NGI - Norges Geotekniske Institutt

NGI - Norges Geotekniske Institutt For a Sustainable Future on Safe Ground Our core tasks are to contribute with research and consulting to societal development.

NGI is an independent international centre for research and consultancy in engineering-related geosciences, integrating geotechnical, geological and geophysical expertise. We find good and sustainable solutions for building infrastructure on land and at sea, and within environmental technology, contaminated soil and natural hazards – such as landslides and avalanches. Our research provides knowled

ge required to solve some of the most important challenges facing the world related to climate, environment, energy and natural hazards. The research at NGI should be relevant, so our results can be used by the market and benefit society, business and industry. Research and consultancy therefore go hand in hand. Our research integrates knowledge across geotechnics, geology and geophysics. Public authorities, business and private industry in Norway and abroad use our geo-expertise to ensure that we build our society on safe ground. Our head office and laboratories are in Oslo, Norway, with a branch office in Trondheim, Norway, and an avalanche research station on Mount Strynefjellet in western Norway. We have overseas offices and a geotechnical laboratory in Houston, Texas, USA, and office in Perth, Western Australia, as well as partnership agreements with well-established companies and universities around the world.

18/05/2026

𝗡𝗚𝗜’𝘀 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗺𝗲 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟳 – 𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀
“𝘐 𝘲𝘶𝘪𝘤𝘬𝘭𝘺 𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘰𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘰𝘯𝘤𝘦-𝘪𝘯-𝘢-𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘰𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘺. 𝘛𝘰 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘳 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘦 𝘥𝘪𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘳𝘰𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴, 𝘤𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘧𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘧𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘸-𝘶𝘱, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘨𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦… 𝘪𝘵’𝘴 𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘲𝘶𝘦!” says one of the trainees from the 2025 group, Linn Iveland Jacobsen.

NGI’s trainee programme gives newly graduated geotechnical engineers 18 months of hands-on experience across different departments, with varied projects and real responsibility from day one. You are permanently employed from the start, with a competitive salary, and get the chance to spend three months at one of NGI’s international offices.

Linn is currently in her second rotation and shares what it’s really like to be a trainee, what she works on and why the programme has been such a valuable start to her career.

𝗪𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀: Head over to ngi.no to apply and learn more (link i bio/comments)

15/05/2026

🎉 17 MAY AT NGI 🇳🇴

We asked some of our international colleagues how they’ll be celebrating Norway’s Constitution Day this Sunday.

Norway’s national day celebrates the signing of the Constitution in 1814, with parades, traditional dress (bunad!), champagnefrokost, pølse and lots of ice cream!

𝗩𝗶 𝘀ø𝗸𝗲𝗿 𝗲𝗻 𝗺𝗼𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘁 𝗼𝗴 𝗮𝗻𝘀𝘃𝗮𝗿𝘀𝗯𝗲𝘃𝗶𝘀𝘀𝘁 𝗴𝗿𝘂𝗻𝗻𝗯𝗼𝗿𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗶𝗹 𝗡𝗚𝗜! (See English translation below)Bli en del av vårt sterke fagm...
08/05/2026

𝗩𝗶 𝘀ø𝗸𝗲𝗿 𝗲𝗻 𝗺𝗼𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘁 𝗼𝗴 𝗮𝗻𝘀𝘃𝗮𝗿𝘀𝗯𝗲𝘃𝗶𝘀𝘀𝘁 𝗴𝗿𝘂𝗻𝗻𝗯𝗼𝗿𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗶𝗹 𝗡𝗚𝗜! (See English translation below)

Bli en del av vårt sterke fagmiljø innen feltundersøkelser og jobb med avanserte grunnundersøkelser for spennende prosjekter innen bygg, anlegg og samferdsel.

Hos oss får du en variert arbeidshverdag med moderne utstyr, gode utviklingsmuligheter og mulighet til å vokse i rollen – både faglig og personlig.

📍 Oslo
📅 Søknadsfrist: 21. mai

Klar for nye utfordringer? Les mer og søk: https://candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationInit.aspx?cid=388&ProjectId=175886&DepartmentId=17357&MediaId=5&SkipAdvertisement=False


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English:

We’re hiring a motivated and responsible driller to join NGI!

Become part of our strong field investigations team and work on advanced ground investigations for exciting projects in construction and infrastructure.

At NGI, you’ll get a varied workday with modern equipment, great development opportunities, and the chance to grow both professionally and personally.

📍 Oslo
📅 Application deadline: 21 May

Ready for your next challenge? Learn more and apply: https://candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationInit.aspx?cid=388&ProjectId=175886&DepartmentId=17357&MediaId=5&SkipAdvertisement=False

Engineers have stabilized soft clay with cement columns for decades. The problem: without precise data on how those colu...
08/05/2026

Engineers have stabilized soft clay with cement columns for decades. The problem: without precise data on how those columns actually behave under load, they routinely use more cement than necessary.

