Norwegian offshore concrete engineering firm bridging durable construction materials and floating wind energy infrastructure.
Concrete Structures AS is a Norwegian engineering company specializing in concrete structures for marine and offshore applications. Based in Lysaker — Norway's hub for the oil, gas, and maritime industries — the firm brings focused structural expertise to large-scale industrial and energy projects. Their work spans both the material science of durable concrete (integrating industrial by-products) and the structural engineering of concrete substructures for offshore renewable energy installations, including floating wind platforms. They operate exclusively as a third-party contributor in EU consortia, providing specialist industry knowledge and technical validation rather than leading research programmes.
Both EnDurCrete and FLAGSHIP involved concrete engineering in demanding offshore or marine environments, with 'concrete' appearing as an explicit keyword in FLAGSHIP alongside offshore wind infrastructure themes.
EnDurCrete (2018–2021) focused specifically on environmentally friendly durable concrete integrating industrial by-products and hybrid reinforcement systems.
FLAGSHIP (2020–2024) targeted floating offshore wind commercialization at 10 MW scale, where concrete foundation and substructure engineering is a core technical domain.
FLAGSHIP explicitly listed LCoE optimisation and industrialisation among its objectives, indicating engagement with cost-driven engineering for commercial-scale offshore wind deployment.
In their first H2020 engagement (EnDurCrete, 2018–2021), the company focused on material-level innovation — developing durable concrete that incorporates industrial by-products and hybrid systems, a sustainability-driven research angle. By 2020, the focus shifted decisively toward structural applications in the energy transition: FLAGSHIP placed their concrete expertise in the context of floating offshore wind commercialization, large-scale demonstration at sea, and LCOE reduction. The trajectory mirrors Norway's own strategic pivot from oil and gas infrastructure toward offshore renewables, suggesting Concrete Structures AS is positioning its traditional offshore construction expertise for the floating wind market.
Concrete Structures AS is tracking the floating offshore wind market — a fast-growing sector in Northern Europe — making them potentially relevant for consortia targeting commercial-scale floating wind deployment in Atlantic and Nordic sea conditions where concrete substructures are a competitive option.
Concrete Structures AS participates exclusively as a third party in EU projects, meaning they contribute specialist expertise or resources without being a primary grant recipient or consortium signatory. Despite this supporting role, they have connected with 33 distinct consortium partners across 15 countries — a notably broad network for a firm with only two project appearances. This pattern indicates an organization that is drawn into large, multi-partner consortia for a specific niche capability — offshore concrete engineering — rather than one that builds long-term bilateral research relationships.
Across two projects, the firm has connected with 33 unique consortium partners spanning 15 countries, reflecting participation in large, internationally diverse H2020 consortia. The geographic breadth suggests European-scale collaborations rather than a narrowly Nordic network, consistent with both EnDurCrete and FLAGSHIP being multi-country RIA/IA projects.
Concrete Structures AS occupies a narrow but strategically valuable niche at the intersection of advanced concrete engineering and offshore energy infrastructure — a combination that few inland engineering consultancies can credibly offer. Norway's decades of offshore oil and gas activity have produced deep practical know-how in harsh marine structural conditions, and firms like this carry that accumulated experience into the renewable energy transition. Their dual exposure to concrete durability research and floating wind commercialization makes them a credible industry validator for consortia that need real-world offshore structural knowledge alongside academic or technology partners.
