SAUDI ARABIA: Egis has been appointed as Site Supervision Consultant for the construction of a monorail in Riyadh’s King Abdullah Financial District.
Egis will supervise rolling stock, railway systems, civil and structural, mechanical, electrical and plumbing, architecture, utilities and landscaping works. It will also review and approve shop drawings, method statements and material submissions, while overseeing compliance and quality control processes throughout the project’s construction phase.
In October 2024 King Abdullah Financial District Development & Management Co award a consortium of CRRC (Hong Kong) Co, CRRC Nanjing Puzhen and Hassan Allam Construction a contract to built the 3·6 km elevated circular line, which will have six stations embedded in public buildings to serve office, retail and leisure facilities in the ‘city within a city’.
It will be operated using six two-car automated trainsets, and is expected to handle up to 3 500 passengers/h at peak times.
Trial operations are planned for early 2027.
