The ground the Gulf is built on.
Roads, structures, utilities and public realm for governments and developers across Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Oman and Qatar. Built with our own stone, our own plants and our own people.
Contents
In this issue.
Six chapters on how a Gulf contractor builds from the rock face up, followed by an afterword and two appendices.
Arkan is a heavy civil contractor. We move earth, lay asphalt, bury utilities and raise the walls that hold it all in place. We own our quarries, our plants and our fleet, so the programme we sign is the programme we deliver.
| Figure | Measure |
|---|---|
| 2,400km | Of carriageway paved |
| 5,200 | People on payroll |
| 610 | Owned plant and heavy equipment units |
| 38M | Safe man hours since our last lost time injury |
Selected works, 2020-2025.
Six of the 140 contracts we have delivered across the Gulf, from street circuits to port walls. Each is shown as built.
Plate IMotorsportRed Sea Corniche Loop
6.2 km street circuit and seafront roads
- Location
- Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
- Client
- Najm Motorsport
- Completed
- 2021
- Value
- SAR 410M
Plate IIHighwaysWadi Hanifa Interchange
Four level interchange, 14 bridges
- Location
- Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
- Client
- Wahat Municipal
- Completed
- 2023
- Value
- SAR 1.2B
Plate IIIPortsDuqm Port Access Wall
1.8 km reinforced retaining structure
- Location
- Duqm, Oman
- Client
- Hajar Ports
- Completed
- 2024
- Value
- OMR 46M
Plate IVMotorsportAl Wathba Motor Park
Circuits, paddock roads and utilities
- Location
- Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
- Client
- Qamar Developments
- Completed
- 2025
- Value
- AED 690M
Plate VUrbanAl Wakrah Old Town Streets
Heritage district roads and services
- Location
- Al Wakrah, Qatar
- Client
- Wahat Municipal
- Completed
- 2022
- Value
- QAR 180M
Plate VIWaterfrontKhiran Lagoon Edge
Lagoon shoreline, promenades and outfalls
- Location
- Al Khiran, Kuwait
- Client
- Tasnim Water
- Completed
- 2020
- Value
- KWD 31M
Five disciplines, one contract.
Every trade below is carried out by our own crews, with our own plant, from our own materials.
- i
Roads & Paving
Highways, airfield pavements and city streets, laid by our own paving trains from our own asphalt plants, with string line control to the millimetre.
6 asphalt plants, 3,400 t per hour
- Asphalt
- Milling
- Rigid pavement
- ii
Heavy Civil & Structures
Bulk earthworks, bridges, culverts and retaining structures for the corridors and ports that carry the region's growth.
1.1M m³ of earth moved per month at peak
- Earthworks
- Bridges
- Retaining walls
- iii
Utilities & Networks
Water, sewer, stormwater, power and telecom corridors, from the first trench to pressure testing and handover.
860 km of networks commissioned
- Wet utilities
- Power
- Telecom ducts
- iv
Landscape & Public Realm
Boulevards, parks and waterfronts engineered for a desert climate, with irrigation designed around treated water reuse.
1.9M m² of public realm planted
- Hardscape
- Softscape
- Irrigation
- v
Quarrying & Materials
Aggregates, base course and ready mix from our own quarries, so quality and supply are controlled at the source.
3 quarries, 9M t of aggregate per year
- Crushing
- Screening
- Ready mix
Since 1987, one layer at a time.
1987
Three graders and a yard in Dammam
Founded by civil engineer Abdulrahman Al Mansour to grade access roads for the growing Eastern Province industrial cities.
1994
First asphalt plant
A 240 t per hour batch plant in Jubail takes paving in house, and with it control of quality and schedule.
2004
Across the border
Offices open in Abu Dhabi and Muscat. The first cross border contract is a 40 km desert highway in Al Dhahirah.
2012
Our own stone
Arkan Materials acquires its first quarry near Hofuf, completing the chain from rock face to finished road.
2019
Triple certified
ISO 9001, 14001 and 45001 certification across every business unit, audited annually since.
2026Now
The electric paving train
The region's first trial of a battery electric paver and roller set, on a live section of the Hofuf Southern Bypass.
What we hold to.
- Sheet 01 / 04ISO 45001:2018
Safety before schedule
Every shift starts with a toolbox talk and ends with a headcount. Any person on site can stop the work, and nobody is ever asked why.
- Scope
- Occupational health and safety
- Held since
- 2019
- Audit
- Annual, third party
- Sheet 02 / 04ISO 9001:2015
Measured, not assumed
Three accredited laboratories test every layer before the next one goes down. If a layer fails, it comes up, whatever the programme says.
- Scope
- Quality management
- Held since
- 2019
- Audit
- Annual, third party
- Sheet 03 / 04ISO 14001:2015
Leave the land better
Dust suppression on every haul road, water recycling at every batching plant, and a reinstatement plan for every borrow pit we open.
- Scope
- Environmental management
- Held since
- 2019
- Audit
- Annual, third party
- Sheet 04 / 04In house
Own the supply chain
Quarries, asphalt plants and 610 owned units mean our programme never waits on somebody else's trucks.
- Scope
- Quarries, plants and fleet
- Held since
- 2012
- Audit
- Quarterly, internal
Notes from the field.
Afterword
“A road is a promise you keep for forty years. We would rather lose a tender than win one we cannot build properly.”
Commissioned by
- Qamar Developments
- HAJAR PORTS
- sahel energy
- Wahat Municipal
- NAJM / MOTORSPORT
- Thuraya Utilities
- Sadeem Airports
- TASNIM water
Tell us about the ground.
Three short steps. A senior estimator reads every request, not a sales team.
- hello@arkan.example
- Telephone
- +966 13 000 0000
- Head office
- King Fahd Road, Dammam 32241, Saudi Arabia
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Head office
Dammam
King Fahd Road, Dammam 32241
Central region
Riyadh
Olaya District, Riyadh 12211
UAE
Abu Dhabi
Mussafah M17, Abu Dhabi
Oman
Muscat
Ghala Industrial Area, Muscat