Ashghal announces its completion of streets and infrastructural utilities

The Public Works Authority ‘Ashghal’ has officially announced that the construction works of the streets and infrastructure utilities’ lines serving Minister of Interior’s (MOI) General Directorate of Passports building in Wadi Al Banat Area on Al Tarfa Street, has been completed, as part of the Road Improvement Works in the Northern Areas, Phase 4.

The works of this particular 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 places 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” said that the project focused at facilitating access to the new building of the General Directorate of Passports and gives connection to the surrounding streets such as Al Tarfa Street and Jasim bin Hamad Street in addition to offering infrastructure utilities’ services and road safety elements such as road signs and marks as well as dedicated paths for pedestrian crossing in the region

Eng. Al Bader also emphasised on the scope of works that are carried 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 noting that local products and local manufacturers were dependent on while this project’s works were implemented. 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 distributed as local components constituted up to 85% of the project's work, as part of Ashghal’s initiative to support and strengthen the local manufacturers and the Ta’heel initiative launched by Ashghal in 2017 in connection to this project.

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