{"id":9430,"date":"2022-12-13T11:52:32","date_gmt":"2022-12-13T11:52:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/?p=9430"},"modified":"2022-12-13T11:52:32","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T11:52:32","slug":"rogfast-tunnel-project-skanska-concludes-the-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/?p=9430","title":{"rendered":"Rogfast Tunnel Project &#8211; Skanska Concludes the Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In order to constructing a subsea tunnel for Norway\u2019s E39 Rogfast project, a contract has been signed with the Norwegian Road Authority by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skanska.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Skanska<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Locating between the municipalities Randaberg and Bokn in Rogaland County, the E39 Rogfast project is a subsea road tunnel with 27km length (the Boknafjord tunnel). While this tunnel is due to be the world\u2019s longest and deepest subsea road tunnel with a maximum depth of 392m beneath sea level, it is also a strategic part of development of the E39 West Coastal highway. Responsibility of building the northern part of the Boknafjord tunnel will be up to Skanska, whereas its contract&#8217;s value is NOK5bn (US$500m) comprising an 18.5km tunnel and 2km of road above ground.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The expected date for commencing the construction process is the first quarter of 2023 and it is slated be completed in the third quarter of 2029.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In order to constructing a subsea tunnel for Norway\u2019s E39 Rogfast project, a contract has been signed with the Norwegian Road Authority by Skanska. Locating between the municipalities Randaberg and Bokn in Rogaland County, the E39 Rogfast project is a subsea road tunnel with 27km length (the Boknafjord tunnel). While this tunnel is due to be the world\u2019s longest and deepest subsea road tunnel with a maximum depth of 392m beneath sea level, it is also a strategic part of development of the E39 West Coastal highway. Responsibility of building the northern part of the Boknafjord tunnel will be up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9432,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,43],"tags":[244,2804,2805,1085,47],"class_list":["post-9430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-project-show-case","tag-norway","tag-norwegian-road-authority","tag-rogfast-tunnel-project","tag-skanska","tag-tunneling","post--single"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}