The hydraulic laboratory holds an area of 3000 m2 – of which 2000 m2 can be utilised for custom built hydraulic models. Serving both an educational purpose and providing opportunities for academic research, as well as commercial research with clients across the world. State of the art models are made in-house, as the lab boasts a competent machining shop and a separate workshop for woodwork and plastics.

There are three permanent flumes installed, including a tilting flume for steep slope simulation and sediment research. The laboratory is highly flexible and serves all manners of hydraulic research, such as sediment transport, flow analysis, slope stability, hydropower structures and studies in hydropower dynamics.

Most hydropower projects have long waterways consisting of tunnels, shafts and underground caverns. Rock and tunnel engineering remains a central aspect in design of hydropower systems. For over a century, NTNU and Norway have successfully developed cost-effective and optimal design principals and methods for hydropower, infrastructure and use of underground space. 

The Department of Geoscience and Petroleum at NTNU features a state-of-art engineering geology and tunneling laboratory. The lab includes all necessary equipment, including unique test rigs for drillability, recognized by the international community within rock and tunnel engineering, and the strongest available triaxial test equipment for highly competent and hard rocks. The tests performed at this laboratory are conducted on rock samples from all around the world, spanning more than sixty countries.


 

The Smart Grid Laboratory is a system oriented laboratory providing state-of-the-art infrastructure for R&D, demonstration, verification, and testing over a wide range of Smart grid use cases.