Construction Week In Focus | Saudi Arabia construction project update [Aug 2019]

Saudi Arabia’s government-owned Saline Water Conversion Corporation (SWCC) revealed that construction work on its reverse osmosis desalination plant located in Al Khobar region has been 55% completed. The plant has a capacity to desalinate 210,000 cubic metres of water per day. The company said that the project also hit a new milestone after it recorded 1.3 million safe man hours without lost time injury. The plant will supply 110,000 cubic metres of desalinated water to the eastern region every day in addition to 75,000 cubic metres for Saudi Aramco’s Ajyal project and 25,000 cubic metres to King Salman Energy City. In July 2018, SWCC picked Acciona Auga for an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract for the desalination plant, which is located about 400km from Riyadh. In another project update, Saudi Arabia’s National Water Company (NWC) revealed that it has completed construction work on water reservoirs in the kingdom’s Rafhaa governorate with a total capacity of 54,000 cubic metres. The value of the project is $7.2m (SAR27m). Comprising three 18,000 cubic metre strategic reservoirs, the project will provide 2,853 water connections in the governorate, which will be enough to fulfil water needs of more than 15,000 people. Construction work for the project included building a facility for pumps and one for chlorine, in addition to the installation of 7km of pipework and an area for technicians. The reservoir will additionally provide a parallel...