Saudi Arabia’s The Red Sea Development Company (TRSDC), has signed the contract for groundwork improvement project for the Coastal Village at the Red Sea Project site.
The project has been awarded to Huta Hegerfield and Saudconsulting Services (Saudconsult).
Project Description:
As per the contract, Huta Hegerfield will be responsible for land raising and ground improvement for the 1.5-million-sq-m Coastal Village area.
This will house the workers, staff and management of The Red Sea Project, and will include corporate offices, housing and high-end facilities.
To raise the ground at the Coastal Village site to 3.52 m above sea level, Huta Hegerfield will transport 2.6 million cu m of fill by extracting soil and other material from a nearby hill.
In addition to raising the land, a process of ground improvement, known as dynamic compaction or rapid impact compaction, will also improve the existing soil around the Coastal Village, said the statement from TRSDC.
It is expected the project will be completed in five months and will begin in September 2019.
To meet TRSDC’s strict sustainability targets the ground improvement work includes measures to reduce the environmental impact for both the land and sea. This includes minimising the underwater noise impact on marine life, and restoration of the hill, it added.
For Saudconsult, the scope of work includes construction supervision consultancy services, to ensure all elements of the design and construction remain on schedule, whilst observing and monitoring the quality of all construction works, to guarantee that all works are fit for the intended purpose.
