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04. 08. 09. - 15:00

Construction of largest motorway viaduct ends

Michael Leidig

The US construction firm Bechtel said it has finished building the biggest viaduct on the 2B Campia Turzii–Gilau segment of the Transylvania Highway.

The one kilometre-long viaduct over the Aries River in western Romania is 23 meters high.

Construction of it began in 2007, but work on it was delayed for lack of funding, Bechtel said yesterday (Mon).

Bechtel said 43 road structures, including a viaduct at Suplacu de Barcau in Bihor county in western Romania, would be built on the 3C segment of the Transylvania Highway. Work will be resumed at another four locations on the 3C segment.

The construction of the highway, linking the central Romanian city of Brasov to Bors on the western border with Hungary, started in 2004 based on a 2.2-billion-Euro contract awarded to Bechtel. Work was halted in mid-2005, when authorities started looking into contracts awarded during the previous administration. That caused a one-year setback in construction work.

Under an agreement concluded in February by Bechtel and the Romanian Transport Ministry, the US firm is set to complete 42 kilometres of the highway this year, for which the ministry will pay it 420 million Euros.

The entire highway is due for completion in 2013.

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