Qatar
Orbital Highway Project
“With the 2022 FIFA World Cup fast approaching, hosts
Qatar’s new Orbital Highway is one of a number of critical infrastructure
projects to be delivered ahead of the event. At 200 kilometers in length and 14
lanes wide, the US$1.7 billion motorway connects the new port at the Qatari
capital Doha with Ras Laffan, the gas-producing industrial city in the north of
the country” (KPMC). The project
is the largest of four contracts which make up the New Orbital Highway –
stretching from the existing Al Mesaieed interchange to Salwa Road. The project
started in 2014 and is now expected to finish in 2017. It is expected to have
services such as cross road, pedestrian & bicycle paths; service structures
including underpasses, retaining walls, pump stations, substations, drainage
structures and tanks as well as Intelligent Traffic System, Street lighting and
bridge underpass lighting works.
