The federal government will lower prices for the brand new constructing for the Institute of Marine Analysis and the Directorate of Fisheries

New premises for the Institute of Marine Analysis and the Directorate of Fisheries at Dokken in Bergen are at the moment being deliberate. The development undertaking is more likely to be considerably costlier than initially estimated, resulting from a rise in space along with the overall market growth within the development business and uncertainty associated to land prices.

Now the federal government desires to chop the prices of the undertaking. That is acknowledged by the Ministry of Commerce and Fisheries in a press launch.

– All features of the undertaking should be assessed, in order that we get real looking price estimates that the federal government and Storting can take a place on when the preliminary undertaking has been investigated, says Fisheries and Oceans Minister Marianne Sivertsen Næss (Ap).

The ministry has now requested Statsbygg, which is the consumer, to contemplate numerous measures that may scale back the scope of the undertaking, and to have a look at how a lot will be saved by eradicating numerous capabilities, together with deliberate laboratories.

They can even have a look at how a lot will be saved by transferring the Directorate of Fisheries to development stage two, that means that they initially stay of their present premises.

– An essential a part of the assessments will probably be to make clear what penalties any cuts within the undertaking can have on the businesses’ capability to satisfy their social missions, writes the ministry.