Doha Metro, Green Line
A milestone for the flourishing coastal capital
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Tunnel boring machines
They were all used at the same time during the tunnelling work.
Ambitious plan in Doha
The Green Line (also called the Education Line) is the underground part of one of the four main lines of the Metro-Doha project. Planning of a modern and safe public transport system, which was also an important component of the infrastructure for the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar.
Site
Doha, Qatar
Building contractor
Qatar Railways Company
Client
Joint venture of the companies PORR AG Austria, Saudi Binladin Group Saudi Arabia, and the local construction company Hamad Bin Khalid Contracting Company (PSH)
Planning period
2013–2018
Service areas
Object planning for buildings, object planning for civil engineering, structural engineering, value engineering, bill of quantities
Total length
18.5 km
Construction
2014–2019
- Six underground railway stations, two crossing structures, a track change system, a trough structure, and six emergency exit shafts were built along the route
- The tasks also included the revision of the draft
- The planning was fully implemented in BIM and follows the “BIM Implementation Plan” for the “Green Line” underground project
- In this challenging project, the planners and design management each provided their own BIM managers
“Our project in Doha has been a challenge to us for over five years. At the beginning on the client side and later in the execution with the construction company, we were able to contribute to the metro being put into operation on time in a construction period of only six years. We quickly realised that we would be able to achieve this pace only with new technologies. We thus enthusiastically opted for BIM, which was still quite new at the time. This has proved its worth; otherwise, we would not have been able to manage coordination within the international planning team consisting of members from seven countries.
Felix von Cranach, Head of the International, Tunnelling, and City Centre Infrastructure Department in Munich