RIYADH – The Gulf region’s best projects have been revealed as winners were announced at the 2019 MEED Projects Awards, in association with Mashreq.

The only awards program recognizing excellence for completed projects in the GCC, MEED Projects Awards, in association with Mashreq, honored national winners from the Kingdom of Bahrain, Kuwait, Sultanate of Oman, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) and United Arab Emirates (UAE) in ceremonies held at the Conrad Hotel Dubai recently.

The 2019 MEED Quality Project of the Year, in association with Mashreq, the award program’s highly coveted honour, was given to KSA’s Haramain High Speed Railway Project (entered by Saudi Railways Organization and owned by the Government of KSA). It also won the GCC Transport Project of the Year award.

The judges praised the project’s efforts to maximize social impact and the efficient design of departure and arrivals lounges improving passenger flow and comfort and which are also low energy with innovative prismatic daylight collectors on the roofs.

“We are honored to be a partner with MEED in recognizing projects excellence in the GCC. This is our way of putting a spotlight on these projects for not only upholding quality standards, but also in improving the standard of living in the Gulf through their invariable impact on the socio-economic aspirations of the region,” said Mohammad Khader Al Shouli, Senior Vice President, Head of Contracting Finance at Mashreq Bank, headline sponsor of the awards program.

The other KSA winner was the Titanium Sponge Plant Project in Yanbu Project (entered by a Joint Venture of Chiyoda Corporation and CTCI Corporation and owned by Advanced Metal Industries Cluster and Toho Titanium Metal Company Limited) which was awarded the GCC Industrial Project of the Year.

“The GCC is home to some of the world’s most high-profile projects, known worldwide not just for their engineering and construction brilliance but also for being beacons of the region’s economic progress. We are delighted to honor their commitment to the highest quality standards for projects excellence,” said Richard Thompson, Editorial Director, MEED.

Special awards were also given to Maher Habanjar, Senior Director of the Water & Environment Division at Khatib & Alami, (Engineer of the Year), The Founder’s Memorial (MEED Editor's Award for Special Achievement) and Al Karamah School, Abu Dhabi (MEED Editor's Award for Contribution to Community). — SG