Electrocentrale Bucharest will acquire the service of elaboration of the feasibility study for the investment objective Energy Neighbourhood, according to the announcement published on the company’s website and SEAP website. The deadline for submission of bids is 10 March 2025. The building complex will house both office space and conference rooms, as well as a café and restaurant area on the ground floor levels of the buildings. The architectural concept for the entire area was developed by Urbia Architects.
The contract allows 135 days to prepare the feasibility study,
Arh. Răzvan Abagiu, the author of the concept of the buildings that will form the Energy District, said that it will be built on a site of about 18,000 square metres, where up to 3,500 employees will work. The project was presented last year at an event attended, among others, by Energy Minister Sebastian Burduja, ELCEN general director Claudiu Crețu, architect and architect’s archiv. Răzvan Abagiu and the mayor of sector 6 Ciprian Ciucu.
“On the land of CET Grozăvești, where the old fuel oil factory is, we want to present a concept: The Energy City, where we will have the headquarters of the Ministry of Energy, the Energy Regulatory Authority, as well as all the big energy companies – Hidroelectrica, Nuclearelectrica, Transgaz, Romgaz. (…) This will be the energy heart of Bucharest,” said Claudiu Crețu, ELCEN’s CEO, in 2024, as quoted by Agenda Construcțiilor.
The Minister of Energy, Sebastian Burduja, welcomed the launch of the procurement procedure in a Facebook post, emphasising that the actual realisation of the project will have significant multiplier effects: “New jobs, stimulus for the development of green technologies that will be integrated in the project, example for the launch of similar initiatives to reduce pollution produced by the administrative activity of public institutions or companies”.
Minister Burduja, a former candidate for Mayor of the Capital, added: “I hope that, in the coming years, the Energy Neighbourhood will become a reality and an example”, referring to the urban regeneration project for the Radio House and the park that could be built in the area of the Parliament Palace and the Romanian Academy.