FCC, through its subsidiary Alpine, has been awarded a 130 million euro contract to enlarge the Bosruck Tunnel on an Austrian motorway. The contract calls for the construction of a second tunnel tube measuring 5.5 kilometres in length.

The contract is part of a tunnel safety programme implemented by Asfinag, the state entity in charge of building, financing and maintaining the Austrian motorway system.

The construction work on the new tunnel, which will be built using the traditional method, will commence in January. The goal is for construction to be complete by 2013 and the newly expanded tunnel to be fully operational by 2015.

The enlargement of this infrastructure will provide a two-lane connection between the Austrian states of Styria and Upper Austria. The Bosruck Tunnel is currently a bottleneck on the A9 expressway.

Among other projects, Alpine is currently building the Gotthard Base Tunnel in Switzerland, an underground system in New Delhi, India and the main channel for an energy plant in Tapovan, India. It is also building tunnels for electrical plants in Bulgaria and Turkey as well as an underground in Singapore and a water supply tunnel in China