After repeated deviations from rules for environmental regulations and safety, Bane Nor chose on Tuesday to stop all work on the new double track in Moss.
Part of the facility where Bane Nor will build a new double track through Moss. Photo: Erik Johansen / NTB
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Published: 01/02/2024 13:36
Bane Nor is the client for the development of a new double track on the Østfold Railway through Moss. After several cases of non-compliance with the contract and rules, Bane Nor ordered the contractor MossIA on Tuesday to stop the work, writes Technical Weekly.
– We have chosen to take the serious step of temporarily stopping the work. This is due to no concrete, acute incident, but the fact that there are many conditions at the same time that make us feel the need to stop the work now and get the contractor to close a number of deviations related to quality management, environmental management and safety management, says project manager Eirik Harding Hansen in Lane No.
Does not cancel the contract
There are, among other things, repeated breaches of water discharge permits and conditions related to safety in the workplace. Bane Nor wants documentation from the contractor on how deviations are to be prevented in the future.
To the industry magazine Bygg.no the project manager says that there is no question of terminating the contract with the contractor.
Harding Hansen cannot say anything about when work on the double track can start again. The contractor has been given a deadline of Friday to make a plan for rectifying the deviations, but he will not speculate on how long it will take before they are actually corrected.
– Unfair
Carsten Rosskamp in MossIA writes to Teknisk Ukeblad that the company has health, environmental and safety work on the project as the highest priority, but that they disagree with the client.
– In our opinion, this is unfair, writes Rosskamp to TU.
The project to build a new double railway track through Moss has been hotly debated. Parts of the route go through an area of quick clay. The estimates for what the project will cost have been adjusted upwards several times from NOK 6 billion in 2017 to NOK 25 billion last year.
The work that has now been stopped does not apply to the 1 kilometer stretch of quick clay, but to the other 9 kilometers of the project.
2024-02-01 12:36:43
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