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Rail industry is taking shape in the Gulf region and Bentley Systems is actively pursuing major projects including the $40 billion Qatar Railway development to provide its innovative software solutions and services, its top official said.

QATAR: Qatar Rail has signed the first round of engineering and consultancy contracts for the planned US$36bn national network of railway and metro routes.

Qatar Railways Company (Qatar Rail) has launched its inaugural legal panel with the appointment of seven law firms.

That will prove to be a headache for engineers planning the vast Doha Metro project that is expected to go out to tender next month and is slated to include extended sections of tunnel beneath the city centre.

QPM, one of the region's project management companies and the first Qatari firm in the field, has announced its support of - and participation in - the upcoming 3rd Annual Middle East Rail Opportunities conference.

Rail schemes are the main reason for the surge in regional tunnelling activity, but water and road projects are also keeping firms busy.

The challenges of Qatar's whopping $100bn infrastructure programme was the subject of debate at Construction Week's Building Towards 2022 conference in Doha on Tuesday.

Siemens will build 15 high-voltage sub-stations in Sheraton Park, the Ministry of Interior, Bin Mahmoud, Abu Sidra and Grand Hamad area, at a cost of QR700mn. The work is linked to the development of Doha’s Business district, power supply to Doha’s Metro Rail project and the future power requirements of the new international convention centre in West Bay.

Resourcing International, a subsidiary of the Resourcing Solutions Group has successfully tendered to recruit for Qatar Rail, the company at the core of Qatar’s ‘infrastructure dream’.

CEO of Qatar Railways Company (QRail) Engineer Saad Al Mohannadi has announced that the execution of the first phase of the Doha Metro will begin in early 2013, pointing out that the company is currently in the final stages of the design process, Qatar News Agency (QNA) reported.