Horten Municipality has selected Peab to clear, clean and construct a new seabed in the Horten harbor basin, in a contract worth NOK 120 million.
This is Peab’s second ocean floor project in Norway. During 2018 Peab finished clearing, cleaning and constructing a new seabed in Pudde Fjord, Bergen.
“ The project was interesting from a technical, environmental and societal perspective and it inspired us to do other such work. Therefore I’m very proud and pleased that Peab has received this contract, ” said Johan Hansson , MD Peab Anlegg.
The project in Horten comprises clearing trash from the seabed, dredging certain areas, moving the contaminated masses to a landfill and then covering the seabed and preventing erosion. In total 430,000 m2 ocean floor will be cleared and then covered with a 150,000 m3 layer of stones.
The work will begin in October 2019 and continue until October 2020.
The project is part of a national environmental initiative and is a large scale environmental investment between the Norwegian Environmental Agency, Horten Municipality, the Norwegian Defence Estates Agency and Horten Industrial Park.
“ Peab has extensive and relevant expertise and experience from similar projects in other places in the country and we look forward to good teamwork. This will be a boost for Horten and for the environment we all share, ” added Anders Bergsli , project leader in Horten Municipality.