The EU’s Innovation Fund has given a €100m grant to Norwegian battery maker Freyr for its $1.6bn Giga Arctic project in northern Norway. Giga Arctic has been under development in…

Five architecture teams have been selected from 32 entries to reach the final stage of a competition to design a music theatre in Bergen, southwest Norway. Located in Grieg Hall,…

Skanska has signed a $423m contract with the Norwegian Road Authority (NPRA) to build a stretch of the E18 highway in Oslo. The 2.3km, six-lane motorway will link the areas…

Egypt yesterday signed a $450m deal with a Norwegian renewables company to build a green methanol plant to produce fuel for ships, Ahram Online reports. The agreement signed by the…

UK-based Haptic Architects and Norway’s Oslo Works have joined forces to plan an ocean-themed attraction in the municipality of Baerum on the outskirts of Oslo. The 45,000-sq-m “Fornebu Brygge” development…

Norway this week opened competitions to develop offshore wind farms in two areas of its continental shelf, the first step in its plan to generate 30GW a year this way…

Officials broke ground ceremonially this week on a new airport in the northern Norwegian town of Bodø, just within the Arctic circle. The $720m airport located about a kilometre south…

Skanska has signed a contract with developer Andenæs Eiendom worth $38.5m to build the next phase of the ‘Helgerudkvartalet’ urban development in Sandvika, Norway.

Swiss contractor Implenia has won a contract to build a tunnel between Skøyen to Vækerø stations on a forthcoming metro line in Oslo.

The Norwegian city of Bergen is shortly to open the world’s longest tunnel for cyclists and pedestrians.

Swedish contractor Skanska has won a €29m contract from Norway’s public construction and property department to build an extension to Ullersmo prison in Kløfta, southern Norway. The 7,000 sq m…

Construction has begun on the $370m Museum of the Viking Age in Oslo

Norwegian wind power company SeaTwirl can go ahead with testing its 1MW vertical-axis floating wind turbine off the coast at Boknafjorden after regulators rejected appeals against the trial. The Nasdaq-listed…

Norwegian architect Snøhetta, Danish interior designer Vipp and developer Tom Bjarte Norland have created the Bolder project: four cabins built into the cliffs of Lysefjorden on the Norway’s west coast.…

Norwegian architect Snøhetta says the expansion of the Vesterheim Norwegian-American Museum in Decorah, Iowa, which it designed, will be finished by this summer. Design work on the new, 8,000-sq-m building…

A joint venture between Swiss tunnelling specialist Implenia and Norwegian contractor Stangeland Maskin has won a role on the €2.6bn Boknafjord tunnel, work on which is due to begin this…

Skanska has signed a $500.6m contract with the Norwegian Road Authority to build part of a major subsea road tunnel in Rogaland County. The 27km Boknafjord twin tunnel will link…

Swedish contractor Skanska has won two building contracts, a residential project in Finland and a school in Norway, worth a total of €74m. The €38m residential development project (pictured above)…