Consolidating Newly Built Motorways – A Costly Affair. Case Study

Abstract

Construction and development of transport infrastructure in Romania are a wish that is still to come true. Given the wide variety of factors interfering with the implementation of the national transport infrastructure, the causes of its deterioration are implicitly equally complex and require a lot of additional costs, which most often than not will lead to several times increase in the final construction cost. This article describes in detail the methodology applied to consolidate the areas that started to degrade right after the commissioning of the Orăştie-Sibiu motorway section, Lot 3. Since 2014 onwards this section has been extensively covered by the media as the most recklessly built portion of the motorway.