Sandvika, 23 May (OSE: NORCO): Norconsult and subsidiary Nordic Office of Architecture, with Ratio arkitekter, have been selected as design group at the New University Hospital of North Norway Åsgård (Nye UNN Åsgård) by Consto.
On 21 March the University Hospital of North Norway (UNN) awarded Consto the contract to build Nye UNN Åsgård. Now Norconsult and Nordic Office of Architecture, in collaboration with its partners, will deliver complete engineering consultancy and architectural services to Consto and UNN, encompassing all relevant disciplines for the project.
“We are very pleased to secure this assignment, and we look forward to working closely with UNN and Consto in this important project and to be part of a very competent team. Norconsult and Nordic Office of Architecture has strong competences and extensive experience within healthcare buildings and will provide the necessary expertise and capacity to make this project successful”, says Bård Sverre Hernes, EVP Norway Head Office at Norconsult.
Nye UNN Åsgård is one of the most complex hospital projects in Norway today – combining new construction, demolition, and rehabilitation in a facility that is both protected as a whole and partially preserved.
Norconsult and Nordic Office of Architecture, in collaboration with Ratio architects, have developed a proposal for an implementation plan that addresses this complexity. The team constitutes a strong professional environment and has a leading portfolio in psychiatry, including several projects within security psychiatry.
Building on experiences from former psychiatry projects, the team will ensure continuity in the work of maintaining function and functionality, described through participation in the concept phase for Nye UNN Åsgård.
The project is divided into three construction phases, with the first phase commencing in autumn 2025 and the final phase scheduled for completion in autumn 2030. The estimated value of the contract is NOK 80 million.
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About Norconsult
Norconsult is a leading pan-Nordic interdisciplinary consulting firm, combining engineering, architecture and digital expertise across projects of all sizes, for private and public customers in infrastructure, energy and industry, buildings and architecture. Headquartered in Sandvika, Norway, Norconsult's delivery model is centred around knowledge hubs and local presence through approximately 6,600 employees across more than 140 offices in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Iceland, Poland and Finland.
About University Hospital of North Norway
University Hospital of North Norway has hospitals in Tromsø, Harstad, Narvik and Longyearbyen in Svalbard/Spitsbergen. It also has psychiatric care and substance abuse treatment in Åsgård in Tromsø, in Harstad, in Narvik and in several other places in Troms and the Narvik area.