King Abdullah Financial District l U/C l 80 Towers l Mixed-Use

[Riyadh Sun]

26 SEP 2009

[3baaad 4 Jeddah]

[3baaad 4 Jeddah]

looool R S you better then me keep going

[7akem]

a lot of cranes ..I like it
thanks for the update

[Rody69]

now that's what I call a good news

[MAS-LNS]

البرج يتكون من 79 طابقاً ويصل طوله إلى 400 متر
بدء تأهيل المقاولين لبناء برج هيئة سوق المال في مركز الملك عبدالله


تعمل هيئة السوق المالية في الوقت الراهن على عملية التأهيل المبدئي للمقاولين واستلام المعطاءات التي تستهدف بناء مقر الهيئة في مركز الملك عبدالله المالي .

ووفقاً لتقرير نشرته مجلة ميد الاقتصادية واطلعت "الرياض" على تفاصيله، فإن هيئة سوق رأس المال بدأت فعلياً في عملية التأهيل المبدئي للمقاولين لبناء برج يصل طوله إلى نحو 400 متر.

ولم تكشف هيئة سوق المال بحسب التقرير ، موعد الإعلان القائمة المختصرة لمقدمي العروض، في الوقت الذي سيقوم فيه المقاول الفائز ببناء هذا البرج من ثلاثة طوابق تحت الأرض، 79 طابقا فوق سطح الأرض، وتبلغ مجموع المساحة المبنية قرابة 185،000 متر مربع. وتتوقع هيئة سوق المال ، تحضير الموقع لبدء العمل بحلول نهاية هذا العام ، على أن تبدأ أعمال البناء في يناير 2010 ، بينما تتطلع هيئة السوق المالية إلى الانتقال إلى البرج الجديد في أوائل عام 2012.

ويعتبر برج هيئة سوق المال واحد من عدة أبراج شاهقة سيشهدها مركز الملك عبدالله المالي، حيث سيضم المركز السوق المالية (تداول) والمؤسسات المالية الأخرى ، مثل مجموعة سامبا المالية ، مصرف الإنماء ، بنك الراجحي ، وصندوق الاستثمارات العامة . ورأى تقرير "ميد"، أنه على الرغم من هبوط أسعار العقارات ، وتباطؤ النمو الاقتصادي للمطورين ، فإنه يتم المضي قدما في سلسلة من مخططات أخرى لبناء أبراج عالية الارتفاع في أماكن أخرى في الخليج ومنها السعودية.


http://www.alriyadh.com/2009/09/28/article462611.html

[3baaad 4 Jeddah]

gooood news 5 months to start bulid the tower
I love Riyadh city

[top speed]

After 100 years, God willing !!

[mmyymm]

Saudi regulator to tender tall tower scheme

Capital Market Authority begins prequalifying contractors to build 400-metre-tall headquarters building


Saudi financial regulator the Capital Market Authority (CMA) is to tender the contract to build the kingdom’s tallest tower at King Abdullah Financial District on the outskirts of the capital, accor-ding to contractors hoping to bid for the work.

The CMA is currently prequalifying contractors to bid for the deal to build the 400-metre-tall tower, which will supercede the 309-metre-tall Kingdom Tower in central Riyadh as the country’s tallest building. The CMA has yet to say when it will announce the shortlist of bidders.

The winning contractor will build the tower with three basement floors, 79 storeys above ground, with a total built-up area of 185,000 square metres.

The CMA expects site preparation work to start by the end of this year, with construction beginning in January 2010.

The regulator wants to move into the tower in early 2012.

The CMA tower is one of several high-rise developments planned for the SR36bn ($9.6bn) financial district.

The Saudi Stock Exchange (Tadawul) and other Saudi financial institutions, such as Samba, Alinma Bank, Al-Rajhi Bank, and the Public Investment Fund, are all seeking high-rise office space in the financial district.

The investment arm of the Public Pension Agency, Al-Rayadah Investments, is the master developer on the scheme.

