Oslo Kommune VAV

Oslo Water and Sewerage Works (VAV) is a self-financing company within the municipality of Oslo and supplies water and collects / treats sewage for the city’s 624,000 inhabitants. Oslo has a political strategy to meet the future challenges with robust technological solutions and an economic and administrative capability to make necessary investments and take up adequate technological developments. Thus, Oslo has major investment plans to compensate for the major driving forces of change, namely climate change, ageing of infrastructure and migration. VAV has a tradition of quick uptake of new technologies and for many years has provided financial and practical support for pilot investigations of new pipe renovation methods and condition monitoring technologies.

VAV will be involved as Hoffselva demo-site owner and participate in the development and demonstration of the technologies and in the testing of the sustainability assessment framework.