The Austrian World Expo Office has awarded ALPINE, the Austrian subsidiary of FCC, with the contract for the construction of the Austrian pavilion at the 2010 Shanghai World Expo, at a cost of 5.5 million euros.

The Austrian pavilion is the work of the architects Arge Span-Zeytinoglu Architects and Shanghai Xian Dai Architectural Design (Group) Co. Ltd. It is futuristic in design and will cover a surface area of some 2,112 square metres, distributed over two levels.

It will be located in Zone C, Block C07, in the North Belt and ALPINE will be responsible for its construction, interior equipment and multimedia system. The structure will be dismounted at the close of the exhibition.

The Expo will be held between 1 May and 31 October 2010 under the banner "Better City, Better Life", and will be the largest since it was founded in 1951. With the participation of over 200 countries, it will welcome more than 70 million visitors.

ALPINE in China

ALPINE's major projects in China include the Ningbo motorway; the main northern line of tunnel 1 which is part of the project for the diversion of the Yellow River, BASF-YPC/IPS Engineering/Maintenance Centre, the Haefele Factory and the ABB Turbo Systems Factory.