Danube Bridge 2 Construction Starts Off

Standart Daily, Parvoleta Tsvetkova

Works will be carried out around the clock to compensate for delay

long last, the Danube Bridge-2 construction has been launched. "The first concrete pier has been embedded," one of the engineers in charge of the project's implementation, Konstantin Zhiponov, said. Driving the first pier in also set off the planned testing of the foundations of the Danube Bridge-2 at the construction site in Vidin. Vidin Municipality Mayor Rumen Vidov attended the long awaited event, which certainly gave the locals a strong sense of occasion. Fixing the piers will be done around the clock in three shifts to compensate for the delay of the project. The Italian Terra Test have been assigned the task of embedding all piers, the scaffolding is a Bulgarian company's responsibility and there is also a team of French experts to keep tabs on the works. The experience of one of them extends to as much as 700 kilometres of tunnels worldwide. In fact, the technology utilized is his brainchild.