17 apr 2012

The structure of Romania’s tallest building, the Sky Tower on Bucharest’s Calea Floreasca (center to north of the city) should be completed by July, as work on the office building is currently more

12 apr 2012

The cheapest highway built in the past few years in Romania is Timisoara-Arad, where the cost per km is around EUR3.5 million, according to a ZF analysis based on information supplied by national more

11 apr 2012

Emil Pop, general manager of Rehau Polymer, the local subsidiary of German group Rehau, thinks 2012 will not come with major surprises for the Romanian economy, but expects the direction that the more

2 apr 2012

Transport and Infrastructure Minister Alexandru Nazare, appointed to this position almost two months ago, told Ziarul Financiar in an interview that the billions of euros spent on infrastructure and more

29 mar 2012

Human resources managers in 2012 are tired of signing layoff decisions. It is time to reinvent themselves and find new solutions to boost performance and motivate employees through simple things, and more

28 mar 2012

The Romanian government had until the beginning of February paid almost EUR1.3 billion for the 17 highway construction sites currently underway, reveals a ZF analysis based on information supplied by more

22 mar 2012

Austrian group Strabag, which is building the Deva-Orastie highway, as well as office building Sky Tower in Bucharest, registered overall turnover of around EUR206 million in 2011, up 20% on the year. more

21 mar 2012

Italian construction company Astaldi, which built the Basarab Overpass and the National Arena stadium in Bucharest, won contracts worth a total of EUR702 milion last year. The contracts were awarded more

19 mar 2012

Cement maker Holcim Romania registered turnover of about EUR225 million in 2011, up about 13% on the year. more

14 mar 2012

The Romanian national roads company CNADNR, which each year gets the biggest budget allocated to the Transport Ministry, between 2006 and 2011 had cumulated budgets of over EUR10 billion and completed more

13 mar 2012

The ten leading highway construction sites in Romania advanced by an average 7% between November 1 2011 and February 1 2012, according to a ZF analysis based on data provided by roads authority more

12 mar 2012

Romanian constructor Delta ACM ’93 owner Florea Diaconu is interested in projects in Qatar, which will host the 2022 FIFA World Cup. more

6 mar 2012

The local branch of German chemical group BASF, has budgeted double-digit growth for this year, a projection that takes into account the international trends and the trend of the local construction, more

1 mar 2012

Hidroconstructia, the largest Romanian construction company, with over EUR232 million in turnover in 2010, has opened a branch in Kircheim, Germany, according to information in the Official Gazette. more

23 feb 2012

Dorinel Umbrarescu, who owns construction company Spedition UMB, and Nelu Iordache, who controls Romstrade, collected about EUR400 million from the national company in charge of Romania’s national more

20 feb 2012

Fifteen of the longest twenty road bridges in Romania were built prior to the 1989 revolution, many of them in late nineteenth or early twentieth century. This year should see the completion of one of more

16 feb 2012

Romanian constructor Bog’Art, owned by businessman Raul Doicescu, has over the years built some of the top office projects in Bucharest and plans to take on building wind farms and enter the African more

6 feb 2012

The start of new infrastructure projects and the fact that increasingly more constructors are using EU funds to buy equipment fueled a doubling of the construction equipment market in 2011, say more

6 feb 2012

Romania currently has nine road tunnels, with a cumulated length of 1.6 km, although it is crossed by mountains, which would justify more such tunnels. Hungary, a largely low-lying country, has twice more

18 ian 2012

Spanish-held FCC Construccion, a EUR12 billion business with international operations, is mainly known in Romania for the building of the Basarab overpass together with Italy’s Astaldi. more

11 ian 2012

Romania ranks second in the region in terms of kilometers of highway finalized last year (58 kilometers), behind Poland, which opened 217 kilometers of highway to traffic last year, according to a more

9 ian 2012

Italy-based low-cost airline Air Vallee announced it would enter the Romanian market on March 24, when it introduces two flights between Bucharest and Parma and Iasi-Turin. more

9 ian 2012

The largest twenty contracts awarded by Romania’s national roads authority CNADNR last year amount to some EUR1.45 billion. Italian companies, either alone or in partnership with other builders, got more

4 ian 2012

Many entrepreneurs describe 2012 as a year of many unknowns, when both the situation on the European markets and the domestic measures will influence the performance of the Romanian economy. A new more

31 dec 2011

In 2011, only 58 kilometers of highways were launched, but Romanian authorities plan to open for traffic at least three-times more next year. more