News: 2022

EFLA supervised a project in shore power connection systems for container vessels for Eimskip in Iceland, which was taken into use yesterday at Sundahöfn harbour in Reykjavik. The Norwegian company Blueday Technology AS was chosen to design and handle the construction of the equipment.

EFLA Norway has participated in developing the Norwegian Forrest Museum, Norsk Skogfinsk Museum, in Svullrya in East Norway. EFLA´s staff has consulted on electricity, structural physics and geotechnical engineering matters.

EFLA Consulting Engineers recently won a contract for the engineering design of Statnett´s latest 90 km, 420 kV line in Blåfalli – Gismarvik, which will secure the power supply to Norway's second-largest aluminium smelter.

EFLA Consulting Engineers will host a session at the 2022 Arctic Circle Assembly which will be held in Harpa Concert Hall and Conference Centre, Reykjavík, Iceland, on the 13th-16th of October. The session is called "With the Wind in our Sails" and will take place on Friday the 14th of October from 08:30-09:25 at Akrafjall, 4th level in Harpa concert hall and conference centre.

EFLA´s representatives are in Croatia to participate in an initial press conference and a Round table for a project on the Development of technical documentation for the use of geothermal energy in the area of Veliko Koenovo and in the city of Bjelover in Croatia.

EFLA engineers attended this year’s CIGRE conference in Paris, which gathered approximately 3500 specialists from several countries to discuss and share the latest knowledge and technology on energy systems and components.

EFLA consulting engineers have been selected as partners in two projects related to the use of geothermal energy in Bjelovar, Croatia. The projects are partly funded by EEA and Norway Grants, EEA Grants. The goal of the projects is to increase energy production from renewable sources, reduce CO2 emissions and increase the security of energy supply.

Majid Eskadi, EFLA´s port specialist, has a presentation on the NordPIANC, held in the conference hall Hof in Akureyri, Iceland. The conference is for discussion about port development, port planning, port projects and port design.

The president of Iceland, Guðni Th. Jóhannesson awarded EFLA Consulting Engineers the 2022 presidential award for export achievement. EFLA's CEO, Sæmundur Sæmundsson, received the award at the award ceremony at Bessastaðir presidential residence, with a number of EFLA's employees in attendance.

EFLA Consulting has acquired a majority stake in HECLA SAS, a French engineering company based in Paris, after the completion of EFLA ‘s acquisition of Landsvirkjun´s holdings, through its subsidiary Landsvirkjun Power, and Jean Chauveau. EFLA now holds a 96.5% share of HECLA SAS, with two key executives holding 3.5%.

EFLA managed all the engineering design in the brand-new Forest Lagoon geothermal spa in the north of Iceland. EFLA conducted the project in close collaboration with Basalt Architects and the landscaping studio Landslag .

Carbfix has commissioned EFLA for a pre-design of Coda Terminal, Carbfix's CO₂ mineral storage hub in Straumsvík, Iceland.