NEOM

NEOM is the most ambitious giga-project of the Vision 2030 era — a 26,500 square-kilometre region in north-western Saudi Arabia that comprises The Line, Trojena, Sindalah Island, and Oxagon. Among consultancies operating in the Kingdom, very few can claim active engagement on it. ISG delivered a Sustainability Implementation Plan (SIP) during the design phase of NEOM, contributing to the underlying sustainability framework that NEOM developments are built against.

What a Sustainability Implementation Plan does

A SIP is the operating document that translates a project's high-level sustainability ambitions into something contractors, designers, and project managers can actually execute. It defines targets, metrics, governance, audit cadence, and the chain of accountability from design through handover. On a giga-project the size of NEOM, the SIP is the bridge between the corporate-level ESG narrative and what gets built on site.

For an undertaking of NEOM's scale, the SIP has to coordinate sustainability commitments across multiple districts, dozens of design consultancies, and a multi-decade construction horizon. The plan has to be specific enough to direct daily decisions, and flexible enough to survive the inevitable scope changes a giga-project goes through.

Why NEOM matters

NEOM is the centrepiece of Saudi Arabia's economic diversification strategy. The Line — a 170-kilometre linear city — and Trojena — the mountain tourism destination set to host the 2029 Asian Winter Games — are the two most-watched developments in the region. The sustainability claims attached to these projects (zero carbon, 100% renewable energy, regenerative design) are what international stakeholders, green bond investors, and the global press measure NEOM by.

Delivering against those claims requires a sustainability framework that can be applied consistently across districts and asset types. The SIP work feeds into that framework. ISG's contribution sits inside the design-phase planning that defines how the rest of the project is delivered.

Saudi giga-project credentials

NEOM and the Red Sea Project are the two most ambitious giga-projects in the Saudi pipeline. ISG has delivered SIP work on both — a footprint very few sustainability consultancies in the region can match. For institutional clients evaluating consultancies on Vision 2030 work, the NEOM and Red Sea references are the strongest possible signals of giga-project capability.

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