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Saudi Arabia has been called the world's biggest building site, and green concrete could reduce the carbon impact of its massive building plans

Saudi university working to improve ‘green concrete’

Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (Kaust) is developing direct carbon capture for buildings with the “green concrete” construction company Partanna.  The Bahamas-based startup has already begun supplying a number of Saudi giga-projects with its concrete that absorbs carbon dioxide. These include housing company Roshn, tourist resort operator Red Sea Global and […]

The 'world-class wellness' resorts will include Six Senses The 'world-class wellness' resorts will include Six Senses Amaala, designed by architects U+A

Eight sites to open at Amaala Red Sea resort in 2025

Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea giga-project Amaala is to open its first phase in 2025 with seven resorts and a yacht club, the company said this week.  Red Sea Global – the Public Investment Fund project that owns Amaala – said the resorts to open would be Clinique La Prairie Health Resort, Jayasom Wellness Resort, Rosewood […]

Nujuma, operated by Ritz Carlton, is the third Red Sea Global resort to open to visitors

Saudi Red Sea resorts aim for 19m tourists by 2030

Saudi Arabia hopes to attract 19 million tourists a year to its Red Sea giga-projects and other resorts being built along the country’s west coast.  Mohammed Al Nasser, CEO of the Saudi Red Sea Authority, said it intends to issue licences for up to 60 marinas over the next two years. It recently licensed six […]

A pilgrim prays on Mount Arafat, Mecca. Saudi Arabia has been enforcing a strict crackdown on performing Hajj without a permit Video length: 07:15

Hajj pilgrims feel the pinch as costs rise

The costs of Hajj are getting ever higher for pilgrims coming from around the world to perform the annual rites, which are a duty for every able-bodied Muslim to perform once in a lifetime.  Even pilgrims coming from within Saudi Arabia, for whom the costs are cheaper, are paying around SAR23,500 ($6,266) for up to […]

The Aerotels will offer short-stay rooms for travellers

Airports consider ‘transit hotels’ for 6-hour stays

Saudi Arabia’s aviation expansion could stretch to transit hotels inside airport terminals where customers can pay for stays of less than the standard 24 hours.   A Hong Kong-based company is developing the concept in the Gulf, with hotels offering six and 12-hour stays already established in Jeddah and Abu Dhabi, and a Muscat hotel that […]

Of potential buyers interested in living in the giga-project Neom, 42 percent said they would favour The Line

Neom and Jeddah offer appeal to expat buyers

Many expatriates in Saudi Arabia are interested in buying property in Neom and Jeddah Central and willing to spend over $1 million, a real estate survey showed this week. “When asked about which giga-project they would most like to buy a home to live in, Neom emerges as the clear favourite, followed by Jeddah Central […]

Saudi Arabia's Red Sea International Airport will be the gateway to an area with 50 resorts

Red Sea airport prepares for first international visitors

Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea International Airport will record its first international visitors this month when a flight from Dubai arrives on April 18. Red Sea Global, the developer behind regenerative tourism destinations The Red Sea and Amaala, said the flight, operated by Flydubai, marks the start of a new twice-weekly route.  Regular domestic flights operated […]

An artist's impression of the stainless steel villas at Shebara, Red Sea Global's latest luxury resort

Red Sea Global says first hotels are open

Red Sea Global, one of Saudi Arabia’s main giga-projects, said this week it has opened two hotels.  Ben Edwards, group head of cost, commercial and procurement, said in a conference call on March 20 that Six Senses and St. Regis hotels had opened at the Red Sea Global site south of the remote town of […]

Oman's new economic zone will span more than 20 sq km

Foreign expertise vital for Saudi construction

Saudi Arabia’s construction industry needs more foreign involvement if achieving its Vision 2030 goals is to become a reality, according to attendees of the Big 5 conference in Riyadh. In the first half of 2023 alone $44 billion worth of new projects were awarded in the kingdom’s $140 billion construction sector, according to real estate […]

THC's H145s will be used in various roles in Saudi Arabia including emergency medical services and corporate transport

PIF subsidiary to buy 120 Airbus helicopters

The Helicopter Company (THC), a wholly-owned unit of the Public Investment Fund, has signed a framework agreement with European aviation giant Airbus to buy up to 120 helicopters. The helicopters of various types will be delivered over the next five to seven years. Part of the deal includes a firm order for eight H125s and […]