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| Kazumasa Kontani ... carrying a strong tradition associated with constructing stadia |
The passenger terminal complex at the New Doha International Airport will be completed within the next few months, according to an official involved in the project, who said that work on the 500,000sqm area is on schedule.
Gulf Times spoke to general manager of Taisei Corporation in Qatar, Kazumasa Kontani, who explained that the Sky Oryx joint venture project with TAV construction should be completed before the middle of this year.
Speaking on the sidelines of the Qatar-Japan seminar on Infrastructure Projects and Water and Wastewater Management, he said that the networking event provided a great opportunity to discuss a wide selection of potential infrastructure projects.
Taisei have a strong tradition associated with constructing stadia, and Kontani said that the company would be interested in working on a number of the stadia planned for the FIFA World Cup in 2022.
“We have strong experience in a number of areas, and we constructed stadia for the 2002 World Cup in Japan so we are hoping that we can be involved in 2022,” he said.
The company worked on the Sapparo Domeand the Nigata Stadium, both FIFA approved venues, and they have developed a large range of new technologies related to seating and the movement of surfaces which could be applicable to Qatar’s preparations for 2022.
Aside from the construction of stadia in the run up to 2022, Kontani said that the most pressing area of development is related to transport and traffic infrastructure, something he claimed his company would also be interested in working on.
“The most important area of development is transport infrastructure and we could contribute towards that,” he said, explaining that Taisei have been involved in other transport projects, such as the Bosporus railway tunnels in Turkey.
