BASF MEYCO Fireshield 1350 fire protection mortar was used on this project Contracts awarded to NCC Eeg-Henriksen Anlegg for two twin tunnels on Stockholm ring road, 1,070 m-long at Arsta and 800 m-long at Johanneshov. Nov 1998. $9 million contract for 1.2 km Nobelberget tunnel on Sodralanken southern ring road awarded to Vagverket, the Swedish Roads Administration. August 1999. Vagverket www.vv.se reports Sodra Lanken budget as $800 million. Main tunnels are 3-lane with cross-passages at 100-150 m intervals. NCC contracts SL01 and SL02 are 60% complete with 450,000 cu m of total 750,000 cu m excavated with view to completion January, 2001. Selmer contract SL03 which involves 8.3 km of tunnel varying from 20-126 sq m section and with 8 m to 35 m overburden is 56% complete and will finish end-2001. Work starting on underground bridge at Hammarby end with 35 m span and only 3.5 m cover. Five further bridges required elsewhere. Pregrouting 20-25 m ahead of face with 7 m overlap to avoid leakage that would reduce water table, and 25 dbA night-time and 35 dbA weekend noise restrictions are in force. All rock crushed and recycled. Primary crusher situated underground with conveyor system to harbour for export of surplus rock. Granite is transmitting blast noise 800 m, so residents are warned 30 mins in advance by minicom call. 70 flats have been made available by Vagverket for residents who wish to move out while faces pass beneath their homes. 42,000 grouted rockbolts 3-4 m-long used to date, mainly in roof. Variety of 12 Atlas Copco drillrigs drilling 5 m blastholes and 4 m rockbolt holes. Low-fume slurry explosives loaded using Dyno automatic charging tracks with nonel detonation. Mainly shotctrete finish. Visit www.selmer.no and www.atlascopco.com May 2000. Award of contract for feasibility study for Nynasvagen road tunnel in southern suburbs of Stockholm to Sycon-Stockholm Konsult. Decision and invitation to tender for design expected in 2003. Visit www.stockholmkonsult.se 20/01.Open call for bids, deadline 2nd March, 2004 for project design of the northern link. Section K3 Roslagstull includes approx. 2 x 5 km of four-lane rock tunnels and ramps. Drill/blast method to be used. Visit http://ted.publications.eu.int/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=209825-2003, OJ S 235, or contact Vägverket Region Stockholm, Solna, fax +46 86270923. E-mail vagverket.sto@vv.se 51/03.The national road administration has awarded to Sweco VBB a tunnel design contract for the Roslagstull section (contract K3) on the northern link, including approximately 2 x 5 km of four-lane rock tunnels and ramps. Contract value: SEK49.9 million. Visit www.vv.se/vag_traf/vagproj/norralanken/index.shtml and www.sweco.se 31-32/04.Open call for tenders, deadline 22nd August, 2005 for coordinated management for tunnels in rock and soft ground as well as roadworks, as part of the northern link, Stockholm's north ring road between Nortull and Vartan. The total tunnel length is 2 x 11 km, of which 2 x 9 km are rock tunnels and 2 x 2 km are concrete tunnels. Visit http://ted.publications.eu.int/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=121718-2005, OJ S 123, or contact Vagverket, Solna, fax +46 86270923. E-mail norralanken@vv.se 29/05.Vagverket has awarded four contracts to Byggstrategi Peter Jonsson, Delken Bygg och Konsult, Nitro Consult and Per Ekengren Markkonsult for coordinated management for tunnels in rock and soft ground as well as roadworks, as part of the northern link, Stockholm's north ring road between Nortull and Vartan. The 2 x 11 km project includes about 2 x 9 km of rock tunnels, about 2 x 2 km of concrete tunnels and a 200 m tunnel in soft ground.Byggkonsult Peter Jonsson and Delken Bygg och Konsult work with the rock tunnels. Nitro Consult with a 200 m soft ground tunnel and Per Ekengren Markkonsult with the concrete tunnels. Visit www.nitroconsult.se 04/06.Open call for tenders, deadline 31st May, 2006 for site supervision related to ground work and ground stabilization during construction of the Northern Link, Stockholm's north ring road including 9 km of blasted tunnel and 2 km of cut-and-cover tunnel. Visit http://ted.publications.eu.int/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=074488-2006, OJ S 71, or contact Vagverket, Solna, tel. +46 87576994. E-mail anna.nylen@vv.se 19/06.Open call for tenders, deadline 31st May, 2006 for site supervision related to rock work during construction of the Northern Link, Stockholm's north ring road including 9 km of blasted tunnel and 2 km of cut-and-cover tunnel. Visit http://ted.publications.eu.int/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=074489-2006, OJ S 71, or contact Vagverket, Solna, tel. +46 87576994. E-mail anna.nylen@vv.se 19/06.Open call for tenders, deadline 31st May, 2006 for site supervision related to water and drainage during construction of the Northern Link, Stockholm's north ring road including 9 km of blasted tunnel and 2 km of cut-and-cover tunnel. Visit http://ted.publications.eu.int/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=074490-2006, OJ S 71, or contact Vagverket, Solna, tel. +46 87576994. E-mail anna.nylen@vv.se 19/06.Open call for tenders, deadline 31st