IDS are due to be submitted by the end of next month (January) for the second phase of the estimated $7-billion 450-km-long Haramain High Speed Rail (HHR) project, which will link the cities of Makkah and Madinah, via Jeddah, in Saudi Arabia.

WORK is expected to kick off at site on the Knowledge Economic City (KEC) when initial grading and plot demarcation activities start next year at the 4.8-million-sq-m high-tech knowledge-based economic city in Madinah.

AL WATANIA Gypsum Company of Saudi Arabia has launched production of gypsum plaster, which is used in producing moulds for the manufacture of ceramic products.

CONSTRUCTION work is well under way on the $3.2-billion Jabal Omar development project, which occupies a prime location ahead of the Grand Mosque in Makkah.

SAUDI-based Tamimi Membrane Structure has secured a contract to install a PTFE (polytetrafluoroethylene) roof cover over the 950-m-long and 80-m-wide Jamarat bridge at Mina in Makkah.The deal was awarded by Saudi Binladin Group (SBG), the main contractor for the bridge work. SBG recently completed the fifth floor on the $1.