Skanska is awarded Sørkjosen Tunnel contract in Norway

Skanska has won the T02 Sørkjosfjell Tunnel Contract as part of the government’s Highway E6 improvement project in the county of Troms, northern Norway. Norway’s rail administrator Statens Vegvesen awarded the €50 million contract for the 4.6km Sørkjosen Tunnel -- its common name -- and work is scheduled for completion in July 2018. According to the OJEU document Contract T01 consists of the open air road from the breakwater in Sørkjosen to tunnel portaling at Mølnerelva, a length of 870m, as well as
October 27, 2015 Read time: 2 mins
2296 Skanska has won the T02 Sørkjosfjell Tunnel Contract as part of the government’s Highway E6 improvement project in the county of Troms, northern Norway.

Norway’s rail administrator 1208 Statens Vegvesen awarded the €50 million contract for the 4.6km Sørkjosen Tunnel -- its common name -- and work is scheduled for completion in July 2018.

According to the OJEU document Contract T01 consists of the open air road from the breakwater in Sørkjosen to tunnel portaling at Mølnerelva, a length of 870m, as well as cutting and tunnel portaling at Sørelva, for around 150m.

The village of Sørkjosen is in Norway’s extreme north, near the end of the 3,140km European Route E6, the main north-south road from Kirkenes, close to the Russian border, south through  Sweden to Trelleborg, on the country’s southern tip.
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