May, 2006 for site supervision related to water and drainage during construction of the Northern Link, Stockholm's north ring road including 9 km of blasted tunnel and 2 km of cut-and-cover tunnel. Visit http://ted.publications.eu.int/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=074490-2006, OJ S 71, or contact Vagverket, Solna, tel. +46 87576994. E-mail anna.nylen@vv.se 19/06.Open call for tenders, deadline 29th May, 2006 for site supervision related to geotechnics during construction of the Northern Link, Stockholm's north ring road including 9 km of blasted tunnel and 2 km of cut-and-cover tunnel. Visit http://ted.publications.eu.int/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=082180-2006, OJ S 78, or contact Vagverket, Solna, tel. +46 87576994. E-mail anna.nylen@vv.se 19/06.Open call for tenders, deadline 8th November, 2006 for quality coordination during construction of stockholm's northern ring road, in particular in the tunnels. Click here. Visit http://ted.europa.eu/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=187721-2006, OJ S 176, or contact Vagverket, Stockholm, tel. +46 771119119. E-mail anna.nylen@vagverket.se 40/06.Open call for tenders, deadline 8th November, 2006 for environmental consultancy to check that contractors comply with environmental policies during construction of Stockholm's northern ring road, in particular in the tunnels. Click here. Visit http://ted.europa.eu/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=187722-2006, OJ S 176, or contact Vagverket, Stockholm, tel. +46 771119119. E-mail anna.nylen@vagverket.se 40/06.Open call for tenders, deadline 3rd September, 2007 for contract NL 34, Teknikhöjden rock tunnels, as part of the north ring road in Stockholm. Contract NL 34 includes 1,500 metres of one-lane tunnels and 1,000 metres of two-lane tunnels. Visit http://ted.europa.eu/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=57632-2007, OJ S 47, or contact Vägverket, Stockholm, fax +46 771119119. E-mail norralanken@vv.se 15/07.Open call for tenders, deadline 3rd September, 2007 for contract NL 35, Värtan rock tunnels, as part of the north ring road in Stockholm. Contract NL 35 includes 200 metres of one-lane tunnels, 650 metres of two-lane tunnels, 250 metres of three-lane tunnels and 1,450 metres of four-lane tunnels. Visit http://ted.europa.eu/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=57633-2007, OJ S 47, or contact Vägverket, Stockholm, fax +46 771119119. E-mail norralanken@vv.se 15/07.Open call for tenders, deadline 3rd September, 2007 for contract NL 33, Albano rock tunnels, as part of the north ring road in Stockholm. Contract NL 33 includes 1,100 metres of one-lane tunnels, 650 metres of two-lane tunnels and 500 metres of three-lane tunnels. Visit http://ted.europa.eu/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=58839-2007, OJ S 48, or contact Vägverket, Stockholm, fax +46 771119119. E-mail norralanken@vv.se 15/07.The Norra Länken tunnels are twin tubes. One-lane tunnels have a cross section of 9 m x 10 m (height x width). Two-lane tunnels have a cross section of 9 m x 13 m. Three-lane tunnels have a cross section of 9.5 m x 16.5 m. Four-lane tunnels have a cross section of 10 m x 18.5 m. Read E-News Weekly 14/2007. 15/07.Open procedure, deadline 21st May, 2007 for inspection for the northern link, Stockholm's north ring road. The tender is for inspection organisation to handle all the inspections for the major contracts. Visit http://ted.europa.eu/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=77278-2007, OJ S 63, or contact Vägverket, Stockholm, tel. +46 771119119. E-mail lars.lilja@vv.se 17/07.Veidekke has been awarded two contracts for two tunnels and access ramps on the Norra Länken (Northern Link), Stockholm's north ring road, by the Swedish public roads administration. These contracts are worth a total of just under SEK1 billion. Contract NL 33 is for the Albano rock tunnels, including 1.1 km of one-lane tunnels, 650 metres of two-lane tunnels and 500 metres of three-lane tunnels. The Albano rock tunnel will require approx. the blasting of 250,000 cubic metres of rock. Contract NL 34 refers to the Teknikhöjden rock tunnels, including 1.5 km of one-lane tunnels and 1,000 metres of two-lane tunnels. The Teknikhöjden rock tunnel will need to blast approx. 300,000 cubic metres of rock. Veidekke previously built the two working tunnels for these tunnels. The work includes jet grouting and shotcreting, construction of concrete bridges and other concrete structures underground, and road construction. Visit www.veidekke.se 05/08.Oden Anläggning in a 50/50 joint venture with Hochtief bagged contract NL 35 for the Värtan rock tunnels. The assignment includes 200 metres of one-lane tunnels, 650 metres of two-lane tunnels, 250 metres of three-lane tunnels and 1,450 metres of four-lane tunnels. The tunnels will require to move approx. 400,000 cubic metres of rock. The same JV also won contract NL 51 for the Värtan concrete tunnel. Read E-News Weekly 5/2008. The two contracts are worth SEK1.2 million. See also E-News Weekly 1/2008 for the announcement of contract NL 11. Visit www.oden.nu, www.hochtief-construction.de and www.vv.se/templates/page3____19625.aspx 05/08.

