SINTEF is a broad, multidisciplinary research organisation with international top-level expertise in the fields of technology, the natural sciences, medicine and the social sciences. We conduct contract R&D as a partner for the private and public sectors, and we are one of the largest contract research institutions in Europe.
For more than 60 years, SINTEF has developed solutions and innovation for society and customers all over the world. E.g., in 2016, SINTEF carried out 5700 research projects for 4000 regional, national and international customers. A main focus is digitizing society and industry and a large portion of the activity is focused toward this topic.
SINTEF Manufacturing is Norway’s leading centre of expertise in manufacturing. Our ambition is to create sustainable and effective solutions which provide competitive advantages for the Norwegian manufacturing industry.
We provide expertise in automated production, product and production development, Lean, value chain management and material technology, as well as laboratory and engineering services. SINTEF Manufacturing offers industrial research and consulting, various types of courses and knowledge transfer from the academic world to the industry. All this at a high national and international level.
BIMprove (Improving Building Information Modelling by Realtime Tracing of Construction Processes) is one of the projects coordinated by SINTEF Manufacturing, which has a goal to harnesses the power of cutting-edge Digital Twin Technology to lead construction sites into the Industry 4.0 revolution.
Please visit the project website here: https://www.bimprove-h2020.eu/