Performed by Rambøll on behalf of the Ministry of Education and Research. 

Read reportv in Norwegian: Conceptual appraisal: Future location of campus NTNU, January 2014 (pdf)

Performed by Metier and Møreforskning Molde on behalf of the Ministry of Education and Research and the Ministry of Finance.

Read report: Quality assurance phase 1 (QA1), August 2015 (pdf)

The government moves towards a unified future campus solution in the area around Gløshaugen in the state budget for 2016.

Read the proposal for state budget 2016, section on unified NTNU campus

Read letter: Unified campus for NTNU in Trondheim

On August 16, 2017, the Government decided that when moving forward with unified campus in Trondheim, new location will primarily be realized close to the existing building at Gløshaugen.

Read press release: New campus west of Gløshaugen

Statsbygg and NTNU.

Read report: Supplementary study for choice of concept – Future location of campus for NTNU Read memo: NTNU’s supplementary memo on the supplementary study (pdf)

NTNU receives money for 92,000 square meters of new buildings and 45,000 square meters of rebuilding of the campus in Trondheim. Iselin Nybø, Minister of Research and Higher Education, presented the news on a direct transfer with Rector Gunnar Bovim at NTNU’s leadership meeting at Oppdal on January 19, 2018. Estimated costs are nine billion and the development will be completed within 10 years.

Read press release from NTNU: Unique opportunity to create the university of the future

Read press release from the Ministry of Education and Research: The road ahead for the NTNU campus

Letter of assignment from the Ministry of Education and Research to Statsbygg. For documentation, contact Statsbygg.

Read report: Start-up of the pre-project (OFP) report – NTNU unified campus 17.12.2018

External quality assurance of the OFP-report, carried out by Holte consulting, SNF and A2 Norge, on behalf of the Ministry of Education and Research and the Ministry of Finance.

Read report: Quality assurance report NTNU unified campus

The Government proposes NOK 40 million for a pre-project for NTNU’s campus in the state budget for 2020.

Read press release from the Ministry of Education and Research and the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Fisheries:

State budget 2020: The Government wants a sea laboratory and unified campus at NTNU

Assigment letter on start-up of the pre-project campus NTNU.

Statsbygg was commissioned on 30 April 2020 in a letter from the Ministry of Education and Research (KD) to evaluate the consequences of an scale-down or step-by-step development of NTNU's unified campus, including to shed light on the consequences. In the assignment letter KD encouraged Statsbygg to cooperate with NTNU.

Read the report: Assessment of scaled-down and/or step-by-step implementation of NTNUs unified campus (in Norwegian)

The Ministry of Education and Research refers to the letter of assignment on the start-up of  the pre-project for a unified campus, sent to Statsbygg on Decmber 2019. This assignment  letter replaces previous assignment letter an can be read on Statsbygg’s website. 

Campus NTNU – revised assignment letter for the pre-project.

The benefit realization plan for NTNU's unifed campus describes how the project can achieve its goals by identifying, realizing and extracting gains in all phases of the project; during planning, construction and use. 

The plan has been prepared with NTNU as a process manager in cooperation with Statsbygg and with the Ministry of Education and Research as the client. The plan was adopted by the Project Council under the leadership of the Ministry of Education and Research, on 4 June, and is now anchored at NTNU.

Read report: Benefit realization plan for NTNU's unified campus (in Norwegian)

The Ministry of Education and Research (KD) refers to the meeting with NTNU og Statsbygg in Trondheim on 28 March, where the Minister of Research and Higher Education explained that it is necessary to reduce the scope and total cost of the project significantly.

KD asks Statsbygg and NTNU to prepare 2-3 alternatives for a scaled-down project, which has a significantly reduced scope compared with the framework for the project that has so far been planned.

