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Aquaculture and Fisheries

Norconsult offers multi-disciplinary engineering assistance for all types of aquaculture facilities, from traditional open pens, ocean-going steel facilities, land-based facilities for smolt all the way through grow-out as well as slaughterhouses.

The knowledge we provide ranges from technical analyses to daily operations at the site/plant. In addition, we have leading expertise on closed-containment pens at sea and all type of structural calculations related to these.  

This enables Norconsult to present firm expertise in most disciplines necessary for the initiation, planning and implementation of projects in the fisheries and aquaculture industry.  

Norconsult provides concept development, through regulatory and applications, pre- and detailed projects to fully approved and commissioned facilities. 

In addition to optimisation of all or parts of the facility, also related to requirements from authorities, hereby including taxonomy, Norconsult can deliver a complete solution. Based on our extensive experience, Norconsult has built up a solid foundation as a leading player both nationally and internationally when it comes to multi-disciplinary advice and solutions 

Our relevant experience on sustainability is based on both environmental and process technical principles and includes all relevant parts of a classification of environmental status both on land and in or on water, treatment solutions according to regulations like BAT-AEL, as well as knowledge and handling of the EU taxonomy. 

Norconsult is in a unique position to support our customers with advice in all phases of a land-based aquaculture project. Norconsult’ s solid expertise, combined with our industrial consultancy expertise, enables us to offer a customer interface for most things that are in demand in a project within fisheries, aquaculture, with a strong focus on the needs of the environment.  

We have advisors who can help your plan and set the right requirements for how the business should develop by enabling the specialists to translate this into sound solutions. 

Let us sit down and find mutual beneficial solutions on the challenges of tomorrow. 

  • Bart Kriens

    Head of market Aquaculture

  • Roy Egil Røren

    Market area manager Region North

  • Sindre Moldskred

    Market area manager Region Middle

  • Odd Steffen Garvik

    Market area manager Region West

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