A Shared Path | Golden bowl-shaped stadium witnesses World Cup fervor

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A Shared Path | Golden bowl-shaped stadium witnesses World Cup fervor

STORY: A Shared Path | Golden bowl-shaped stadium witnesses World Cup fervor DATELINE: Oct. 18, 2023 LENGTH: 00:05:09 LOCATION: Beijing CATEGORY: ECONOMY STORYLINE: Qatar Qatar is known as the "pearl in the Persian Gulf." In the winter of 2022, a football World Cup held here ignited passion across the world. Lusail Stadium, Qatar This is the main stadium of the 2022 FIFA World Cup. The Lusail Stadium is the world's largest membrane-structure building, which can accommodate 90,000 people. Its construction required enough steel to build three Eiffel Towers. As a project under the Belt and Road Initiative, the stadium was contracted by a Chinese company. More than 110 subcontractors from 20 countries participated in its construction. Unity is strength. -- Arabic proverb Leonidas Tzevelekas, a Greek national, works for a company involved in the construction of the Lusail Stadium. As a Building Information Modeling (BIM) manager, the 40-year-old needed to work out solutions for the mega-project using BIM t

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