Doha: Qatar Railways Company has awarded the Louis Berger Egis Rail Joint Venture (LBER JV) project management of the elevated and at grade sections of Doha Metro. The contract concerns extensions of the Red Line towards the north and south and an extension of the Green Line towards the west.
It involves construction of 16km of metro, a large part on viaducts and including six stations, civil engineering works for extensions and their station fit out, as part of design development contracts with contractors, with completion scheduled for 2018.
LBER JV is responsible for design review, supervision and commissioning of works and project management responsibilities involved in an operation of this scale. To fulfil its mission, LBER will put into action a team of up to 150 professionals over 48 months.
The contract follows the first deal awarded in 2012, after an international tender process, involving project management of civil engineering works on the Gold Metro Line (boring of the tunnel through the city centre of Doha, serving multiple stations), and civil engineering and fit out of two network stations: Musheireb (in the city centre), intermodal node for the urban transport system and urban development hub, and Education City (west), which will enable connection of urban transport and regional rail networks.
Implemented in two phases, the network will represent 231km by 2026 via the construction of four lines (Red, Blue, Green and Gold).
The first development phase will be operational by 2019, with the construction of 76km of lines (60km underground and 16km elevated) and 26 stations. The Metro network will link the airport to the city centre and future stadiums. The Peninsula
