Coastal Qatar is playing a key role in Qatar’s FIFA World Cup preparations.
As the build-up towards hosting the FIFA World Cup 2022 continues, Coastal Qatar – a local engineering company-has been supporting Qatar and the Supreme Committee for Delivery & Legacy (SC).
Coastal has been a leading engineering firm in Qatar since 1979, operating in construction, trading, steel fabrication, project support, and logistics including six Qatar 2022 stadiums. Coastal played an important role in the redevelopment of the first tournament-ready venue, Khalifa International Stadium. Their efforts included the fabrication, supply, and delivery of secondary structural steelwork and cladding.
They also installed premium hospitality seats and providing the seats for the redeveloped accessibility areas in the stadium.
“We do the whole package, right from the design layout to the 3D models. We have a team in-house that does the whole layout,” said Coastal’s CEO, Nishad Azeem. In 2017, the SC awarded Coastal the contract to manufacture and install the spectator seating for six World Cup venues: Al Bayt Stadium, Al Janoub Stadium, Ahmad Bin Ali Stadium, Education City Stadium, Lusail Stadium, and Ras Abu Aboud Stadium. Coastal has produced a total of 250,000 seats.
The company oversees all aspects of the production, from design to venue installation.
“For Al Janoub, you see the sea waves, or at Ahmad Bin Ali, you have the lion’s head. Coastal developed all these colour patterns at a very early stage. We provided a few options to SC management and officials, and they selected the colour patterns you see now in the stadiums. We then manufactured the seats accordingly,” said Coastal’s Project Manager, Emad Izmegna.
Like the SC, Coastal takes particular care in implementing sustainable practices with their seat manufacturing. “We don’t waste anything from the plastic. Sometimes, we have rejections, or when we are changing colours, we have some seats that end up being mixed colours. All that is recycled, and we have a team that does all that.” said Azeem.
Coastal’s contribution to the redevelopment of Khalifa International Stadium involved a workforce of 100 on the steelworks and 40 employees installing the new premium hospitality and accessibility area seats.
An additional staff of 20 provided support on those projects. In the production of the spectator seats for Qatar 2022, Coastal has been producing 600 seats per day, with 12 employees overseeing the work in the company’s highlysophisticated manufacturing plant. A workforce of between 100 and 120 has been responsible for installing the manufactured seats in the stadiums.
Coastal’s endeavours were supported financially by Qatar Development Bank (QDB), whose vision is to develop and empower Qatari projects and entrepreneurs.
“We are pleased with the efforts and achievements of Coastal and other Qatari companies in planning and preparing for this huge global sporting event. Coastal is just one of the many local companies that we are proud to represent, and it serves as an inspiring success story for all Qatari industrial companies,” said Jassem Ibrahim Al Mohammadi, QDB Senior Relationship Manager.
Al Mohammadi highlighted other programmes and services provided by QDB to companies in the manufacturing sector.
