EC Harris/Mace Appointed to Project Manage the World’s
Tallest Building, Kingdom Tower
21 February 2013
The Jeddah Economic Company (JEC) has appointed an EC
Harris/Mace joint venture team to project manage the iconic Kingdom
Tower project in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Kingdom Tower will be
the world’s tallest building, standing over 1km in height.
This will be taller than the Burj Khalifa in Dubai and four times
the size of The Shard in London.
The partners of JEC are the Kingdom Holding
Company with a stake of 33.35%, SBG with a 16.63% stake, Abraar
International Holding Company represented by Mr Samaual Bakhsh,
with a stake of 33.35%, and prominent Jeddah businessman Mr
Abdulrahman Hassan Sharbatly with a stake of 16.67%.
The EC Harris/Mace joint venture team will
provide project, commercial and design management for the US$1.2bn
(£780m) Kingdom Tower development. With a total
construction area of over 500,000 square meters, the soaring
Kingdom Tower will be a mixed-use building featuring a five star
luxury Four Seasons hotel, Four Seasons serviced apartments, first
class office space, luxury condominiums and an observatory that
will be higher than the world’s current highest observation
deck. Construction work is due to start on site later this
year and is due for completion within 63 months.
Eng. Waleed Abdul Jaleel Batterjee, Chief
Executive Officer of JEC said, "The vision of constructing the
tallest tower in the world in Jeddah belongs to HRH Prince Al
Waleed bin Talal. His vision is also that the project itself will
set the world’s sights on our beloved Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and
particularly on Jeddah. Furthermore, the project will help
create hundreds of jobs for our Saudi countrymen.”
Batterjee added that JEC is also in the final
negotiations with for the appointment of Quantity Surveyor
consultancy which will also be a UK based company.
Keith Brooks, Head of Property and Social
Infrastructure at EC Harris said, “We are delighted to be on the
team to deliver this iconic project. The Kingdom Tower is a
landmark building that will clearly demonstrate Saudi Arabia’s
ambitions to the world. We have a world class team in place
and I am confident that our integrated approach to project, design
and construction management will help deliver a safe and successful
project.”
Mark Reynolds, Chief Executive of Mace, said:
““Kingdom Tower is a project of international importance and
immense ambition and we are delighted to be part of the Joint
Venture team tasked with its delivery. As the client’s project
manager, I am confident we will deliver a development exemplary in
innovation and approach. We look forward to the realisation of HRH
Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal‘s vision which will secure international
recognition for the Kingdom’s economic and cultural status.”
Kingdom Tower will be the centre piece of
JEC’s US$20bn (£13bn) Kingdom City development which will be
located to the north of Jeddah, overlooking the Red Sea. The
Kingdom City will consist of over 5.3 million square meters of
urban development and it will include residential, commercial,
hotel, offices, retail, educational and commercial centres as well
as inland water features.
An interdisciplinary team led by Adrian Smith
+ Gordon Gill Architecture (AS+GG), based in Chicago, created the
design of the Kingdom Tower. Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill were
appointed architects on Kingdom Tower in 2011. This
appointment has been followed by the appointment of DAR Al-Handasah
as the supervision consultant, Saudi Bauer as Piling Contractor as
well as Saudi BinLaden Group (SBG) as the main contractor.
The EC Harris and Mace joint venture team
combines the experience of ARCADIS companies EC Harris and RISE,
the Chicago based tall building experts, with international
consultancy and construction company Mace. Together they have
extensive experience delivering over 100 tall buildings around the
globe including The Shard in London and The Landmark in Abu
Dhabi.
EC Harris and Mace are working together on a
number of projects, including a major programme of social
infrastructure building projects for Qatar’s Public Works Authority
Ashghal, Doha Festival City in Qatar, numerous retail and
hospitality projects in the UAE and several major residential
developments in Dubai.
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Notes to editors
For
further press information and images of Kingdom Tower please
contact:
Andy Rowlands, EC Harris, T: +44 (0) 207833
6662/ M: +44 (0) 7810 850 476/ andy.rowlands@echarris.com
Sarah Park, Mace, T: +44 (0)20 7068 6278/ M:
07786 363 609/ sarah.park@macegroup.com
About EC Harris:
EC
Harris is a leading global built asset consultancy. As an ARCADIS
company, EC Harris has access to approximately 21,000 professionals
worldwide operating in over 70 countries, 300 offices and
generating in excess of €2.4billion in revenue. Working across a
wide range of market sectors, EC Harris helps clients make the most
from the money they spend on their built assets. For further
information, contact http://www.echarris.com/
About Mace:
Mace is an
international consultancy and construction company employing over
3,700 people, across five continents with a turnover of £1bn.
Mace’s business is programme and project management, cost
consultancy, construction delivery and facilities management and is
truly multi-disciplinary with services spanning the entire property
and infrastructure lifecycle.
Mace has three strategic sectors serving
clients in the private, public and infrastructure sectors and five
strategic hubs in Europe, Middle East & North Africa, the
Americas, Asia Pacific and Sub-Sahara Africa that service over 70
countries. For more information visit: http://www.macegroup.com/
About JEC:
Jeddah
Economic Company formed in 2009, the consortium company that will
be owning and developing Kingdom Tower (the tallest tower in
the world with a plus 1000 m height ) and Kingdom City ( an
urban development of 500,000 sqm ) surrounding the tower.
The partners of JEC are Kingdom Holding
Company, Mr. Samaual Bakhsh, Abraar, International Holding Company,
prominent Jeddah businessmen Mr. Abdulrahman Hassan Sharbatly and
Saudi Bin Laden Group (SBG). The capital of JEC is made up of SR8.8
billion in land value, assets that are SR7.3 billion, plus SR1.5
billion in cash contributed by SBG.
For further press information please
contact:
Kareem R. Itani, Director of Marketing & Sales
Jeddah Economic Company
Office: +9662 6991211
(Ext-666)
Cell: +966
(50) 3609 808 / 966 (54)91 66669
Twitter: @kingdomtower1