Built Heritage

Churches – Documentation and Condition Assessments

NIKU offers archive studies and documentation, building archaeology, and condition assessments of churches

Church Art and Inventory – Cultural Heritage Value

NIKU has knowledge of church art, church inventory, and mural paintings in Norwegian churches.

Climate Change and Cultural Heritage

NIKU works with issues related to climate change and cultural heritage. We assess the impacts of slow climate change and extreme hazards on cultural heritage.

Indoor Climate and Energy Use in Churches

NIKU offers interdisciplinary consultancy for indoor climate and energy use in church buildings.

Architectural and Cultural Heritage Value

NIKU conducts architectural and cultural heritage value assessments. We offer advice to ensure buildings of high cultural value are managed and developed in the best possible way.

World Heritage

NIKU conducts research on world heritage sites, world heritage management, and how world heritage protection can contribute to sustainable development.

Environmental Monitoring of Listed Buildings

NIKU offers monitoring of listed buildings, to map conditions, avoid degradation phenomena, and other threat factors.

Heritage Analyses of Built Environments

NIKU performs urban heritage analyses of built environments and cultural monuments in cities and towns to propose well-founded development opportunities.

Ruins and Conservation of Ruins

NIKU has expertise in ruins and ruin conservation. We offer building archaeology, investigations, archive studies, documentation, and surveying (digital and manual), condition analyses, damage assessments, proposals for measures, and follow-up of conservation work.

Documentation, Scanning and Survey of Buildings and Constructions

NIKU records and measures buildings using traditional manual methods, digital scanning, photo documentation, rectification of photos, etc.

Cultural Heritage Management

NIKU conducts research on cultural heritage management and fulfils assignments covering regulation and policy evaluation as well as management strategies, processes, and practices in the field of cultural heritage

Technical and Industrial Cultural Heritage

NIKU provides documentation and consultancy services related to the rehabilitation and reuse of technical and industrial cultural heritage monuments

Building Materials and Structures

NIKU conducts condition assessments of buildings and constructions in wood and masonry, maps the extent of damage, and recommends measures.

Urban Studies

NIKU researches the role of cultural heritage as a resource for social and urban development.

Landscape and Management

NIKU has interdisciplinary knowledge of landscape research, cultural landscapes, cultural environments and historic gardens and parks, as well as extensive experience of work within the management, use, and value assessment of cultural heritage.

Impact Assessments and Evaluations

NIKU has long and wide-ranging experience in working with impact assessments and evaluations, both nationally and internationally.

Cultural Heritage Environments in Planning

NIKU can contribute with cultural heritage consultancy within development of municipal planning strategies, the land-use element of the municipal master plan, zoning plans, thematic plans, etc.

Adaptive Reuse and Transformation of the Built Environment

NIKU provides cultural heritage advice on maintenance, restoration, upgrading, adaptive reuse, and transformation of existing buildings, cultural heritage- and building environments.

Memorials, monuments and commemorations

NIKU conducts research and provides guidance on how sculptures, monuments and memorials, both historical and contemporary, are managed and utilized in modern society.