FCC starts work
on the Riyadh subway system
FCC to build a Doha Metro line in Qatar
for 506 million euros
Prince Khalid bin Bandar, governor of Riyadh
province, presided over an event marking the
commencement of construction of the city’s
metro system, which began with excavation
of the “4 G1” station at King Khaled Interna-
tional Airport in Riyadh.
Work began two months ahead of schedule
and is part of the project to build line 4, linking
the city’s new financial district with the airport.
This initial phase includes the integration of
three metro stations in the current internatio-
nal airport, with “4 G1” serving the new termi-
nal 5 at the airport.
This work is part of the project to design and
build Riyadh’s 176-km metro line, which has
a budget of 16.3 billion euro. FCC, the Citizen
Services group, is leading the FAST consor-
tium, which is building lines 4, 5 and 6 for 6
billion euro. FCC’s main consortium partners
are Korean company Samsung and French
company Alstom. The other members are
Strukton (The Netherlands), Freyssinet Saudi
Arabia, Typsa (Spain), Atkins (UK), and Setec
(France).
The contract awarded to the consortium in-
cludes the design and construction of lines 4
(yellow; construction began already with the
“4 G1” station), 5 (green) and 6 (purple), which
will have 25 stations. Construction will include
65 kilometres of track: 24 kilometres of via-
ducts, 28 kilometres of underground track,
and 13 kilometres of aboveground track. A
total of 69 automatic driverless trains will also
be built to operate on these three lines.
The event marking commencement of the
project by the FAST consortium on line 4 was
held in a tent at the intersection of King Ab-
dullah and Ulaya roads, behind the Sheraton
Riyadh Hotel. As head of the Authority super-
vising the project, Prince Khaled bin Bandar
presided over follow-up meetings held with
the leaders of the consortium building the
Riyadh subway system. Jaime Freyre de An-
drade, who heads the FCC-led consortium,
highlighted that work had begun ahead of
schedule.
More than 700 workers will participate in the
project over the next two years. Since the
contract was awarded last July, the consor-
tium team in Riyadh now numbers some 250
people, around 50 of whom are FCC em-
ployees from Spain. Another 300 people are
located in Madrid, Paris, London, New Delhi
and Dubai to provide support for the project.
In total, FAST will employ over 15,000 people
from more than 15 countries. The term con-
templated in the contract for the completion
of the project is five years.
FCC has been awarded a contract for the
construction of a section of Doha Metro red
line (Qatar) for 506 million euro. The winning
consortium led by FCC, the Citizen Services
Group, also comprises Archirodon (Greece),
Yüksel (Turkey) and Petroserv Ltd. (Qatar).
This is FCC’s first major project in this Arab
Emirate.
The execution period for the project, awarded
by Qatar Railway Company, is 31 months and
the project will create more than 1,000 jobs.
In the bidding process, the FCC-led con-
sortium competed with groups from several
countries, including Korea, Germany, Italy
and India.
Three aboveground stations
The red line section awarded in the contract
includes building three aboveground stations
(Barwa Village, Al Wakrah and Qatar Eco-
nomic Zone) and a 6.97-kilometre section,
plus tunnelizing the road at the entrance to Al
Wakrah. The total budget for the Doha Metro
project exceeds 20 billion euro.
