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US-based AECOM Technology Corporation has been awarded a $27.85 million contract to provide architecture, engineering design and production services for King Khalid Medical City in Dammam, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

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The medical city will include a 1,500-bed hospital, research centre, staff accommodation ranging from villas to apartments, conference centre, mosque, professional and administrative office building, car parking structures and community centre. Plans also include the potential for future educational facilities, a commercial complex and a hotel.

The project claims to be the largest of four hospital developments planned for Saudi Arabia, which have been initiated by the King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, who has allocated $4.3 billion to build world-class health care centres for the kingdom.

Work on the two-year contract will begin immediately, with the project expected to complete within five years.