Construction advances on the 53,000-square-meter project, which includes research centers, a library, green spaces, and sports facilities

Riyadh | BETH

Construction work is progressing on ACWA Power’s new headquarters, located on King Khalid Road in Riyadh and extending across more than 53,000 square meters.

The project is not limited to a traditional office building. It is taking shape as an integrated complex comprising research centers, a library, green spaces, sports halls, and facilities for work and collaboration.

The research centers are particularly significant given the nature of the company’s work in developing and operating energy, water desalination, and green hydrogen projects, as well as its cooperation with King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology to develop clean-energy and desalination technologies.

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The distribution of the facilities reveals an approach that goes beyond bringing employees together in offices, toward creating an environment that connects management with research, knowledge, and quality of life.

The library and research centers represent the intellectual core of the headquarters, while the green spaces and sports halls enhance the human working environment. Shared spaces also bring engineering, development, investment, and operations teams closer together.

However, the true test of the project’s identity will be its performance after it becomes operational:

Its energy consumption, cooling efficiency, water reuse, use of natural lighting, and selection of materials capable of withstanding Riyadh’s climate while reducing maintenance costs.

The headquarters of a company operating in energy and water should not merely speak about sustainability through its design, but demonstrate it through figures.

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Establishing a headquarters of this scale confirms that Riyadh is not merely the company’s administrative address, but a command center for its international operations in energy, water, and green hydrogen.

The project gives the city greater capacity to attract engineering and research expertise, bring partners, suppliers, and financiers closer to the center of decision-making, and transform the company’s global expansion into jobs, knowledge, contracts, and services that grow within the Kingdom.

The headquarters could also perform a role extending beyond project management if its research centers become an active space for developing applicable and exportable solutions, and for connecting universities and researchers with the company and its global projects.

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The project’s real value will not lie solely in its size or façades, but in its ability to express the nature of the company occupying it.

If the headquarters operates as a laboratory for energy and water and as a center for knowledge and decision-making, it will not be merely a new building for ACWA Power.

It will become part of the infrastructure that moves the Kingdom from hosting energy companies to producing their technologies and leading their projects from Riyadh.