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By David Ingham and Lutfi Qaraman
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If there is one country unlikely to feel the effects of the global credit crunch, it’s Qatar. The small Gulf state sits on some of the world’s largest natural gas reserves, which has given it massive budget surpluses and average GDP of approximately US $30,000 per head, one of the world’s highest.
According to Proleads’ latest research, some key projects are behind schedule but nothing has yet been cancelled or put on hold. At the end of March 2009, it calculated that 191 major civil projects were underway worth a total of around US $82.5 billion.
Qatar is, therefore, a market that no supplier or sub-contractor can afford to ignore. Here, Construction Week profiles ten major projects in Qatar that everyone should know about.
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We begin our round-up - continued on the following pages - with a look at Doha International Airport.
New Doha International Airport
Client: New Doha International Airport Steering Committee.
Estimated value: US $11 billion
Schedule: Work began in 2004 and final completion is expected in 2015
Scope: With a land area in excess 22 km² the New Doha International Airport is designed to handle 50 million passengers, 2 million tonnes of cargo, and 320,000 aircraft landings and takeoffs each year.
Over 60 million m³ of fill will be reclaimed from the sea and used to create the site, while over 6.2 million m³ of improperly disposed household waste has been removed from the site and disposed of in an engineered landfill. The runways, taxiways and aprons of the new airport require 3.7 million tonnes of high quality polymer asphalt and an additional 115,000 m³ of concrete, while 800,000 m³ of concrete will be needed for facility structures.
In order to facilitate construction of the airport, over 17 km of temporary roads are being constructed within the site. Over 100 hectares alongside the new airport have been reserved for commercial development, including a free trade zone, offices, hotels, and retail mall.
The contract for the first phase of the airport construction and the planning and design phase was awarded to Bechtel Group Inc. In May 2006, Takenaka won a major contract to build the Emiri VIP terminal. ARINC and Thales were awarded a contract for the IT, telecommunications and security systems at the airport.
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who is in charge of the PM in this project and is the project complete yet ?