Bechtel to hire another 5,000 workers for motorway by 2010

American-based Bechtel, the builder of Transilvania Motorway, estimates its number of employees in 2010 will be 2.5 times higher than at present. Almost 3,000 employees are currently working for Bechtel, 93% of whom are Romanians. Representatives of the American company say they have reached the optimum number and do not need any more staff at present. “We estimate that in the peak period of constructions, which will be attained in 2007, our company will have over 8,000 employees”, Bogdan Sgarcitu, communications manager of Bechtel, told ZF Transilvania. According to information provided by officials of the American builder, works on the Transilvania Motorway are in progress, in various stages, on the 2B section (Cluj West – Campia Turzii) and on the 3C section (Suplacu de Barcau – Bors). Around 80% of expropriation of land has been conducted on the 2B section, and just 46% on the 3C section.