NCC Construction Sverige AB

On 16 August 2013, Svenska kraftnät awarded NCC Construction Sverige AB a contract worth approximately SEK 49 million to excavate the trench and install the direct-current onshore land cable along the roughly 40 km Swedish landfall corridor between Sandvik on the Baltic coast and the new HVDC converter station at Nybro. The award completed the package of major Swedish-side contracts for NordBalt, following the 2010 ABB cable supply, the 2010 ABB converter award, and the 2012 Siemens AB Nybro switchyard turnkey. NCC's scope covered the civil works for the four-mile route — schakt (excavation), transport, cable laying and final reinstatement of farmland and forest — across some hundred landowner parcels in Nybro and Kalmar municipalities. The contract was structured as an Utförandeentreprenad (performance-based contract) under which NCC executed the route work to Svenska kraftnät's design. Excavation began in spring 2014 and the buried 40 km onshore section was completed by year-end 2014, in time for offshore cable installation and converter-station commissioning. The NCC contract sits beneath ABB's overarching €270m cable supply (which provided the cable itself, including the ±300 kV HVDC Light XLPE land cable used here). NCC's role is recorded as the install-only counterpart for the Swedish onshore segment.