Veidekke ASA: To build commercial building in Sola

The Veidekke company Block Berge Bygg AS has been awarded the contract by Ringholm 1 AS to build a combined building consisting of office and workshop for tenant Expro Norway AS. This is a turnkey contract valued at NOK 150 million, excluding VAT.

The new commercial building will be located in Risavika in Sola municipality. The building will have a total area of around 9,800 m² shared between a three storey office building and a workshop building. The project is a cooperative effort between the client, Bygg-Kon AS and Block Berge Bygg. The building will constructed with load-bearing concrete element façades in painted and mini-retarded concrete.

"We are continuously striving to develop our expertise in building energy and environmentally sound buildings based on our industrial premise. Success in winning this contract is very pleasing, and the project will make a positive contribution toward our continued development," says managing director Yngvar Karlsen of Veidekke's wholly-owned subsidiary Block Berge Bygg AS.

Construction has started, and the building is expected to be ready for takeover in August/September 2015.

For more information please contact:
Managing Director Yngvar Karlsen, Block Berge Bygg AS, tel. +47 51 78 99 00, yk@blockberge.no
Veidekke's Communications Manager Helge Dieset, mobile phone +47  90 55 33 22, helge.dieset@veidekke.no

Veidekke is one of Scandinavia's leading contractors and property developers with a turnover of NOK 21 billion (2013) and 6,300 employees. Activities include building and construction projects, residential developments, asphalt plants, gravel and aggregates, and road services. Our values are professional, honest, enthusiastic and ground-breaking. Our goals for health, safety and the environment, HSE, have equal status with our financial goals. Veidekke is characterised by a strong corporate culture with employee involvement and co-ownership as important cornerstones. More than half of the employees are co-owners, holding around 20 per cent of the Group's shares between them. The company is listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange and has always posted a profit since it was founded in 1936.

Block Berge Bygg AS is one of Rogaland county's leading EPC contractors and a major supplier of precast concrete building elements. The company is wholly owned by Veidekke ASA and has 325 employees. It has its own concrete element factory in Klepp, outside Stavanger, and had a turnover of NOK 850 million in 2013.

This information is subject of the disclosure requirements pursuant to section 5-12 of the Norwegian Securities Trading Act.