- Company awarded subcontract to handle geotechnical and geophysical works on Riyadh Metro Lines 1 and 2
Riyadh,
Saudi Arabia; October 13, 2014: Advanced Construction Technology
Services (ACTS), a consulting organisation in the field of
construction materials and geotechnical engineering, has announced
that it has already allocated its geotechnical engineering experts to
oversee the drilling and logging works, and to conduct testing and
analysis, along two of the six metro lines being constructed in
Riyadh. In addition, six drilling rigs and a range of state-of-the
art geotechnical and geophysical equipment have also been mobilized
for the project, with a total of 65 persons already deployed by ACTS.
ACTS
was awarded one of the subcontract packages to carry out geotechnical
and geophysical works on Riyadh Metro Lines 1 and 2 in support of the
BACS (Saudi Arabian Bechtel, Almabani General Contractors and
Consolidated Contractors Company WLL and Siemens Aktiengesellschaft)
Consortium. BACS was awarded the contract by Arriyadh Development
Authority (ADA), the executive branch of the High Commission for the
Development of Arriyadh. Currently ACTS is working on the north of
Line 1, with the work encompassing drilling of boreholes, logging
them using optical and acoustic tele-viewers and other advanced
techniques, as well as assessing the subsurface ground layers. A
scientific testing program is being carried out simultaneously on the
extracted cores to assess soil properties.
ACTS
– with its experience and technical expertise in the field – is
fully geared to provide reliable geo-engineering data to the BACS
Consortium through extensive geotechnical and geophysical work, and
in line with this they have deployed all the necessary resources.
Mike
Hann, Engineering Director, BACS, said, “ACTS was selected because
of their demonstrated ability to perform to the project’s technical
and schedule requirements. We are satisfied with their contribution
to this critical project which demands outstanding performance from
all the engineering parties and subcontractors.”
Engr.
Khaled Awad, Chairman of ACTS, said, “These are exciting times for
ACTS. The region is undergoing a massive infrastructure boom and ACTS
has become the preferred choice in inspection, testing and
geo-engineering works in critical and large-scale projects. Our
involvement in the geotechnical engineering works of Riyadh Metro
reinforces our commitment to excellence in all our services and our
strategy of partnership with our clients for a successful completion
of their projects.”
In
parallel to the Riyadh Metro project, ACTS is undertaking quality
control work for other megaprojects in the Middle East, including the
King Abdulaziz International Airport and the Kingdom Tower, the
world’s first kilometre-high skyscraper currently under
construction in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The company has recently become
one of the largest drilling entities in the region after the recent
expansion of its fleet of drilling rigs.
Since
its establishment in 1996, ACTS has become a regional reference in
construction consultancy services and a pioneer in achieving
technological advancements in the materials and geo-engineering
fields. The company is also the local sponsoring group of the
American Concrete Institute (ACI),
the world's leading
authority on concrete construction and production, for its
certification programmes in the Middle East.
