More than a third of a billion. Skanska wants so much extra for the new Hisingsbron. According to the construction giant, this is due to costs that have been added since the traffic office ordered changes during the project. But the traffic office paid only a fraction of the requested amount, 28 million, and questioned the rest.

This led to an extremely frosty tone, where Skanska threatened to suspend work if it was not paid.

The parties had thoughts of a negotiating team that could determine which costs were their responsibility. But Skanska set a number of requirements to participate. Several of these demands could not be accepted by the traffic office. Thus, the situation was locked.

But since SVT Nyheter Väst revealed the conflict, the parties have tried to be more constructive.

- What has been accentuated by the reporting is that we want to have a negotiation meeting with the customer this Friday, says Skanska's press manager Jacob Birkeland.

The fact that the traffic office has not been able to accept all the requirements Skanska's tenants set up for this is no longer as decisive.

- No, I have not heard that it would still be an obstacle to be seen. The expectations are that we can meet, says Jacob Birkeland.

Christer Niland, head of the Large Projects department at the traffic office, confirms this.

- Yes, we absolutely agree with that. Then our idea is to continue to hold such a meeting a week to keep it going, he says, adding that the revelation has accelerated this process.

So on Friday at 12.30 he and his counterpart at Skanska, Per-Ola Svahn, will meet together with a lawyer and a project manager to try to get on a little better footing with each other and find a way forward. The following negotiations will probably take several months.

SVT's revelation led to follow-up reports in other media, where, among other things, previously failed projects that the traffic office has been involved in are listed. Christer Niland thinks that connection is unfair.

- There is a significant difference in the traffic office's management of complex projects today compared to what it looked like just a few years ago. Among other things, we have formed this department Large projects, whose specialty is precisely to run complex projects, he says.

In fact, he believes that the conflict is partly a result of a more professional handling, where the traffic office required more precise documentation that shows who is responsible for the extra costs.

This is what the different parties said when the conflict was discovered:

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