Although it will be the kingdom’s tallest tower when completed, the CMA tower will be considerably shorter than the 1-kilometre tower planned by Saudi investment company Kingdom Holding at Jeddah Kingdom City (MEED 11:9:09).

Kingdom has shortlisted three architects and three contractors for the project, which it hopes will replace the 818-metre Burj Dubai as the world’s tallest building.

The shortlisted architects, which are all from the US, are Skidmore Owings & Merrill; Adrian Smith & Gordon Gill Architecture; and Pickard Chilton, which will work in partnership with UK-based Hyder Consulting.

The three contracting groups are South Korea’s Samsung Corporation with Dubai-based Arabtec Construction; Australia’s Multiplex; and Saudi Binladin Group.

Despite falling property prices and the economic slowdown, developers are moving ahead with a series of other high-rise schemes elsewhere in the Gulf.

In Doha, Qatar National Bank has invited contractors to bid by 25 October to build its 510-metre headquarters building, which will be the tallest in Qatar.

In Dubai, Hong Kong-based developer Trident Holdings selected Lebanon’s Arabian Construction Company in early September for a AED1.5bn ($408m) deal to build the 618-metre Pentominium tower in Dubai Marina.

Other tower projects have been put on hold, including Meraas Development’s planned tower at Jumeira Garden City in Dubai, Dubai-based Al-Fattan Properties’ tower at Dubai Marina, Abu Dhabi-based Al-Jaber Group’s tower on the Doha Corniche, and Qatari Diar Real Estate Investment Company’s tower at the Doha Convention Centre development.

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[DAMAC]

Originally Posted by mmyymm

Saudi regulator to tender tall tower scheme

Capital Market Authority begins prequalifying contractors to build 400-metre-tall headquarters building


Saudi financial regulator the Capital Market Authority (CMA) is to tender the contract to build the kingdom’s tallest tower at King Abdullah Financial District on the outskirts of the capital, accor-ding to contractors hoping to bid for the work.

The CMA is currently prequalifying contractors to bid for the deal to build the 400-metre-tall tower, which will supercede the 309-metre-tall Kingdom Tower in central Riyadh as the country’s tallest building. The CMA has yet to say when it will announce the shortlist of bidders.

The winning contractor will build the tower with three basement floors, 79 storeys above ground, with a total built-up area of 185,000 square metres.

The CMA expects site preparation work to start by the end of this year, with construction beginning in January 2010.

The regulator wants to move into the tower in early 2012.

The CMA tower is one of several high-rise developments planned for the SR36bn ($9.6bn) financial district.

The Saudi Stock Exchange (Tadawul) and other Saudi financial institutions, such as Samba, Alinma Bank, Al-Rajhi Bank, and the Public Investment Fund, are all seeking high-rise office space in the financial district.

The investment arm of the Public Pension Agency, Al-Rayadah Investments, is the master developer on the scheme.

Although it will be the kingdom’s tallest tower when completed, the CMA tower will be considerably shorter than the 1-kilometre tower planned by Saudi investment company Kingdom Holding at Jeddah Kingdom City (MEED 11:9:09).

Kingdom has shortlisted three architects and three contractors for the project, which it hopes will replace the 818-metre Burj Dubai as the world’s tallest building.

The shortlisted architects, which are all from the US, are Skidmore Owings & Merrill; Adrian Smith & Gordon Gill Architecture; and Pickard Chilton, which will work in partnership with UK-based Hyder Consulting.

The three contracting groups are South Korea’s Samsung Corporation with Dubai-based Arabtec Construction; Australia’s Multiplex; and Saudi Binladin Group.

Despite falling property prices and the economic slowdown, developers are moving ahead with a series of other high-rise schemes elsewhere in the Gulf.

In Doha, Qatar National Bank has invited contractors to bid by 25 October to build its 510-metre headquarters building, which will be the tallest in Qatar.

In Dubai, Hong Kong-based developer Trident Holdings selected Lebanon’s Arabian Construction Company in early September for a AED1.5bn ($408m) deal to build the 618-metre Pentominium tower in Dubai Marina.

