ChatGPT inventor OpenAI, Norwegian industrial group Aker and London-based AI infrastructure provider Nscale have announced plans to build “Stargate Norway”, OpenAI’s first European gigafactory. When finished in 2026, it will…

Skanska has signed a US$160m contract to build the underground Skøyen metro station in Oslo, Norway. Located 45m below ground, the two track station will serve the Fornebubanen metro line,…

Oslo-headquartered lighting firm Glamox is lighting up a giant offshore platform that will convert electricity from a 900MW wind-power scheme in the North Sea some 100km off the German coast.…

Norway today invited bids for three floating offshore wind farms off Utsira in Rogaland county, southwestern Norway, where the water is too deep for fixed-base turbines. The developments are expected…

Two Norwegian councils have joined forces with local energy companies to develop a power plant containing up to 1.5GW of small modular reactors (SMRs), equivalent to 10% of the country’s…

Skanska has announced three contract wins: a $47m office in Sweden, a $37m school in Norway and a clinic in California worth $55m. In Sweden, the company will build a…

The Norwegian Coastal Administration has cut the number of bidders for the Stad Ship Tunnel from six to four, after two Chinese consortia failed to prequalify. The teams are competing…

Six contractors are competing to build Norway’s Stad ship tunnel, a 1.7km long underground canal that will let ships avoid going around the Stadlandset peninsula in southern Norway. The peninsula…

Norwegian architect Snøhetta has designed three buildings for residents suffering from substance abuse issues and psychiatric diagnoses on the southwestern Norwegian island of Karmøy. The project’s design is influenced by…

Skanska has signed a contract worth $240m with the Norwegian Directorate of Public Construction (Statsbygg) to build the second largest building in Oslo’s new government quarters. The 26,800 sq m…

The Norwegian government wants to bring back a requirement for all new buildings over a certain size to include bomb shelters, citing lessons learned from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The…

Norwegian utility Halden Kjernekraft is in talks to buy a plot of land for a power station made up of small modular reactors (SMRs). If it goes ahead, it will…

Norway has again proposed offering subsidies worth some $3.3bn to encourage bids in the country’s first tender for a floating wind farm, Reuters reports. The figure appeared yesterday in the…

Norwegian energy company Equinor has scrapped plans to export hydrogen to Germany over fears of high costs and low demand, Reuters reports.

Norwegian state airport operator Avinor has chosen Swedish construction group Ratos to build a greenfield airport inside the Arctic Circle. Bodø Airport will be built by its HENT subsidiary, which…

Swiss tunnelling specialist Implenia (77%) and Norwegian engineer Stangeland Maskin (23%) have won a $600m road tunnelling project under an island in southern Norway. The complex Rogfast scheme consists of…

Danish architect Dorte Mandrup and Norwegian outdoor brand Norrøna have unveiled the Norrøna Lodge, a 1,800-sq-m hotel located above the Arctic Circle on Senja, Norway’s second largest island. The hotel…

Norway’s new nuclear-power company, Norsk Kjernekraft, says it wants to build small modular nuclear reactors (SMRs) to provide off-grid power to data centres and other energy-intensive industrial users. It said…