On the sidelines of the recent Autodesk University 2024: The Design and Make Conference in San Diego, US, Egis Group civil engineer Joao Guilherme Alves Correa spoke to Arab News about the many challenges involved in working on the ambitious transport network project that will link these various destinations.

The Saudi Landbridge Project will link Riyadh, Jeddah and the Red Sea project, as well as NEOM, covering nearly 1,000 km at a cost of $7 billion according to the business news website meed.com.  Work is currently scheduled to start in 2025.

“The environment in the Middle East keeps changing every day, every week. It is difficult to define the alignment of the corridor of the railway because there are new investments everywhere — new buildings, new infrastructures. It is complicated to incorporate all those things into the design,” - Joao Guilherme Alves Correa

Since 2021, Alves has been working on various rail projects in the region and praised the working practices.

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