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News: 2009
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University of Reykjavik closing in
EFLA has been supervising the construction of the new building for the University of Reykjavik adjacent to the Öskjuhlíð hill and Reykjavik domestic airport.The first phase of project has now entered the finalizing stages
Read moreWarm season's greetings from EFLA
The staff of EFLA sends warm season´s greetings from Iceland. We wish you all a merry Christmas and peace and prosperity in 2010.
Read moreEFLA in the Netherlands
EFLA‘s employees have been working on the start-up phase of a rod shop for Aldel in the Netherlands. The machinery was designed by Bergen Group Idntaekni in Norway but EFLA
Read moreA road tunnel in the making
The main road between the towns of Ísafjörður and Bolungarvík in the northeast of Iceland has been noted for dangerous rock slides and snow avalanches. A solution to that is a new road tunnel, 5.1 km-long.
Read moreThe presidental couple visit EFLA in Abu Dhabi
HE Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson and Mme Dorrit Moussaieff visited the group of Icelanders working at the new aluminium smelter EMAL in Abu Dhabi on Nov. 23rd. The owners of EMAL formally received the President
Read moreEFLA in northern Iceland
In October 2009, EFLA opened its new office in Akureyri, the largest town in Northern Iceland, thereby strengthening its service in the region. EFLA already operates regional offices in the southwest, south and east of Iceland.
Read moreEFLA in Mosambique
EFLA has an assignment in Mosambique on behalf of ETDE in France. Improvements of the electrical transmission system in the capital Tete are underway and EFLA‘s specialists act as consultants. Norconsult in Norway supervises the work.
Read moreEIA for a new system of transmission lines
EFLA has conducted environmental impact assessment for a renewal of the high-voltage transmission system in Southwestern Iceland, which now faces an increased load due to energy intensive industry plans, e.g. in the field of the aluminium industry.
Read moreEFLA: Cable drums in the UK
EFLA has completed a project in the UK for the Norwegian company Munck. It involves a control system for 30-m-wide cable drums for electrical cables in a so-called cable carousel system.
Read moreEFLA - working in Croatia
EFLA and the Croatian consultant firm HEP ESCO D.O.O. have signed an agreement of cooperation on consultancy. The aim is to increase the utilization of geothermal resources in Croatia. HEP ESCO is a subsidiary of the state run power compant HEP
Read moreStrengthening the electrical transmission network in Norway
Recently, an agreement between EFLA an BKK in Bergen, Norway was signed. BBK is the Electrical Works of Bergen and services the city and vicinity.
Read moreProduction factory of Becromal: EFLA assists
The Environment Agency of Iceland has issued a formal plant operating permission for Becromal's new production plant for high voltage foils, made of aluminum.
Read moreIHA- congress 2009
EFLA, along with five other Icelandic consulting companies, presented its know-how at the 2009 world congress of the International Hydropower Association held in Reykjavík 23.-26. June. The congress was well attended and some of the proceedings were covered by news media in Iceland and abroad.
Read moreConcrete... and still more concrete
The new Concert and Conference Hall in Reykjavik is under construction. In late May some 3,500 cubic metres of concrete were used to build the base floor of the associated parking facitilites (7,000 sq. m).
Read moreBuilt according to environmental standards
The first of four visitors centres for the newly established Vatnajökull National Park will be built in 2009-2010 - at Skriðuklaustur in Eastern Iceland, about 70 km distant from the ice cap.
Read moreProjects in Norway and Greenland
Late last year, EFLA signed a general agreement with Statnett in Norway. In an ensuing competitive tender, EFLA and its subsidiary Linuhönnun AS were assigned the design of a new high-voltage transmission line in Finmark, Norway.
Read moreVíkingaheimar - viking world to be opened
A building housing the viking ship (langskip) Íslendingur (The Icelander) is almost completed at Fitjar, Reykjanesbær (very close to the Keflavik Int. Airport).
Read moreSupervision of a tunnel
EFLA takes care of the construction supervision of the new road tunnel linking the town of Ísafjörður and Bolungarvík in Northwestern Iceland
Read moreA new university building
Reykjavik University will soon move into new buildings close to the Reykjavík Domestic Airport. The new campus consists of interconnected buildings
Read moreThe medieval manuscripts
EFLA participates in designing a new building for the precious manuscripts (including the famous Sagas) preserved by the Árni Magnússon Institute at the University of Iceland in Reykjavík.
Read moreEFLA and oil
There are steps being taken to intensify the research into possible oil fields northeast of Iceland, close to the island of Jan Mayen (joint resource rights by Norway and Iceland).
Read moreA new hydropower plant
EFLA's market division of Energy and Utilities has almost completed the tender design for a new 80 MW-hydropower plant for the National Power Company at Búðarháls (Central Iceland, at the Tungnaá glacial river).
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