Notes about the Project/Tender with Updates, where available:
This project will be built as part of Red Sea in Saudi Arabia. The scheme includes the construction of a 1.2-kilometre bridge, roads, infrastructure facilities and associated works, in addition to the installation of street lights. The bridge will link the Red Sea project's hub island to the shore and the sea's western coastline. The UK's Buro Happold is working as consultant for the project, which is due to be commissioned in 2023.
Updated Date & Remarks
January 3, 2023
The project has been successfully completed on this scheme.
August 22, 2022
Client has announced the installation of the last concrete block weighing 400 tons in this project. The construction of this project is progressing well with the basic structural work on the bridge has been completed and asphalt paving is now underway.
July 30, 2022
Construction works are currently in progress on this scheme.
June 14, 2022
Mammoet, one of the world's largest engineered heavy lifting and transport service providers, has played a major role in the bridge work on Shurayrah island. The luxury destination created around one of the world's last hidden natural treasures sits over 28,000 sq km of pristine lands and waters, including a vast archipelago of more than 90 islands. A precast yard for bridge sections has been established near the coast to minimise travel distances with concrete sourced from on-site batching plants. To handle the transportation and installation of 60 pre-cast bridge-beam and edge-beam segments onto piers Archirodon reached out to Mammoet. Initially, it was looking at installing the bridge sections by SPMTs on a barge with the help of SPMT’s suspension cylinders to lift and then lower the pre-cast segments on the bridge bearings. However, having studied the project in more detail, Mammoet’s engineering team proposed an alternative installation method by using Mammoet's mobile floating crane concept: MTC 15 crane positioned on a barge, thereby creating a 500t capacity containerized floating sheer leg with an outreach of 30m. This installation method would provide significant time savings to the client as it will allow them to build the bridge faster by installing one section a day instead of one in two days, and provide more flexibility and accuracy to the operation. MTC 15 comes in standard shipping containers and can be easily shipped to any port, then assembled and erected in a matter of days. Archirodon’s 210-class barge with a suitable deck load was available at the site, this minimized the costs associated with mobilization of a new barge, and reduced the environmental harm by using readily available local resources. The MTC 15 was shipped to the Port of Yanbu, where it was swiftly assembled on the barge and then sailed to the project site in Umluj, where its boom was then raised, ready to lift the 400t bridge sections. At the pre-cast yard Mammoet’s SBL1100 hydraulic gantry, a four-point lifting system, lifts a section and safely places it onto SPMTs for the transport to a new temporary jetty.
February 22, 2022
Construction works are currently in progress on this scheme.
November 7, 2021
Work is currently in progress on this scheme.
August 2, 2021
Saudi Archirodon has been appointed as the new main contractor on this scheme.
June 26, 2021
Construction works are currently in progress on this scheme.
February 28, 2021
Mofarreh al-Harbi & Partners (Harbico) has been awarded the contract for the construction of the 1.1 kilometre bridge connecting Shurayrah Island with the mainland. Mofarreh al-Harbi are up and running and building a precast yard on site. The bridge structure is the final part of a permanent 3.3km-long crossing that consists of causeways at either end. The project is essential for providing access to hotel construction on the island.
December 6, 2020
Bids are currently under evaluation for the main contract on this scheme.
September 26, 2020
Bids are currently under evaluation for the main contract on this scheme. An award is expected to be made in October 2020.
March 2, 2020
Bids are currently under evaluation for the main contract on this scheme. An award is expected to be announced soon.
February 13, 2020
Bids have been submitted for the main contract on this scheme. The bidders for the main construction contract includes: Posco Engineering & Construction (South Korea) Archirodon (Greece) Salini Impregilo (Italy) Al-Fouzan Trading & General Construction (Saudi Arabia) Al-Rashid Trading & Contracting (Saudi Arabia) Mofarreh M al-Harbi East The main contractor is expected to be named in May 2020.
Important Dates
Project Activity Type
Sub Activity Type
Date
Scheduled
Main Contractor Award Date
January 2021
Contract Awarded To
Consultants (All Types)
October 2019
Scheduled
Completion Date
January 2023
Contract Awarded To
Main Contractor
February 2021
Project Stage
Completed
January 2023
List of Awarded Consultants involved in the Project
Buro Happold (Saudi Arabia)
Office 515 Al Akariyah 2 Olaya Street, P.O Box : Riyadh 11468, 34183, Saudi Arabia,
