Briefs

Hydrobudowa 6 wins metro station tender

The tender to construct the ul. Wilsona metro station in Warsaw, has been won by Polish construction company Hydrobudowa 6, which  is controlled by the German Bilfinger Berger. The company, which has already built three underground stations, won the EUR 24.4 mln contract with metro operator Metro Warszawskie, by outbidding firms such as Mitex, Warbud and Energopol 7. Construction is due to be complete in twenty five months' time.

Bankruptcy in Bielsko Biała

Property developer GK Inwest has filed for bankruptcy, at a court in Bielsko Biała in the south of Poland. Primarily a residential developer, (though about ten per cent of its activities are commercial), the firm reported a PLN 1.5 mln, (EUR 367,000), loss for the first six months of this year and liabilities of PLN 17 mln at the end of March, when its total capital came to only PLN 8.7 mln. The company filed for protection from its creditors on 15th July.

Skanska will build Złote Tarasy

ING Real Estate have settled the tender for the main contractor for the Złote Tarasy project. The winner was Skanska. The final contract will be signed in mid-November and construction should commence this year and last 37 months. Two other bidding consortiums: Hochtief and Porr's and Besix, Strabag and PIA Piasecki's were unsuccessful.
 "We still don't know whether the complex will be put to public use all at once or in stages. Right now we are working on the details of the construction schedule," says Jerzy Hańczewski of ING RE.
Złote Tarasy, located in Warsaw between ul. Emilii Plater, ul. Złota, Al. Jana Pawła II and Dworzec Centralny, will be an enormous, (over 200,000 sqm.), multi-functional complex. On the first three levels, there will be shops, service points and restaurants, all taking up 60,000 sqm. in total, as well as a multiplex cinema. The higher floors will be taken up by offices. In the central part of the complex,  a courtyard will be built as a space for Warsaw's citizens to meet and stroll, as well as for commercial purposes.
The Złote Tarasy project is the brainchild of The Jerde Partnership International Inc, an American company specializing in urban and architectural city planning.

PIA Piasecki Budownictwo declared bankrupt

Warsaw's regional court, has declared PIA Piasecki Budownictwo insolvent, though the decision is still subject to appeal. M. Danyluk is to preside over the bankruptcy and it will be executed by Daniel Dębecki. Pia Piasecki Budownictwo's creditors were given 21 days to call in their liabilities.
Building materials firm buys into state asset
 85% of Poland's biggest lime producer, Zakłady Przemysłu Wapienniczego, whose market share is 30%, has been sold as part of the government's privatisation programme to Cementownia Ożarów for EUR 25 mln. CO is owned by the Irish Cement Roadstone Holding, producers of bulding materials such as cement, asphalt and concrete, with operations in North and South America and Western and Eastern Europe, where they have around 45,000 employees.

Winning consortium

A consortium, involving Polish construction company Budimex and its Spanish owner Ferrovial, has won the tender to construct the Cieszyn and Bielsko-Biała stretch of the Cieszyn to Skoczów road. The contract is worth Euro 20.93 mln.
Two more tenders will be settled in the near future: for the construction of a ring road around Skoczów and a road from Bielsko-Biała to Jasienica.