Dr. ing. A. Aas-Jakobsen AS, trading as Aas-Jakobsen, is a civil engineering

Civil engineering

Civil engineering is a professional engineering discipline that deals with the design, construction, and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment, including works like roads, bridges, canals, dams, and buildings...

 consultant company specializing in structural engineering

Structural engineering

Structural engineering is a field of engineering dealing with the analysis and design of structures that support or resist loads. Structural engineering is usually considered a specialty within civil engineering, but it can also be studied in its own right....

. The company is based in Oslo

Oslo

Oslo is a municipality, as well as the capital and most populous city in Norway. As a municipality , it was established on 1 January 1838. Founded around 1048 by King Harald III of Norway, the city was largely destroyed by fire in 1624. The city was moved under the reign of Denmark–Norway's King...

, Norway

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

, and primarily works with bridge

Bridge

A bridge is a structure built to span physical obstacles such as a body of water, valley, or road, for the purpose of providing passage over the obstacle...

s, roads, railways, offshore oil and buildings. The company has 250 employees. The company was established by Andreas Aas-Jakobsen in 1937. For the first decade, the company specialized in shell structures, but from the 1950s, the company shifted to bridge design. The company later started designing offshore installations and became a verifier for such structures, and later also became a consultant for railway projects and major road projects, such as the Bjørvika Tunnel

Bjørvika Tunnel

The Bjørvika Tunnel is a motorway immersed tunnel on European Route E18 in the city center of Oslo, Norway. The tunnel has two bores, with three lanes in each...

 through Oslo.

Major projects which the company has participated in include the Arctic Cathedral

Arctic Cathedral

The Tromsdalen Church , which is more commonly known as The Arctic Cathedral , is a church in Tromsø, Norway, built in 1965. The church is a parish church and not, in fact, a cathedral.The church was designed by Jan Inge Hovig, and its building materials consist mainly of concrete...

, Askøy Bridge

Askøy Bridge

The Askøy Bridge is a suspension bridge which crosses Byfjorden between Bergen and Askøy in Hordaland, Norway. It is long and has a main span of , making it the longest suspension bridge in Norway. It carries two lanes of County Road 562 and a combined pedestrian and bicycle path...

, Bømla Bridge

Bømla Bridge

The Bømla Bridge is a suspension bridge which crosses Spissøysundet between the islands of Nautøy in Stord and Spissøy in Bømlo, Norway. The bridge is long, has a main span of and a clearance below of . It carries two lanes of County Road 542 and a combined pedestrian and bicycle pathway...

, Brønnøysund Bridge

Brønnøysund Bridge

Brønnøysund Bridge is a cantilevered road bridge near the town of Brønnøysund in Brønnøy municipality in Nordland county, Norway. The bridge was constructed in 1979 and it connects the small island of Torget with the mainland just south of Brønnøysund. The long bridge has a maximum clearance to...

, Candaba Vidaduct, Djupfjordstraumen Bridge

Djupfjordstraumen Bridge

Djupfjordstraumen Bridge is a cantilever road bridge that crosses Djupfjorden in the municipality of Sortland in Nordland county, Norway. The bridge is 346 metres long, and the main span is 190 metres...

, Drammen Bridge

Drammen Bridge

Drammen Bridge is a motorway box girder bridge that crosses Drammenselva river in the town of Drammen in Norway. It is the longest bridge in Norway, 1892 metres long. The bridge has 41 spans; the longest span is 60 metres. The maximum clearance to the water is 11 metres.Drammen Bridge was opened...

, Grenland Bridge

Grenland Bridge

Grenland Bridge is Norway's highest cable-stayed bridge with a tower height of . The bridge, which opened in 1996, is on route E18. It crosses the Frierfjord, a fjord which separates the municipalities of Porsgrunn and Bamble in Telemark county...

, Heidrun

Heidrun oil field

The Heidrun oil field is an oil and gas field discovered in 1985 in the Norwegian sector of the Norwegian Sea, named after the goat Heiðrún from Norse mythology....

