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Romania’s most anticipated motorway markedlink of the chain ACyoumy last remaining batch from anyone. Drumuri bosses have already started the process of finding a builder for the almost 30 kilometers between Boița and Cornetu. It is the last section that enters the public procurement process, with all the others already auctioned, under evaluation, design or execution. It is a heavy stretch. In 50 percent of the route there will be works of art: bridges, viaducts, tunnels. It is the second lot whose construction is estimated at about one billion euros.
The section that begins in Boiţa in Sibiu county and reaches Cornetu, in the county of Vâlcea, it is very difficult.
“It is about 33 kilometers long. It is one of the complex lots on this highway. We have 50 passages, viaducts and bridges, the longest of the viaducts will be 760 meters and we will also have 7 tunnels”, explained Mariana Ioniță, general director of CNAIR .
The Road Company has already sent all the documentation to the National Public Procurement Agency and hopes to receive the go-ahead as soon as possible to launch the design and execution competition. The Drumuri director admits that he would like Romanian companies to participate in the auction, estimated at one billion euros, but first of all he wants serious builders, with experience in tunnel construction and with enough people and equipment. Then the auction will be a prequalified one.
Conditions for road trips. How long would it take to build the 30 km?
To move to the second stage, road workers must meet several conditions:
“To have experience in the execution of a 500-meter tunnel according to European procedures, because we must comply with European regulations in this area of the tunnel,” says Mariana Ioniță.
CNAIR also requires that road users have a turnover of at least 700 million lei.
The Chiefs of Roads estimate that the design of the approximately 30 kilometers between Boița and Cornetu will take a maximum of 2 years, and the actual works will have a maximum duration of 5 years and 4 months.
Tips for Road Chiefs
The NGOs that follow the infrastructure projects in Romania come up with some advice for the Drumuri bosses.
“Mountain tunnels are very tough jobs where tunnellers don’t know what they’re dealing with until they start digging. It should be well stipulated in the contract from the outset that there are temporary discharges between tunnels. It is a strategy that we have seen widely used in both Switzerland and Austria, where the highway from the ground and viaducts end maybe 2-3 years before the tunnel and it is a shame to have a piece of highway up and running. it cannot be used, “explained Mihai Crăciun, from the Association” Construim România “.
“Good engineering is expensive and time consuming”
The most important section of the Sibiu-Pitești motorway is, however, the one between Cornetu and Tigveni, which has a length of 37 kilometers. Without it, the traffic would continue to pass through Râmnicu Vâlcea, that is, also through Dealul Negru. A 1.7 kilometer tunnel will also be built on this lot.
Lot 3 was put up for auction in September for between 1,100 and 1,200 million euros, being the largest auction ever launched by CNAIR.
That is why representatives of civil society, which monitors the development of infrastructure in Romania, say that builders who work well should be chosen.
„There is no good engineering that can be done quickly and cheaply. It is a myth. It doesn’t exist in China either, it doesn’t exist anywhere. Good engineering is expensive and time consuming. We need to get used to this thinking and focus on quality. We are not building the road to solve the problem we have in 2020, but we are building the road so that it exists for 50 years and for 50 years so that it will be good and useful for us and our descendants ”, Mihai Crăciun emphasizes.
The stage of the works of the Sibiu-Pitești highway
Only two of the 5 lots on the Sibiu-Pitești highway already have designated builders. The Austrians of Pornography have already opened the site in the 14 kilometers between Sibiu and Boița.
“The first batch is being worked on in Sibiu-Boița with an excellent physical advance of almost 30% over the amount assumed by the contract”, declares the Minister of Transport, Lucian Bode.
The Italians of Astaldi, which won the contest for lot 5, which is between Pitești and Curtea de Argeș, are still in the design phase.
How soon should we find out who will build and the almost 10 kilometers between Tigveni and Curtea de Argeș, where the press wrote that a Chinese company has a chance to win its contract.
“We want to achieve this important section even if it is 10 kilometers. It is a section whose value exceeds 400 million euros, a very important section and I do not think that any company can achieve this important section ”, said Lucian Bode.
The Sibiu-Pitești highway will be about 123 kilometers long. The European Commission has recently approved financing of almost 900 million euros for the first phase of construction, which includes lots 1, 4 and 5.
News about the west highway
Important crossing of the Oradea-Arad expressway. It is a section of 134 km Whats Nextto link the two municipalities. The project is estimated in fish € 1 billion of EU fundsand the contracting authority is the Municipality of Bihor.
The association is made between four local public administrations: City Halls of Oradea and Arad and City Halls of Bihor and Arad.
According to the project, the Oradea-Arad expressway will have road profile with three lanes in each direction in a distance of 14.6 km, a road profile with two lanes in each direction in a distance of 43.5 km and a highway profile with two lanes in each direction in 76.4 kilometers.
After the auction of the design and execution works, it is estimated that the new highway could be built in about three years.
Editor: Luana Pavaluca
