When the world slowed to a crawl in 2020, Alutec accelerated. As main contractors split the four Lusail Plaza Towers between Midmac (Plots 1–2) and Hyundai E&C (Plots 3–4), Alutec took on one of the project’s most complex packages: engineering, manufacturing, and installing the towers’ sculptural aluminium façades.

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The brief was unforgiving—elliptical towers that twist as they rise, clad in thousands of precision-milled triangular panels. Alutec’s answer was to industrialize craftsmanship. Working from its integrated Qatar facilities (glass processing, curtain wall, metal processing, coating), the team set up parallel production lines and strict QA flows that could run through shifting quarantine rules and staggered site crews.

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Supply chains were the biggest risk. Alutec partnered with Speira to source marine-grade 5754 aluminium in giant sheets (up to 2,600 mm × 11,800 mm). Roughly 13,000 sheets—about 3,000 tons—were shipped to Qatar, then milled into triangular blanks, anodized, and assembled into ~11,000 uniform façade panels before site installation. The scale and sequencing reduced on-site exposure windows and kept erection fronts moving despite global logistics delays.

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On the ground, Alutec synchronized lifts with the two GC schedules, threading panel installation through rotating crews, access changes, and health-first protocols. That choreography, plus early digital coordination with designers and main contractors, is how the towers’ shimmering skin kept pace with cores and MEP—through the hardest months of the pandemic.

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Today the four towers anchor Lusail’s business district—a skyline statement and a process lesson.

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For Alutec, it was operational: resilient sourcing, integrated manufacturing, and disciplined site logistics that turned a once-in-a-century disruption into delivered work.

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