Skanska wins a €330m tunnel contract in Norway

Swedish construction company Skanska says it will use tunnel boring machines to construct a 19 km long water and sewage tunnel in Oslo.

The €330 million contract is the second awarded to Skanska as part of a major development project, aiming to ensure the provision of drinking water in the area, even in the face of failure in parts of the supply system.

The first contract with The Agency for Water and Wastewater Services in Oslo Municipality, signed in August last year, includes the blasting of rock chambers and the construction of three large tunnels with a total length of five kilometres.

With the scope of the first contract, Skanska will utilise up to seven tunnel rigs to take out a total of 1.2 million cubic metres of solid rock. Construction work on the new tunnel will begin in August this year and is expected to be completed by 2027.

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This is the second large project won in Norway this month. Earlier in July, Skanska signed a contract with Base Property to build an office building in the centre of Stavanger. The project called K8 will be one of the tallest buildings in downtown Stavanger. 

K8 will be situated close to the public transport hub in Stavanger and will be specially adapted for bicycle commuting. It has high climate and environmental ambitions and will be certified according to BREEAM NOR Excellent.

The ambitions are also high when it comes to the working environment. The building will be certified according to the Well Building Standard, which is an international certification scheme for health-promoting buildings based on medical research.

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