Veidekke ASA: To build parking in rock cavern in Bergen
Veidekke Entreprenør has signed a contract with the Bergen Diakonissehjem Foundation to build a rock cavern parking facility for 345 vehicles at Haraldsplass Diakonale Sykehus in Bergen. This will be a turnkey contract valued at NOK 100 million, excluding VAT.
The contract comprises building a 90-metre entry/exit tunnel which leads to two parallel rock caverns, each of which will be 85 metres in length. Here there will be parking on three levels in both caverns. Veidekke will additionally build a 100-metre pedestrian tunnel that subsequently will be linked to a new ward.
"Cavern parking facilities are not new to Veidekke in Bergen. We built the Kloster garage with 940 parking spaces, which opened in 2005, and we are currently building 1,500 parking spaces in rock beneath Sartor Senter that will be completed in November. We are very pleased with winning the contract and look forward to starting in Ulriksdal at Haraldsplass," says District Manager Ingmar Austevoll of Veidekke.
Planning work has already started. Actual construction work starts in June, and everything is scheduled for completion in October 2015.
For more information please contact:
District Manager Ingmar Austevoll, tel. +47 970 88 299, ingmar.austevoll@veidekke.no
Project Manager Hans Aakre, tel. +47 40 555 707 hans.aakre@veidekke.no
Communications Manager Helge Dieset, tel. 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.