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…

Bechtel will be the delivery partner for three new terminals at King Salman International Airport (KSIA) in Saudi Arabia after signing an agreement today. The deal with KSIA Development Company…

Two independent reports from human rights groups published today issue fresh warnings of thousands of preventable migrant construction-worker deaths in Saudi Arabia as it prepares for the 2034 World Cup.…

Europe’s construction industry is globally respected for its engineering excellence and sustainability leadership, but it often struggles to convert innovation into scalable commercial success. Technologies like modular timber-hybrid systems, AI-powered…

Mace has appointed Brian Conlon as country director for Saudi Arabia to oversee its expanding operations there. Reporting to managing director of Middle East and Africa, Christopher Seymour, Conlon will…

It’s been confirmed that on 12 March a worker died on the Besix-Al Bawani joint-venture project to build the Aramco Stadium in Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia, one of the venues…

A 50-50 joint venture between Egyptian contractor Orascom and Técnicas Reunidas of Spain has been chosen to build a 3GW combined-cycle gas-fired power plant in Saudi Arabia’s Eastern Province. The…

Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) has invited contractors to bid for the project management role on a 19 sq km “North Pole” business district in Riyadh, which will include…

Satellite imagery has revealed that construction has begun on “Hidden Marina”, the Red Sea end-section of Saudi Arabia’s 170km-long, 200m-wide city “The Line”, as reported by Business Insider. Aerial images…