Football stadiums for Qatar and the 2022 FIFA World Cup

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The Al Rayyan Stadium to host 40,000 spectators is erected for the 2022 FIFA World Cup

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Almost all sports facilities for the 2022 World Cup consist of a mixed construction composed of in-situ concrete and precast concrete elements, what also applies to the Al Rayyan Stadium

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The stands and their component parts consist of precast concrete elements, ...

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... as well as the staircases

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The air outlets below every seat on the spectator stands made of precast concrete elements were very good visible in the shell condition

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The author Christian Brensing (4^th from left) together with a project team visited the Al Rayyan Stadium that is under construction

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Animation of the completed Al Rayyan Stadium for the 2022 FIFA World Cup

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In 2010, Qatar was surprisingly awarded to host the 2022 FIFA World Cup. At present, eight stadiums for the World Cup are under construction; this article presents the completely new built Al Rayyan stadium with a capacity of 40,000 seats.

The twin towers of the Marriott Marquis congress hotel cast long shadows on the Doha Exhibition and Convention Center (DECC), where the Big 5 Qatar construction trade show took place last September for the first time. The „Qatar crisis“ lasting since June 2017, when the neighboring countries Saudi-Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain closed the maritime, air and land borders, hit the materially richest state in the world and faced the country overnight with more difficult political and economic times. Since then, the rulers under the leadership of the Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin...