E6 Helgeland Nord

Helgeland Nord is the first of three road construction projects to be implemented in Nordland County, Norway. The construction work will take place in the period 2015-2019. The current and existing road is narrow and winding, with limited capacity, frost heave problems and frequent crossroads, which leads to inefficient transportation and heavy financial costs. There have been a number of traffic accidents; as many as 40 a year on average for the E6 Helgeland as a whole, two or three of which have been fatal. The Helgeland Nord project involves the relocation of 3 million cubic metres of soil, 1 tunnel and 23 structures. One of these is Langvassåga, a bridge with three spans to be supported on solid rock, steel pipe foundations and friction-based steel pipes respectively. 150 km needs rehabilitation or new stretches. 60 km Korgen - Bolna, 15 km Brattås - Lien, 75 km NT-grense – Korgen