RIYADH: Kidana Development Company is completing comprehensive maintenance and readiness works at Mina’s Jamarat facility.
As part of preparations for the Hajj season 2026, Kidana continues wide-ranging maintenance and upgrades at holy sites in Makkah.
The company, which is the executive arm of the Royal Commission for Makkah City and Holy Sites, aims to raise the efficiency of facilities and enhance readiness to serve pilgrims.
The work aims to support safe crowd management for the Hajj season 2026.
The Jamarat facility is one of the holy sites’ largest engineering and organizational projects. It was designed to manage crowd movement.
It also aims to ease pilgrim mobility during the stoning ritual, to improve safety, and maintain smooth operations during the Hajj season.
The facility has multiple interconnected levels. It includes 11 escalator-building structures. It also includes 10 pedestrian tunnels. These features help distribute pedestrian movement and reduce congestion.
The facility is supported by advanced operational and technical systems that help manage tafweej, or group dispatching. They also monitor field movement inside the bridge and in the surrounding areas.
Kidana said its integrated operating system includes 340 escalators and 682 digital surveillance cameras. The cameras will help monitor crowd density and maintain smooth flow.
The company also allocated 228 golf carts to support movement of pilgrims and staff within the facility and adjacent services.
Safety preparations include advanced firefighting systems, as Kidana said the systems include 295 fire hose cabinets.
They also include 1,078 fire extinguishers and more than 3,350 automatic sprinklers. The measures are intended to improve response speed and raise safety levels.
Technical work also covers cooling and lighting as the company maintains and operates 456 air-conditioning units. It also operates more than 74,000 lighting units to support visibility across levels, corridors, and surrounding plazas.
Engineering maintenance extends across the wider site. It includes bridges, ramps, tunnels, the basement, and surrounding plazas. The work includes full repainting to preserve operational and visual readiness.
The plan also covers wayfinding and structures with more than 1,216 guidance and directional signs. It has repaired more than 520 canopies and metal structures and four main tents on the fourth-level bridge.
In addition, it has cleaned and prepared floodwater culverts and drainage channels in plazas and parking areas.
To support crowd organization, Kidana has provided more than 28,000 plastic barriers. The barriers are used to guide routes and manage movement precisely.
The goal is to deliver a safer and more facilitated tafweej experience during the rituals.
