The festival of road engineering has started

The opening ceremony of Targi Kielce’s trade fairs devoted to road construction and engineering has brought together the representatives of the national government, General Directorate of National Roads and Motorways, representatives of the world and science as well as the Swietokrzyskie Voivodeship authorities. The official speeches have generated an avid interest among the guests gathered in the Conference Centre.

”GDDKiA has announced the results of contractors with regards to the number of irregularities in specific contract realisation. – said Lech Witecki the General Director of National Roads and Motorways during the opening ceremony of the AUTOSTRADA-POLSKA trade fair which is held in Targi Kielce. Public communication and disclosure of all weaknesses as well as strong points of specific companies has been designed to help them realise how important is the quality of the road they build as well as the consequences of the renovation of the road which has been covered by the warranty. We are glad to se the warranty extension up to the period of 5 or even 10 years since companies feel that they build a road not for a year but for dozens of years. The GDDKiA ranking is the recapitulation of the construction activities up to 2011; the ranking is available at the Directorate’s exhibition stand at the Kielce’s AUTOSTRADA-POLSKA trade fair. Next edition will be published already in June.

Tadeusz Jarmuziewicz, the Secretary of State at the Ministry of Transport, Construction and Maritime Economy has highlighted the problems of small and medium sized companies segment in the road construction sector “We need to consider the security of subcontractors as early as the preparation stage of contracts for road and motorway construction. We shall propose the following solution – the main contactor will be supposed to deposit a 3-5% indemnity of the investment project value which would in turn increase the sense of security for the subcontractors. A six-hour debate will be held in Polish Parliament tomorrow; will be our proposal among the point discussed there

18th International Fair of Road Construction Industry AUTOSTRADA-POLSKA held from 8th to 11th May in Targi Kielce has brought together over 1000 companies from 29 countries from all corners of the world; they display their products at 30,000 square metres of the exhibition space. This is the exhibition of a few hundred tons of the most state-of-the –art equipment presented by the business sector leading companies. Every year the fair is attended by 20,000 business insiders from Poland as well as foreign countries.