A consortium consisting of QDVC (a 51 p.c Qatari Diar, 49 p.c Vinci Building Grands Projets subsidiary) and Alstom has been awarded a $2.7bn contract for the final section of the Lusail Mild Rail Transit (LRT) venture in Qatar by Qatar Railways.
The brand new contract was signed in Paris on 23 June 2014 at a ceremony attended by François Hollande, President of the French Republic, and His Highness Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al Thani, Emir of Qatar, throughout his official go to to France.
Alstom’s share of the works is price simply over $1bn, together with supply of 35 trains together with energy provide gear, signalling, management programs and trackworks, whereas that of QDVC contains development of 25 stations and a depot, architectural and electro-mechanical works packages and built-in venture administration.
Alstom mentioned the 35 Citadis trams for Lusail might be 32 metres lengthy and can provide high-end consolation to passengers, because of enhanced communications with passenger data and safety programs each at stations and on-board.
QDVC received the primary works phases for the sunshine rail transit system (LRT) in Lusail, Qatar, in 2007 and 2011.
The sunshine rail system is scheduled to start working in 2018 (yellow line) and 2020 (inexperienced, purple and purple traces).
Town of Lusail, a brand new city growth with a inhabitants of 200,000 north of Doha, the capital of Qatar, will welcome as much as 450,000 folks per day. Sustainable growth was a major criterion in planning the brand new metropolis. From the beginning, the design included the creation of a public transport system to restrict greenhouse fuel emissions.
QDVC accomplished the civil engineering works on the primary phases of the infrastructure (7 km of tunnels, 7 underground and 4 above-ground stations, in addition to an entry viaduct to the depot) and is at the moment constructing the Pearl station, which is able to join the Lusail mild rail with the Doha metro system, additionally beneath development.
In seven years, VINCI Building Grands Projets has turn out to be, by way of QDVC, a serious development participant in Qatar. After handing over the nation’s largest wastewater pumping station, the corporate is at the moment engaged on a number of tasks: a brand new motorway on the outskirts of Doha (the New Orbital Freeway), the Doha metro (southern works package deal of the purple line) and the underground automobile park and landscaped gardens on the Sheraton lodge within the West Bay enterprise district.
