Meed | Firms allowed more time for The Line construction bids

Firms allowed more time for The Line construction bids

5 August 2024

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Contractors have been given until 25 August to submit bids to construct the raft foundations for modules 44, 45, 46, 47 and 48 at the marina of The Line in Neom.

The raft construction will include the world’s second-largest concrete pour of 43,000 cubic metres onto what is referred to as the mega core. Neom expects companies to form joint ventures or consortiums to execute the work.

The raft foundations follow the piling work for The Line. Piling work in the marina area began last year. Nine contractors were engaged as part of a framework agreement. Contractors were also engaged in the excavation work for the marina, which involved moving about 1 million cubic metres of earth every week, making it the world’s largest excavation project.

The marina is on the other side of The Line to the sea, meaning ships headed for the marina must pass through The Line buildings. This presents a significant engineering challenge, requiring a 165-metre-wide waterway to pass through the 500-metre-tall buildings.

Speaking at the Future Projects Forum in Riyadh on 21 May, Abdullah AlMasoud, executive director for project procurement at Neom, said the structures at the marina would be split into 12 individual shell and core packages. The final number of packages could change depending on feedback from the market. In total, the buildings will require 7 million square metres of internal and external facades and cladding and will have about 80,000 residential units.

The marina substructure will be over 7 kilometres long and will require 2.4 million square metres of cladding and facades. Construction work for this substructure is expected to be tendered in 21 separate contract packages split by area.

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Yasir Iqbal