Ashghal’s Mesaimeer Tunnel project wins the Global Best Project Award

Ashghal’s Mesaimeer Tunnel for Surface & Ground Water Drainage project won the Global Best Project Award, during the Engineering News Record (ENR) Global Best Projects Awards in New York City on 23 October 2017. The prestigious event was attended by representative of   global best winning projects   who were recognized and honored.

Eng. Khalid Saif Al-Khayareen, Drainage Networks Projects Department Manager represented Ashghal in the ceremony accompanied by representatives from CDM Smith, the project consultant, and Salini Impregilo, the project contractor. Mesaimeer Tunnel for Surface and Ground Water Drainage Project was completed in 2016. The project is one of the key projects implemented by Ashghal as part of its master plan to upgrade Qatar’s drainage network, the project will collect and discharge the ground and storm water thus decreasing the surface water levels. This will in turn contribute to the reduction of pumping costs and to the disposal of groundwater in construction projects around the country and preserve the foundations of buildings.

The length of the main tunnel, which runs under the F-Ring Road, is about 10 kilometers at a depth of about 30 meters below the surface, in addition to nine sub-tunnels with a total length of about 2 kilometers. The main tunnel will   link the existing and planned drainage networks in the areas that traverse through, and will collects and discharge surface water from approximately 170 km² of catchment area.