, Helgeland Bridge

Helgeland Bridge

Helgeland Bridge is a cable-stayed bridge that crosses Leirfjorden between the mainland and Alsten in Nordland county in Norway. It connects the town of Sandnessjøen to the mainland. The bridge is 1065 metres long, The main span is 425 metres, and the maximum clearance to the sea is 45 metres. The...

, Henningsvær Bridge, Lysefjord Bridge

Lysefjord Bridge

The Lysefjord Bridge is a suspension bridge in Rogaland, Norway. Construction of the bridge began in 1995 and was finished in 1997. It has a main span of 446 meters and the depth of the deck is 2.7 meters. The supporting towers are 102 meters tall, and are made of reinforced concrete.- External...

, Mjøsa Bridge

Mjøsa Bridge

Mjøsa Bridge is a box girder bridge that crosses lake Mjøsa between Moelv and Biri in Hedmark and Oppland counties in Norway. The bridge is 1421 metres long, the longest span is 69 metres, and the clearance to the water is 15 metres...

, Nordhordland Bridge

Nordhordland Bridge

The Nordhordland Bridge is a combined cable-stayed and pontoon bridge which crosses Salhusfjorden between Klauvaneset and Flatøy in Hordaland, Norway. It is long, of which the pontoon section is long. The cable-stayed section consists of a single tall H-pylon which has a length of and a main...

, Osterøy Bridge

Osterøy Bridge

Osterøy Bridge connects Kvisti on the island of Osterøy in Hordaland County with the mainland at Herland east from Bergen, Norway.Osterøy Bridge is a suspension bridge and has a main span of 595 meter. The towers are 121.5 meters high. The bridge was completed October 3, 1997 and cost about 308...

, Rama III Bride, Sleipner A, Stord Bridge

Stord Bridge

The Stord Bridge is a suspension bridge which crosses Digernessundet the islands of Stord and Føyno in Stord, Norway. The bridge is long, has a main span of and a clearance below of .. It carries two lanes of European Route E39 and a combined pedestrian and bicycle pathway. It is part of the...

, Tromsø Bridge

Tromsø Bridge

The Tromsø Bridge is a cantilever road bridge in the city of Tromsø, Norway. It crosses the strait of Tromsøysundet between Tromsdalen on the mainland and Tromsøya. Construction began in 1958, and the bridge was opened in 1960. At the time of its opening, it was the longest bridge in Northern...

 and Varodden Bridge. New design for yet unbuilt projects include the Storfjord Bridge

Storfjord Bridge

The Storfjord Bridge is a proposed suspension bridge that would span Storfjorden in Sunnmøre, Norway. If built, it would be long and have a main span of . This would make it the longest spanned bridge in the world, easily surpassing the Akashi-Kaikyō Bridge, which has a main span of...

, which would, if it was completed, become the longest spanned suspension bridge

Suspension bridge

A suspension bridge is a type of bridge in which the deck is hung below suspension cables on vertical suspenders. Outside Tibet and Bhutan, where the first examples of this type of bridge were built in the 15th century, this type of bridge dates from the early 19th century...

 in the world, spanning 2300 metres (7,545.9 ft) across Storfjorden

Storfjorden

Storfjorden is the body of water separating Spitsbergen in the west from Barentsøya and Edgeøya to the east. Its southern limits are Kikutodden in Sørkapp Land east to Håøya, Tiholmane, Brækmoholmane, and Menkeøyane in Tusenøyane and northeast to Negerpynten—the southeastern promontory of Edgeøya...

. The company is also part of the team which will design Terminal 2 of Oslo Airport, Gardermoen

Oslo Airport, Gardermoen

Oslo Airport, Gardermoen is the principal airport serving Oslo, Norway. It acts as the main domestic hub and international airport for Norway, and the second-busiest airport in the Nordic countries. A hub for Scandinavian Airlines and Norwegian Air Shuttle, and a focus city for Widerøe, it is...

, and an 8 kilometres (5 mi) long bicycle tube in Bodø, which would allow bicyclists to ride during winter without exposure to the elements.