FCC Construcción

The Basarab Viaduct in Bucharest 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 structural 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.

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.