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Construction halted, but no tender: 5 months have passed since the contract termination for the waste-processing plant in Lviv
In 6 April 2026, after the Polish company Control Process S.A. accused Lviv mayor Andriy Sadovyi and his team of fraud, Lviv officially terminated the contract with the contractor for the construction of the waste-processing plant. As of 5 August, that is five months later, work on the site has still not resumed, and a new tender to find a contractor has not yet been announced, Ukrainian News reports.
Further plans for completing the construction were described by the director of the local municipal enterprise 'Zelene Misto' (Green City), Oleksandr Yehorov.
"At this time all work is stopped, all relations with the contractor have been terminated, and we have received all relevant bank guarantees for the overdue contract. We are now carrying out preparatory work to conduct all control measurements and a forensic construction examination, which will give us the determined volumes and record what has been built to date," the official said.
According to him, the results of the examination will allow adjustment of the design-and-estimate documentation before announcing a new tender to find a contractor to complete the construction.
Premises of the Lviv waste-processing plant. Photo: LMR
Assessments of the project's readiness by the city authorities and the former contractor differ significantly. Already in May, Control Process S.A. representative Krzysztof Habier said in one interview that the project was completed to 95%, and work stopped only because the city paused it — at that time, he said, the contract was still formally valid despite 'Zelene Misto' statements of intent to terminate it.
Sadovyi, however, denies this information.
"Regarding the construction portion of this project, the figure given by the contractor was 95%. I think that is the wrong figure. We will have an exact number after the expert study. I think that number is somewhere in the range of 85–87," Oleksandr Yehorov noted.
He added that, in addition to the main building, work on the adjacent territory has practically not begun — in particular access roads and auxiliary structures, except for the fire reservoirs.
Inside the waste-processing plant (25.07.2026 yr.). Photo: Suspilne Lviv/Olha Deineka
The contract termination also had financial consequences for the city. In 2021 the city of Lviv paid Control Process S.A. an advance of 3,6 million euros for the construction of the complex, but as of April 2026 the Polish company had not repaid about 1 million euros of that amount. After 'Zelene Misto' appealed to the guarantor bank, ING Bank Śląski, demanding payment of the guaranteed sum, the bank returned 947 thousand euros to Lviv — the remainder of the unpaid advance.
According to preliminary estimates, the new contractor will need about half a year to complete the construction work after obtaining a building permit.
"Under good weather conditions, the time to complete all construction work will be up to half a year from the moment of obtaining the building permit. Of course, there is the question of when this tender will take place. If the work happens in winter, it will be complicated by external network work and accordingly may be delayed," Yehorov summed up.
The waste-management problem in Lviv has been ongoing for more than two decades. The sanitary-epidemiological station issued the order to close the Hrybovychi landfill, where waste had been brought since 1958, back in 2003, but the dump continued to operate for another 13 years — until the tragedy of 2016, when a waste landslide killed four people, including three rescuers. Only after that was the landfill finally closed, and Lviv's waste began 'traveling' to landfills in other regions of Ukraine.
Since then, the city authorities led by mayor Andriy Sadovyi have repeatedly promised to build a waste-processing plant, but concrete deadlines were constantly postponed. According to available information, at one time 43 companies from 14 countries around the world offered Lviv their services to build such a plant, but the city council rejected all applicants, and the topic remained politicized for a long time because of disputes over the contract terms.
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