Andrew Watts CEO of Newtecnic the vision of the architect and generate our own technologies in order for the building to be as authentic as possible ,” confirms Watts .

Newtecnic has been appointed by main contractor , BACS Consortium , to oversee the construction stage of the highly complex façade envelope of the King Abdullah Financial District ( KAFD ) Metro hub in Saudi Arabia , designed by Zaha Hadid . KAFD ’ s intricate facade , representing patterns generated by desert winds , was design engineered by Newtecnic to reduce solar gain and produce air currents to help cool the building by developing new algorithms to achieve this performance level . Planned to deal with Riyadh ’ s expected 50 % growth over the coming years , KAFD is part of a new citywide transport system comprising six metro lines , 85 stations and more than 100 miles of track . The project is due to be completed this year and features self-supporting , 200m-long , high performance concrete-composite walls and roof . To produce the structure , new adjustable building components and fixing methods had to be invented , developed and tested by Newtecnic in partnership with the Cambridge

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