About 85 per cent of the advanced earthworks for the $1.7 billion Salam Yiti-Oman lifestyle resort project has been completed.

More than 3 million cu m of rock and sand has been placed onsite at The Salam Yiti project, a joint venture between Sama Dubai, the international real estate investment and development arm of Dubai Holding, and Omran (Oman Tourism Development Company), a subsidiary of the Oman Ministry of Tourism.
The advanced earthworks – specifically the three 6-m-high increment to the existing ground level, along with the realignment of Wadi Qanu – are critical to the development of Salam Yiti, according to a spokesman for the developer.
The design followed an extensive study and analysis by Halcrow International of the upstream wadi catchment areas.
To maintain the steady progress of enabling work, Sama Dubai has contracted Boskalis Westminister Oman along with its joint venture partner Consolidated Contractors Company (CCC) to drive the early construction and development works, which included the arrival of major dredging equipment to site capable of delivering nearly 300,000 cu m of sand per week to the site.
The enabling work for the first of the two exclusive islands has also been completed, allowing further earthworks to commence as part of the Phase Two reclamation work for the development.
Salam Yiti, nestled between Oman’s Al Hajar Ash Sharqi mountains and the beach below, covers 420 hectares of land and rises up to 140 m above sea level.