Bringing to life a mega-project: Hamad International Airport in Doha, Qatar

In the third of our ‘Façade in Focus’ case study series, we explore the story of our part in the creation of Hamad International Airport in Qatar – an aviation complex created from an artificial peninsula a third of the size of the city of Doha, which redefined the way customers travel.

Designed by Global architecture firm HOK, the airport’s curving silhouette, the first thing that passengers see from the coast, celebrates both contemporary design and the dunes of the Qatari desert.

In total, Permasteelisa Group designed, engineered, manufactured and installed 200,000 sqm of external façades and over 4,300 tonnes of architecturally exposed steelwork for this monumental project – including the spectacular, colossal glass façades which open outwards, created with high-performance insulated glass.

The project was one of complexity, and logistics, including the transportation from Dubai of some façade elements over 30m in length. Moving inside, we also supplied and installed glazed features including glass waterfalls, indoor garden courts, premium customer  lounges, and 1,400 high-end airport counters – combining quality and efficiency at every stage.

An astonishing undertaking for our team, this international airport involved over 200 project management colleagues in Italy and Qatar, more than 6,000 architectural drawings, peaks of 4,500 people per day to be managed on site, and upwards of 500 individual suppliers.

Since it opened in 2014, it remains a source of inspiration for the design of large-scale, complex solutions which push the limits of possibility.

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