Work has started on Saudi Arabia’s national tennis centre in Qiddiya City, 45km west of Riyadh. It’s set to be the region’s biggest tennis complex. Designed by US architect Populous,…

The local subsidiaries of Spain’s OHLA Group and Egypt’s Hassan Allam Holding have won a contract from the state-run Saudi Railway Company to build a 22.7km single-track freight railway in…

Red Sea Global has finished an expansion of Saudi Arabia’s northwestern AlWajh International Airport that allows it to handle 500,000 passengers a year, up from 100,000. It’s the gateway to…

Saudi Arabia’s Diriyah Company has awarded a $490m contract to Al Bawani Company and the Saudi Arabian arm of Egypt’s Hassan Allam Construction to build the Saudi Arabia Museum of…

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,…