👨‍🎓 Researcher Sølve Hov at NGI's office in Trondheim addressed this in his doctoral work at NTNU by casting fiber-optic cables directly into the cement-clay columns. A laser signal travels through a glass core thinner than a human hair, capturing strain and deformation at nearly every centimeter along the cable’s full length. Traditional instruments are placed at half-meter to one-meter intervals.

“With fiber optics, the measurement points sit so close together that we get data for nearly every centimeter along the cable’s full length,” says Hov.

In a field trial at Onsøy, the technology detected a weak zone just 20 to 30 centimeters wide at a depth of 5.5 meters, the kind of local defect that conventional methods tend to miss. The research gives the construction industry a concrete tool for reducing cement use without compromising safety, and the framework can also be applied to natural ground monitoring and other foundation techniques.

Should we mine the Moon? asks The Inquiry, a weekly programme from BBC World Service that brings together expert voices ...
04/05/2026

Should we mine the Moon? asks The Inquiry, a weekly programme from BBC World Service that brings together expert voices from around the globe to help listeners understand complex global issues. 🌕🌍

In this episode, NGI’s Dylan Mikesell shares insights into the conditions on the Moon, the challenges of establishing permanent human habitation, and how lunar materials such as helium-3 could potentially be used to support life on Earth.

The other guests are:
Dr Justin Holcomb, Assistant Research Professor, Kansas Geological Survey, University of Kansas – the Moon as a scientific record
Prof. Dr Thomas H. Zurbuchen, Director of ETH Space, ETH Zurich – the political stakes of lunar exploration
Dr Tanja L. Masson-Zwaan, Assistant Professor and Deputy Director, International Institute of Air and Space Law, Leiden University – laws and regulations

🎧 https://www.bbc.com/audio/play/w3ct98pk

Eleven of twelve rock bolts failed to reach stable bedrock. That was the finding after a rock-cutting collapse onto the ...
04/05/2026

Eleven of twelve rock bolts failed to reach stable bedrock. That was the finding after a rock-cutting collapse onto the E18 motorway in Larvik in December 2019.

In her doctoral thesis, researcher Jessica Ka Yi Chiu at NGI and NTNU has developed a digital framework to prevent exactly this kind of failure. Using drone photogrammetry and laser scanning, her system builds a detailed 3D model of a rock cutting, where an AI algorithm maps fracture networks and identifies which blocks can trigger chain reactions.
“The core of this is about moving the assessments of rock anchoring from subjective field observations to analyses based on three-dimensional models and artificial intelligence,” says Chiu.

The system then calculates the precise bolt positions needed to prevent potential slides before they start, weighing safety, material use, and installation time against each other. What takes an engineer more than two hours to calculate manually, the algorithm completes in under ten minutes. Between 2000 and 2023, more than 53,000 rockfall events were recorded in Norway.

Read the full article here:
https://www.ngi.no/en/news/phd-jessica-ka-yi-chiu/

🎓 Er du masterstudent i geoteknikk eller konstruksjonsteknikk og ønsker å bli en del av et verdensledende fagmiljø? Møt ...
30/04/2026

🎓 Er du masterstudent i geoteknikk eller konstruksjonsteknikk og ønsker å bli en del av et verdensledende fagmiljø? Møt oss på stand mandag 4. mai fra 12:00 utenfor Høna på NTNU. Vi kommer for å prate om dine muligheter som nyutdannet hos oss, og du kan treffe tidligere NTNU-student Linn og høre om hennes erfaring som trainee i geoteknikk hos NGI.

NGI tilbyr Norges eneste traineeprogram i geoteknikk, der du får en unik mulighet til å lære mer om faget sammen med eksperter med ulik fagbakgrunn.

I løpet av 18 måneder får du muligheten til å jobbe innen ulike geotekniske fagområder, både nasjonalt og internasjonalt.

Vi håper å se deg på stand! 👋

Les mer om traineeprogrammet:
https://lnkd.in/dFbvQDCN

Amanda DiBiagio at NGI has defended a doctoral thesis on how forests prevent landslides. The timing could not have been ...
28/04/2026

Amanda DiBiagio at NGI has defended a doctoral thesis on how forests prevent landslides. The timing could not have been more fitting.
In March 2025, a landslide struck a meadow in Flåmsdalen, just 200 meters from where DiBiagio had spent nearly two years measuring the stabilizing effect of the adjacent birch forest. The slope outside the forest gave way. The forested slope held🌲🌲

The doctoral thesis, completed at the University of Oslo, presents the first method for quantifying the extent to which forests actually contribute to slope stability. The tool, called the "forest factor," combines two mechanisms: the mechanical reinforcement from tree roots binding soil together, and the hydrological effect of trees absorbing water. A forest factor of two means the safety margin is twice that of equivalent open terrain.
"The hydrological effect is, on average, greater than the mechanical one. That was perhaps what surprised me most," says DiBiagio.

