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Veidekke in Bergen to build Horsøy Industrihavn AS

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Veidekke Entreprenør AS has signed a contract with Framo Engineering AS for the construction of five production halls and a deep water quay, with the option to build a further two halls. The total value of the contract, including options, is NOK 239 million excluding VAT.


The production halls have a base of a total of 20,500 square metres. This area is distributed between two halls 30 x 72 metres in size with a cornice height of 33 metres, and five halls 30 x 72 metres in size with a cornice height of 18 metres. All buildings will be connected by glass courtyards. The work will be carried out as frameworks and closed buildings. The production halls contract is a turnkey contract. Total building time is 18 months, and work is to start immediately.


The deep-water quay is built with driven steel piles in filling. Blasting is to be carried out in the sea down to contour line minus 13. The quay consists of a roll on-roll off ramp and a deep-water quay, totalling 205 metres. Part of this contract is compression of the lot for the production halls. This will be done by Kynningsrud Fundamentering, which is a part of the Veidekke Group. This work has started and is to be completed in July 2010.


For more information, contact:


CEO Ole Gams Steine, Framo Engineering AS, tel. +47 55 92 88 50


District manager Lars Rune Folkedal, Veidekke Entreprenør AS, mobile +47 913 46 978




Veidekke ASA is a leading Scandinavian building contractor and property developer with 6,250 employees and a turnover of NOK 19.4 billion (2008). The group is listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange and has a dispersed ownership structure where the employees own 18% of the shares. The business spans a wide spectrum of building and construction projects, developing housing and commercial buildings for private and public sector clients, asphalt plants and road maintenance as well as collecting and recycling waste.

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