Liebherr builds in Bucharest
15 December 2008Liebherr has supplied six tower cranes for the City Gate Project in the Romanian capital, Bucharest.
The order includes four flat-top EC-B cranes and two series H fast-erecting cranes. The City Gate office complex is being built directly on the main link road between the city centre of Bucharest and the Henry Coanda International Airport, over a two-year construction period. Standing immediately next to the Casa Presei Libere (House of Freedom of the Press), the City Gate Towers, each 75 m high, will form the gateway to Romexpo, the city's trade fair centre. The office building consists of two 18 storey towers with a total floorspace of 36,000 m². Beneath the building complex, an underground car park on three levels will offer space for more than a thousand cars.
Construction work was started in the summer of 2007 and involves the operation of three 110 EC-B 6 FR.tronic Flat-Top cranes, one 130 EC-B 6 FR.tronic Flat-Top crane, and two 32 H fast-erecting units. This six tower cranes were delivered directly to Bucharest by Liebherr-Industrias Metálicas in Pamplona.
