Vidareidi Tunnel

Landsverk (the public roads administration on the Faroe Islands) has signed a contract with LNS and Faroese Articon concerning building the Hvannasund-Vidareidi project, which is a landslide prevention and transport project on the northernmost part of the Faroe Islands. The project is another in a list of several road and tunnel projects on the Faroe Islands in recent years. The project entails building a 1,900 metre tunnel and constructing about 3,600 metres of surface road. The road is being built in accordance with standard class H1 with a road breadth of 7.5 metres/6.5 metres of roadway and a tunnel profile of T 8.5. The contract entails constructing and securing the Vidareidi tunnel including water and frost protection as well as drainage and road building with asphalt for the entire section.