Read the document: NTNUs unified campus - tasks in redefining the project (in Norwegian)

The report “NTNU Vision 2060 – Campus Development” is the result of an investigative work carried out in the autumn of 2013 at NTNU. The initiative came from former Rector Torbjørn Digernes in May 2013, who together with the incoming Rector Gunnar Bovim initiated NTNU’s Vision Project. The mandate has been to develop visions for campus development in a 50-year perspective for the entire NTNU. The report describes how campus development can help maintain and further develop NTNU as an attractive university based on its distinctive character.

Read report: NTNU2060 – Visions for campus development, January 2014

Read note: Status KS1 future location of campus NTNU

Information about the campus project in the new NTNU and further organization.

The purpose of this case was to provide the board with information on the various projects in Ålesund, Gjøvik and in Trondheim. In addition, the Rector informed the board on how NTNU are going to organize its work on campus development.

Read note: Campus project in new NTNU – Orientation on project and further organization

The purpose of this case was to provide the board with information on the status and progress for the various projects. With main emphasis on overall location in Trondheim and the work on defining goals and visions for campus development. This case was based on information given to the board in December 2016.

Read note: Campus development at NTNU – project orientation

The board was briefed on a decision process for report on overall location and report with quality program (principles and criteria) for campus development at NTNU.

Read note: Campus development at NTNU – process for principles, criteria and overall location

In the October meeting in 2016 NTNU’s board decided on Quality program for NTNU’s campus development 2016-2030. At the same meeting the board agreed to the Rector’s recommendation to the Ministry of Education and Research on overall location for unified campus in Trondheim.

Read document: NTNU’s Quality program for campus development 2016-2030 (pdf)

NTNU’s framework for involvement that follows the quality program for campus development. The framework has two general objectives:

1. Help NTNU’s campus projects to be predictable and sustainable for NTNU’s empolyees, students, leaders and other stakeholders.

2. Ensure that the campus project always has the necessary knowledge of the business which the campus is being built for.

Read document: Program for involvement – NTNU’s campus development 2016 – 2025 (pdf)

Proposal on area concepts for NTNU were delivered on June 1, 2018. The concepts define what characteristics and qualities campus areas must have in order to help NTNU achieve its aims. The Rectorate decided in October 2018 to set out guidelines for the design of the future area at NTNU.

Read report: Area concepts for Campus NTNU (for screen)

Read Rector’s decision: Rector’s decision on area concepts 22 October 2018 (pdf)

Read more: Area concept web page

Related to the unified campus in Trondheim, NTNU has investigated overall placement of academic disciplines. At the end of March 2019, the Rector made his decision on overall placement.

Read more: Rector’s decision on location of academic functions at NTNU in Trondheim

Read more: Web page on location of academic functions

Reports:

Sub-report 1: Principles and criteria for location of academic functions 10.11.2017 (pdf)

Sub-report 2: Principles and criteria for planning 15.06.2018 (pdf)

Sub-report 3: Main grip, models and solutions 14.12.2018 (pdf)

The Plan-principles for campus (dated 24.01.2019) is NTNU’s plan which shows the overall concept for the development of a unified campus. It presents the overall physical planning steps that facilitate NTNU to achieve its aims. The plan has been commissioned through Trondheim Municipality’s political treatment of the planning program and will ensure the city’s and NTNU’s shared ambition for a city-integrated campus.

Read document: Plan-principles for NTNU campus, 24.01.2019 (pdf)

NTNU's quality requirements for buildings and outdoors is a development project to prepare and summarize standardized and general quality principles for the development of our buildings and outdoor areas on campus.

The project aims to establish common principles and requirements for NTNU's future university buildings. The quality requirements must be general, concrete and describe the general university building of the future. They shall apply to all development, maintenance and upgrading of NTNU's campuses in Gjøvik, Ålesund and Trondheim.

Quality requirements part 1 focus on conditions that affect sustainability, organization of buildings, building heights, urban situation and outdoor spaces. Quality requirements part 2 was completed in April 2021. 

