UPDATE: Project X for ??? Doha, Qatar - Come in and find out…

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Since even the best kept secrets have to be revealed one day – here we go – follow us into the world of Qatar Railways…

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This following project to the presentation we did for Deutsche Bahn last October, was now supposed to present the outcome of a five-months-study by Deutsche Bahn. The presentation explained in detail, how a completely integrated railway system could be built and function for the state of Qatar. An entire exhibition hall was built and over 100 people from over five different companies from Germany were flown over to work on the project for months.
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The project took us so far into the content, that we could actually build the railway ourselves by now.
Instead we built a really cool presentation that was packed with awesome 3D object (thanks again to Gizmo and Tom, who really can’t see our faces anymore by now… see you in Dubai… ;-) 

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We were really eager to finally show the presentation to none less than the Emir of Qatar but… he had other plans… and then we waited… and then we went home… and then we went back to Qatar again… to wait some more… and then

… he came!

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Emir briefed on railway project

HH the Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani and HH Sheikha Mozah Nasser al-Misnad visiting the Qatari Diar Real Estate Investment Company, accompanied by senior officials, yesterday

HH the Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani and HH Sheikha  Mozah Nasser al-Misnad yesterday visited the Qatari Diar Real Estate Investment Company.

HH the Emir and HH Sheikha Mozah were accompanied by HE the Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jabor al-Thani and a number of senior officials.
During the visit, HH the Emir was briefed on the steps and phases of carying out a railway project in Qatar.
The project aims to link Doha with other towns in Qatar as well as with Bahrain and other GCC states for transporting passengers and goods. – QNA


The whole event was a great success and although it was quite strenuous to all involved – we all know, the best friends are made in the worst times.
Thanks to everyone. Kai, we are waiting for the next jobs… ;-)

more impressions behind the Scenes follow here:

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This, you could call the control room for… everything. All in all there were 9 Ventuz systems involved.

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This was going to become the entrance tunnel, not an easy job! You thought rear projection??? Far from it. And since the FRONT projectors were shooting from top and from the bottom, and all of that in a round tunnel, I was quite happy that this one wasn`t on our list… because there were MANY projectors.  :-)

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Here you see Sven. And in order for him to not get confused with all those monitors, we put numbers - he`s really good with numbers!!!

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As we said, only for this presentation, they built an entire new hall that was transformed into a presentation center. Considering some of the exhibition centers and event venues in Germany, especially the ones from the late 70s and 80s, I wish things like that could be considered in Germany once in a while.

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And every day is a school day. If you don´t have enough time to build in the A/Cs, just put them in front of the door.

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This was the inside, before they made it the presentation center. All the equipment and technical was completely flown in from Germany. 

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Right :-) Here is the tunnel, a little later.

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Admittedly not the biggest seamless wall we ever did but still nice. But please don´t believe it if someone says they can configure this thing in a way that you will get a homogeneously color coded surface. There are some things in our universe, that are just not possible…

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The fantastic four, Maik, Jens, Julia and Ben (left to right). Note the visionary facial expressions!

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And again, the tunnel – a few days later. But I had already thought that the thing with the tunnel would take a little longer. Ah, by the way, it took the Emir about 12 seconds to go through it.

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