King Khalid Training Center Water Storage Tank

Preload Middle East, Ltd. was awarded the design and construction of a 1.3 million gallon, multi-containment water storage tank on the King Khalid Air Base in Khamis Mushait, Saudi Arabia. The work was performed under a subcontract to  Yuksel Insaat, A.S., a Turkish general contractor, working directly for Gilbane Federal, Inc. (a subsidiary of Gilbane Building Company). 

PROJECT HIGHLIGHTS

• Preload Middle East’s scope included: 
  • the design of a single, buried, 1.3 million gallon water reservoir with three (3) internal compartments; 
  • the supply of specialty tank materials and prestressing equipment to the project site; 
  • the supervision of all tank-related construction activities; and 
  • circumferential prestressing of the outer walls of the new concrete reservoir. 
• Design began in the spring of 2015, with onsite tank construction commencing in August 2015. Work was completed in early 2016.
• For Preload, this project represented its first project in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia.