Skanska Finnish tunnel

Skanska has been awarded the contracts to build 4km of road and rail tunnels for the Vuosaari Harbour project in Finland, a scheme due to commence in September.

The road tunnels feature twin tubes for opposing traffic flows, each 1.68km long. The rail tunnel will be 750m long. Tunnelling work is due to commence next month with the road tunnel scheduled for completion by 30 August 2006. All of the contracts are due to finish by the end of 2006.

At €23.7M (US$28.6M), these are the first contracts to be let on the VUOLI project, the traffic connections for the harbour project in Helsinki being undertaken by the Finnish state and the City of Helsinki.

Tunnel design is by Finnmap Infra Oy and Kalliosuunnittelu Oy Rockplan Ltd.