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FCC Construcción, in keeping with inter-
nationalisation strategy, has been active in
Greece since 2000. After having built the
Igoumenitza harbour (in north-east Greece
close to the Albanian border) which was
inaugurated in September 2003, the Com-
pany was awarded the project calling for the
extension of Line of Athens’s underground
in Peristeri, actually nearly completion in a
joint venture with J&P Avax, one of the lea-
ding construction companies in Greece.
The project
The extension project for Line 2, awarded
by Atikko Metro to FCC in June 2006, con-
sisted of the construction of two stations
(Peristeri and Anthoupeli) and a 1,380 me-
tre-long tunnel completing the line connec-
ting Athens’s midtown district with the town
of Peristeri. With a population of 140,000,
the town is west of the City and one of the
most important townships in the province
of Athens.
FCC’s participation in the Line 2 project
began by rescuing a tunnel boring machi-
ne that had been used in drilling a tunnel in
a previous project, not executed by FCC,
linking up the new section awarded to the
Company. The open-shield tunnel boring
machine had been trapped within the tunnel
and part of the scope of the project inclu-
ded the rescue of this machine (by drilling a
circular well) and completing the execution
of the tunnel using conventional methods.
The 112 metre long and 24 metre deep
Peristeri station has three levels correspon-
ding to the ticket offices, vestibule (inclu-
ding access control) and platforms. Since
part of the station runs beneath the town’s
main avenue and two buildings, its execu-
tion had to be done “in mine”. This was