Answers to common questions

We are a finishing and fit-out specialist contractor — architectural finishes, granite and marble cladding, MEP, structural works and supervision — for government and commercial projects across Saudi Arabia.

We haven't published a named project from inside Al-Balad itself, but operating in a city with a conservation-sensitive historic core alongside fast modern development means being comfortable moving between the two — our government and commercial project record across the rest of Jeddah reflects the same care for finishing to a precise standard that heritage-adjacent work demands.

Based here — Jeddah is our head office and where we've delivered the largest share of our project record, including the Institute of Public Administration and Safwa Tower's residential complex and mosque minaret.

No — we're based in Jeddah and travel to deliver Riyadh projects. Our project record there — Marina Mall, Olaisha Compound, the Drug Control Department Tower and others — shows that doesn't limit the standard we deliver.

No — we're based in Jeddah and travel to deliver Eastern Province projects, the same as we do for Riyadh. Our Marina Mall Dammam project was delivered to the same standard as our larger Jeddah and Riyadh portfolio.

No — we're based in Jeddah and travel to deliver Eastern Province projects. Omron General Hospital was delivered to the same government-grade standard as our other health and public-sector work.

No — we're based in Jeddah and travel to deliver Al Kharj projects, the same way we do for our wider Riyadh Region and Eastern Province work. Our project record there, including the engineering campus finishing scope, shows that doesn't limit the standard we deliver.

No — we're based in Jeddah and travel to deliver Huraymila projects, the same as everywhere else in Riyadh Region. Our college campus finishing work there was delivered to the same standard as our larger Al Kharj and Riyadh city projects.

No — we're based in Jeddah and travel to deliver Muzahmia projects, the same as everywhere else in Riyadh Region. Our university campus finishing work there was delivered to the same standard as our other Riyadh Region and Riyadh city projects.

Riyadh Region is the wider administrative province — the capital city itself plus smaller governorates around it, including Al Kharj, Huraymila and Muzahmia, where we've each delivered a higher-education campus finishing project.

No — we're based in Jeddah and travel to deliver every Riyadh Region project, from Riyadh city itself to Al Kharj, Huraymila and Muzahmia. Nine delivered projects across the region show that doesn't limit the standard.

No — our published record runs from ministry, university and hospital work down to private villas and a residential compound, held to the same standard regardless of scale.

Yes — the same team and standard applies whether the project is a university campus or a private villa; scale changes the programme, not the quality bar.

Yes — most of our government and commercial project record is exactly this: finishing contractor to a main contractor, coordinating our programme with theirs rather than running the whole site.

Eleven, from plastering and flooring to ceilings, partitions, painting, safety railings and wet-area waterproofing — see the full list below.

One coordinated scope — cladding, terrazzo, roof treatment, hardscaping, pools and fountains are sequenced together on a single project, with the same support-engineering inspection process across all of them, rather than treated as unrelated trades.

Yes — each of these six areas can be engaged on its own; most of our project record shows several of them delivered together on the same building, but each has its own scope and pricing.

Six, from roof waterproofing and granite/marble cladding to wash terrazzo, hardscaping, swimming pools and fountain works — see the full list below.

One team — electrical, plumbing, CCTV and networking are coordinated together on every project, sharing the same containment planning and first-fix sequencing rather than four subcontractors resolving clashes on site.

Not a single flagship project the way we can point to for waterproofing or facade work — MEP is delivered as standard, coordinated scope across government, commercial and villa projects rather than a specialism we market on its own. That's a deliberate, honest answer rather than an inflated one.

Four — electrical, plumbing, CCTV & security, and networking — see the full list below.

We execute structural work to a project's engineering drawings — formwork, reinforcement, steel fabrication and erection; design development is coordinated with the client's structural consultant where one is appointed.

One structural team handles all three — the same engineers carry judgment and accountability from concrete through to the steel frame and its covering, rather than three separate subcontractors each responsible for only their piece.