Other tower projects have been put on hold, including Meraas Development’s planned tower at Jumeira Garden City in Dubai, Dubai-based Al-Fattan Properties’ tower at Dubai Marina, Abu Dhabi-based Al-Jaber Group’s tower on the Doha Corniche, and Qatari Diar Real Estate Investment Company’s tower at the Doha Convention Centre development.

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With respect to height do not think it would be taller than the Abraj Al-Bait in Mecca as classified by the magazine world that Abraj Al-Bait in Mecca, is the second tallest building in the world after the Burj Dubai
As well as Sama Dubai Tower in Jeddah will exceed the height of 400 meters from the 82-F

[Riyadh Sun]

WE RESPECT THAT FRIEND, AND ALWAYS HATS OFF

BUT FOR RIYADH ITS THE HIGHIEST

[3baaad 4 Jeddah]

[Riyadh Sun]

[3baaad 4 Jeddah]

[penta_a]

"الاستثمارات الرائدة" ترسي عقد تنفيذ 30 حزمة من المباني ضمن مشروع مركز الملك عبد الله المالي لـ"بن لادن السعودية" بقيمة 14 مليار ريال على مدى 38 شهراً
أرقام 10/10/2009

أرست شركة "الاستثمارات الرائدة"، التي تقوم بتطوير مركز الملك عبد الله المالي، عقداً بقيمة 3.73 مليار دولار (14 مليار ريال سعودي) لمجموعة بن لادن السعودية تتولى بموجبه المجموعة تصميم وبناء 30 حزمة من المباني داخل المركز حسبما أوردت صحيفة "سعودي غازيت" الناطقة باللغة الإنجليزية.

ويقول مدير المشروعات في شركة "الاستثمارات الرائدة" إن العقد يلزم "مجموعة بن لادن السعودية" إكمال 27 حزمة من المباني من أصل 30 بحلول مارس عام 2012 والحزم الثلاث الباقية في نوفمبر عام 2012 مضيفاً أن المجموعة السعودية تعد أول مقاول لديه إمكانية تنفيذ 30 حزمة من المباني خلال 38 شهراً.

ويشمل العقد بناء أطول برجين في الأبراج المشمولة في مركز الملك عبد الله المالي، وهما مركز التجارة العالمي بارتفاع 303 أمتار، وبرج مصرف دول المجلس التعاون الخليجي بارتفاع 240 متراً، وهما البرجان الواقعان ضمن آخر ثلاثة أبراج سيتم تسليمها للجهة المطورة، حسب النشرة.

وأشار مدير المشروعات في "الاستثمارات الرائدة" إلى أن نحو 70% من حجم مشروعات المركز سيكتمل بتنفيذ العقد مع مجموعة بن لادن في حين أن باقي المشروع سيتم تنفيذه حسب الطلب.

وكان تقرير صحفي قد ذكر في يونيو الماضي أن "الاستثمارات الرائدة" تتجه إلى طرح ثلاثة عقود إنشائية رئيسية للمركز في غضون الـ12 شهراً المقبلة بما فيها إنشاء برجين يعدان من أطول الأبراج في المملكة العربية السعودية بارتفاع يصل نحو 310 أمتار.

ويشمل أحد العقود الرئيسية (عقد الأعمال الأرضية)، حيث جاءت قائمة الشركات المرشحة لتقديم العروض لها، كلاً من مجموعة بن لادن السعودية، و"سعودي أوجيه"، و"السيف الهندسية والمقاولات"، و"نسمة وشركاه للمقاولات"، و"تومبين السعودية"، و"اليمامة للتجارة والمقاولات"، ثم شركة "بيطور" التركية.

الجدير بالذكر أن العقد الأول يشمل بناء الأنفاق والجسور التي تربط مختلف الأجزاء من المشروع والثاني مرافق الكهرباء والمياه إلى جانب الأعمال الأرضية، بينما يشمل العقد الثالث إنشاء وهندسة مشروع خط حديدي مفرد الذي تتولى بناءه شركة "سيسترا" (Systra) الفرنسية.

