DOHA (Qatar): Al Rayyan Venue will be inaugurated as the fourth FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 venue when it hosts the Amir Cup final between Al Sadd and Al Arabi on 18 December.
Football fans, especially those of Al Rayyan Sports Club, will marvel at the sight of this magnificent 40,000-capacity venue – which will become their new home and stand as a symbol of sustainability.
The task of deconstructing Ahmed Bin Ali Stadium and fulfilling the sustainability goals of the new venue provided the SC with a unique opportunity.
The result was that 90% of materials from the old stadium were reused or recycled within the new project – and that process began with the careful deconstruction of the existing venue.
“In 2014, we released a tender to appoint a deconstruction contractor. It is a specialist job where you don’t demolish a building but you deconstruct it. You take the building apart in different elements,” said Abdulla Al Fehani, the SC’s Al Rayyan Venue Precinct Director.
“Those elements included the concrete, the wiring, the steel which is part of the structure itself, and other elements like the doors, seats and lights. We removed those elements, then removed the structure itself, until it was concluded.”
