Work is currently underway on the street system in Malmö Industrial Park. It will be about three kilometres long, with completion in 2016. The infrastructure for water and sewage in the approximately 900,000 square metre site is being installed simultaneously.
Malmö City put the construction work out to tender earlier this year and a contractor was selected during the autumn. The work, which will transform parts of the Industrial Park into a building site during the coming year, got underway in November.
”Pipes are now also being installed for the fibre-optic cables for IT, as well as for electricity and district heating for the area”, reports Lars Brinte, project manager at the Real Estate Office in Malmö City Council.
This will mean that much of the basic infrastructure in the area will be in place. Electricity and district heating are being installed up to the respective site boundaries. The tenants then decide themselves whether they want to, for example, connect to the local district heating grid, or if they want to order their electricity via Eon, which is responsible for these deliveries.
Starting in the spring
Much of the work that is currently in progress is concentrated in the south-eastern part of the industrial park and the area around the nature reserve. Lars Brinte emphasises that activities will increase during the spring, with cycle paths and pavements also being completed during 2016.
”The actual roads will be 7 – 8 metres wide. Cycle paths and footpaths will also be installed in parallel with the streets. And as they will run on both sides of the roads, we will have six kilometres of cycle paths in the industrial park”, he says.
Trees and grass areas will also be planted to complete the layout. These jobs will also be ready in about one year, at which time there will be a three kilometre long asphalted street system in the Industrial Park.