So I woke up one morning at 3am to the sound of back-up horns and a loud rumbling of rocks crashing into a dump truck, looked out of my window to see that a construction site had popped up in the empty lot next to my building. No less than than 6 heavy diggers, a front-end loader, and two dump trucks were working within a hundred yards of my window. They work every night, all night. Hopefully they will get the excavating done quickly. I guess that living next to a construction site is just a part of living in Doha.