A frontrunner has emerged for the contract to complete the construction of the world’s tallest tower, the 1,000-metre-plus Jeddah Tower in Saudi Arabia. Kingdom Holding Company CEO Talal Ibrahim Almaiman confirmed  that bids have been submitted and a contract award is expected imminently. Almaiman said the bidders are a joint venture of the local El Seif Engineering & Contracting and Beijing-based China State Construction Engineering Corporation; Lebanon’s Consolidated Contractors Company (CCC); and Kuwait’s Mohammed Abdulmohsin Al Kharafi & Sons with support from international partners. Jeddah Tower will be taller than Dubai’s Burj Khalifa by more than 172 metres. It is the centrepiece of the Jeddah Economic City development. The project’s first phase, which includes the main tower, covers an area of 1.5 million square metres. (ICE RIYADH)

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