The Wadi Hanifah Comprehensive Restoration Plan
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Project Summary
This 20-year plan to bring life back to an over-exploited, polluted watershed, running through Riyadh in Saudi Arabia, began in 2001 with engineer Buro Happold as the lead consultant.
Project Description
HAPPOLD CONSULTING LIMITED
This 20-year plan to bring life back to an over-exploited, polluted watershed, running through Riyadh in Saudi Arabia, began in 2001 with engineer Buro Happold as the lead consultant.
Post-1970s expansion of the city has left the 120km-long Wadi polluted through uncontrolled waste entering the water and the 4,500km² of surrounding land ruined by unregulated dumping and mining.
The project includes upgrading the Wadi to cope with annual flooding and to improve water quality through creation of a facility that will help recycle one million m³ of water per day by 2021, without the use of chemical processes. As well as health benefits, the reinvigorated watercourse will help create leisure and tourism facilities in the area.
For this project Buro Happoldwas highly commended in the Large Consultancy (A) category of the British Expertise International Awards, 2006.