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| Strabag opens motorway in Hungary On 31 March 2010, following the successful on-time completion of construction works, the opening celebrations were held for the 80 km motorway section M6 from Szekszárd to Bóly and M60 from Bóly to Pécs. The Hungarian Minister for Transport, Telecommunication and Energy, Péter Hónig, was among the approximately 500 invited guests who attended the opening ceremony. The project had been awarded to the Strabag/Colas/Laing/Intertoll consortium as a concession project in November 2007. Strabag AG and Colas SA jointly assumed the function of general contractor, whereby Strabag, with a 60 % share of the construction, assumed the leading role. The construction volume of the entire project amounted to € 855 million. The contract comprised planning and construction as well as operation and maintenance of the motorway for a period of 30 years. Despite the exceptionally short construction time from November 2007 to March 2010 (29 months), this motorway section could be opened to traffic on time. This order was the longest section of the M6 motorway and included many different construction elements, all of which were successfully completed within the very short construction time. The project involved the construction of a total of 80 km of motorway with approximately 12 million mł of earthworks, nine large bridges (viaducts), 87 overpasses und underpasses, two motorway maintenance facilities including police station and two motorway rest stops. Also built were four tunnels (two bores each) with a total length of 2 x 3 km through the Mecsek mountain range. It is worth noting that these are the first motorway tunnels ever built in Hungary. write your comments about the article :: © 2010 Construction News :: home page |