Mechanical and Electrical Project Manager

Norway's Birdsview raises €3.7 million to scale its "MRI for concrete" technology and protect infrastructure. August 17, 2026 Birdsview, a Bergen-based startup specialising in concrete inspection technology that helps preserve infrastructure, has raised €3.7 million to strengthen its commercial, industrial, and international scaling. The round was backed by Sarsia, Butterfly Ventures, Proptechfonden, Kiilto Ventures, Nordic Makers and Momentum. Existing investors Eviny Ventures, Farvatn Venture, Erik Bakstad (Ardoq), Gunnar Hvammen (serial founder) and Herman Flinder (founder of Norse Partners) also participated in the round. "This funding round is an important milestone for Birdsview. With €3.7 million (NOK 40.5 million) secured, and a Nordic investor consortium that understands both our technology and our market, we now have the resources to scale commercially and industrially across multiple countries. The fact that customers in eight countries have already chosen Birdsview Concrete just weeks after launch shows that we are solving a real problem for the industry," said Olav Skogen, CEO, Birdsview. Founded in 2017 by Skogen and Simen Husøy in Trondheim, Birdsview offers "MRI for concrete" technology to protect infrastructure. The company has developed a platform that enables users to see inside concrete without breaking it. The company states that it combines sensors with proprietary algorithms that automatically process and analyse data into detailed 3D models of concrete structures, without the need to drill into or damage the structure being inspected. This makes it easier to preserve existing concrete structures, with lower risk, reduced costs, higher efficiency and substantially less environmental impact. The Nordic startup states that it utilises Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) to apply radar pulses to image objects. It further notes that, although GPR technology is powerful, there are traditionally some limitations that prevent its full potential from being utilised. Birdsview claims that its technology solves these challenges. According to the company, expertise in radar analysis and signal interpretation is often required to interpret raw GPR data. Complex data plots must be interpreted to image what one is looking at, and this is often difficult and time-consuming. The startup solves this by automating data interpretation with its algorithms, so anyone can create images of the data. Once the raw data is processed and successful imaging is available, the next step involves understanding what the image implies. Materials must be classified, and the effects of anomalies must be understood to assess the integrity of the object under evaluation. Birdsview states that its software automates this process, making the results easy to read and understand. In 2025, the company launched its first concrete product and developed a technology platform powered by Full Waveform Inversion, ready-made sensors, and AI-driven analysis. Birdsview reports that since then, more than 100 different concrete structures, ranging from buildings to bridges, have been scanned using this technology. In March 2026, Birdsview took the next step by beginning to pre-sell the product, allowing customers to start using the technology themselves. Since then, customers in nine countries have purchased the product. Over the past two years, Birdsview has worked with major Nordic and global companies on its customer and partner list, including Vinci, Bouygues Construction, The Trust for Governors Island, EllisDon, Sweco, Asplan Viak, and Rambøll. The company has offices at Startup Lab in Bergen and Oslo and employs 14 people.

