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Qatar RFQs for 113km IDRIS sewerage
project
08 May
2013
113km of new tunnels required for IDRIS
After years in the planning, prequalifiers are called for the US$3 billion Inner Doha Resewerage Implementation
Strategy (IDRIS) design-build sewerage project in the Qatari capital, Doha.
The project, for Qatari Public Works Authority, Ashghal, comprises at its heart a deep gravity sewerage system similar,
but larger in scope, to the STEP project in neighbouring Abu Dhabi. The work is to be subdivided into six construction
packages.
Package 2 is for a TBM-driven main trunk sewer of
approximately 40km in length, at depths of between 24m
and 59m. Concept design has been completed by CH2M Hill,
and calls for an i.d of between 3m-4.5m with a segmental
lining and a secondary corrosion protection lining.
Package 1 is for approximately 73km of 400mm-2,400mm
diameter lateral interceptor sewers to be installed at depths
of between 4m and 40m using microtunnelling and pipe
jacking techniques. Ground conditions across the entire
project area are expected to comprise weak rock with a
maximum strength of 45 MPa, with a high groundwater table.
Use of EPB or slurry TBMs is anticipated.
Other packages include construction of a terminal pump
station at a depth of 70m and with a design pump capacity of
12m
3
/second, a new sewage treatment works (both on a
design-build-operate basis) and a treated sewage return
system.
Contract awards are expected in the first quarter of 2014,
with a scheduled start of operations set for 2019. At an
IDRIS project briefing in January this year (2013), nearly 400
companies expressed an interest in the project, one of many
with a large tunnelling element in the fast-growing Qatari
capital that will host the 2022 Soccer World Cup.
On the construction side, strong international interest was
shown by companies including: Balfour Beatty; Bouygues Construction; China Railways; Dragados; Ferrovial Agroman;
Gamuda; Habtoor Leighton; Hochtief; Hyundai; Samsung; Impregilo; Joseph Gallagher; Obayashi; Odebrecht; OHL;
Porr; SNC Lavalin; Strabag and Zublin. TBM manufacturers in attendance included Robbins, Herrenknecht, Caterpillar
and Hitachi.
Foul sewage overflows in Doha
The IDRIS project aims to eliminate as many
existing foul sewage pump stations as possible
and provide for an initial capacity of
500,000m
3
/day, rising to three times that at
peak. Population in the city is expected to grow
by 1 million people over the next few years, and
current levels of foul sewage flooding at more
than 20 locations in Doha are expected to get
worse as population grows and other
infrastructure constuction ramps up.
A number of international companies are well
placed to win IDRIS contracts based on their
involvement on Abu Dhabi's similar Strategic
Tunnel Enhancement Program, which is also
being managed by CH2M Hill. Impregilo of Italy is
currently the main tunnelling contractor on two
of the three main tunnel packages on that
project, while Samsung of Korea holds the third
package. A total of 8 TBMs (three Kawasaki and five Herrenknecht) are completing the total 41km of trunk sewer,
while Brazilian contractor Odebrecht is constructing the US$572 million pump station. Strabag subsidiary Zublin of
Austria is excavating 50km of interceptor tunnels of between 500mm and 3,100mm diameter.
Additionally, Impregilo is selected as main contractor for another US$100 million 9.5km storm water drainage tunnel in
Doha, a project that will requite two TBMs of 4.5m diameter.
Qatar is also constructing a new four line metro system in time for the World Cup, with the first tunnel contract for the
Red Line North also awarded to Impregilo. Other construction packages are due to be awarded imminently.
References
Final tunnel awards on giant STEP project - TunnelTalk, January 2012
Qatar begins Doha metro tunnel awards - TunnelTalk, April 2013
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