PORR news from Norway: Tresfjord Bridge opened . Tresfjord Bridge – opening of one of the region’s most spectacular bridge projects

Vienna/Tresfjord, 24 October 2015 – The first of PORR’s Norwegian bridge projects – the prestigious Tresfjord Bridge on the Norwegian Sea – saw its official opening today. With the acquisition of Bilfin-ger Infrastructure in Poland in August of this year, the Group also took over the Norwegian subsidiary along with the three existing bridge construction projects. The first of these – the Tresfjord Bridge – has now been completed. The 19-pillar bridge over the fjord is a joint project with Implenia. The de-veloper is Statens Vegvesen, a public investor from Norway and the tender is worth around EUR 75m.
 
“It is only recently that we announced the expansion of our presence in Poland and Norway. In one fell swoop we gained three Norwegian bridge construction projects and a great local team. Today’s opening of the first completed bridge is an important milestone for PORR in Norway”, beamed Karl-Heinz Strauss, CEO of PORR AG.
 
The Tresfjord Bridge, situated on Norway’s west coast near Molde, links the two banks of Remmem (Vestens) and Vikebukt over the Tresfjord and reduces travel time between the towns of Ålesund and Dombas. It counts as one of the region’s most spectacular bridge projects. The bridge has a total length of 1,290m and rests on five different types of foundation. Construction began in November 2012 and goes to depths of as much as 100m in some places in the waters of the fjord.
 
PORR’s two other bridge projects in Norway are also being realised in a consortium with Implenia: one of them involves building a 320m-long extradosed bridge in Vinstra (Harpe Bru) by mid-2016. The other should see a 570m-long cable-stayed bridge erected by approximately November 2017 in Farris as part of a larger project in which the E18 expressway between Bommestad and Sky will be built in the Larvik region. The orders have a value of around EUR 84m for the project in Vinstra and around EUR 18m for the bridge and expressway in Farris.
 
You can get some impressions of the Tresfjord Bridge in the following video: 
http://youtu.be/v5UnR_eEMw4