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The initiative "Society for All" - "Workplace for All" seeks to connect stakeholders from the authorities, disabled persons organisations (DPOs), companies (SMEs) and academia...

A great deal of oil may have leaked out of Barents Sea reservoirs 30 to 40 million years ago and during the more recent Ice Ages. A new report from SINTEF tells us which parts of the basin may...

Bjørn Svensvik (59) has been appointed President of SINTEF Byggforsk (SINTEF Building and Infrastructure). Bjørn Svensvik is the new President of SINTEF Building Research. Photo: Svein Tønseth...

A heat pump is an invention that dates back more than 150 years. It is based on the relationship between temperature and pressure in a gas or liquid circulating inside a pump (the working...

Following an initiative taken by SINTEF, the EU and China are launching a project with the aim of cutting global emissions of greenhouse gases. The cooperative effort will give Europe emission...

Eivind Grøv (49) of SINTEF has been elected Vice-president of the International Tunnelling and Underground Space Association.   SINTEF tunnel scientist Eivind Grøv has seen much of...

With the aim in mind of recognising persons and institutions that have adopted advanced technology NTNU and SINTEF have founded the Einar Brendeng Technology Prize. The first award of the Prize...

Press release: November 11, 2005 David Lysne, President of SINTEF Petroleum Research, is to leave SINTEF. “I am leaving of my own accord, because I believe that my departure will be the best...

Care dwellings are unsuitable for the most feeble elderly people and those with dementia. This finding emerged from an interview study that SINTEF has carried out in 12 Norwegian municipalities...

Iterative software development is highly suitable for the Scandinavian style of working, according to SINTEF researchers Tore Dybå and Torgeir Dingsøyr. Human and social aspects seem to...

Kongsberg Oil &Gas Technologies (KOGT) recently introduced the multiphase flow simulator LedaFlow to the oil and gas industry. The simulator, which KOGT has progressively developed into a...

Contact Project Coordinator of DemoCLOCK, Shahriar Amini A project funded by the European Union and led by SINTEF in Norway with ten other European partners aims to demonstrate a cost-effective...

Contact Research Scientist, Stephan Kubowicz The first steps have been taken towards rainwear which repairs itself In co-operation with research scientists and industry colleagues in eight...

Contact:  Jack Arild Ødegård  Several years of Norwegian research on fracture mechanics have resulted in new numerical modelling tools. The new software means that we can calculate...

Most Japanese people heat their water using gas. However, some of them have chosen an alternative technology developed in Norway that leads to major reductions in CO₂ emissions. SINTEF’s Petter...

Europe 1992: The term “HDTV” was on the lips of everyone in TV companies and the electronics industry. Meanwhile, Norwegian scientyists were finding a smart way to transmit the new images via the...

Contact persons: Ansattinfo mangler  Ansattinfo mangler  A research project at SINTEF contributes to safer oil spill response equipment in the Arctic. When the container ship Godafoss ran...

In a 1996 Donald Duck comic, inventor Gyro Gearloose has invented a super-machine that sorts cheap scrap and metal poured into a tube, while out of another pipe emerge gold and shiny new coins....

A wood fibre only 100 nanometres thick will help to give us tomorrow’s plastic food packaging, if SINTEF and its partners are successful. Cellulose can be broken down into what is called...

Process control systems in production plants and on board ships and platforms currently need expensive installations and kilometres of cable; all of this is about to change. A recently launched...