New Doha International Airport, Qatar

Bechtel is providing engineering, project management, and construction management services for the New Doha International Airport, now being built in Qatar. It will replace an existing facility, increase passenger and cargo-handling capacity, and accommodate the new Airbus A380 super jumbo jets.

When it opens, the new airport will accommodate 24 million passengers and 750,000 metric tons of cargo annually. It will feature two of the longest commercial runways in the world, an 85 meter high control tower, a 510,000-square-meter passenger terminal with 40 gates, a separate terminal for the Emir of Qatar, a general aviation terminal, a cargo terminal, a 150,000 square meter aircraft maintenance center, one of the world’s largest airport catering facilities, state-of-the art air traffic control equipment and security systems, and other facilities.

Early works on the project included a 62 million cubic meter land reclamation project to create the airport site and the largest environmental cleanup project in Qatar’s history, the removal of 6.5 million cubic meters of household waste from a dump on the project site to a remote engineered landfill constructed to strict environmental standards.