The park will function 22 rides and sights together with 9 world firsts.
Qiddiya Funding Firm (QIC) introduced the award of a SAR 2.8 billion ($750 million) contract to construct Saudi Arabia’s first and the area’s largest water theme park. The contract was awarded to ALEC Saudi Arabia Engineering & Contracting and El Seif Engineering Contracting, in a three way partnership between the 2 corporations. The Qiddiya Water Theme Park will probably be one of many key leisure sights at Qiddiya, the long run capital of Leisure, Sports activities and Tradition.
The settlement was formally signed between Qiddiya’s Managing Director Abdullah bin Nasser Aldawood, ALEC’s CEO Kez Taylor and El Seif’s CEO Ahmed Al-Bassam at a ceremony held on the Qiddiya Expertise Heart, adopted by a ground-breaking ceremony to mark the beginning of development.
The park will cowl 252,000 sq. meters of land and will probably be residence to 22 rides and sights – together with 9 that will probably be world firsts. Guests may also be capable of get pleasure from 9 innovatively designed zones – the Entry Gate, Camel Rock, Dub Grotto, Wave Wadi, the Den, Viper Canyon, Arabian Peak, the Herding Grounds and Surf Lagoon – impressed by the native animals that inhabit the world round Qiddiya.
On the signing ceremony, Abdullah bin Nasser Aldawood, Board Member and Managing Director, QIC, commented: “The Qiddiya Water Theme Park will probably be a year-round immersive household leisure vacation spot, the primary of its variety and providing experiences which have by no means earlier than been provided in Saudi. We’re happy to be working with business leaders like ALEC and El Seif, who will probably be utilizing the most recent in visitor expertise applied sciences to create what is definite to be one of many world’s biggest water theme parks. The park will supply our visitors an opportunity to expertise that in a welcoming and enjoyable surroundings for everybody.”
Guests will embark on an unforgettable adrenaline-fueled journey on the Water Theme Park which may also function state-of-the-art competitors water sports activities services and 17 F&B and shops. The park design will incorporate superior environmental techniques to reduce the usage of water by recycling and sensible utilization according to QIC’s sustainability practices. This may maximize the enjoyable for guests while considerably decreasing the quantity of water wanted to function the park.
Some rides have been designed to make use of 75% much less water in comparison with the extra typical rides present in different water parks. As well as, rainwater that falls on the positioning will probably be captured, handled and reused for irrigating the vacation spot.
The park may also combine applied sciences to cut back water strain in sure rides which can in flip cut back water evaporation by half. As well as, each pool within the complicated will probably be based mostly on a ‘run-out’ idea in order that on the finish of an thrilling slide people will glide safely throughout a shallower pool that makes use of much less water in contrast to conventional deeper swimming pools utilized in different water parks.
Kez Taylor, CEO of ALEC, added: “We’re proud to work on this landmark challenge in collaboration with El Seif. ALEC’s established experience in large-scale theme park tasks, honed by the profitable supply of different iconic water parks within the GCC, mixed with the native experience of El Seif will make sure the rides and infrastructure on the Qiddiya set new requirements for the area, providing journey seekers of all ages really one-of-a-kind experiences.”
Ahmed Al-Bassam, CEO of El Seif, commented: “El Seif is likely one of the Kingdom’s main engineering and development corporations that has constructed a few of Saudi Arabia’s and the area’s greatest identified iconic tasks such because the Kingdom Tower, Princess Noura College and Haramain Excessive Pace Rail Rabigh Station. El Seif and ALEC have fashioned a strategic alliance and are dedicated to be the JV of alternative for giant complicated tasks in KSA. We’re thrilled to be awarded, with our JV associate ALEC, the contract for the Water Theme Park. We thank Qiddiya for its confidence in our JV and stay up for delivering a world-class leisure facility collectively – the primary in Saudi Arabia and the most important within the area.”
Qiddiya’s providing will probably be based mostly on 5 cornerstones: Parks & Sights, Sports activities & Wellness, Arts & Tradition, Movement & Mobility and Nature & Surroundings, together with quite a lot of actual property choices and group companies. The Water Theme Park will probably be one of many key sights of the Parks & Sights cornerstone.
