SWECO designs streets and parks in a new residential area

SWECO designs streets and parks in a new residential area

In a new commission for the City of Stockholm SWECO is to develop program
documents for streets and parkland in the Årsta area.

A large section of Årsta will soon be ready for residential re-development. New
land is being freed up partly as a result of a reduced traffic volume within the
area, and partly in the light of the proposed removal of a power line into a
rock tunnel. 

- This project is ideally suited to us, as we at SWECO have an established
record of collaboration between different technical areas, explains Project
Manager Jarl Ericzén at SWECO VBB TrafikDesign, who draws a comparison with
earlier, similar projects in urban areas such as Hammarby Sjöstad and
Liljeholmen-Årstadal. 

SWECO will be responsible for the creation of landscape, parks and streets with
the aid of levelling, traffic studies and geotechnics. The project also includes
management co-ordination within the area.  

- The new development, with around 2000 residential units, will link up with
existing housing developments in Årsta. It is an exciting challenge for us to
create streets and parkland in this new area of town, says Jarl Ericzén.  

The work is being carried out at the request of the Stockholm City Development
Office. The program documents are to be used as a basis for detailed plans and
working documents for public land. The project is worth around 3.5 million SEK
and will be ongoing until December 2008.


For further information contact:
Jarl Ericzén, Project Manager at SWECO VBB TrafikDesign, telephone: 08-695 63
92, e-mail: jarl.ericzen@sweco.se


SWECO is the Nordic region's leading provider of consulting services with
combined expertise in engineering, environmental technology and architecture.
SWECO has around 4,200 employees in eight countries and recorded annual sales of
approximately SEK 3.9 billion in 2006.  The company has projects currently
underway in some 75 countries worldwide. The SWECO share is quoted on the
Stockholm Stock Exchange.