$222m Saadiyat Island deal awarded

Abu Dhabi’s Tourism Development & Investment Company (TDIC) has awarded a Dh815 million ($222 million) bulk earth-filling contract for its flagship Saadiyat Island project to Belgium’s Jan De Nul.

Work will now begin in January on filling some 35 million cubic metres of earth which will be used to provide sculpted landform, enhancing vistas for Saadiyat Island’s Marina and Cultural Districts – two of six distinct districts in the planned international residential and tourism destination.