SEC's Riyadh Power Plant wins new award

MEED Quality Awards for Projects 2012, in association with Ernst & Young, has announced the winners of its annual search for the region's best projects.
Saudi Arabia was one of the evening's big winners with Saudi Electricity Company's (SEC's) Riyadh Power Plant No. 10 winning the Power & Water Desalination Project of the Year Award.
Meanwhile, the highly coveted MEED Quality Project of the Year Award, in association with Ernst & Young, went to Qatar Petroleum and Qatar Shell's Pearl GTL joint venture project, which also won the HLG Leighton Contracting Oil & Gas Project of the Year honors.
The GCC winners include Emirates Aluminium Smelter Complex (Industrial Project of the Year); Road and Transport Authority's Dubai Metro Green Line (Transport Project of the Year); Abu Dhabi Tourism Development & Investment Company's Saadiyat Construction Village (Metito Social Project of the Year), Damac's Ocean Heights (Emirates Steel Building Project of the Year); Kuwait Ministry of Public Works Sanitary Engineering Department's Pumping Station and Waste Water Treatment Plant (Water Reuse Project of the Year); Petroleum Development Oman's NIMR Produced Water Treatment Project (KIMMCO Sustainable Project of the Year); as well as the Royal Court Affairs' Royal Opera House and Qatar's Extension to the Qatar National Convention Centre and Link Bridge (joint winners of the Leisure and Tourism Project of the Year).
"After a rigorous screening and judging process, our esteemed panel of judges has finally chosen the region's best projects, which stood out from the hundreds nominated to this year's edition of the MEED Quality Awards for Projects. We salute them for their outstanding achievements in design, engineering and construction, as well as for the economic, social and environmental contributions of their respective projects," said Edmund O'Sullivan, chairman of the judging panel of the MEED Quality Awards for Projects, in association with Ernst & Young.