There will be 18 construction packages on the first phase of the new Doha International Airport (NDIA) project, Qatar Airways(QA) chief executive Akbar al-Baker announced on 7 December at the Dubai Airshow. The first-phase development will have a capacity of 12 million passengers a year, cost an estimated $2,500 million, and will be completed in 2008. The US' Bechtelhas completed the masterplan for the new airport and is in the final stages of negotiating the engineering, procurement and construction management contract.
Detailed design work is scheduled to run through 2004 and 2005. The first construction package, covering reclamation, is due to be tendered next year.
Two more phases are planned, which will take capacity up to 50 million passengers a year by 2015. The client is the NDIA Steering Committee. QA, which is the main driver behind the project, has taken on the UK's BAE Systemsto advise during the masterplan phase (MEED 14:11:03).
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