Olaya Financial Tower

The challenge

The plot is 2,400 m² with active retail on three sides and King Fahd Road on the fourth. There was no room for a laydown area, no room for a tower crane base outside the footprint, and no possibility of closing the road for deliveries.

Our approach

We climbed the crane inside the core rather than beside the building, which removed the need for any external base. Every delivery was booked to a fifteen-minute slot between 11pm and 4am, sequenced two weeks ahead against the concrete pour programme.

The façade was unitised and assembled off site in our Riyadh yard, so each floor's cladding arrived as twelve panels rather than four hundred components. That single decision took eleven weeks off the programme.

The outcome

Handed over three weeks ahead of the contract date with zero lost-time injuries across 1.4 million site hours. The building reached 92 per cent occupancy within eight months of completion, and the client has since awarded us two further projects.