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Contrary to the implications in the article, Parsons neither designed nor built the King Abdulaziz Airport in Jiddah. A joint venture of Parsons and another company has served as construction and program manager for this project since 1976. Expanding enormously since the originally modest plan was prepared in 1965, this airport is now by far the largest and finest in the world, with a major military complex, two commercial terminals, a royal pavilion and the Haj terminal, having a capacity to handle more than a million pilgrims arriving and departing within less than a month each year...
More recently, Bechtel designed the master plan for the King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, then won the assignment to manage the construction. Now nearing completion, the airport will be finished on time and within the expected budget of $3.2 billion. By comparison, the King Abdulaziz International Airport at Jidda, built by the rival California firm of Parsons Corp., ran far over budget because of design changes before finally being completed last year at a cost of more than $4.5 billion...
...20th century king. He is a Neanderthal king." Though many would agree with this description of Saudi Arabia's crusty old monarch, there was some surprise at the source: Prince Talal Ibn Abdulaziz, half brother of Saud, former Minister of Finance in Saud's government...