When complete, the medical city will include a 1,500-bed hospital, research centre, accommodation, a conference centre, mosque, office building, car parks and a community center. Plans also include the potential for future educational facilities, a commercial complex and a hotel.
鈥淲e are honored to play a key role in this extremely important project to create world-class health care facilities in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia,鈥� said Aecom chairman and chief executive officer John Dionisio.
The project is the largest of four planned hospital developments that have been initiated by a royal decree from King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, who has allocated US$4.3bn for health care centres.
Work on the two-year contract starts immediately, and project completion is scheduled within five years.
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