Zamil Industrial awarded prestigious shopping mall complex contract in Riyadh
Sunday, 27th July 2003
Zamil Industrial Investment Company (ZIIC), the international manufacturing and fabrication group focused on growth segments of the construction industry, has been awarded the contract to design, fabricate and supply the steel structure and air conditioning system for the Al-Hokair Khurais Plaza shopping mall project in Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The execution of the project is being undertaken through Zamil Steel Industries (ZSI) and Zamil Air Conditioners (ZAC), two of ZIIC's three operating businesses.
ZSI is providing 7,000 metric tons of manufactured steel to meet the construction requirements of the two-storey 77,000 m2 buildings, comprising a shopping mall and a hypermarket connected by a steel bridge walkway, is considered to be one of the largest steel buildings in the regional retail industry. The specifications of the project include a commitment from ZSI to tight delivery schedules for the shipment and erection of more than 500 metric tones of steel per week with an overall delivery deadline for the project completion to be in three months. Lada Trading Company, ZSI's certified builder in Riyadh, is the contractor responsible for the erection of the steel buildings.
"ZSI's position as a global leader in the manufacture of pre-engineered steel buildings and the Middle East's premier supplier of steel structures and transmission and telecommunications towers is endorsed by the fact that we are among a select few steel buildings suppliers in the world, capable of meeting this demanding schedule," said Khalid A. Al-Zamil, ZSI's President. "Close collaboration between our pre-Engineered Buildings and Structural Steel business units has ensured our ability to deliver the most optimal and cost effective design, detail and fabrication solution to meet the unique engineering and architectural challenges presented by this prestigious project."
