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WORK on the $3bn, 40km Qatar-Bahrain Causeway, originally due to begin this month, is now set to start this summer with a five-year timeline.
“The delay is to incorporate provisions for passenger and freight rail tracks,” Qatari Diar Vinci Construction chief executive officer Gerald Mille said.
He was giving an overview of QDVC’s projects in the country, at MEED’s two-day Qatar Projects 2009 conference that got underway yesterday.
“It was in August last year that we received the directive to include railway tracks as part of the causeway,” Mille recalled.
There will be two rail tracks on the left side of the causeway, one for a passenger train with a maximum speed of 160km/hr and the other for a 120km/hr freight train.
“The inclusion of the rail tracks necessitated the relocation of the navigation channel also,” he said.
The main bridges are of bowstring structure. The causeway, described as the world’s longest linking two countries, is to stretch from Qatar’s Ras Ushairjj, just 5km from Zubarah to Bahrain’s Askar village.
The environmental impact assessment of the causeway had started in 2002, Mille pointed out while adding that 150 engineers are working on the project.
In another presentation, Ashghal’s senior consultant (engineering) Mohamed Ali Yousef Darwish stated that work is scheduled to start this year on a north road from Zubarah to Ras Ushairjj.
“This road will be connected to the Qatar-Bahrain Causeway,” he added.
QDVC is a joint venture between Qatari Diar Real Estate Investment Company and France’s Vinci Construction Grands Projects with the former holding a 51% stake
“The delay is to incorporate provisions for passenger and freight rail tracks,” Qatari Diar Vinci Construction chief executive officer Gerald Mille said.
He was giving an overview of QDVC’s projects in the country, at MEED’s two-day Qatar Projects 2009 conference that got underway yesterday.
“It was in August last year that we received the directive to include railway tracks as part of the causeway,” Mille recalled.
There will be two rail tracks on the left side of the causeway, one for a passenger train with a maximum speed of 160km/hr and the other for a 120km/hr freight train.
“The inclusion of the rail tracks necessitated the relocation of the navigation channel also,” he said.
The main bridges are of bowstring structure. The causeway, described as the world’s longest linking two countries, is to stretch from Qatar’s Ras Ushairjj, just 5km from Zubarah to Bahrain’s Askar village.
The environmental impact assessment of the causeway had started in 2002, Mille pointed out while adding that 150 engineers are working on the project.
In another presentation, Ashghal’s senior consultant (engineering) Mohamed Ali Yousef Darwish stated that work is scheduled to start this year on a north road from Zubarah to Ras Ushairjj.
“This road will be connected to the Qatar-Bahrain Causeway,” he added.
QDVC is a joint venture between Qatari Diar Real Estate Investment Company and France’s Vinci Construction Grands Projects with the former holding a 51% stake
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