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29 March 2024

ACC-DSC venture wins SR2.7bn contract

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The Joint Venture between Arabian Construction Company (ACC) Saudi Arabia and Drake & Scull Construction Saudi Arabia (DSC KSA), a wholly owned subsidiary of Drake & Scull International (DSI), has been awarded a SR2.7 billion ($720m) contract to build phase three of the Jabal Omar development in Makkah.

Under the terms of the joint venture agreement, DSC share will be 50 per cent of the overall value of the contract.

The third phase of the Jabal Omar scheme will involve the construction of four hotel towers with a total built up area of 400,000 square meters. The towers will also include 5 star and 3 star hotels.

 DSI wins Romania contract

Passavant-Roediger GmbH, a wholly owned German subsidiary of Drake & Scull International , on Wednesday said it had secured two major water treatment plant projects in Romania worth Dh90 million.

Under the terms of the first contract valued at Dh42.5 million, Passavant-Roediger will design and build a River Water Treatment Plant in Sibiu, Romania, producing drinking water for up to 200,000 people. The company will also install new feeding pipes for supplying drinking water to Cisnadie and for replenishing the water reservoirs from the Cisnadioara to Rasinari localities.

The second project valued at Dh47.5 million involves the extension and modernization of a Waste Water Treatment Plant in Roman, Romania, catering for a population equivalent of just over 115,000 people. Passavant-Roediger has been contracted to perform various mechanical, electrical and supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) works, including Passavant-Roediger's Anaerobic Sludge Digestion Technology to enhance and expand the plants' treatment capacity.

Passavant-Roediger has managed to substantially grow its backlog from Dh150 million recorded as of September 2011 to Dh600 million recorded as of September 2012 representing a year to year growth of 300 per cent .The company also secured year-to-date Dh345 million worth of work including a Dh169 million contract for the expansion of Thu Duc Water Treatment Plant in Vietnam in addition to an Dh86 million contract to design and build the sludge treatment system of the Kerbela Waste Water Treatment Plant in Iraq.