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Hamad International Airport

Exterior view of a modern airport with glass window walls and a wave shaped roof Exterior view of a modern airport with glass window walls and a wave shaped roof

Gateway to the World

Bechtel provided engineering, project management, and construction management services for the new Hamad International Airport in Qatar.

Opened in 2014, Hamad (formerly New Doha International Airport) replaces Doha International Airport. It provides significantly increased passenger capacity and cargo facilities. Hamad also offers airfield capacity for a wide range of aircraft including the latest A380 within the ever-expanding fleet of Qatar Airways.

Immense and Sophisticated

The new airport initially accommodates 24 million passengers and 750,000 metric tons of cargo annually. It features, among other facilities, two of the longest commercial runways in the world, a general aviation terminal, a cargo terminal, a separate terminal for the Emir of Qatar, and one of the world’s largest airport catering facilities.

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Square Feet

A striking passenger terminal of nearly 5.5 million square feet (some 510,000 square meters) with 40 gates.

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Control Tower

A control tower some 280 feet tall (about 85 meters) complete with state-of-the art air-traffic-control equipment and security systems.

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Square Feet

A 150,000-square-meter (1.6 million-square-foot) aircraft maintenance center.

Rising from Reclamation, Environmental Clean-up

Early works on the project included a 62-million-cubic-meter (nearly 230-million-cubic-foot) land reclamation project to create the airport site and the largest environmental clean-up project in Qatar’s history―the removal of 6.5 million cubic meters of household waste from a dump on the project site to a remote engineered landfill built to strict environmental standards.