Qatar’s Public Works Authority (Ashghal) will invite companies to submit bids for the construction of its new Lusail Expressway project by the end of August.

The causeway will be tendered as a single construction contract.

Ashghal and Qatar’s Urban Planning and Design Authority recently completed new designs for the expressway, which will be about 12 kilometres long and will run from Doha to Lusail and offshore real estate development the Pearl.

Construction work is expected to take 36 months and the expressway is … to become operational by 2014

The road will be among the biggest in the region with up to seven lanes in each direction along parts of the expressway.
Construction work is planned to take 36 months, meaning that it could be operational by 2014.

The construction contract covers slip roads, overpasses, underpasses and bridges.

The Lusail Expressway will also incorporate the planned Lusail light rail network when construction on that project is complete. Ashghal is currently tunnelling for the light rail project.

The design of the Lusail Expressway has been altered to take into consideration the Doha Bay Crossing. While the feasibility study for the crossing recommended a tunnel for the project, some parts of it might now be a bridge (MEED 15:6:10).

The authorities may also build an island in Doha Bay that will be connected to West Bay by a pedestrian spur.