Month: March 2015

Foster and Partners Will Design Qatar’s 2022 World Cup™ Lusail Stadium   Renowned British architects Foster and Partners was named on March 9 as the designer of the stadium that will host the final of the Qatar football World Cup™ in 2022. The London-based firm won the... » Read more

Media is abuzz with speculation whether President Barack Obama’s budget proposal will hit funding of new stadiums? “If President Obama has his way, the nation’s taxpayers would not help finance a new arena proposed for the Milwaukee Bucks professional basketball team,” writes Elaine S.... » Read more

At the recently held Egypt Economic Development Conference (EEDC) in Sharm El Sheikh (March 13-15 2015) Al Ahly Sports Club announced its plan for a new stadium in Cairo. The project presentation at the event revealed that the new football stadium will have a capacity of 60,000. The arena is... » Read more

The City of Brussels announced on March 19, 2015 the selection of BAM-Ghelamco for the construction of a new stadium in the city, according to a press release by the Board of the City. It said the BAM-Ghelamco consortium was chosen from three candidates for the financing, construction and operation... » Read more

Dubai World Trade Centre (DWTC) recently announced that appointment of a joint venture between consultants Mace and CH2M Hill as joint programme managers for the Dubai Trade Centre Jebel Ali development – the master district containing the city’s Expo 2020 site, Construction Week... » Read more

St Louis, San Antonio, Sacramento and Minneapolis show interest in new MLS teams   Major League Soccer (MLS) is seeing a substantial increase in cities showing interest in its expansion plan, according to recent media reports. Beginning of the year, MLS Commissioner Don Garber confirmed this... » Read more

HBK Contracting Company has laid the first concrete above ground at Al Wakrah stadium, the first of five new venues being built to host the 2022 FIFA World Cup™ in Qatar. “We have started laying the foundation of 168 m3 of structural concrete in our east slab,” said Abdulla Al-Marri,... » Read more