ADVANCED Construction Technology Services (ACTS), a consulting organisation in the field of construction materials and geotechnical engineering, has been commissioned to carry out the quality control of all construction materials that will be used in the Kingdom Tower project, the world’s first kilometre-high skyscraper currently under construction in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

The height of the tower calls for high-strength, high performance concrete.

ACTS will be mobilising state-of-the art testing equipment and expert professionals to do the third-party testing works on about half a million cu m of concrete and around 80,000 tonnes of steel to be used on the mega project. ACTS will also deploy special equipment to evaluate the rheological properties of concrete to ensure concrete will be pumpable to very high elevations.