Osool Digital City Master Plan
Smart infrastructure roadmap for a planned digital innovation and investment hub in Saudi Arabia.
A strategic redevelopment roadmap for Digital City, Riyadh's established information technology park. It sits in the al-Nakheel district, near King Saud University. It has 377,000 sqm of office space across 30 buildings and is now expanding with a residential and retail phase. Advised the owner-operator, Osool Integrated Real Estate, on building technology and smart infrastructure into the next phase. The advice spanned six domains. Three were integrated building and facility management, smart security integration, and IoT and smart technology monitoring. The other three were smart waste management, smart wayfinding and lighting, and mobility management.
Digital City opened in 2017 as one of Saudi Arabia's earliest technology parks. Under its new owner-operator, Osool Integrated Real Estate, it needed a strategic redevelopment roadmap. The plan was to extend an established 377,000 sqm office campus into a mixed residential and retail hub. Smart infrastructure had to be built into the urban fabric across building, security, utility and mobility systems.
Advised on the redevelopment roadmap as Smart City Strategic Advisor. The brief was to bring technology and innovation into six domains. Three were integrated building and facility management systems, integrated smart security, and IoT and smart technology monitoring. The others were smart waste management, smart wayfinding and lighting, and mobility management. Each domain was tied to one goal: a sustainable, efficient and livable digital city that supports a knowledge-based economy.
Delivered a strategic roadmap. It positions Digital City as a regional hub for digital innovation, entrepreneurship and investment. A smart infrastructure framework was set across all six domains. It supports the site's growth into a mixed-use knowledge economy district. It also supports Saudi Arabia's aim to be a leader in the global digital economy.
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- Smart City Strategic Advisor on the redevelopment roadmap
A digital hub competing for investment and talent has to prove its technology credentials before a single tenant signs. The smart infrastructure roadmap is part of the pitch. The same logic applies to any business presenting itself as forward-looking. Its technology backbone has to be visible and credible to the people it wants to attract, whether investors, tenants or customers.
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Book the WorkshopDiscuss a similar programme- Digital City, Riyadh, Osool Integrated Real Estate project profile: 377,000 sqm office campus across 30 buildings, LEED Gold certified, expanding with residential and retail phases
- Digital City (Riyadh), Wikipedia: Saudi Arabia's first smart city and IT park development, opened 2017 in the al-Nakheel district
- Employer testimonial letter from Meinhardt SUIT Pte Ltd (Managing Director, July 2025) naming this project available to procurement teams on request; not published online
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Digital City opened in 2017 and had aged the way any technology park does. Then a new owner needed a redevelopment roadmap that proved the place still belonged in a knowledge-economy conversation. Advising Osool meant being honest that some of the original infrastructure decisions no longer fit. That isn't always the message a client wants from a strategic advisor. They took it well. Watching a nine-year-old campus get a credible second act is a good outcome.
