SAUDI Oger has awarded KEO International Consultants the contract to design key aspects of the Riyadh Monorail, which will be part of the transport network integrating the state-of-the-art King Abdullah Financial District (KAFD) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

KEO International’s scope of works covers design of the 3.5-km elevated rail viaducts, switch bridges, long-span bridges and 131 piers supporting the monorail train system, Station One and the train maintenance depot.
KEO deliverables include the detailed design of more than 30 bridges as well as complete architectural and engineering design for the train maintenance depot and Station One. “Our approach will carefully consider critical factors such as durability and maintenance, constructability, aesthetics, materials, economy of structural solution, and whole lifecycle costs,” says a spokesman for KEO International.
KEO –  a global provider of total professional consulting solutions in the construction industry – will team up with Bombardier, Freyssinet and Scott Wilson to deliver the project to Saudi Oger, which was awarded the contract by the Rayadah Investment Company, the developer of KAFD.
Rayadah is the investment vehicle of the Public Pension Agency of the government of Saudi Arabia. Designs for the project are expected to be completed in 2011 with construction to be substantially finished in 2012.
The new financial district will comprise more than 40 towers, various facilities, amenities and utilities as well as the Riyadh Monorail and a self-sustained air-conditioned skywalk system that integrates and links together all buildings and the monorail’s six stations, enabling pedestrian access to the entire development.