contract worth an estimated $1.4bn to local company Nesma & Partners for the development of the Qiddiya City Performing Arts Centre,…

Saudi Arabia’s first sea-to-sea rail corridor is one of the biggest infrastructure projects in the Middle East. Earlier this year, Saudi Arabia began building its long-awaited $7bn “Landbridge” railway, which…

Construction contracts worth $24bn have now been awarded for Saudi Arabia’s Neom project and sub-projects, according to property consultancy Knight Frank. They include $470m for Magna, $3.31bn for Trojena –…

London-listed real estate company Dar Global will build the $1bn Trump Plaza Jeddah, a mixed-use project on King Abdulaziz Road in Saudi Arabia’s second-biggest city. It will have serviced apartments…

France’s Egis has won a site supervision consultant contract for Riyadh’s new 3.6km monorail for the King Abdullah Financial District (KAFD). It will have six two-car trains operating on an…

Saudi Arabia’s high-profile gigaproject Neom is considering laying off more than 1,000 staff and moving another 1,000 from the site’s headquarters in the remote northwest of the country to Riyadh,…

Bechtel has been appointed project management consultant for the 2030 World Expo in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Reporting to the Expo 2030 Riyadh Company, Bechtel will oversee delivery of the infrastructure…

Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund has asked consultants to review the feasibility of its “The Line” gigaproject, Bloomberg reported on Monday. The Public Investment Fund has asked unnamed firms to…

Italy’s Webuild has won a $600m contract from the partially state-owned Diriyah Company for a commercial and cultural development centre in Diriyah, Saudi Arabia. Diriyah is on the northern periphery…

Ground has broken on the Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA)-designed Misk Heritage Museum, known as “Asaan”, in Diriyah, Saudi Arabia. The 40,000-sq-m development will display cultural artefacts and art, exploring traditional…