FCC Construction is awarded the costliest stretch of highway in Romania, with a worth of 770 million euros | Companies | EUROtoday

FCC Construction has been designated because the winner of the contract for a piece of freeway within the northeast of Romania for a worth of 770 million euros, excluding VAT, as revealed this Friday by the National Road Investment Company (CNIR). This is the costliest award within the historical past of this Eastern European nation when it comes to highway development and is taken into account of important significance, since it is going to hyperlink the Romanian cities of Târgu Neamț and Iași with the city of Ungheni, Republic of Moldova. As it’s an important axis of communication with the neighboring nation, the venture will likely be financed by the SAFE Program, the European financing mechanism for strategic and army investments.

Furthermore, the work transcends because of the common value per kilometer, which quantities to round 43.5 million euros, the most important sum paid up to now for a freeway in Romania. “We have awarded the contract for this section of the (called) ‘Union Motorway’ to a Spanish builder with solid experience in large infrastructure works. The A8 motorway is a project of strategic and European value and we want to sign the contract in the shortest possible time,” mentioned the final director of the CNIR, Gabriel Budescu.

The length of the works will final at the least 46 months, of which ten of them will likely be allotted to the design and one other 36 to the execution of the venture. In this part, 18 bridges and passages, six tunnels and a tunnel supervision heart will likely be constructed, along with two nodes and a highway crossing. “We will have tunnels and three lanes, one of them for heavy vehicles, which increases costs,” Budescu mentioned on the finish of final yr in an interview with the Romanian portal Hotnews.ro. “The tunnels will be the widest in Romania,” he mentioned.

With this contract, FCC Construction reinforces its presence in Romania. The firm has been current within the nation since 2003 and has carried out giant infrastructure initiatives all through this time. Among them, the Basarab passage in Bucharest, a metro line within the Romanian capital, and the modernization of some railway strains within the Transylvania area, in addition to freeway segments, together with the pan-European hall IV, between Timisoara and Arad, in addition to the A4 freeway or the Constanța belt. Currently, the corporate is principally concerned in railway initiatives, however the award of this contract marks an vital return to the freeway development sector in Romania.