FCC, through its Austrian subsidiary ALPINE, has won a new 25-million-euro contract in Poland, for the Gdansk University Chemistry Department. The construction work will begin in July 2010 and will have a two-year completion period.

The design, created by the "Architects Workshop" from Sopot, calls for six segments of different heights connected to one another. The building, with a total area of 28,180 square metres and parking for 166 cars, will house reading rooms, technology sectors, laboratories for practical training and auditoriums for lectures on chemical and environmental engineering.

The project will be co-financed by the European Union through the European Regional Development Fund.

This contract strengthens ALPINE's portfolio in Poland, where it is currently involved in building several football stadiums for the 2012 UEFA European Football Championship (Baltic Arena Stadium in Gdansk, Poznan Stadium in Posen and Warsaw National Stadium) for a total of 469 million euro.