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Croatia’s roads agency Hrvatske Ceste will soon start evaluating tenders for the controversial Peljeski Bridge project, according to national media. Bids for construction of the four-lane 2.4km long bridge have been submitted by the China Road and Bridge Corporation, Austria's Strabag as well as consortia headed by Italy’s Astaldi and the Turkish company Ictas. The bridge will connect Croatian territory by traversing the Adriatic Sea’s Mali Ston Bay.

Strabag lands Dubrovnik Airport deal for runway work

Contractor STRABAG is to work on the project to build a new bridge connection in South Africa. This structure is of note as it will be Africa’s highest bridge at 223m high. The 1,132m long bridge will span the Mtentu River in eastern South Africa, close to the town of Flagstaff. The contract has a value of around €106 million and the construction work is expected to take 40 months to complete. STRABAG International is working with the South African contractor AVENG Grinaker-LTA on the project

Work has started on the 18.5km southern ring road around the Polish capital Warsaw.

Austrian contractor Strabag is to head a consortium carrying out work on an expressway widening project in Hungary worth some €212 million. The project is for the widening and improving of the R 67 expressway that runs from Kaposfüred to Látrány.

Construction officially started on a two-lane 1.6km road tunnel in the centre of the German city of Karlsruhe. In December, the Stuttgart-based civil engineering subsidiary Ed Züblin announced that it is leading a consortium with Schleith to build the Kriegsstraße car tunnel in the German city of Karlsruhe. Ed Zublin is now a wholly owned subsidiary of the Austria-based contractor Strabag. The tunnel in Kriegsstraße is the second part of the Kombilösung public transport infrastructure project to reduce the

The Austrian publicly listed construction group Strabag posted a record year 2016, with an order backlog at a record-high of €14.8 billion. Thomas Birtel, chief executive of Strabag, said that 2016 was a “satisfactory and eventful” year for the company. “We managed to acquire the minority interest in our subsidiary [civil engineering company] Ed Züblin in Stuttgart and of the remaining stake in Raiffeisen evolution, now called Strabag Real Estate.” Both companies are now wholly owned by Strabag. Consolidate

The Polish General Directorate for National Roads and Motorways – GDDKiA –reports that 14 bids have been received for construction of three sections of the S19 dual carriageway. A consortium formed by Pizzarotti and Fundamental Infrastructure pitched the lowest bid for the Krasnik Poludnie - Janow Lubelski Polnoc section, amounting to nearly €80 million. The lowest offer for the construction of the second section – a ring-road around the town of Janow Lubelski – was just over €34 million and made by M

The tender process is due to commence in Poland for a major new tunnel project in the north of the country. The link will provide an improved road connection for the city of Swinoujscie, running between the islands of Uznam and Wolin. When complete in late 2021 or early 2022, this will be the longest road tunnel ever constructed in Poland. A number of consortia and companies have been preselected by the Polish General Directorate for National Roads and Motorways (GDDKiA) to tender for the project. The plans

A Bosnian minister has expressed concern over the difference between bids by two consortia for a motorway project that includes construction of the Pocitelj Bridge. Bosnia's state-owned motorway company Autoceste FBiH said in May that it had signed a contract worth nearly €108 million with the joint venture of Euroasfalt and Strabag for construction of the 5.8km Klopce-Donja Gracanica subsection of pan-European transport Corridor Vc. A report by the Bosnian news agency Fena said that Bosnia's deputy m