The Spanish Ambassador, Carmen de la Peña Corcuera at the seminar on highrise buildings, organised by the Spanish Business Council and hosted by Harinsa Qatar.
DOHA: Over 200 engineers took part recently in a seminar about highrise buildings organised by the Spanish Business Council and hosted by Harinsa Qatar, a construction company which belongs to ECISA, a Spanish Group with activity in all construction sectors.
The event had Qatar Society of Engineers and the Ministry of Municipality and Urban Planning as special guests. Among the speakers were Carmen de la Peña Corcuera, Ambassador of Spain in Qatar, Abdullah Mohamed Al Baker, board member of the Qatar Society of Engineers, Mohuiddin Sami Jamaleddin and Amer Khadim A Al Mubarak from the Ministry of Municipality and Urban Planning, Luis Andreu Cabrera, Harinsa Contracting Company Qatar Area Manager, and Guillermo Baraut Bover, Engineering Director at OSA Sustainable Architecture & Engineering. The Ambassador, said in her inaugural speech: “The seminar will offer the Spanish investors an opportunity to identify the areas of cooperation with their Qatari counterparts and exchange ideas and technological know-how”.
The lecturers went through topics related to the planning, design and execution of highrise buildings in Qatar. Plans for the neighbourhood city of Doha that will be one of the most pedestrian-friendly areas in the region when it is completed in 2017 were unveiled as well.
Representatives of Ministry of Municipality and Urban Planning (MMUP) said that the existing West Bay tower area and business centers in Doha will be replaced by a planned network of pedestrian circulation areas in the near future. They also revealed that the quality of materials used in construction will be strictly monitored.
Spanish contracting company ECISA/HARINSA, through Area Manager in Middle East, Luis Andreu Cabrera, gave a view of the construction process of this type of buildings, highlighting the key factors in order to succeed on the construction in terms of time, cost and quality. Engineer Guillermo Baraut, shared with the audience the main points in sustainability and design of this type of buildings and their contribution to the development of Qatar through an innovative building in the Cornice of Doha.
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