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Country Manager in Rumania
“The need
for infrastructure
investments
What has been your experience in these
10 years of the Company’s evolution?
FCC landed in Romania in 2004 with its first
road refurbishment project and we have
lived this adventure from zero. We have
grown bit by bit, project by project, and
have become one of the leading players
in the country’s infrastructure construction
sector. We have developed road and rai-
lway projects and are also executing pro-
jects in the railway sector.
Tell us about the sector in Romania.
The sector has been constantly evolving
over the past few years. When we arrived
in 2004, the sector was highly segmented
and there were hardly any major local com-
panies; there were a few Italian and Greek
companies. The market has grown rapidly
and construction companies from all parts
of the world have a presence in the country.
The construction model at that time was
very traditional, with its own small-sized
machines and equipment.
What we were able to observe in these 10
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Sébastien
Picaut,
years is that the sector has been consolida-
ting. Many foreign companies have come to
work in the country and, therefore, the mar-
ket now is very competitive with not only
Spanish companies operating and, in order
to be competitive in this country, you have
to contribute a lot of added value.
What is the infrastructure plan foreseen
in Romania?
There is very important infrastructure net-
work in the country. It has more than
85,000 kilometres of roads and more than
20,000 kilometres of railways, which were
not maintained after the revolution and now
offer great potential so that we can develop
our activity. Multilateral organizations talk
about the need for investments totalling 50
billion euros to bring these infrastructures
up to European standards.
What does FCC contribute in Romania,
how do we create value?
FCC creates value in particularly complex
projects, sharing with its local and expatria-
te employees the satisfaction of meeting
challenges that others see as impossible.
Thanks to its technical expertise, FCC can
anticipate the problems it faces, we are a
local company.
What has been your experience living in
Romania?
Romania is a safe place to live with your
family, but at the same time complicated
since its historical inheritance still has a
bearing on the country.
How many people are currently working
in FCC Romania?
FCC has an average of 500 to 600 direct
jobs that we have created on an annual ba-
sis, of which 95 are local employees and,
as to indirect jobs, we can reach more than
1,000 jobs.
At FCC, we always try to build loyalty from
the beginning and it makes us proud to
say that we have many employees working
from project to project and this is one of the
in Romania amount to more than 50 billion euros”