Nesma delivers $76m turnkey water utilities project in Qiddiya
JEDDAH, August 7, 2024
Leading Saudi contracting firm Nesma has announced that its Water & Power Engineering (WPE) company has completed a turnkey water utilities project within Qiddiya, a mega cultural, sports and entertainment hub Qiddiya, and delivered it much ahead of its project schedule.
As per the contract awarded by Qiddiya Investment Company (QIC), the SAR287 million ($76.4 million) project was set for handover in 18 months, but Nesma WPE delivered it in under six months, it stated in a social media post on X, previously known as Twitter.
The scope of work includes the engineering, procurement and construction of a potable water pumping plant with capacity of 7,500 cu m per day; irrigation water pumping plant; sewage treatment plant with 1,500 cu m per day capacity, in addition to a district cooling plant with a cooling load of 12,490 tonnes per day.
Also as part of the project work, Nesma WPE completed a 6-km-long corridor trench; a 1.8-km culvert tunnel network and installed medium voltage cables and ICT networks, said the company in the X post. -TradeArabia News Service
