Ashghal

Parsons Brinckerhoff has been appointed the programme management consultant to Ashghal, the public works authority of Qatar, for a US$8 billion programme focusing on the construction and upgrade of local road and drainage projects throughout the country over a five-year period. The award was announced by Minister of Municipality and Urban Planning Sheikh Abdulrahman Bin Khalifa Al-Thani.

Parsons Brinckerhoff has been appointed the programme management consultant to Ashghal, the public works authority of Qatar. It will work on a QAR 30 billion (US$8 billion) programme focusing on the construction and upgrade of local road and drainage projects throughout the country over a five-year period.

Plans are in hand in Qatar for a new 190km highway project. Tenders for the Orbit Road project will be opened by the Ministry of Municipality and Urban Planning and the Public Works Authority (Ashghal).

According to Business Monitor International (BMI), Qatar is expected to spend US$80-100 billion over the next five years to prepare and deliver the infrastructure required to support the huge influx of visitors forecast to attend the 2022 FIFA World Cup.

Plans are now well in hand for Qatar's Lusail Expressway project, which is expected to cost some US$700 million in total.

Keen interest is being shown in the tender stage for the first stretch of Qatar's US$700 million Lusail Expressway project.

A Greek and Qatari consortium will carry out road contracts worth US$520 million in Qatar. Meanwhile US company Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR) will carry out a contract in Qatar worth $135 million.