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Work on the
Riyadh metro
progressing at a good pace
Work on the Riyadh
metro progressing at a
good pace, in some
cases, ahead of schedule
of the megaproject
awarded in 2013 to the
FAST consortium led by the
Citizen Services Group
FCC activated the second tunnel boring machine in the beginning of July
FCC, one of the awardees as part of the
FAST consortium, is in charge of the design
and construction of Package 3, which co-
vers lines 4 (orange), 5 (yellow) and 6 (pur-
ple). The part of the project to be executed
by the Citizen Services Group represents
37% of the total metro project for the city
of Riyadh.
On 30 April, the first tunnel boring machi-
ne, called Dhafrah, started operations and
successfully completed more than 300
metres of the entire tunnel, with production
peaking at more than 30 metres per day.
On 9 July, FCC activated the second tunnel
boring machine, named San’Ah (Beautiful)
in line 5 of the Riyadh metro.
Prince Faisal bin Bandar, governor of Ri-
yadh, was in charge of activating the two
tunnel boring machines. For the second
machine, he was accompanied by H.E. En-
gineer Ibrahim bin Mohammed Al-Sultan,
the mayor of the capital of Saudi Arabia and
chairman of the metro supervision commit-
tee, other authorities, and Jaime Freyre de
Andrade, manager of the FAST consortium.
In order to build the three lines awarded,
the Consortium led by FCC will use two