Strabag leads consortium for planned Polish project

Austrian contractor 945 Strabag will lead the consortium constructing a stretch of the S7 expressway in Poland. Strabag is teaming up with Heilit+Woerner for the project to build the Trasa Nowohucka section of the S7 linking Rybitwy and Igołomska and lying to the east of Kraków. Construction work is commencing in August/September 2014 and the contract is worth around €130 million. The consortium is handling the upgrading and construction work for some 18.6km of roads in all. The work includes widening a 4.5km long stretch of the expressway so that it will feature three lanes in either direction as well as improvements to a 1.6km section of national road 79, the construction of on- and off-ramps and building six flyovers and five bridges. The work also includes moving and improving a section of the local tram network. The Trasa Nowohucka section of the route run through two districts of Kraków – Podgórze and Nowa Huta – and will form part of the expressway that will run from Gdańsk in the north of Poland through to Rabka-Zdrój in the south of the country. When the work is complete 36 months from now, the new section will carry traffic from national road 79 and provide a connection to the A4 highway between Katowice and Rzeszów.