Open invitation to tender, deadline, 18.03.2010, for the turnkey contract NL 67 for design, supply, installation, testing and implementation of ventilation tunnels on Norra Länken (Northern Link), Stockholm's north ring road. Contact Anders Karnestrand at Vägverket, Sundbybergsvägen 1, S-171 90 Solna, tel 46 87576816, fax 46 86270923, e-mail upphandling.sto@vv.se. Visit http://ted.europa.eu/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=284392-2009. 45/09.

Bilfinger Berger of Gothenburg have been awarded the design/build contract for the Bellevue twin-tube, three-lane concrete tunnels NL22 on Norra Lanken, contract period 38 months. More from Maria Ryden at Swedish Road Administration in Solna, tel +46 87576810, fax +46 86270923, e-mail norralanken@vv.se. Visit http://ted.europa.eu/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=037777-2010. 06/10.

Contract to design and execute NL41 Frescati 2 + 2 lane concrete tunnel on Norra Lanken awarded to Peab Sverige AB, Box 808, SE-169 28 Solna. For project history visit tunnelbuilder archive se/13. Visit http://ted.europa.eu/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=040634-2010. 07/10.

Prior information notice of scheduled start of award procedures on 15.04.2010 for construction of three 700 m-long surface tunnels for E4/E20 Tomteboda-Haga Sodra highway during period 2011-2016. Contract duration 65 months, value EUR200 million. Further information from Johnny Orneholm at Vaegverket in Solna, tel +46 771119119, fax +46 86270923, e-mail upphandling.sto@vv.se. For project history visit tunnelbuilder archive se/13. Visit http://ted.europa.eu/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=057012-2010. 08/10.

Open invitation to tender, deadline 01.11.2010, for work including construction of three 700 m-long surface tunnels for E4/E20 Tomteboda-Haga Sodra highway. Further information from Johnny Orneholm at Vaegverket in Sundbyberg, tel +46 705539524, e-mail upphandling.sto@trafikverket.se. Time limit for receipt of requests or for accessing documents 15.10.2010. Contract starts 15.01.2011 for completion 31.12.2016, estimated value EUR200 million. For full project history visit tunnelbuilder archive se/13. Visit http://ted.europa.eu/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=153397-2010. 21/10.

