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| FCC builds a highway in Romania Spanish construction firm FCC has been awarded the contract to build the Constanza bypass in Romania. The project is worth a total of 141.8 million euro. The project involves building a new 22-kilometreroad bypassing the city Constanza on the west, with two 3.75-metre lanes each way, a 4-metre median, a 3-metre emergency lane and a 0.50-meter berm. The road will have 5 junctions and 26 structures (six viaducts, six bridges, eight overpasses and six underpasses). Most of the route runs along an embankment with a low carrying capacity and a very shallow water table (Danubian plain clay and sediment). A total of 775 km of gravel piles measuring 1 metre in diameter and 6 metres deep will be installed to reinforce the terrain wherever the embankment is over five metres high. The project also involves three million cubic metres of infill and 2.6 million cubic metres of earth movement, one million cubic metres of soil stabilised to a depth of 20cm, and the use of 360,000 tonnes of tarmac. Construction is scheduled to take 32 months. write your comments about the article :: © 2008 Construction News :: home page |