FCC awarded Bucharest metro contract

FCC has been awarded a EUR 267M (USD 370.65) contract to construct section one of the Bucharest Metro Line 5 in Bucharest, Romania. It was awarded the contract as a JV comprising Astaldi, as well as local companies AB Construct and ACM Delta.

Romania’s national metro company Metrorex awarded the contract, which included two parallel 5.7m diameter tunnels 4.85km in length and a third 260m tunnel connecting lines one and five.

The European Investment Bank and the Romanian Government have agreed to fund the project. Work has been scheduled to begin in the second half of 2011.

Other bidders for the project included a Turkish-Russian-Italian consortium of Dogus, Gulermak, Moskovsky Metrostroy and Salini and an Austrian-Romanian JV of Strabag and Straco.

FCC already employed over 500 people in Romania at the time of the award.