Fana Stein & Gjenvinning is about to take a major step towards a greener construction and civil engineering industry.
– This is a milestone and a major turning point in a more sustainable direction, says Joar Hovda, environmental manager at Fana Stein & Gjenvinning.
Can reuse 80 per cent
Fana Stein & Gjenvinning was established as a quarry and crushing plant in 1954. When the stone resources in the local area were exhausted, they began extracting stone by establishing large underground caverns inside Mount Stendafjellet. The excavated material from these caverns is processed into stone products for the construction and civil engineering industry, while the caverns are subsequently used as a landfill for contaminated material.
At the company's site in Rådalen, Strand, one of the companies in the FM Group, is underway with the construction of what will be Bergen's first stationary washing plant for contaminated soil and rock materials from construction and civil engineering sites in the region. In order to build something new in an area where there has previously been some form of activity, ground investigations must be carried out. If it turns out that the materials in the ground are contaminated, these must be removed.
