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King Fahd / Ballast Nedam

Customer

King Fahd Causeway is a causeway connecting Saudi Arabia and Bahrain. The project cost a total of US$1.2 billion (SAR3 billion). One of the major contractors of the project is Ballast Nedam Group, based in the Netherlands. The four-lane road is 25 km (16 mi) long and approximately 23 m (75 ft) wide, and was built using 350,000 m2 (3,800,000 sq ft) of concrete along with 47,000 metric tonnes of reinforced steel. The causeway is constructed in three segments starting from Saudi Arabia:

• From Al-Aziziyyah , south of Khobar, to the Border Station
• From the Border Station to Nasan Island in Bahrain
• From Nasan island to the Al-Jasra, west of Manama, on the main island of Bahrain

Case

Ballast Nedam engaged SGS INTRON in consulting on performance and analyses of building materials to be able to build a solid construction.

Solution

SGS INTRON provided consultancy on expected service life of the concrete and coating, executed laboratory experiments to establish performance of the materials used before and during construction and the monitoring of service life by analyses of cores drilled from test piles.

Year

1988-2010