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FCC
concludes
tunnelling work
on Riyadh
Metro green line
(Saudi Arabia)
The FAST consortium, headed by FCC,
has completed tunnelling work on Riyadh
Metro line 5 (Green line). The announce-
ment was made at an event held in the
Saudi capital that was attended by the
Governor of Riyadh, His Royal Highness
Prince Faisal Bin Bandar Bin Abdulaziz Al
Saud, the Minister of Transport, His Ex-
cellency Suleiman Al-Hamdan, and other
representatives of government ministries,
together with Carlos M. Jarque, CEO of
FCC Citizen Services Group, the Head of
Carlos M. Jarque, CEO of FCC, accompanied by FAST consortium execu
Metro system.
International business of FCC Construc-
tion, Pablo Colio, the FAST consortium di-
rector, Jaime Freire de Andrade and Yago
Mijangos, Middle East director of FCC.
Line 5 (Green line) is one of three lines being
built by FAST, one of the three internatio-
nal consortia commissioned to build the
six lines comprising Riyadh Metro. FCC’s
consortium partners are Samsung C&T
(South Korea), Alstom (France), Strukton
(Netherlands), Freyssinet (Saudi Arabia), At-
kins (UK), Typsa (Spain) and Setec (France).
In addition to the Green line, the consor-
tium is building the Yellow and Purple lines,
which will have the equivalent of 33 kilo-
metres of viaducts, 22 km of underground
track, and 9 km of overground track.
The Green Line runs through tunnels dug
along the route of King Abdulaziz Road,
one of the city’s main thoroughfares. It is 13
km long and has 11 underground stations
and two stations connecting with the Red
and Blue lines. The Riyadh Metro Project
is using seven tunnel-boring machines
(TBM); this is the second TBM to achieve
breakthrough.
Seven tunnel-boring
machines are working
on the Riyadh Metro
Project