Engineering Consultants Group (ECG) of Egypt has been awarded a contract to design five Saudi NEOM Construction Villages (NCV) spanning 1,647,000m2.
ECG’s scope of work includes design review, data collection, masterplanning, concept design, the basis of design report, design development, detailed design, and IFC (Issued for Construction). Saudi Arabia’s Al Fanar Company is also associated with the project.
According to ECG, four out of the five villages cover an area of 798,000, and the fifth site covers an area of 849,000m2. The villages include residential facilities, combined facilities, utility buildings, and separate amenities for Saudi NEOM staff, contractors’ staff, and FM staff.
The residential facilities for each village include Saudi NEOM camp type A suite (G), NEOM camp type B (G+1), contractors’ type A (G), contractors’ type B (G+1), contractors’ type C (G+1), contractors’ type D (G+1), and FM staff types B, C & D (G+1), ECG revealed in the project sheet.
Details about Saudi NEOM Construction Villages
The combined facilities located on the ground floor for each of the NEOM Construction Villages include registration & FM offices, office building, mosque, multi-purpose hall, fire station & truck yard, maintenance warehouse, clinic, commercial, laundry, type A+B dining, type C+D dining, kitchen with LPG connection, dry & cold goods storage, outdoor toilet, garbage room, security facilities, and training facility.
Meanwhile, the separate amenities, also located on the ground floor of each village, include a gym, games room, and multipurpose room under Type A; gym, games room, male swimming pool, and female swimming pool under Type B; gym, games room, and male swimming pool under Type C; and gym, games room, and male swimming pool under Type D. A gym and games room is also being constructed for FM staff.
Additionally, separate amenities for Saudi NEOM staff include registration & FM office, clinic, commercial space, games room, gym, male swimming pool, female swimming pool, laundry area, garbage room, outdoor toilet, guardhouse, dining & kitchen area with LPG connection, mosque, multi-purpose room, and electrical substation. The built-up area for all buildings is 331,322m2 for the five villages.
An important step in the journey to develop NEOM
In September 2019, Saudi NEOM signed a partnership with Al-Tamimi Group and SATCO to finance, construct, and operate the financing, build and operate the Construction Village that will accommodate workers who will move to the site to develop various areas of the NEOM project.
Al-Tamimi Group had secured the contract to develop two residential areas within the village with a capacity to house 10,000 residents each. Meanwhile, SATCO was awarded a contract to build a third village with the same capacity. It was announced at that time that the two developers will operate the village for 10 years.
Saudi NEOM announced at the time that the construction village would consist of three residential areas for 30,000 residents and could be expanded later as the project develops to accommodate more than 100,000 residents.
