FCC, in a joint venture with the Italian Astaldi company, has finished the construction of Basarab Viaduct in Bucharest. According to Bucharest's mayor, Sorin Oprescu, this has been one of the biggest projects undertaken in Romania in the last 20 years.

Awarded in 2006 with a budget of over 150 million euro, Basarab Viaduct is located in northwest Bucharest, in one of the areas with the heaviest traffic and the highest density of retail and residential buildings. The 1750-metre-long elevated structure helps ease the flow of traffic and movement on the city's main tram lines. There is a station on the viaduct's cable-stayed section affording access to the underground system and the Gara de Nord platforms.

The joint venture coordinated the structural design, with the cooperation of FCC Construcción's Technical Services. The design consists of four parts: Grozavesti Viaduct, a 120-metre-long arch bridge over the Dambovita River, Orchidea Viaduct and a cable-stayed bridge that crosses the rail yard and has a metro station.

FCC in Romania

Basarab Viaduct is sure to become the country's headline construction project, because it has been the stage for the introduction of innovative pre-tensioning and cable-staying techniques developed by FCC subsidiary BBR.

FCC has been a steady presence in Romania since 2003, through its Romanian subsidiary FCC Constructii Romania, and it is participating in the development of the country's infrastructure. Some of the leading projects now in progress are the Arad/Nadlac Dual Carriageway (awarded to FCC through its Austrian subsidiary ALPINE), the construction of the Arad/Timisoara section of the Arad/Timisoara/Lugoj dual carriageway, the design and construction of the Constanta Bypass and other refurbishment projects.