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The contractors on the Crystal Tower in King Abdullah Financial District (KAFD) will begin the finishing work for the ground floor and its early levels at the start of next year despite ongoing difficulties with space.
Specialized Contracting Company has been working on the $160m twin-tower project since October 2010. The project is located between the Financial Plaza and the Wadi on the 50-tower business development in Riyadh.
The Jeddah company has already met two milestones, though progress is steady at best due to the tight space in which to work on the crowded construction site, home to many other tower projects. It is building a 22-storey tower on a 1,000m2 footprint, and the 33-storey tower over 1,400m2.
“We have the substructure completed, and are now on the fourth floor of the smaller tower, and the third floor of the taller tower,” said Joseph Felfly, project manager. “We have also finished the fit-out for the basement.”
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He added that the company has had to be nimble through having to use the ground floor as the main storage point for equipment and materials.
“Logistics is still a problem, though everything is happening here on-site at once, including other towers and tunnelling,” he said.
The Crystal Tower, designed by architect Henning Larsen Associates, will be a grand entrance to the Financial Plaza in the heart of the KAFD, the two structures appearing to lean away from each other atop a mutual podium.
It is one of around 34 towers overseen by main contractor Saudi Binladin Group, the master planning company that has brought in a number of contractors for individual parcels on the site.
It is one of Specialized's first projects in the capital in a portfolio dominated by projects in Jeddah, Makkah and Madinah.
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