Eversendai subsidiary bags RM269m job in Qatar

KUALA LUMPUR: Eversendai Corporation Bhd’s subsidiary company in Qatar has clinched at RM269.2mil contract to build the Al Wahda Arches and Visitors’ Centre in Doha.

The specialist engineering and construction services company said on Monday the subsidiary was the only pre-qualified company from the Middle East involved in the international bidding of the project. The other competitors were from South Korea, Italy and France. 

Eversendai said the Al Wahda Arches are the main segments of the Artscape works, which are part of the Lusail Expressway project. 

It will consist of two arches with a visitors’ centre suspended beneath it. The bigger arch will have a length of 146.52 metres and a maximum height of 98.79 metres while the smaller arch will span across 139.84 metres in length with a maximum height of 77.56 metres. The suspended visitors’ centre will measure 85 metres in length and 21 metres in height. 

“The scope of work being undertaken by Eversendai includes connection design; steel material supply; fabrication and erection of the steel arches; installation of the cable net and hangars; as well as the 4000-tonne strand jacking of the visitors’ centre to a height of 40 metres and hanging it through hangars and cross bracing cables from the arches. 

“This project is scheduled to be completed by June 2016 and upon completion, it will be rated as one of the most prominent landmarks in Qatar,” it said.