A Chinese contractor has been appointed to build the Foster + Partners designed Lusail stadium for the Qatar 2022 Fifa World Cup.
The stadium, which will be one of the most important of the tournament, hosting both the opening and closing games, will be built by China Railway Construction Corporation Ltd.
Foster + Partners completed the schematic design of the 80,000-seat stadium earlier this year. The venue is located in Lusail City, 20km north of Qatar’s capital Doha, and is scheduled for completion by 2020.
The long-term plans for the area include various unique developments such as a theatre district that will be the first of a kind for the Middle East.
Lusail stadium site construction began in 2014, with TIME Qatar as the project manager.
Most recently, early works and site office construction projects were completed by Galfar Al Misnad, with levelling and grading works and site and access roads completed by local contractor Marbu Contracting.
By the end of 2016, the main-works contractor will be mobilised on site and Qatar’s Supreme Committee for Delivery & Legacy plans to reveal the final stadium design to the world in early 2017.
Last month a construction worker was killed on the site of another of the high-profile World Cup stadiums, the Zaha Hadid-designed Al Wakrah Stadium.
