Hovland laws freeway to Hamar and past several years before it is scheduled, and will save billions. Including through removing road lighting, build narrower roads and invest less in drainage and frost protection.
There they are not yet.
– No.
It responds boss himself questions about it after six years of business are visible traces of the government’s new company new avenues efforts. But she describes paper insert, in the form of cuts checks and procedures, as formidable.
Construction of three major road projects in the spring
Ingrid Dahl Hovland warrants to Aftenposten that New Roads will build highways faster, more efficient and cheaper than NPRA, her former employer.
– Yes, I do. We see great opportunities. For stretch Kolomoen-Moelv is we already 300 million under Road Administration estimates, says Hovland.
Not only that. Government veiselskap laws that 43 km of highway, from strange south of Hamar to Moelv, will be ready in 2021, partly in 2020. There are at least two years earlier than planned, as opening date resolved is estimated at earliest in 2023.
Also E18 projects Tvedestrand-Arendal and Rugtvedt (south of Brevik) to Dørdal (north of Kragerø) are ready for the start of construction in 2017, according to Hovland after record quick work in their own company and in Parliament.
“took hold of local politicians”
– How did you get expedited construction of Kolomoen-Moelv?
– We grabbed local politicians, gathered them in a room and said that if we manage to get to local decision on toll distribution, and we will work to get through the proposition of ours. We got it through. It’s really amazing, says Hovland.
point for point, New Roads reduce freeway standard
The government has taken eight road projects of Road Administration and given them to New Roads. Together, they were estimated to cost 148 billion. Hovland & amp; Co. think it can be done 22bn. cheaper by:
- Drop Lighting over long distances.
- Leave the terrain take care of drainage instead of building closed drainage along selected stretches .
- Reduce road width.
- Reduce requirements for visibility.
- Reduce the thickness of the asphalt layers.
- Make easier frost protection on selected stretches.
How to defend her lower standard
– Improves not streetlighting traffic safety powerful?
– no, we can not find anything in research that says it offers higher traffic outside densely populated areas and outside intersection areas. We’ve also wildly fences along the roads, says Ingrid Dahl Hovland.
– Scaring not experiences with frost heave on new highways?
– Yes, it scares. The same with skjeggestad bridge and slide in Hanekleiv Tunnel. It shall not happen on our stretches. Quality assurance in the implementation is very important.
– You mean Road Administration has built great highways?
– In some areas we are building with high standard in Norway, we believe. It must enter a greater cost focus. In Sweden, one gjerrigere the default choice, especially on stretches with slightly lower traffic, says Hovland.
Road Administration: – Can be expensive to build affordable
Aftenposten has referred the list of lower standard Terje Moe Gustavsen, director of the NPRA. How he responds:
– It can be expensive to build cheap if the costs of operation and maintenance becomes large. And concern for road safety is central to all planning and construction of roads. However, it is important to always see opportunities for change, appropriate simplifications, and adopt new methods. In this context, we will of course use both their own and others’ experiences.
Road Safety: Can null fatal accidents, but …
– It’s a little dangerous to just say yes or no to lower the standard, says senior adviser and veteran of Road Safety, Bård Morten Johansen.
– today, conditions are bad on the stretch Kolomoen-Moelv. Motorway can null out the fatal accident and perhaps eliminate accidents with serious injuries. Upgrading is needed as soon as possible, he said.
– Hovland probably right in road safety are not immediately weakened the standards she describes. But quality also with longevity to do. We know that it takes a long time to upgrade roads in Norway when they are old and tired, says Johansen.
Swedish roads at half price
According to New Roads builds Swedes motorways at half rate of the population of Norway, due to:
- Easier topography.
- Faster planning.
- Larger and more coherent projects.
- at municipal and zoning done as one process.
- Easier standard and design of the road.
– in Norway the actual planning effective. But then long periods where nothing happens. When plans are lying in the drawer, they go out of date, and we lose both information and expertise, says Hovland.
Owned by the state – has its own board:
government veiselskap is wholly owned by the Ministry of Transport, which also is principal.
They report to a board. Last paragraph is a general headed by Transport Minister.
Printer separate agreements for each road project:
New Roads AS to private road construction contract, with fixed prices, with the principal. It encompasses an entire project or a stretch, including a toll financing –
Until now, these development agreements signed:
E6 Kolemoen-Moelv. Tvedestrand-Arendal and Rugtvedt-Dørdal.
All three commenced in 2017 and will be completed respectively in 2020-21, 2019 and 2019.
Four contractors have been selected so far: Skanska, NCC, AF and German Hochtief.
Ranking of 20 projects before Christmas:
two additional projects are so far prioritized E39 Kristiansand Vest – Vigeland and E6 Trondelag (Åsen- Ranheim and Melhus-Ulsberg).
by the end of the year, all eight stretches that New Roads entrusted to (20 if you divide them into sub-projects) , be ranked. It determines the order, is economic benefit, traffic volume, accident loads, reduced travel time and opportunity for holistic development.
In all eight projects New Roads has received, is planning routes settled. It gives a big advantage over many of the projects NPRA working on.
Will build 8 bn. Per year:
Succeeding New Roads in building cheaper, transferred “surplus” to the next project on the list, which can get started earlier than planned. A candidate is E39 from Kristiansand in the direction of Stavanger.
Shall contribute to reductions in CO₂ emissions:
to help reduce CO₂ emissions shall New Roads especially watching the delivery of equipment and lots of road projects and try to cut down on the use of steel and concrete.
Will entrust much of the work to contractors
the former manager of Road Administration recognize the charges against the agency’s “we know best” attitude. New Roads now gives entrepreneurs an entirely new role.
– By involving them early in the process can entrepreneurs compete on its own technical solutions and bear the risk, says Hovland.
The contractors shall also be responsible for operation and maintenance for 20 years after the road is completed, as a principle.
– When I think that they carefully consider will wear tires and asphalt tires. Doing things over again is expensive, she said.
– But if anything it occurs, it is not a discussion about the responsibility for the way and method?
– It is clear. But the philosophy behind the model is that expertise sits in the industry, not with us, says Hovland.
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