Saudi Arabia’s National Housing Company (NHC) has awarded Riyadh-based Alomaier Trading & Contracting Company a contract to carry out infrastructure works at its Khuzam residential development in Riyadh.

The scope of work covers all infrastructure works across an area of 4,000,000 square metres (sq m) in stage three, phase three of the Khuzam residential project.

Construction works have started, and the project is expected to be completed in 2028.

NHC’s Khuzam project is located to the north of Riyadh, near King Khalid International airport and the Expo 2030 site.

The development will offer more than 50,000 residential units and will include parks, commercial areas and other associated amenities.

It will also feature a grand park spanning an area of more than 4.5 million sq m.

MEED reported in 2020 that Riyadh planned to oversee the development of more than 1 million homes by 2025 to meet growing demand in the kingdom.

By 2030, the Saudi capital aims to more than double its population, from 7-8 million to 15-20 million, and become one of the 10 wealthiest cities in the world.

Alomaier Trading & Contracting is undertaking some major infrastructural development projects across the kingdom.

In 2023, MEED reported that Saudi Arabia’s National Water Company had awarded a contract worth SR371m ($99m) to Alomaier Trading & Contracting. It covers the construction of a sewage network in Dammam’s King Fahd suburb and adjacent areas.

The contract also involves the construction of regression lines with diameters of up to 700 millimetres (mm) and a total length of 300 kilometres (km), as well as five ejection lines with diameters of up to 500mm and a total length of 15km, according to data obtained from the regional projects tracker MEED Projects.

The firm specialises in the construction of roads, railways and other infrastructural development works.