Google translation:

"Investments" pilot establishes a contract to implement a package of 30 buildings within the project of the King Abdullah Financial for "Bin Laden, Saudi Arabia," worth 14 billion riyals over 38 months
Figures 10/10/2009

Established the company "investments" pilot, which is developing the King Abdullah Financial District, a contract worth $ 3.73 billion (14 billion Saudi Riyals) for the Bin Laden Group, Saudi Arabia, which holds the group to design and build a package of 30 buildings inside the center as newspaper, "Saudi Gazette" speaking in English.

He says the project manager in the "investment pilot:" The contract requires that "Bin Laden Group, Saudi Arabia," the completion of a package of 27 buildings out of 30 by March 2012 and the remaining three packages in November 2012, adding that the group in Saudi Arabia is the first contractor to have the possibility of implementing a package of 30 buildings during the 38 months.

The contract includes building the tallest towers in the towers included in the King Abdullah Financial District, the two World Trade Center, at altitudes of 303 meters, the Tower Bank of the Gulf Cooperation Council States, up 240 meters, the two towers are located within the other three towers will be handed over to the developer, according to the bulletin.

The project manager in the "investments" pilot that about 70% of the projects the Center will be completed by the implementation of the contract with the Bin Laden Group, while the rest of the project will be implemented according to demand.

The news report had said last June that "the leading investment" moving to three major construction contracts to the Center within the next 12 months including the establishment of towers are among the tallest towers in Saudi Arabia at altitudes up to about 310 meters.

And involves the major contracts (contract work floor), where it came from a list of the companies chosen to make presentations to them, both the Bin Laden Group, Saudi Arabia, "Saudi Oger," and "The Sword of engineering and construction," and "people and Contracting Co." and "Tumbin Saudi Arabia ", and" Al Yamamah Trading & Contracting ", then the company" Bitor "Turkish.

It is worth mentioning that the first contract involves the construction of tunnels and bridges connecting the various parts of the project and the second electricity and water utilities as well as earthworks, while the contract includes the establishment of the third and Engineering Monorail project, whose construction company "Systra" (Systra) French.

[jh1]

Site Tour: King Abdullah Financial District
Oct 11, 2009: A closer look at construction at KAFD
http://www.constructionweekonline.co...0%&height=100%


Unaffected by the global economic downturn, Saudi Arabia is furiously constructing its King Abdullah Financial District, a project destined to become a new city centre for Riyadh.



Centrally located on Riyadh's King Fahd Highway, the development will feature more than 40 towers with all the facilities, amenities, utilities and transport networks you would come to expect in a well-designed city of the 21st century.



Construction started last November and with a fast-tracked contract period of 30 months this first stage is expected to finish around mid 2011.



Overall it's expected that by mid-2012 around 70% of KAFD will be built out, with the remaining land developed over time according to demand.



26% of KAFD's 5 million m2 built up area will be designated for residential apartments designed for local and international customers. There will also be a total of six hotels and a fair proportion of KAFD has been set aside for retail and attractions.



Central to the plan is KAFD's 'wadi' concept; a subterranean pedestrian area running throughout the development which include water features and greenery and will be heavily shaded by the surrounding towers.



The entire site is expected to at least achieve the basic Leed environmental certification - which will be the first Leed accredited buildings in Riyadh.




The architects from FX Fowle, who are designing Saudi Binladin's parcels, say they are also using local materials and stone in the construction which will also help score Leed points.

[mmyymm]

Saudi Binladin wins $3.7bn financial
district contract

11 October, 2009

Contractor will design and construct 30 buildings at King Abdullah Financial District

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[Saudi guy]

i believe the budget that saudi bin ladin has more than the government itself

the thing make me surprise when the government want to be serious to do something they can make it in unexpected period of time i mean come on existing 40 towers from scratch in 3 years!!

[Saudi guy]

watch it on HD

[7akem]

thanks for the update