The winning entry “I love Nydalen” creates a robust and flexible framework for the project’s future development.

A new city is being built at the former airport area at Fornebu in Bærum. The area shall become a showcase for forward-thinking urban development that focuses on transport, energy and material use.

At Kristian Augusts gate number 13 in the city center of Oslo, Entra is refurbishing and adding an infill volume to an eight-story building in Norway’s largest full-scale project with used building materials.

Drammen hospital will move to Brakerøya in 2025, and an area of 10 hectares close to the city centre of Drammen will be transformed with the goal of establishing a zero emission neighbourhood.

Reuse of building materials and design for future reuse. Integrated photovoltaics in the building façade and on the green roof. The new Ruseløkka school will be a near net zero energy school. Electric-powered heavy machinery will lift the building site from fossil fuel free to emission free.

Three single-storey buildings with flats for student families. Cross-laminated timber construction, solar panels, grey water recycling and local geothermal heating are features in accordance with the student village’s green identity.

Oksenøya center will be the first and largest project for the municipality of Bærum where purpose buildings for young and old are co-located in a zero emission neighbourhood

Attractive and safe consept for bicycle parking in connection with the metro that can adapt to different locations.

Klimahuset - The Climate House – is a new exhibition building situated in the Botanical gardens in Tøyen, Oslo. Through an interaction between high and low technology and the use of innovative and local materials, including a significant amount of wood, The Climate House shows the way to the building solutions of the future.

A sustainable and futureproofed new building which will be the first to be built in the Palace grounds since King Haakon and Queen Maud extended the Royal Stables more than 100 years ago.

Tåsen Home is planned as a plus house in cross-laminated timber. It will deliver good indoor air quality and be a new meeting place for the local community at Tåsen.

Eikeli School in Bærum is going to be renovated and extended. The new building will contain a climate friendly sports arena with classrooms above it.

Near zero energy homes with innovative use of wood and biomass-based solutions in the structural elements and on indoor and outdoor surfaces.

The apartment building at Sofienberggate 7 in Oslo is set to be rehabilitated. New highly-insulated facades, a new ventilation system, thermal energy wells and solar energy collection on the roof and the facades will reduce energy consumption by more than 70 percent.

Car-free city life and urban farming. Zero energy and smart city. Innovative care of urban wooden buildings. Landbrukskvartalet will be a showcase for how agriculture is contributing to the green shift at both the urban and the construction industry levels.

Housing project that will facilitate a forward-looking and climate-smart lifestyle for residents and neighbours.

Near zero-energy buildings in cross-laminated timber with strong social solutions and innovative floor plans.

The Kringsjå student village in Oslo is expanding. The first building phase was completed in the spring of 2018 and consists of two buildings that are close to zero energy with up to 11 storeys in cross laminated timber.

Furuset Hageby, a sustainable health care village developed for persons with dementia, integrated in the local community.

Improved energy efficiency and indoor climate while preserving and restoring the lost original architectural expression.

A mixed-use building with 16 storeys where the office part of the building is planned with purely natural ventilation. Despite this the building will almost meet zero-energy level and not require externally supplied energy for ventilation, heating or cooling.

By combining technical solutions Asker has built the swimming pool facilities of the future. Holmen swimming pool is not only saving electricity – photovoltaics also ensures production of electricity.

New office building in Oslo where building form, energy production, harvesting and storage of snow and rain, use of water and plants and inner climates will be closely connected.

Brynseng School has a 1000m2 building-integrated solar façade and is Oslo’s first near zero energy building (nNEB definition).

Plushouse kindergarten where solarpanels are an integrated part of architecture.

The passive house school Rykkinn has good daylight conditions in all rooms, and a variety of outdoor spaces facilitate outdoor teaching.

The architecture of the energy-plus kindergarten has passive and technical solutions that make the building produce more energy than it uses. Child-scale spaces stimulate curiosity and the desire to explore.

Trans´matorn bicycle park is located in the centre of Heggedal and is an active and visible example of Asker as a bicycle town.