Three — concrete structures, steel structures, and canopies & car shades — see the full list below.

One support-engineering team covers all three — the same team that tracks the schedule also resolves technical queries and inspects quality and safety, rather than three separate consultants layered on top of the project.

No — where a project requires an independent, client-appointed consultant for design or certification, our supervision team coordinates with them rather than replacing that role. What we provide is the day-to-day management, technical coordination and quality/safety discipline across our own construction scope.

No — the same reporting and technical oversight standard applies whether the project is an institute-scale government building or a private villa; the supervision function does not scale down.

Three — project management & scheduling, the technical services department, and quality & safety supervision — see the full list below.

That's exactly what our project management and technical services capability is built for. Riyadh's Grade A office market held around 98% occupancy through late 2024 into mid-2025 — a market where a delayed fit-out has a real cost — so we track our own programme against the main contractor's critical path rather than working to a static schedule.

Yes — our MEP, structural and epoxy-flooring scope covers plant, warehouse and back-of-house areas as standard, which is directly relevant to the industrial and port-logistics growth happening around Dammam right now.

Yes — Omron General Hospital sits alongside our other government and institutional health-sector finishing work across the Kingdom, held to the same standard regardless of location.

It can — an industrial or agricultural-adjacent building often has different exposure and load requirements than a purely commercial or residential one, and our technical team specifies finishes and systems against the actual building use, not a generic template.

A mix of government, commercial and residential work — government campuses in Al Kharj, Huraymila and Muzahmia plus a government tower in Riyadh city, commercial malls and an office building, and one residential compound.

We self-perform all five — architectural finishing, external & facade works, MEP works, structural works, and supervision & consultancy — under one accountable team, rather than passing packages to a chain of subcontractors.

Yes — most of our government and commercial project record is exactly this: finishing contractor to a main contractor, coordinating our programme, submittals and QA records with theirs rather than running the whole site.

We won't tell you a lower quote is automatically wrong — but our own buyer's guide flags exactly what a dramatically lower price usually means: a corner cut somewhere hard to inspect after handover. Ask any contractor, including us, the same scope, classification and paperwork questions before deciding.

Yes. We deliver finishing scopes for main contractors such as Hadeem Contracting and Consultancy Group, as well as directly for project owners.

Share your scope and timeline through our contact form, WhatsApp or phone, and our technical team will respond within one business day.

Plaster and screeding come first, partitions and ceilings close in the order MEP needs to run cleanly behind them, and painting and fixed joinery come last so nothing gets marked before handover — the same sequence on every project regardless of scale.

Either — we can work to a specified material schedule from your design team, or advise on options during the material-selection stage before submittals go in.

Where a project includes more than one of these elements, they're planned and sequenced together from the start — hardscaping around a pool or fountain, cladding coordinated with roof treatment on the same elevation — rather than run as separate trades working around each other.

Yes — our support-engineering team inspects each wet-critical or structurally-fixed element (roof membranes, pool shells, cladding fixings) before it's covered or signed off, the same discipline applied across every Ashlaar scope.

Yes — every electrical circuit is tested and every plumbing line pressure-tested before it's chased into a wall or covered by a ceiling, the same discipline applied to all four trades.

First-fix — containment, conduit and rough-in — happens while walls and ceilings are still open, coordinated with plaster, ceiling and flooring trades; second-fix devices, fixtures and connections go in once those finishes are ready, and everything is tested before final sign-off.

Because it's the one trade where a supervision gap is hardest to correct after the fact — a poured column or an erected frame doesn't get fixed later, so the same engineers who inspect the reinforcement and connections stay accountable for the finished element.

Yes — reinforcement is checked before the pour, formwork before it's struck, and bolted or welded steel connections before cladding, roofing or any finish closes over them, at every stage rather than only at final handover.

Inspection is built into the programme at each trade handover, not only at project milestones — work that doesn't meet specification is flagged and corrected before the next trade builds on top of it.

