Press Release August 14th
2014
OCTAGON assigned general subcontractor
to PC Business Center office building, located in northern Bucharest
Contract value: 2 mil. Euro
Office building located on Bucharest-
Ploiesti Road
Height: 11 Floors
Bucharest, August 14th
2014: OCTAGON CONTRACTING & ENGINEERING, a company specialized in civil and
geotechnical construction works, has become general subcontractor for an office
building- PC Business Center, located in the north of the capital. Construction
works are worth approximately 2 million Euro.
PC Business
Center is located on 7-9 Bucharest- Ploiesti road. The building has two
underground and 9 ground levels and is located near Sector 1 City Hall. Iridex
Group Import Export is the developer and general contractor of the project.
OCTAGON took
over the project in the autumn of 2013, as specialized contractor, and has performed
special foundation and infrastructure works: diaphragm walls D 600, bored piles D 620,crown
beam, excavation and metal retaining
systems, dewatering systems, foundation raft S2, S1, hydroinsulation of
underground and water basin. Works were completed in May 2014.
The execution
of the superstructure works has been
added to the initial contract and OCTAGON has become general subcontractor to
PC Business Center. Construction works have reached the 3rd level of
the building. This is one of the three major office projects built by OCTAGON
in Bucharest, between 2013- 2014, along Green Court Bucharest (2-4 Gara
Herastrau St.) and Hermes Business Campus (7- 9 Dimitrie Pompeiu Blvd.).
“Although
according to statistics 2013 was a slower year for the construction market than
the previous year, 2013 and 2014 have been intense growth years for OCTAGON,
characterized by contracting major projects, especially in the office and
infrastructure sectors. PC Business Center is a new opportunity to prove our
ability to execute all the works included in a project: special foundations,
infrastructure and superstructure.” said
Alexandros Ignatiadis, co- founder and shareholder of OCTAGON CONTRACTING &
ENGINEERING.
OCTAGON CONTRACTING & ENGINEERING
(www.octagon.com.ro ) is a Romanian company set up in 2005, headquartered in
Bucharest. The company also has a branch in Baghdad (Iraq). With a 19.6 million euro in 2013, large scale
projects in Romania, Iraq, Greece, Turkey and Bulgaria, OCTAGON is one of the
main players in the civil and geotechnical construction sectors, in Romania.
Among the reference works performed by
OCTAGON in Romania there are: the office complex Green Court Bucharest (Gara
Herastrau Street- Bucharest), the tallest office building in Bucharest Sky
Tower (Barbu Vacarescu Blvd.), the office building Olympia Tower (Decebal
Blvd.- Bucharest) and the Combined Cycle Power Plant 867 MW OMV- Petrom (Brazi-
Prahova county).
Contact
OCTAGON
CONTRACTING & ENGINEERING
Corina Ilie
Public
Relations Specialist
Tel: (+40)
769 249 286
