Pharaoh construction works promoted by the Saudi Arabian regime, LineWorld’s tallest building to house 9 million peopleThey are advancing at full speed through the Red Sea desert. The work, which started in mid-October, gained momentum in the first weeks, according to the images published on the project’s website.
At these hours, Hundreds of workers, dozens of cranes and endless machines of all kinds make up a real anthill. That will be the name of the big city in the dusty and desert area of Neom, which will include The Line as well as a huge ski slope and many other facilities.
As the images show, things currently consist of: in leveling the land and preparing the foundations such a superior structure that will have a length of at least 170 kilometers from the interior of the desert to the coast of the Red Sea.
This video shows the current situation in the field:
The building, which will be half a kilometer high, very long wall lined up evenly with mirror, which will give it an unreal appearance from the outside. The interior, on the other hand, will swarm with activity, even though it is under the maximum sustainability criteria, as the project managers insistently repeat.
“ecological” project
The organizers emphasize that both Neom and The Line will be based on an entirely ecological concept. It will work with the giant building under construction. 100% renewable energy and all transportation within the city will be zero emissions. From one end of this 170-kilometer block to the other, it can be reached in about 20 minutes by high-speed train. The project states that services, shops and other centers that residents need to walk to will always be about a five-minute walk away.
Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman, who is also chairman of the board of directors of Neom company, envisions this monumental city as a demonstration of the sustainable future his country is dedicated to. “New and creative solutions are needed” To confront “the livability and environmental crises facing cities on our planet,” the Prince said.
This website constantly follows the development of the project over time, providing information on all the innovations of the project, apart from showing amazing images of what will be inside The Line.
Where will the water come from?
One of the biggest challenges facing not just The Line mega-building but the entire city of Neom, including the ski resort, will be where to get as much water as its residents and public infrastructure will need.
Building giant water treatment plants that will carry water from the Red Sea to the residents will be the solution. And although the project predicts that these desalination plants will be powered by electricity from renewable sources, because some experts doubt the technology is advanced enough to run such large stations So with solar energy. Otherwise, the CO2 emissions required to generate the electricity needed to desalinate this amount of water could be very significant.
In fact, related activities construction of buildings (machinery, transportation, material retrieval, etc.) will already generate large emissions, which will be seen in the future whether they will be offset by the sustainability mechanisms announced by the Saudi government.
In addition to environmental concerns, the project lack of freedoms and inadequate human rights Various organizations that characterize this country have announced that some people living in the area have been forcibly evicted from their homes to do work, and also sentenced to death at the beginning of this October.
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