Read the document: Quality requirements for buildings and outdoors part 1 

Read more: Web page for quality requirements for buildings and outdoors

The strategy for user involvement in NTNU campus development and NTNU’s unified campus is an overall description of guidelines and structures for involvement in NTNU's construction project. The document describes the goals, requirements and processes for user involvement in NTNU's campus development, and the main structure for involvement in pre-projects in NTNU’s unified campus. 

The purpose of the strategy is to clarify what ensures good and effective involvement processes, how involvement is to be safeguarded, and what is the direction for the implementation of involvement in NTNU. The document is based on NTNU's framework for involvement: "Program for involvement in NTNU's campus development 2016 – 2025" 

Read the document: User involvement strategy in NTNU's campus development and NTNU’s unified campus (pdf) 

NTNU's quality requirements for buildings and outdoors is a development project to prepare and summarize standardized and general quality principles for the development of our buildings and outdoor areas on campus. 

The project aims to establish common principles and requirements for NTNU's future university buildings. The quality requirements must be general, concrete and describe the general university building of the future. They shall apply to all development, maintenance and upgrading of NTNU's campuses in Gjøvik, Ålesund and Trondheim. 

Quality requirements part 1 was approved in November 2021 and had focus on conditions that affect sustainability, organization of buildings, building heights, urban situation and outdoor spaces.  

Quality requirements part 2 was approved in April 2021 and focuses on architectural and technical conditions in the building, art and science dissemination, universal design, digital interaction and access, control and safety. 

Read the document: Quality requirements for buildings and outdoors part 2 

Read more: Web page for quality requirements for buildings and outdoors

Through a subproject called "Physical Plan", NTNU and the municipality of Trondheim have worked together to develop a planning programme. This is a formal document prepared in accordance with the Planning and Building Act, which will be a decision document for the municipality's politicians when they decide which building areas will be further investigated.

On April 25, 2019, the City Council of Trondheim decided the planning program for university and campus purposes.

Read more: Case documents and documentation - political consideration of the planning program

Read more: Web page for planning program and physical plan

On 21 April 2020 Statsbygg sent a planning initiative for NTNU’s unified campus to the City Planning Office in Trondheim municipality for administrative processing. 

The planning initiative shall explain the further planning work in accordance with the Planning and Building Act. 

Planning initiative for NTNU’s unified campus on Statsbygg.no 

The Building Council's decision on 29 September 2020: The Building Council requests a matter of principle on the planning areas Høgskoleveien/Grensen and Hesthagen/part of Høgskoleparken, which includes alternatives to demolition of preservation-worthy buildings and construction in parks, with the aim of being able to prepare one planning proposal for each of the planning areas for initial processing. 

The Building Council presupposes that alternatives are explored regard to the use of parks on part of Høgskoleparken and the protection of buildings in Grensen, before the plan is submitted for initial processing. It is also assumed that consultation and participation will be opened up in this phase. The Building Council shall be kept informed of this work. 

See the case 220/20 Follow up decision - planning program for the unified campus in Trondheim

NTNU has carried out a study of the innovation structure, innovation centre and the partners' place on campus. This is an extension of the work on the placement of academic communities and clusters in and around Gløshaugen. 

The report is a basis for discussion of the localization of partners and subject-specific innovation infrastructure for the various professional clusters, as well as establishing a joint innovation centre, strategically located on campus.   

Read more: Report on innovation infrastructure, innovation centre and the partners' place on NTNU's campus  

The report was consulted in NTNU on December 2019. 

On behalf of NTNU at the Pro-Rector for Education, Sit has explored opportunities for student welfare and volunteering when the campus in Trondheim gathers. 

Read more: Studies for student welfare and volunteering in new campus at NTNU, September 2019 

When the HumSam communities move from Dragvoll as part of the unified NTNU campus in Trondheim, some academic communities and research infrastructures located at Gløshaugen will have to find a new location. 

In order to prevent the research from being damaged during the construction period, a working group has mapped sensitive research infrastructure at NTNU and made recommendations on localisation and concentration.  

Read more: How the research infrastructure at Gløshaugen will be safeguarded in the construction period for a unified NTNU campus.