A scientist has called for the cancellation of Saudi Arabia’s giga project, The Line, on the grounds that it would be a terrible place to live. It’s conceived as two,…

The number of internet searches in the UK for construction jobs in Saudi Arabia has soared by 293% year on year, according to the online tradesperson marketplace, Rated People. It…

Israel has announced plans for a $27bn expansion to its rail network that would connect the entire country by high-speed rail. The “One Israel” project would link Kiryat Shemona at…

Hyundai Engineering & Construction has won a $145m contract to build a power transmission line in Saudi Arabia, South Korean media report.  It will erect some 450 transmission towers to…

UK architect Foster + Partners has designed a “luxury resort experience” on the Red Sea coast in northwest Saudi Arabia for the Equinox hotel group. Equinox Resort will be part…

English company InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) is to build a 250-room hotel in the planned floating port city of Oxagon, which will be part of Saudi Arabia’s futuristic Neom development.…

Saudi Arabia has hired Paris-based engineering group Assystem to conduct pre-development studies for seven photovoltaic parks in the Tabuk and Duba regions to power the kingdom’s Neom economic development zone.…

What some consider an ideal ecological city, others call a promotional gimmick. Researchers from the Complexity Science Hub now show why The Line should not be a showcase for future…

A two-day trade and investment conference has been held in Riyadh to boost business between Saudi Arabia and China. As news site Zawya reports, this has led to more than…

The government of Saudi Arabia has agreed to fund a $1bn mixed-use development in Baghdad. The Jadat Baghdad (Baghdad Avenue) scheme will be built in the Al-Rafil area of the…

Saudi tourism developer Red Sea Global (RSG) has agreed to lay carbon-negative concrete pavers at its large landscape nursery in Saudi Arabia. The pavers are made by Partanna, which claims…

Modular housebuilder Scandinavian Industrialised Building System (SIBS) has won a contract to assemble 35 apartment blocks at Saudi Arabia’s huge new economic zone, Neom. The Stockholm company was awarded an…

Indian contractor Larsen & Toubro (L&T) has won engineering, procurement and construction contracts worth between $300m and $600m in India and Saudi Arabia through its power transmission and distribution subsidiary.…

Webuild and joint-venture partner Shibh Al Jazira Contracting Company (Sajco) have signed a €1.4bn contract to design and build 57km of a high-speed railway serving the futuristic commercial and residential…

John Pagano is CEO of Red Sea Global, developer of The Red Sea and Amaala tourism complexes in Saudi Arabia. Ancient Greeks believed that the god Helios brought light to…

The UN has raised concerns about Saudi Arabia’s planned execution of three members of the Howeitat tribe who were evicted from their homes to make way for the Neom project.…

Taiba Investments Company has appointed France’s Egis to provide design review and supervision on a project to build a Hilton Double Tree Hotel in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The hotel will…

Fisia Italimpianti, a subsidiary of Italy’s Webuild Group, has landed two deals worth $350m to build and manage a water treatment plant at the Zuluf offshore oil field in Saudi…