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Qatar's sucessful bid to host the 2022 FIFA World Cup has opened up a considerable challenge for contractors, consultants and construction materials suppliers - and these challenges will be the focus of a one-day event held by Construcion Week in April.
CW's Building for the 2022 World Cup conference will take place at the Grand Hyatt in Doha on April 10 2012, and follows on from the packed 2011 event which drew a capacity crowd of specilist contractors and consultants.
“The country is spending billions of dollars on infrastructure, hotels and football stadiums for the month-long tournament, offering rich pickings to local contractors. Official estimates expect the Gulf state will spend around $100bn, which is tremendous news for contractors, consultants and suppliers in the industry,” says conference manager Oscar Wendel.
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“The conference will allow one to understand the business opportunities available in the run up to 2022, the impediments to securing work in Qatar, and how to capitalise on the opportunities,” he says.
Following almost a year of intermediary planning, contracts for the nation's infrastructure have started to be announced. Last week, Qatar Rail deputy CEO Geoff Mee said 30 consortia had expressed an interest in Phase 1A of its Doha Metro project - and that over the following few weeks, that number would be halved following a round of meetings and interviews.
Phase 1A will see enough of the Metro built to cater for the 2020 Olympics should Qatar be successful in its bid; Phase 1B will cover the additional work needed for the 2022 World Cup, and Phase 2 will cover the completion of the entire service.
"The first contracts will be for four tunnelling packages: Each of those tunnelling packages will be worth, in the order of $2-3bn, and then there will be two packages for major station works for Msheireb and Education City. They will be a lesser value by still enormous by international standards,” Mee said
Requests for proposals (RFPs) for enabling works from each of the 30 shortlisted consortia also went out early last week, and companies will be invited to present their bids to Qatar Railways. Announcements on those are expected later in the year, with a view to work commencing in October.
“Timescales are very tight. We’ve not had much time, I don’t see why you should either,” Mee told delegates.
“The major station box contracts will be issued as RFP in early April as well. Once we’ve taken breath with putting those out, we’ll be working hard on the elevated sections, and there will be expressions of interest for station fit out, rolling stock and the systems, that will commence later in the year,” Mee said.
The list of speakers for the one-day event includes:
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