New Civil Engineer
Sotiris Kanaris
27 August 2025
The £440M New Bodø Airport project in Northern Norway aims to set a precedent in terms of how contractual mechanisms and technology could be used to ensure cost-effective and on-time delivery.
The investment decision for the new airport was taken in 2022. Avinor project director Paul Torgersen says the total cost of the project is 6bn NOK (£440M), with £240M to be spent on infrastructure and the rest on buildings. The government is providing £360M, while the rest will be provided by Avinor, which will sell the existing airport site to the municipality – making the municipality another funding partner. The municipality will buy today’s airport area for approximately £72M.
Avinor appointed Cowi as engineering consultant and Sweden-headquartered Peab as the main contractor for the infrastructure works.
The project involves land reclamation of 200,000m² to add the extra length needed for the runway and west turning circle...Through blasting of existing ridges on site, 3.5M.m3 of material will be collected. Almost half of it will be used for the sea infill, with the rest used for other functions including flood defences and the sub-base layer of the runway...
