STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Dec. 12, 2002 (PRIMEZONE) -- Scandiaconsult has been commissioned by the Finnish Road Administration to survey the maintenance requirements of about 30 000 km of roads in Finland over five years. The contract sum is estimated at more than SEK 50m.
The state of the roads, including road surface damage and rut depth, will be surveyed using road surface measurement techniques. The measurements obtained will provide a good picture of what maintenance action is required to optimise maintenance work.
Scandiaconsult's road maintenance department, RST, will conduct the measurement work together with Scandiaconsult's Finnish unit, SCC Viatek. The work will be started on 1 April 2003 and will thereafter be conducted annually from April to October. This contract strengthens Scandiaconsult's position as one of Europe's leading consultants in the planning of operation and maintenance of infrastructure. RST has been conducting advanced measurement assignments since the mid 1980s for a variety of clients including the Swedish National Road Administration and several of Sweden's municipalities.
"The advanced technical content combined with long experience and local presence has gained us the confidence of the Finnish Road Administration. This Finnish contract is strategically important for the continued internationalisation of our measurement operations," says Hakan Rask from RST.
For more information please contact Hakan Rask, RST, tel. +46 40-10 54 05, mobile +46 705-25 46 64, or Jaakko Heikkila, SCC Viatek, tel. +358 9 430 1219, mobil +358 40 520 3050.
Scandiaconsult, with 2,100 employees in more than 50 locations in Sweden, Norway, and Finland, is a leading consulting engineering company in the Nordic market. The Group offers comprehensive solutions in all technical disciplines from concept and analysis, planning, design and project management to operation and maintenance. Scandiaconsult has annual sales of SEK 1.5 billion and is quoted on the A list of the Stockholm Stock Exchange. For more information visit www.scc.se.
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