Veidekke ASA: Major road contract
Today Veidekke Entreprenør has signed a contract with the Norwegian Public Roads Administration to build the first section of the E134 Damåsen - Saggrenda project near Kongsberg in Buskerud county. The value of the contract is close to NOK 727 million excluding VAT.
The section Veidekke will build is approximately five kilometres and runs from Tislegård in Kongsberg and east to Damåsen (towards Drammen). The contract involves building near three kilometres of four-lane main road, an interchange at Damåsen and the Kongsberg tunnel with a two kilometre, two-bore tunnel. Additionally, approximately one kilometre of the new secondary road 286 is to be built, including a new access road to Damåsen Pukkverk, as well as a parking lot at Diseplass. The contract also includes building the three Damåsen, Diseplass and Majorplassen bridges (passover) and two tunnel portals at the eastern tunnel entry.
- "We are very pleased with the confidence the NPRA has shown us, and that we won the competition for this contract. Together we will complete a first-class project for road users. Here a stretch with a high accident rate will be replaced by a new and safe road for the benefit of both through traffic and traffic to and from Kongsberg and Numedal. Now we are looking forward to getting started with the work," says project manager Neal Nordahl of Veidekke.
The works will commence in June 2015 and completion is planned for November 2018.
For press photos, see www.flickr.com/photos/veidekke, for more information, contact:
Head of department Jørn Audun Gjennestad of Veidekke, tel. +47 95 75 04 05, jorn.gjennestad@veidekke.no
Project manager Neal Nordahl of Veidekke, tel. +47 90 92 44 64 neal.nordahl@veidekke.no
Project manager Tom Hedalen of the NPRA, tel. +47 90 95 94 33, tom.hedalen@vegvesen.no
Communications manager Helge Dieset of Veidekke, tel. +47 90 55 33 22, helge.dieset@veidekke.no
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Veidekke is one of Scandinavia's largest construction and property development companies. The company undertakes all types of building and construction contracts, maintains roads and produces asphalt and aggregates. The company is characterised by involvement and local knowledge. Revenue is NOK 24 billion (2014), and half of the 6,400 employees own shares in the company. Veidekke is listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange and has always posted a profit since it was founded in 1936.