MEGA SKYSCRAPER RACES SKYWARD

JEDDAH Tower is now making a steady rise to reach its designed height of more than 1,000 m, which will make it the world's tallest tower on its targeted completion in 2028.

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The project is being developed by Jeddah Economic Company (JEC), a subsidiary of Kingdom Holding Company (KHC) – a Saudi conglomerate with interests in key sectors such as hotel management, real estate and equity.

According to Talal Ibrahim Almaiman, CEO of Kingdom Holding Company, the structure has already reached 74 floors.

“As the flagship asset of our land portfolio, the JEC Tower continues to show excellent progress,” he said in the third quarter 2025 financial statement released last month (November)

“We are targeting a five-to-six-day construction cycle per floor across all sections by the end of 2025,” Almaiman stated.

Jeddah Tower (previously known as Kingdom Tower) is located along the Red Sea on the north side of Saudi port city.

Construction work on the skyscraper resumed in January this year following the reappointment of Saudi Binladin Group (SBG) as the main contractor under a contract valued at SR7.2 billion ($1.96 billion). Of this, around SR1.1 billion has been already paid to SBG for works previously completed on the tower.

Construction work on the Jeddah Tower had initially begun in 2009 with SBG serving as the contractor for the superstructure and was paused in 2018 due to an anti-corruption crackdown in Saudi Arabia. The initial phase saw approximately one-third of the superstructure complete, reaching a height of 63 floors.

According to a video released by Unimaginable Builds, fresh drone footage from late 2025 shows the tower rising past 75 floors, with the central core advancing at a pace of one floor every three to four days. Cladding installation has begun, and the building's tri-petal footprint - engineered to mitigate extreme wind loads - is clearly visible.