Jeddah: Construction Products Holding Company (CPC) will supply construction materials to the King Abdulaziz Endowment project in Makkah.

The landmark construction project, consisting of seven massive towers, is the tallest and largest concrete building in Saudi Arabia, and will involve CPC’s subsidiaries - Premco Precast Concrete Company and the United Arab Aluminum Company.

The tallest tower in the complex is Tower (H), which will be 591 meters high. The project is also the largest project in terms of area, which is estimated at 1.5 million square meters.

Commenting on this mega project, Dr. Faysal Alaquil, Director, Business Development and Administrative Affairs and  official spokesman for CPC, said: "We are very proud that the factories of Construction Products Holding Company (CPC)  will supply the precast concrete works  through  manufacturing 450 thousand square meters for cladding of outside walls (facades) and trims (GRC), and 300 thousand square meters of light weight internal partitions (ACOTEC), and the manufacturing of 25 thousand prefabricated toilets."

He added: "This is in addition to the nearly 60,000 square meters of aluminum and glass works to be manufactured and installed by United Arab Aluminum Company, located in CPC’s industrial complex in Bahra.  The project is scheduled to be completed, by mid 2010. The project, which is composed of seven Towers, will be a multi purpose development consisting of several international hotels, in view of its unique location beside Makkah's Holy Mosque.”