Bravida Sverige AB of Stockholm secured the turnkey contract NL 67 for design, supply, installation, testing and implementation of ventilation tunnels on Norra Lanken, Stockholm north ring road. Contact Anders Karnestrand at Vägverket, Sundbybergsvägen 1, S-171 90 Solna, tel 46 87576816, fax 46 86270923, e-mail upphandling.sto@vv.se. Visit http://ted.europa.eu/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=150532-2010. 22/10.

Open invitation to tender, deadline 01.11.2010, for overdecking in connection with construction of three 700 m-long surface tunnels for E4/E20 Tomteboda-Haga Sodra highway. Further information, specs and docs from Johnny Orneholm at Vaegverket in Sundbyberg, tel +46 705539524, e-mail upphandling.sto@trafikverket.se to whom tenders or requests to participate must be sent. Time limit for receipt of requests or for accessing documents 15.10.2010. Contract no TRV 2010/40585 starts 15.01.2011 for completion 31.12.2016. Visit http://ted.europa.eu/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=159399-2010. 22/10.

Open invitation to tender, deadline 01.12.2010, for ventilation consultancy services for tunnels in the northern link, Stockholm's north ring road. Bid n. TRV 2010/90654. Contract duration 12 months. The procurement could be extended for E18 Hjulsta-Kista and southern link. Contact Trafikverket, Sundbyberg, attn Anders Karnestrand, tel +46 771921921, e-mail anders.karnestrand@trafikverket.se. Send offers to https://www.eu-supply.com/transactions.asp?B=TRAFIKVERKET&PU=1. Visit http://ted.europa.eu/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=316404-2010 and http://ted.europa.eu/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=316304-2010. 43/10.

The awarding procedure for ventilation consultancy services for tunnels in Stockholm's north ring road has been discontinued. Bid no TRV 2010/90654. Contact Trafikverket, Sundbyberg, attn Anders Karnestrand, tel +46 771921921, e-mail anders.karnestrand@trafikverket.se. Visit http://ted.europa.eu/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=320117-2010. 44/10.

Award of contract to Hochtief Construction AG of Kista, value EUR94.1 million excluding VAT, for construction of three 700 m-long surface tunnels for E4/E20 Tomteboda-Haga Sodra highway. Further information from Johnny Orneholm at Vaegverket in Sundbyberg, tel +46 705539524, e-mail upphandling.sto@trafikverket.se quoting contract no TRV 2010/40585, and from Hochtief, tel +46 8588370-20, fax -21. Review project history at se/13. Visit http://ted.europa.eu/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=158439-2011. 21/11.

Open invitation to tender, deadline 26.06.2013, for Assistant Project Manager of E4/E20 Norra Lanken project. Value of contract EUR465,354 excluding VAT, duration 01.01.2014 to 31.12.2015. Contact Trafikverket, att.n Johan Sundin, Borlange, tel +46 771921921, e-mail johan.sundin@trafikverket.se. Visit http://ted.europa.eu/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=165643-2013. Bid Code n. TRV 2013/33967. 22/13.

S Karlsson Projektteknik AB of Sundbyberg secured the EUR465,000 contract, 25 percent VAT included, for Assistant Project Manager of E4/E20 Norra Lanken project. Contact Trafikverket, att.n Johan Sundin, Borlange, tel +46 771921921, e-mail johan.sundin@trafikverket.se. Visit http://ted.europa.eu/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=304375-2013. Bid Code n. TRV 2013/33967. 39/13.

Maintpartner AB of Arsta secured the EUR3.75 million contract, excluding VAT, for operation and maintenance of firefighting and environmental equipment in the  Stockholm road tunnel, Vastmanland and Uppsala counties and Hoga Kusten bridge. The contracts involve Sodralanken, Norrortsleden, Muskotunnel (2.9 km) and tunnels Kista, Frosvi (220 m) and Ullunda (170 m) on E18. Contact Trafikverket, attn Emma Stenman, Borlange, tel +46 771921921, e-mail emma.stenman@trafikverket.se. Visit http://ted.europa.eu/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=42594-2015. Ref. n. TRV 2014/14749. 07/15