Vision 2030, A Race To The Deadline Accelerate Without Losing Control

Sena Gbedemah, a construction specialist for Ankura in Saudi Arabia, explains how to avoid common pitfalls while negotiating acceleration agreements.

As Vision 2030, the 2029 Asian Winter Games, and Expo 2030 get closer, project stakeholders in Saudi Arabia (KSA) are adopting various measures to ensure timely delivery. On 7 December 2023, Bloomberg reported that the KSA Finance Minister Mohammed Al-Jadaan said that some Vision 2030 Projects would be re-scheduled to allow further building of manufacturing capacity and resources. Certain Projects are being prioritised and accelerated to meet the aggressive deadlines as the industry faces significant resource challenges to meet the unprecedented scale of the Kingdom's giga projects.