LOCATION
Doha, State of Qatar
OWNER
Building and Engineering Department, State of Qatar
DESCRIPTION
The project is for the medical center on approximate 200 rais (35 hectares) area, including more than 44 buildings, 2 road underpasses, and other infrastructural systems. The project was aimed to be used during 15th Asian Games in 2006, and retrofitted to the Hamad Medical City after the games.
The Hamad Medical City Main (HMC) Underpass is a large 6-lane concrete arterial road underpass with 700 meter long. It is serving a heavy traffic of the C-ring road which carry more than 30,000 average daily traffic (ADT) in 2005 on each direction, in-bound and out-bound.
The underpass system features dominantly an integrated geometric design of the underpass itself in conjunction with the oval ring road provided with a grade separation small 2-lane one-way reinforced concrete underpass tunnel, and underground parking of the HMC. The structure of the underpass dominates others on provision of a wider span superstructure of the total 6-lane width which is more than 30 meter wide. Composite wall is designed to function for both the underpass and attaching underground parking of the HMC.
CONSTRUCTION COST
1,000 million Baht (23.3 million USD) (1 USD : 43 Baht)
SERVICE RENDERED
Engineering design.
DURATION
October 2002 – June 2004