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| EC Harris and Mace win program management for Kingdom Tower Arcadis (EURONEXT: ARCAD), a leading international consultancy, design, engineering and management services company, announced that The Jeddah Economic Company (JEC) has appointed a joint venture between Arcadis subsidiary EC Harris and Mace 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. 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 Baeur as Pilling Contractor as well as Saudi BinLaden Group (SBG) as the main contractor. The EC Harris and Mace joint venture team combines the experience of EC Harris and ARCADIS' 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. write your comments about the article :: © 2013 Construction News :: home page |