Swedish construction giant Skanska has secured a EUR 46 mln assignment from Specialfastigheter Sverige to extend prison facilities in the Harnosand region, in northern Sweden. Skanka is extending the Swedish Prison and Probation Service's sites at Kumla, Hall and Saltvik.
Swedish construction giant Skanska has secured a EUR 46 mln assignment from Specialfastigheter Sverige to extend prison facilities in the Harnosand region, in northern Sweden. Skanka is extending the Swedish Prison and Probation Service's sites at Kumla, Hall and Saltvik.
The project, with phased completion dates, comprises three new detention centres each covering 5,800 m2. All will be built from scratch and each will have space for 24 intakes, functioning at an extremely high safety level as a 'prison within a prison'. Commenting on the deal, Skanska's district manager Piero Sannicolò said: 'We are pleased and proud to have been entrusted with the task of implementing this unique project. It imposes particularly high demands on quality, safety and our ability to coordinate three identical projects in three different locations'.
The Kumla centre should be completed by the end of November 2008; Hall by March 2009 and Saltvik by June the same year.
