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BESIX and Boskalis awarded $800 million contract for first phase of Port of NEOM development

2023-05-27T13:24:00-04:00

Belgian-French construction group BESIX and Dutch dredging and heavylift company Boskalis have been announced as the first European contractors to be awarded a design and build lump sum contract by NEOM to work on the first phase of development for the Port of NEOM project.

BESIX will work in partnership with local partner Modern Building Leaders (MBL). Together, the companies will be responsible for the design and build of nearly two miles of quay walls of variant types. Boskalis will be responsible for the deepening and widening of the main access channel. Located on the Red Sea, near the Suez Canal, the port is the primary seaport entry to NEOM. It is currently Duba Port, which is one of Saudi Arabia’s smallest in terms of goods handling. This development aims to transform the existing port to become the world’s most technologically advanced, efficient, and sustainable.

The Port of NEOM will be surrounded by Oxagon, a planned floating city that is part of the NEOM project. It ...

HdM's Tour Triangle: Contractor selected as construction is set to formally begin

2022-01-25T16:58:00-05:00

An update has come in one of the most controversial developments in recent Parisian history: The Belgian construction group Besix has been announced as the contractor for the Herzog & de Meuron-designed Tour Triangle in the 15th arrondissement’s Parc des Expositions.

Global Construction Review is now reporting that the Brussels-based concern has been tapped by developers Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield (URW) to lead the building and construction of the €670 million ($757 million) mixed-use tower. The company can now add the project to its list of high-profile developments that includes the Uptown Tower in Dubai and Pierre Fakhoury's record-setting F Tower development in the Ivory Coast.

Previously on Archinect: Herzog & de Meuron's Tour Triangle is set to break ground in Paris despite a last-minute effort to stop it

The news comes about two months after a final attempt by local politicians to halt groundbreaking on the fraught 42-story development. Detractors have been pushing for years to...