With its Blue Building, Nord University will be pursuing research and education at an advanced national and international level. Photo: Nord University.
Responsibility for ensuring the right temperatures when Nord University in Bodø opens its new Blue Building for fishing-related research, education and development in 2024 rests with PTG.
The new facility will provide modern laboratories, lecture halls and offices for the faculty of biosciences and aquaculture. Covering 8 400 m², it is intended to help scientists, students and industry come up with the sustainable solutions the world needs.
Among its features is a freezer room which maintains a temperature of ‑40°C, so that students can test seafood storage and quality.
PTG MultiKulde in Bodø s supplying the air conditioning system for the building. Its delivery comprises two propane-chiller cooling plants, a propane liquid-to-water geothermal heat pump which captures solar energy stored below ground, and an environment-friendly CO2 refrigeration plant.
“This is a positive development in an environment-friendly direction,” says Mikael Andersen at PTG MultiKulde AS in Bodø. “Work starts in January and is due for completion in the autumn of 2023.”

PTG MultiKulde AS in Bodø is pleased to be taking the university in an environment-friendly direction. Mikael Andersen (left) and CEO Odd Eirik Nikolaisen. Photo: PTG