The flight test campaign lasted over a week and built on 18 months of collaboration between Neom, the General Authority of Civil Aviation, and Volocopter.
Neom, the smart and sustainable regional development in northwest Saudi Arabia, and the urban air mobility (UAM) firm Volocopter, have announced successful completion of a series of air taxi test flights.
Read more: Neom and Volocopter complete electric taxi flights in Saudi
The mega plant, to be located in Oxagon, the planned smart city within Neom, will be powered entirely by renewable energy
Grid Solutions, an integral part of the GE Vernova portfolio of energy businesses, said it has was awarded a contract by India's engineering and construction conglomerate Larsen & Toubro (L&T) to supply 380 kV T155 gas-insulated substations (GIS) for the world’s largest utility-scale hydrogen plant in Saudi futuristic city NEOM.
Read more: SA: GE Vernova wins contract to build 380kV gas-insulated substations at NEOM
Saudi Arabia is leading the digitalization wave in the wellness space by improving quality care, patient experience, and sustainable health development on par with the best in the world.
The Kingdom aims to restructure the health sector by enhancing its capabilities as an effective, integrated, value-based ecosystem focused on the patient’s health.
Read more: Saudi Arabia’s healthcare sector bets big on digital transformation
South Korean construction management firm HanmiGlobal announced Tuesday it won an order to monitor the building of an additional 10,000 houses for Saudi Arabia's Neom construction workers by May 2024.
The latest contract was signed after the Korean project management firm won an order last November to monitor the building of 50,000 houses in the construction worker villages and an additional order in March to monitor the construction of 20,000 houses in the villages.
Read more: SA: HanmiGlobal to monitor building of 80,000 houses for Neom construction workers
Peter Cook has questioned the buildability of Saudi Arabia’s NEOM ‘smart city’ development The Line - the controversial 170km desert project he is employed to work on
The 86-year-old was talking as part of an event at the NEOM exhibition in Venice on Saturday (20 May) when he described the linear desert city – which is already under construction – as an ‘amazing absurdity’, adding that the scheme’s proposed 500m height was ‘stupid’.
Read more: The Line architect Peter Cook questions Saudi desert city’s buildability