We're appointed as the building contractor once a project's design has cleared Balady's review and received its design-approval certificate. From there, our technical services department manages submittals, technical queries and coordination with your design office and Balady inspectors through construction — rather than owning the original permit application itself, which stays with your appointed engineering office.

It can — coastal sabkha is documented along the Eastern Province shoreline and is known in geotechnical practice for low bearing capacity and a shallow water table, so foundation design there starts with a genuine site investigation rather than a spec carried over from an inland project.

Inspection and sign-off are built into the programme at each trade handover, run by a dedicated support-engineering function — not a single final walkthrough before handover.

Tell your technical contact directly and it gets assessed and actioned — the specific terms depend on your contract, which our technical team will confirm with you before work starts rather than leaving it vague.

Across the Kingdom. We have delivered projects in Jeddah, Riyadh, Dammam, Al Ahsa, Al Kharj, Huraymila and Muzahmia, among others.

More than the temperature does. Average humidity of around 65% (spiking above 85% in summer) drives real corrosion risk in reinforcement and metalwork and stresses concrete and coatings — which is exactly why we treat waterproofing, mechanical cladding fixings and corrosion-resistant detailing as standard on every Jeddah project, not optional upgrades.

Less than you'd expect from the peak heat alone — the bigger factor is the daily swing between a hot day and a much cooler night, typically 11–13°C year-round. We specify for that swing in concrete joints, cladding fixings and expansion detailing on every Riyadh project, not just for the average temperature.

The scale of committed development says so — the New Dammam waterfront project alone is a SAR 98 billion, 32 million sqm master-planned development with over 22,000 plots, on top of an already-expanding port and logistics sector.

It can — the oasis has carried UNESCO World Heritage status since 2018, and heritage-designated land generally carries planning and design-review requirements beyond a standard site; the exact controls depend on the specific parcel and its location relative to the protected area, which our technical team confirms case by case rather than assuming a blanket rule.

Yes — Al Ahsa is inland and runs a drier, more extreme desert profile (summer highs near 45°C, a wider day-night swing) than Gulf-coast Dammam, closer in character to Riyadh's interior heat, and exterior specification follows the actual site climate rather than a single Eastern Province default.

About 80km southeast of Riyadh — close enough that our Riyadh-area teams and logistics cover both without it being a separate mobilisation.

About 89km northwest of Riyadh — our teams cover it as part of the same Riyadh Region mobilisation we use for Al Kharj and Muzahmia.

Yes — it sits on the same Riyadh–Mecca Highway corridor our Riyadh-area teams already cover for the city's own projects, so mobilising for Muzahmia doesn't require a separate logistics setup.

They sit in different directions from Riyadh — Al Kharj southeast, Huraymila northwest, Muzahmia west — so each is scoped and mobilised on its own project timeline, using the same Riyadh-area team and logistics base rather than three separate setups.

Ashlaar has operated in the Kingdom since 2000. We're not publishing registration numbers on the site at this stage — if that's something you need confirmed for your project, ask us directly and we'll tell you plainly what we can and can't provide.

Yes — Riyadh's dust-control rules apply to any project of 2,000 sqm or larger, with fines of up to SAR 50,000 per violation. Our external and facade works and site-safety supervision teams plan dust suppression, covered truck loads and site watering into the programme from the start, not as a reaction once an inspector flags a problem.

Government and institutional buildings, universities, hospitals, malls, towers, compounds and private villas — large or small.

Four private villa projects so far — Private Rest House, and turnkey finishing for the Khalid, Fahad and Ali villa projects — in the same broader North Jeddah corridor that includes coastal communities like Obhur, finished to the same standard as our government and commercial work.

Six so far, spanning retail (Marina Mall's decorative porcelain flooring, Badiah Mall, Olaya Mall), residential (Olaisha Compound), commercial office space and a government office fit-out (the Drug Control Department Tower's MEP-coordinated works) — the same range of project types as our Jeddah portfolio.