Laboratories - Preparedness

SINTEF's labs cover a large variety of fields in acoustics, including noise, hearing, building acoustics, underwater acoustics, and auralisation.

The main focus of this laboratory is large-scale testing on the climate screen. We can document, develop, and research building materials, components, and entire building components used in energy-efficient buildings that must withstand climate loads...

The Chemistry Laboratory provides services within inorganic and organic analysis of building products and building materials.

A climate-adapted building is planned, designed, and constructed to withstand various types of external climate stress. In our laboratories, we can test the building elements' resistance to precipitation, snow load, wind, solar radiation, temperature...

Our laboratories have the equipment and qualified personnel to perform a wide range of standard tests on concrete. We also have extensive experience in developing tailor-made test methods for unique solutions. Concrete is the most widely used...

SINTEF Energy Research operates laboratories for high voltage, high power and climatic testing. Customers are manufacturers, suppliers and users of electric power equipment.

ElpowerLab is a national facility for developing technology for electrification and the future power grid infrastructure.

Analyses of geological materials provide knowledge of conditions that affect the time, cost and stability of construction in rock and soil.

We have a full-scale field exposure site at Voll in Trondheim where we can test elements for natural exposure over long periods.

SINTEF can perform different tests on floor coverings.

The experimental field at Høvringen outside Trondheim has a meteorological measuring station that measures temperature, wind, and precipitation and an advanced system for measuring the amount of water flowing into the drains.

The bolt rig gives us the opportunity to define bolt capacity in different situations, and also to examine the function of bolts.

In the heat laboratory, we perform testing of thermal technical material and functional properties for thermal insulation materials, other materials, and components where the thermal technical properties are of interest.

In the Material laboratory, we test material and functional properties on building products, mainly for use in barrier layers in building structures.

SINTEF is accredited for several test methods and performs mechanical testing of an extensive range of constructions and materials.

We perform testing for CE marking and annual inspection for manufacturers and suppliers of natural stone products.

SINTEF and NTNU offer a wide range of rock- and soil laboratory services and field investigations in a joint research and development laboratory.

Knowledge of the mechanical properties of rock is crucial for planning and design of infrastructure projects in rock.

SINTEF has one of Europe's most modern sanitary laboratories and tests all sanitary-related products.

– a vital tool for energy research in Norway

NTNU and SINTEF have built a new National Smart Grid Laboratory in Trondheim with funding from the Research Council of Norway in cooperation with the Artic University of Norway and Smart Innovation Østfold.

The thermal engineering laboratories is the nation's leading laboratory in the field of combustion, refrigeration, air conditioning and heat pump, low-temperature and bio processes and CCS (Carbon Capture and Storage) and processing.

SINTEF offers development and testing of indoor climate and ventilation products.

In the wet room laboratory, we carry out functional testing of wet room membranes following test methods described in ETAG 022.

The ZEB laboratory is a laboratory for zero-emission buildings (ZEB). In this arena, new and innovative materials and solutions are developed, investigated, tested, and demonstrated in mutual interaction with humans.

ZEB Living Lab - the living laboratory - is a research infrastructure at NTNU and SINTEF.