As part of the company's development strategy, Dr.techn. Olav Olsen has acquired the consulting engineers Engenius AS. With this growth, Olav Olsen becomes a significant advisor also in HVAC. The 13 employees will move to Olav Olsen's head office at Lysaker.

In this year's Bycycle-competition, employees of Dr.techn. Olav Olsen AS have generated nearly 17,000 km between home and workplace by bicycle, running or walking, and each km covered generates an amount that is donated to a chosen charitable purpose. This year we have chosen World Bicycle Relief, and their work to improve transport options in developing countries.

Take a look at the new museumbuilding at Grue Finnskogen. Dr.techn. Olav Olsen with MOE Norway as a subcontractor, has been assigned the task of providing technical advice in the initial project phases.

Bouygues Travaux Publics are the new owners of OO-STAR, a foundation solution for floating offshore wind, originally developed by Dr.techn. Olav Olsen. The two companies will co-operate to position themselves as suppliers towards an emerging mega-market for floating offshore wind internationally.

Dr.tech. Olav Olsen will participate at ONS in Stavanger from 29 August to 1 September.

For the past year, two different groups have been commissioned by the Norwegian Public Roads Administration (NPRA) to study four different concepts for crossing the Halsafjord and five different concepts for crossing the Sulafjord. The Norconsult and  Dr.techn. Olav Olsen joint venture has together with their strategic partners completed pre-engineering for 4 different bridge concepts for a fixed crossing for the E39 over Halsafjord and Sulafjord.

As part of Artelia group we will attend the ICOLD Congress in Marseille this week. The International Commission On Large Dams (ICOLD) is a non-governmental worldwide organization which provides a forum for the exchange of knowledge and experience in dam engineering.

Safety at the construction site is always a matter of course, but also in our daily work as consultants for the construction industry, our responsibility for safe design is given in the delivery. We must in every project put safety first.