Austrian construction top dog Strabag SE has won a second major assignment in Abu Dhabi within two months, it has been revealed.Company CEO Hans Peter Haselsteiner announced today (Weds) Strabags German subsidiary Züblin held 47.5 per cent of the assigned consortium, adding that the port construction project had a value of 105 million Euros.The new […]
Residents in a densely populated housing area in Vienna had a lucky escape after four gas bottles exploded on a neighbouring construction site yesterday around noon (Weds).Police in Favoriten district said today experts had started investigating the incident which occurred at a building site in-between the two apartment blocks.Officials said a massive fire kicked off […]
Strabag boss Hans Peter Haselsteiners ambitious bid to break the Austrian Railways (ÖBB) monopoly will start next year.The construction business entrepreneur announced today (Thurs) that his private Westbahn railway service between Vienna and Salzburg was set to operate from December 2011.Haselsteiner whose firm Strabag is one of the biggest players in European construction industry […]
Twelve holidaymakers had a lucky escape as a crane crashed on a gondola suspension yesterday (Thurs).Officials in the Tyrolean tourism hotspot Mayrhofen said today it was still a matter for investigation why the building crane used at a nearby construction site landed on the lift framework.But they added it could not be ruled out that […]
A Viennese worker lost a thumb while working with a circular saw yesterday (Weds), it was announced.Officials in the capital said today the 38-year-olds finger was chopped off by the machine at a construction site in the city centre.He was driven to a clinic, and it has not been announced whether surgeons managed to reattach […]
Austrian building top dog Strabag said construction of a Croatian port would be finished by 2013.The Vienna-based company has been engaged in building the new Gazenica port in the Dalmatian city of Zadar since May 2009.Firm officials said today (Thurs) it had also been assigned to lead procedures in the second stage of the project […]
A controversial motorway tender deal in Romania that was bitterly contested by Austrian firm Strabag has collapsed after the winning French-Greek consortium pulled out of the deal.Romanian Times reports today (Thurs) that a consortium of French construction group Vinci and Greek builder Aktor withdrew from the 4.8-billion-Euro deal.The deal involved building of a 58-kilometre motorway […]