Skanska has signed two contracts in Scandinavia: a €59m contract involving new education and sports facilities in Gjerdrum, southern Norway, and a €28m refurbishment role in Helsinki, Finland. In Norway,…

The German-Norwegian Chamber of Commerce and non-profit business network Norwegian Offshore Wind have teamed up to boost developments in the rapidly expanding North Sea market. The agreement arrives on the…

Sector hails early appointments as Norway eyes 30GW of offshore wind power by 2040. Norway today approved two consortia to develop 1.5GW of floating offshore wind farms off Utsira in…

Swedish contractor and developer Skanska has had a busy couple of weeks, notching up three contracts and one commercial property sale in Europe and the US – together worth US$765m.…

Norwegian architect Snøhetta has won a design competition for a 18,000-sq-m art gallery on the confluence of the Qiantang river and Hangzhou’s central water axis. The meeting of the water…

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…