The Public Works Authority ‘Ashghal’ announces the completion of construction works of the streets and infrastructure utilities’ lines serving MOI’s General Directorate of Passports building in Wadi Al Banat Area on Al Tarfa Street, as part of the Road Improvement Works in the Northern Areas, Phase 4. The works of this project are part of Ashghal's efforts to improve the existing roads network and raise its efficiency, in addition to upgrading the services of the infrastructure utilities in different regions of the state to cope with the national economic development and social growth requirements in Qatar.
Eng. Hamad Al Bader, Project Engineer at Northern Areas Section in the Roads Projects Department in “Ashghal” stated that the project aims at facilitating access to the new building of the General Directorate of Passports and providing connection to the surrounding streets such as Al Tarfa Street and Jasim bin Hamad Street in addition to providing infrastructure utilities’ services and road safety elements such as road signs and marks as well as dedicated pedestrians paths.
Eng. Al Bader also explained that the scope of works implemented within the project included the construction of 2.5 km of streets with upgraded street lighting systems as 60 lighting poles were installed as well as the provision of 1 km of foul sewer network lines and 2.5 km of stormwater network lines.
It is worth mentioning that local products and local manufacturers were relied on while implementing the project’s works. Materials and elements such as gabbro, street light columns and lamps, sewage pipes, rainwater drainage pipes, asphalt layers, precast manholes, concrete and steel, were locally supplied as local components constituted up to 85% of the project's work, as part of Ashghal’s initiative to support local manufacturers and the Ta’heel initiative launched by Ashghal in 2017 in this regard.