Surcharge for the Nordic Ski World Championship 2025 in Trondheim!

The Peter Riedel GmbH is once again at the forefront of the Nordic ski jumping world by Schanzenanlage in Trondheim (NOR)building the Nordic World Ski Championships 2025 facility, which will be completely rebuilt as part of hosting the Nordic World Ski Championships 2025 

To ensure the Nordic World Ski Championships 2025 in Trondheim have state-of-the-art sport infrastructure, the local municipality decided to completely renew the jump stadium, including the normal hill and the large hill. The invited project, for which Peter Riedel GmbH, led by founder and owner Peter Riedel, won the contract, includes the entire steel construction with the approach runs, the stair and beam systems, the track irrigation systems, the ice cutting and wind systems, and all boards and railings. 

Simply put: for everything that is built on the substructure of the hills, Peter Riedel GmbH is responsible. The certified steel construction company has repeatedly proven that it can deliver quality work at such scales. Already in 2019 at the Nordic World Ski Championships in Seefeld, Riedel and his team were responsible for the construction and commissioning of the track at the historic Bergisel in Innsbruck. In 2025 it will thus be the second time in the company’s history that its products are “World Champion-tested.” Furthermore, Riedel-Spur systems have now been used on almost 90 hills worldwide.

For Peter Riedel this completes a circle with the Trondheim contract: “Trondheim was the first jump hill we equipped with our ramp system. That was, if you will, the start of our success story. Now, exactly 13 years later, my team and I are once again able to be part of something big at the place where it all began. That makes me very proud and shows the great appreciation of our work. The moment we received the contract for Trondheim was very emotional for me,” says Riedel, who still personally handles all technical planning. 

The process leading up to the signing of the contract was lengthy and not straightforward.

“In autumn 2020, Heidi Arnesen, who is responsible for the Trondheim jump facility, called me to tell me that the planned maintenance of the old track was no longer feasible and that our services were not needed at the moment. I had no choice but to accept her decision with disappointment. Finally, she thanked me for the good cooperation and added, ‘Perhaps our paths will cross again soon’— and she was right. A few weeks later the phone rang and I was invited to submit a comprehensive offer for the new construction of the jumping facility. What followed were countless online meetings and discussions that took place online due to both Corona and geographic reasons. The rough planning stretched over half a year, the contractual fine-tuning and the coordination of the last details took another month. What I found very pleasant was the calm and constantly appreciative negotiating tone of all parties.”

Riedel, however, believes he knows why the decision favored his company. “The clients subjected us to a corporate analysis in which we were evaluated on our competencies, quality standards, profitability, and company structure. With a score of 90%, this evaluation went very positively for us. Crucially, we also manufacture everything in Germany ourselves and do not purchase from third countries. Transparency and quality are extremely important to Scandinavians when awarding contracts,” the CEO explains. 

Construction is to begin as early as summer 2022, i.e., in about a year. Until then, all parts will be manufactured in the in-house plant in Raschau and prepared for final assembly.