The findings also carry direct implications for forest management. When a forest is felled, the hydrological protection disappears immediately, while roots persist for five to ten years before decomposing. A vulnerability window of 10 to 20 years precedes a new forest reaching comparable strength.

The methodology will now be tested on spruce and pine through the FORTRESS research project.

Read the full story:
https://www.ngi.no/en/news/new-method-for-measuring-the-protective-effect-of-forests/

27/04/2026

𝒪𝓃𝓁𝓎 50 𝒹𝒶𝓎𝓈 𝓉ℴ ℊℴ 𝓊𝓃𝓉𝒾𝓁…

In this short video, 𝗟𝗮𝗿𝘀 𝗔𝗻𝗱𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗻, 𝗖𝗘𝗢 𝗼𝗳 the 𝗡𝗼𝗿𝘄𝗲𝗴𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗚𝗲𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗶𝘁𝘂𝘁𝗲, marks the countdown until the relocation to our 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗛𝗤, 𝗖𝗮𝗺𝗽𝘂𝘀 𝗨𝗹𝗹𝗲𝘃å𝗹.

Campus Ullevål is a new interdisciplinary research and knowledge hub in Oslo, bringing together research institutions, innovation environments, and industry partners. We’re excited about the opportunities this move will create for collaboration, innovation, and impact.

Denne uken er vår kollega Nellie Sofie Body på besøk hos KSAT – Kongsberg Satellite Services på Svalbard, og ute på Sval...
24/04/2026

Denne uken er vår kollega Nellie Sofie Body på besøk hos KSAT – Kongsberg Satellite Services på Svalbard, og ute på SvalSat, midt i et av verdens viktigste knutepunkt for satellittdata 🛰️

Besøket på Svalbard er en del av prosjektet «På tynn is», og det er verdt å understreke: dette er ikke et typisk forskningsprosjekt. På tynn is handler først og fremst om formidling av forskningsresultater, om å gjøre kunnskap om landfast havis og jordobservasjon ved bruk av satellittdata tilgjengelig, forståelig og relevant for flere enn bare forskere.

I prosjektet vil Nellie, i samarbeid med kolleger Dyre Dammann og Liv Bjergene på NGI samt samarbeidspartnere ved museet og opplevelsessenteret Polaria i Tromsø, utvikle en utstilling for besøkende fra fjern og nær, samt et skoleopplegg for elever i Troms.

Svalbard er et perfekt bakteppe for dette arbeidet. De uvanlige forholdene vi nå ser, med en vår som kommer tidligere enn normalt, understreker relevansen av å overvåke og formidle effektene av klimaendringer og betydningen av havisen, som nå er tynnere enn den pleier å være.

Møtet med KSAT og innsikten i SvalSat gir verdifulle perspektiver som tas videre inn i formidlingsarbeidet i prosjektet.

Takk til KSAT for gode samtaler og for å dele av kompetansen deres – og til Nellie for å ta formidlingsoppdraget helt nord 🧭

Prosjektet «På tynn is» er finansiert av Forskningsrådet

Kommunesektoren bruker ikke forskning godt nok og staten gjør for lite for å endre det. Det er hovedbudskapet i en kroni...
23/04/2026

Kommunesektoren bruker ikke forskning godt nok og staten gjør for lite for å endre det. Det er hovedbudskapet i en kronikk i Khrono torsdag 23. april, signert blant andre Lars Andresen, administrerende direkør i NGI.

Kommunekommisjonens ferske NOU-delrapport om bærekraftig kommunesektor mangler ett sentralt perspektiv, mener Andresen og medforfatterne Camilla Stoltenberg (NORCE) og Roger Lian (NTNU Samfunnsforskning): Kommunene må skaffe og ta i bruk nye, forskningsbaserte løsninger raskere og i et helt annet omfang enn de har gjort til nå. Men virkemidlene for å få det til er svake og fragmenterte.

Demografiutfordringer, arealpolitikk, naturfare og presset på helse- og omsorgstjenestene krever kunnskapsbaserte beslutninger. Det forutsetter at staten i større grad kobler kommunal sektor og forsknings- og innovasjonssystemet.

NGI vet dette fra praksis. I SAFERCLAY-prosjektet samarbeider NGI med kommunene Lillestrøm, Sarpsborg og Melhus om å utvikle nye metoder for å forstå hvordan klimaendringer, erosjon og arealbruk påvirker kvikkleirerisiko. Dette er akkurat den typen kunnskap lokale planleggere trenger, men sjelden har tilgang til.

Kronikken er et innspill til Kommunekommisjonens videre arbeid og til staten om hvordan kommunal sektor og forskningssystemet kan kobles bedre sammen.

Les hele kronikken her

Samspillet mellom kommunesektoren og uavhengige, nasjonale kunnskapsmiljøer, som forskningsinstitutter, bør systematiseres.

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