Veidekke to build a new school in Oslo
Oslo, 22 December 2009
Veidekke Entreprenør AS has signed a contract to build the new Westerdals School of Communication in Oslo. The client is Anthon B Nilsen. The building will be 4,500 square metres and the contract is worth NOK 80 million, excluding VAT.
The 5-storey school will hold 450 students and 30 administrative staff and lecturers. The emphasis will be on making optimum use of the site at Maridalsveien 17, the so-called Vulkan site. The building has been designed by Kristin Jarmund Arkitekter AS. Its distinctive architecture has been designed to reflect Westerdals spirit and values: creativity, courage and being challenging.
Building will start in March and the school will be ready to welcome its first students in autumn 2011.
The contract was signed 130 years to the day after the clients parent company Anthon B Nilsen AS was founded.
For more information please contact:
Department Manager Odd Arne Lian, Veidekke Entreprenør AS, tel. 41 66 05 56, odd-arne.lian@veidekke.no
Nicolai H. Løvenskiold, Anthon B Nilsen AS, tel. 90 52 82 45, nhl@abn.no
Veidekke ASA is a leading Scandinavian building contractor and property developer with 6,250 employees and turnover of NOK 19.4 billion (2008). The group is listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange and has a dispersed ownership structure with the employees owning 18% of the stock. 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.