Mobile cycling track you can borrow all over Oslo. To establish bicycle parks will give children exiting park play areas and contribute to building a new cycling culture amongst young people.

Nordic Built Challenge was an open, interdisciplinary design competition with climate-friendly building rehabilitation as the theme. Five buildings, one in each of the Nordic countries, were included in the competition, and Norway participated with Posthuset (The Post House). The rehabilitation of Posthuset will be included in FutureBuilt.

Økern nursing home is a pilot project of energy efficiency and environmentally-friendly rehabilitation of existing buildings. 10% of the energy needs are covered by solar cells on the roof.

Affordble, environmental friendly first-home residences with architectural quality. Ulsholteien 31 is situated at Furuset, which also is an area project in FutureBuilt.

Powerhouse Kjørbo has become Norway’s first energy-positive office building and is probably the world’s first energy-positive refurbished building.

The rehabilitation of this office building from the 1980´s has halved greenhouse gas emissions through the retention of the existing structure and most of the façade, the use of climate-friendly materials and energy efficient solutions.

A solar thermal system and drilled wells with seasonal re-stocking reduces the need for delivered energy. Frydenhaug School has a strong focus on universal design.

At Vestbanen in Oslo artistic treasures will soon get a new roof over their heads. Norway´s largest cultural building is being built in line with ambitious climate criteria.

Stasjonsfjellet School in Groruddalen in Oslo is one of the country´s first schools rehabilitated to passive house standard.

Fredrik Selmers vei 4 is an example of refurbishment being worthwhile when viewed from a climate perspective. The substructure, foundations, and load-bearing systems have been reused as part of the total refurbishment of the high-rise buildings from 1982.

This primary and secondary school has achieved passive house standard and scores highly on environmentally-friendly material use and transport. Optimising of the technical systems and detailed material analyses have been an important part of the project.

Area-efficient school that also provides a good framework for teaching and social life at school.

Veitvet School has a clear environmentally friendly profile with a tilted entrance facade covered in solar panels. Other low carbon features are proximity to public transport, limited parking places and reserved parking for electric cars with charging points, good facilities for the use of bicycles, as well as a careful selection of robust materials based on their greenhouse gas emissions.

Oslo Public library is built according to ambitious environmental standards. With its central location in Bjørvika, the new library becomes a vibrant hub - a modern meeting place for learning and exchange of knowledge.

The City of Oslo is building the new Munch Museum in Bjørvika. The new museum is a landmark by the fjord close to the Opera House. Oslo City Council has set ambitious environmental goals for the project with the requirement that the building is at the forefront in terms of both energy savings and reduced climate gas emissions. Together with the new public library, this represents the largest ever investment in cultural edifices in the City of Oslo.

The development of the centre of Furuset represents an important focus area for climate-friendly urban development. The target is to halve current greenhouse gas emissions while implementing innovative urban development. Furuset is an important part of both the Groruddalen Action Plan and the model area in the City of Oslo’s Future-Built project.

The Kompetansesenter is the first building stage of a new campus area located in the centre of Drammen. The facade with moveable glass louvres and perforated steel sheeting showcase the buildings low energy strategies.

The sustainable office building has been designed based on a holistic idea, containing everything from daylight ratio spatiality and sustainable materials to the positioning in the vicinity of public transport. The building has also been designed with enough flexibility to turn it into housing facilities.

Two office buildings in Drammen with passive house standard, energy class A and good facilities for cyclists.

The main office of the Bellona Foundation in the Vulkan area in Oslo has a characteristic south facade with integrated solar panels that reduce solar exposure. On sunny days the building delivers energy to the local grid.

Strømsø centre is to be developed to a regional centre and an example of low carbon city development. This area of the city will be diverse and lively and a great place to work, live and play.

This passive house kindergarten has a ground-source heat pump with an energy well. It is built in massive wood construction, using a robust and precise sandwich-building system with a high degree of prefabrication.

The Marienlyst passive house school in Drammen is compact, well insulated and has an efficient heat recovery system.

Tallhall is the Meterological Institute´s newest building in Oslo. It is a climate friendly building with good detailing and innovative material use.