Qiddiya awards major roadworks deal to Saudi contractor

Qiddiya Investment Company (QIC) has awarded a contract to Shibh Al Jazira Contracting Co. (SAJCO) to begin roadworks that will serve the entertainment city being built just outside Riyadh.

“After many months of preparation and planning by our teams in Riyadh, we are ready to start laying the first network of roads for the project,” Michael Reininger, chief executive officer of QIC, said.

The 14-month roadworks project will connect traffic on the Dhurma Road with one of the first developments within Qiddiya, which will include offices, shops, restaurants, a petrol station and more.

It will initially serve as a base camp for the project’s on-site staff, and eventually as a staging and services center for business and project-related visitors to Qiddiya.

This road project will provide quick and easy access for design, construction and other development teams to the Qiddiya site, enabling future infrastructure works such as utilities and landscaping.

“Our planners and site teams will bring all their resolve and their five decades of experience to bear, as we deliver this project in the months ahead,” Ziad Wehbe Sulaiman, SAJCO CEO, said.

Along with the asphalt roadways, the project includes a grade-separated interchange that spans Dhurma Road with a slender, aesthetically pleasing bridge structures.

This part of the Qiddiya project is to be substantially complete in November 2020.