Kingdom Tower: World’s Tallest Building to be Completed Very Soon in Saudi Arabia

By Ajay Kadkol - 09 Jun '15 12:46PM

Kingdom Tower, which is under construction at Saudi Arabia, is anticipated be completed by 2018.

The Kingdom Tower, located at the city of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, is owned and developed by Jeddah Economic Company (JEC).

Measuring at height of more than a kilometre, the Kingdom Tower is being installed with escalators and elevators by KONE, a global leader in escalator and elevator manufacturing.

The company will manufacture and install a total of 57 elevators and eight escalators in the tower which is set to be taller than Dubai's Burj Khalifa which measures a height of 829 meters.

Mounib Hammound, CEO of Jeddah Economic Company, owner and developer of Kingdom Tower and Kingdom City said, "I am delighted we are now at the stage of taking the next leap with KONE in the construction of the Kingdom tower. With the use of KONE Ultra rope, which is one third of the weight of the traditional