Construction works of a holiday village at campsite Yug (South) on Bulgaria’s Black Sea coast will be stopped temporarily over minor flaws in the documents, according to Regional Development Minister Lilyana Pavlova.
Commenting on the freshly released photographs of concrete foundations of buildings laid at a distance of approximately 60-70 meters away from the beach, Pavlova said Tuesday that a check had shown that the property was located on private urbanized terrain.
She told...
Large blocks of flats with numerous entrances will receive the right to be renovated in sections and not as whole buildings. This is one of the changes under preparation in the national building renovation programme, proposed by the National Association of Municipalities in the Republic of Bulgaria.
So far the total number of registered associations of home owners is over 1,600. Over 600 applications for financing have been filed with the Bulgarian Development Bank (BDB) and over 370...
Construction works in the gulf of Coral, near camping South have started days prior to the Easter celebrations in Bulgaria.
Two fundaments have been laid at a distance of approximately 60-70 meters away from the beach.
In the words of environmental activists construction plans involve a mini village of 16 houses with a total surface of over 1,200 square meters.
Representatives of the NGO Let's Save Coral have stated that construction in those territories is violation the law regarding...
”We have to complete the second and third stage of the Largo construction in the frames of 200 days,” said Eng. Rosen Koleliev, manager of a firm from the construction sector, speaking for FOCUS News Agency.
”This is a project which entered the stage of construction with difficulty. It is envisaged there will be a zone for displaying archaeological [findings], a zone where dismounted archaeological structures will be exhibited, a space for stage activity, zones for collections,” Eng....
According to the preliminary data of Bulgaria’s National Statistical Institute, in February 2015 the index of production in sector ‘Construction’ calculated on the base of seasonally adjusted data was 0.3% above the level of the previous month.
In February 2015 working day adjusted data showed a decrease by 1.8% in the construction production, compared to the same month of 2014.
In February 2015 the construction production, calculated from the seasonally adjusted data, was above the...
Greek company that delayed the construction of Bulgaria’s Struma motorway in the section between Sandanski and Kulata is investigated for bribery in Greece. Macedonian Telma TV announced that authorities in Greece had launched an investigation on Aktor company for giving bribes to officials in Macedonia in order to win the contract on the construction of the Demir Kapija-Smokvica motorway.
“The Greek company has given bribes to officials in the Former Macedonian Republic of Macedonia...
The section of the Hemus Highway connecting it to the Sofia beltway will be built by a Bulgarian-Croatian consortium called Hemus A2.
The 8.5 km section of Hemus, the highway linking Sofia and Varna through Northern Bulgaria, is seen as crucial for unloading the heavy traffic in Sofia's suburban area.
The Hemus A2 consortium was selected after providing the lowest price for the section out of a total of 12 bidders in the tender.
The consortium includes Trace Group Hold, the same...
Bulgaria has demanded that Belene nuclear project is frozen for another three months as of July, the energy and economy minister announced on Friday.
"We have proposed a three-month delay so that we have time to catch up with the so-called back office work," Minister Traicho Traikov said at a conference about the energy infrastructure, which is taking place in Sofia.
"We need additional information about the cost of the project, because what we have received so far from the Russian side...
Sofia Airport, Bulgaria's largest international airport, is preparing the technical proposal for a small-scale public procurement for the overhaul of Terminal 1, the company announced.
Under the overhaul plan, sections with damaged stucco coating and plaster cornices will be repaired, together with an overall repainting of the walls and the ceiling in the building.
The floorings of the "Departures" and "Arrivals" public zones will be replaced.
The repainting of the walls is already...
A consortium including a company controlled by Vasil Bozhkov, one of Bulgaria's richest and most high-profile businessmen, won the bid for the construction of a section of the Maritsa Highway.
The "Maritsa Highway" consortium between Bozhkov's Patnostroitelna Tehnika and Austrian Porr Technobau got the lowest bid for the 34-km section between Dimitrovgrad and Harmanli.
The offer was for BGN 122.137 VAT excluded, given a forecast price of BGN 200.
A record number of companies...
Five more shopping malls will open doors in Sofia in the next 2-3 years, according to real estate company GVA Sollers Solutions.
Construction works have already begun for three of them. The mall in the Lozenets district of Sofia is currently at the most advanced stage. Its name is "Paradise Center" and it is expected to be the largest mall in Bulgaria.
It is expected to have a built-up area of more than 170,000 square meters, with commercial area of 75,000 square meters.
At present,...
Bulgaria's Prime Minister Boyko Borisov hinted he has asked Russian company Atomstroyexport to build the Belene Nuclear Power Plant for not more than EUR 7 B.
Borisov has confirmed a recent statement of Sergey Kirienko, the CEO of the Russian state company Rosatom, which is the parent company of Atomstroyexport, that the construction of Bulgaria's second NPP at Belene should be resumed soon thanks to an agreement with the Bulgarian government.
The statements by Borisov and Kirienko have...
The Bulgarian Supreme Administrative Council (VAS) ruled Friday to give final approval of the order of the Mayor of Sofia, Yordanka Fandakova, for the selection of the winning bidder to build the city's waste processing plant.
With this rule the Sofia City Hall can now sign the contract with the consortium between the Bulgarian "Stanilov" company and the German "Heilit", who offered BGN 209 M, and was afterwards attacked with appeals by the rejected competitors.
VAS rejected the...
The Gorna Arda hydropower plant project is extremely important for the development of the region of south-eastern Bulgaria, said Bulgarian PM upon the joining of Austrian energy giant EVN in the venture Monday evening in Vienna.
The Bulgarian National Electrical Company (NEK) and Austrian energy giant EVN stroke a deal earlier Monday over the construction and exploitation of the hydropower station during Borisov's official visit to Austria
Commenting upon the event, Borisov said that...
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