Meed | Neom awards $84m water recycling plant contract

Neom awards $84m water recycling plant contract

16 July 2024

A team comprising Saudi Arabia's International Water Distribution Company (Tawzea) and Spanish infrastructure engineering firm Lantania has won a contract to build the Al-Badaa water recycling plant in Neom in northwestern Saudi Arabia.

The contract is worth SR316.2m ($84.3m), Sisco Holding, which owns a 50% share in Tawzea, said in a bourse filing on 15 July.

The contract for the scheme, which is officially known as the Al-Badaa Water Recycling Plant Enhancements Project, is for 24 months.

MEED understands the plant will treat up to 32,300 kilograms a day of sludge and will deploy advanced technologies such as solar drying and a sequential biological reactor.

A 50:50 joint venture of Tawzea and Lantania will undertake the engineering, procurement, construction, testing and commissioning of the project, in addition to the construction of an interim biosolids treatment facility, an interim innovation centre and a biosolids demonstration centre.

Sisco Holding said the financial impact of the contract awarded to the Tawzea-Lantania team is expected to be seen in the fourth quarter of this year.

Another water recycling plant project

Prequalification is under way for another water recycling plant project in Neom, which is being procured using the build-own-operate-transfer model,

Neom's Hidden Marina wastewater recycling plant will have the capacity to treat 64,000 cubic metres a day (cm/d) of wastewater, expandable to 80,000 cm/d.

The plant will supply water recycling services to the anticipated occupants of the 170-kilometre-long pair of parallel buildings that will make up The Line at Neom.

The project's first phase is expected to cost approximately SR1.3bn ($347m).

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Jennifer Aguinaldo