The Qatar Public Works Authority (Ashghal) has set aside a budget of QR30bn ($8.2bn) for wastewater projects in the run up to hosting the World Cup in 2022.

Speaking at MEED’s Construction Leadership Summit in Dubai, Jalal Salhi, infrastructure affairs director, Ashghal, said that the budget was for projects that would be finished by the time the country hosts the World Cup in 2022.

The QR30bn budget includes the $2.7bn Inner Doha Resewerage Implementation Strategy (Idris) project, a deep tunnel sewerage scheme to replace the current overloaded sewerage system and 35 pumping stations.

Earlier in May, Ashghal signed three contracts worth QR3.2bn for the three main trunk sewer (MTS) projects.

A joint venture of French Bouygues Construction and local UrbaCon Trading and Contracting won two contracts for package one, the northern segments, and package three, the southern segment. They are worth QR965m and QR1,235m respectively.

Idris SHP, a joint venture of German Hochtief and local/Austrian Al-Sraiya Strabag, won package two, the 14.7-kilometre central segment, worth QR1,066m.

The MTS project will be approximately 45km long, with internal diameters ranging from 3-4.5 metres, and depths ranging from 20-55 metres.

Work is scheduled to start in mid-2015 and to be completed by the end of 2019.