The local HBK Contracting Company (HBK) has been awarded the main works contract for Ras Abu Aboud Stadium.

The 40,000-seat venue will be built using modular building blocks, making it the first fully demountable FIFA World Cup stadium, says the Supreme Committee for Delivery & Legacy. It will be entirely dismantled and repurposed after the 2022 World Cup. Parts will be used in other sporting or non-sporting projects.

Construction work is scheduled for completion in 2020.

It is located on a 450,000 square metre waterfront site close to Hamad International Airport.

It will be used to host matches up to the quarter-finals in 2022.

Time Qatar, the local affiliate of US-based Turner Construction, is the project manager.

Contractors are working on several other stadium projects for the World Cup. The largest is the Lusail Stadium that was awarded to a joint venture of the local HBK Contracting and China Railway Construction Corporation in 2016.