Eiffage drives off with €234m Norway low-carbon motorway contract

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French contracting giant Eiffage has won a €234 million contract to build a new section of the E18-E39 motorway in Kristiansand, Norway.

Eiffage will undertake the work through its subsidiary Eiffage Génie Civil and has secured the design-build contract from Statens Vegvesen, a company owned by the Norwegian Ministry of Transport.

Located in Kristiansand, the new section of road links Gartnerløkka and Kolsdalen.

The aim of the project is to increase capacity on the main artery into the city centre and port facilities of the country’s sixth-largest city.

Eiffage will build a 1.4km stretch of bidirectional two-lane motorway in a dense urban environment, which includes creating 12 engineering structures, reconstructing 1.5km of railway lines, redeveloping the existing ferry terminal, and installing electrical and traffic engineering equipment.

The project is targeting the BREEAM “Excellent” label, and the Norwegian government has designated it a “low-carbon energy pilot”.

Eiffage Route’s GB5 asphalt will be used for the carriageways, with Biophalt asphalt incorporating bio-sourced binder used for the cycleways and pavements.

Work on the project, which is split into four phases, will begin after a year of studies and continue with no interruption to road, rail and cycle traffic and continued access to marine infrastructure.

Handover is scheduled for mid-2029.