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21.04.2026

Ensuring quality in the world's deepest road tunnel

392 meters below sea level, crews are blasting what will become the world's longest and deepest undersea road tunnel. Statens vegvesen has engaged NGI to conduct independent quality control throughout the construction of the massive tunnel project.

21.04.2026

NGI maps the foundations for what will be Europe's Largest offshore wind farm

A hundred kilometers from the British coast, developers are building one of the world's largest offshore wind farms. NGI leads the work to understand the ground it will stand on, a subsurface that holds nearly half a million years of climate history.

15.04.2026

Found a new method for measuring the protective effect of forests against landslides

Amanda DiBiagio has developed a calculation tool that, for the first time, makes it possible to quantify how much forests contribute to stabilising steep slopes in Norway.

27.03.2026

The siblings who found their future in geotechnical engineering

Sajida Ali Rizai (23) and Sarfaraz Ali Rizai (25) have followed each other since primary school. Now they are both about to finish their master’s degrees in geotechnical engineering at OsloMet – and this autumn they’ll start as full-time employees at the Norwegian Geotechnical Institute (NGI).

26.03.2026

Methane beneath Svalbard may be an underestimated climate risk

Researchers from NGI, UNIS, and MARUM have discovered hundreds of gas emissions in the fjords around Svalbard. They are now working to understand what controls this activity, and what the findings can tell us about future methane releases in a warming Arctic.

26.03.2026

How the Vassdalen Tragedy Became a Turning Point for Avalanche Safety in the Norwegian Armed Forces

16 young soldiers lost their lives when a massive snow avalanche swept through Vassdalen on 5 March 1986. The tragedy strengthened collaboration between NGI and the Norwegian Armed Forces. It helped develop avalanche expertise and management, transforming ad hoc expert assistance into a system with established methods and routines for risk assessment.