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Msheireb Downtown Doha is a planned city in Doha, Qatar being constructed in place of the current district of Mushayrib. It is promoted as being the world's first sustainable downtown regeneration project and one of the smartest cities on earth, strategically located in the heart of Doha. [1] Initial construction began in January 2010. [2]
Since the early 2000s, Doha, the capital of Qatar has been undergoing an extensive expansion in its transportation network including the addition of new highways, the construction of a new airport, and the addition of the Doha metro. These projects are meant to keep up with the population's rapid growth, which has strained the country's current ...
Qatar National Vision 2030 (Arabic: رؤية قطر الوطنية 2030; abbreviated as QNV 2030) is a development plan launched in October 2008 by the General Secretariat for Development Planning in the State of Qatar. [1] The aim of QNV 2030 is to "transform Qatar into an advanced society capable of achieving sustainable development" by 2030. [2]
The airport, too, is expanding capacity to keep up with rising visitor numbers. The New Doha International Airport is one of the largest projects in Qatar today and will boast a capacity of 50m passengers upon completion in 2015. Finally, port infrastructure is seen as an integral part of Qatar's economic development as it focuses on LNG and ...
The Qatar plant was dismantled in 2016, and is expected to be operational in Jordan in 2017 after being shipped. [11] Not all reports on the project are optimistic. Hydroponics projects globally tend to be overly optimistic but there are downsides to producing expensive crops in a population that cannot afford to buy them. [12]
The individual rail projects comprise the Doha Metro, a mostly underground rail network which connects communities within Doha and its suburbs, the Lusail Light Rail Transit (LLRT), a tram network within the new city of Lusail in Qatar, and the Long Distance Passenger and Freight Rail connecting cities in the north and west with Doha, and the country with the forthcoming GCC rail system.
Lusail Plaza Towers or Lusail Plaza Complex are a set of 4 office towers on the Al Sa'ad Plaza, Commercial Boulevard, Lusail, Qatar. [2] The two buildings are 301 metres (988 ft) and the two others 215 m (705 ft) high and has 220 floors in the four towers complex.
On 29 October 2007, Qatargas CEO Faisal Al Suwaidi stated that the 5-year moratorium on new North Field gas development projects, imposed in 2005, could be extended to 2011 or 2012. [20] The exploration moratorium was lifted by Qatar in April 2017 with the announcement of a new gas project in the southern part of the field. [24]