Lake Shore bridge extension supports Toronto's richest real estate opportunity. * 7 days ago The largest and most valuable development opportunity in North America - Toronto's waterfront - is undergoing a transformation that will fulfill its potential. The Waterfront Toronto organization is leading the transformation, collaborating with all three levels of government and industry to resolve any larger issues that impede progress. One of the most significant challenges facing the project was the condition of the lands and infrastructure at the south end of the Don Valley, where the Don River outlets into Toronto Harbour and where the critical transportation artery that is the Don Valley Parkway meets Lake Shore Boulevard East. Prone to annual flooding and designed for a Toronto that no longer exists, this area required considerable work to enable the future residential and commercial development opportunities of Toronto's presently industrial Port Lands area. Entuitive was retained by EllisDon to engineer a solution that would mitigate the flooding of the adjacent Don River and that would increase the capacity of the Lake Shore East Bridge to suit increased traffic volumes that are anticipated with continuing development of the Port Lands area. Its team approached this collaboration with a creative, client-oriented mindset, utilizing the City's existing structural assets to solve project challenges at a much lower cost. The result was a hybrid solution for the Lake Shore East Bridge that rehabilitated and reused the existing bridge's abutments and pier, while replacing the superstructure and adding a new abutment and pier to lengthen the bridge and widen the mouth of the Don River. Bridge construction was completed in spring 2026. The successful extension of the Lake Shore East Bridge and the widening of the mouth of the Don River has already mitigated flooding during heavy rains and provided the Port Lands area with enhanced traffic capacity that supports current and future developments. Andrew Lehan, an Associate on Entuitive's Bridge Engineering Team and Engineer-of-Record for the Lake Shore East Bridge, generously shared his time to speak with Entuitive about this vital Toronto waterfront project. Lake Shore bridge extension for Waterfront Toronto. ENtuitive: What issue did Waterfront Toronto want to solve for this Port Lands project? Andrew Lehan: Waterfront Toronto wanted to reduce the likelihood of upstream flooding in a major storm event by creating more hydraulic capacity for the Don River. Entuitive needed to open up the mouth of the river to increase water flow, which meant having to lengthen the Lake Shore East Bridge to accommodate the river widening. EN: Floods caused by heavy rain used to be relatively common just north of that area before you exit the Don Valley Parkway (DVP). Andrew Lehan: Yes, that lower part of the DVP - a few minutes south of the Bloor Viaduct - is on a bit of a plateau that's low to the river, so it used to be quite vulnerable to flooding. One of the consultants that Entuitive worked with, MVVA, performed a hydraulic analysis that determined a required hydraulic opening of about 100 metres at the Lake Shore East Bridge to mitigate upstream flooding. EN: Widening the river mouth to a 100-metre opening required the lengthening of the bridge. Andrew Lehan: The existing bridge had two 24-metre spans, so Entuitive needed to effectively double its length to achieve the required hydraulic opening. The big question was whether Entuitive would reuse the 60-year-old abutments and pier in the new bridge. Doing so would allow for the bridge spans to remain short and economical, but it would also mean living with the constraints and costs associated with restoring older structural elements of a different vintage. Efficient solutions for project challenges. EN: What solution was implemented to mitigate the cost of delivering project objectives in this less-than-ideal job site? Andrew: Reusing the existing pier and both abutments of the existing bridge proved to be the most economical solution. Constructing entirely new piers and abutments would have been very costly at this site. The centre pier of the existing bridge was transformed into the east pier for the new bridge, while the west abutment of the previous bridge became the centre pier of the new bridge. A new west pier and west abutment were constructed on land instead of new piers constructed in the river. The land between west abutment and centre pier was eventually dredged to open the river mouth. EN: Essentially, leveraging the existing piers and abutments and building a new pier on land avoided the expense of building in the river. Andrew: That's right - there was land Entuitive could work on further west of the original west abutment. Entuitive basically precluded the need to go out into the water to construct a new pier, which would have happened if Entuitive abandoned the existing one and proceeded with all new piers. EN: What causes new pier construction to be particularly expensive? Andrew: Access to the work site and demolition costs. New pier construction would have to take place in the river, so you would need a piling rig on a barge to install new foundations for the piers. Dewatering efforts would also have been greater for constructing a new pier cap in the river versus on land. Using new piers would have meant removing the existing pier and abutments. Those removals would have resulted in performing costly underwater demolition operations. All the efforts to construct new piers and remove the existing pier and abutment would have extended the project schedule, which would have added direct costs to the project and indirect costs to the public in the form of longer traffic disruptions in the area. Strategic approach to technical solutions. EN: What enables its team to recommend creative solutions that clients have not envisioned or explored? Andrew: Entuitive don't approach projects with predetermined tools or processes. Entuitive don't visit client offices and say, "I have a hammer in my hand, so we better use nails, not screws." Instead, when Entuitive collaborate with clients, Entuitive listen to their needs and Entuitive examine the available data and information to align its project processes its clients' objectives. Figuratively, an analysis might show that nails are optimal for some parts of the project while screws work better for other project elements. So, Entuitive'll bring both its screwdriver and hammer, instead of insisting on hammering screws into place. It's about doing what's right for the client. Technical solutions Entuitive create are obviously more complex than hammering nails and fastening screws, but the idea behind its approach stays consistent. Entuitive help its clients solve problems by applying its technical skill in a strategic way, analyzing the different elements of the project, and understanding how the solution impacts outcomes for its clients. EN: The existing site is quite complicated. Were there any other notable design challenges experienced by the design team? This project was a great opportunity to flex its engineering capabilities because of the additional seismic requirements Entuitive needed to comply with. Typically, bridge projects in Toronto don't need to satisfy strenuous seismic requirements because Toronto is located in an area of low seismic activity. However, the Lake Shore East Bridge was found to have a pesky layer of soil beneath it that was deemed liquifiable under excitation from the lower magnitude earthquakes that Toronto is at risk of experiencing. As such, Entuitive needed to detail the structure with superior ductility, which became a challenging retrofit for the existing pier and west abutment, one that required installing large diameter post-tensioning bars down through the existing concrete into the underlying bedrock. It's great to have the opportunity to engineer these types of creative solutions. Some projects are ideal for a conventional, cookie-cutter approach - and there's a genuine need for that type of delivery - but I love it when Entuitive get to sharpen its pencils and engage in strategic thought for its designs.

Mississauga hospital project named ijglobalppp deal of the year. Posted on March 24, 2026 The project to build The Peter Gilgan Mississauga Hospital and Shah Family Hospital for Women and Children has been named the 2025 IJGlobal PPP Deal of the Year - North America. The consortium behind the project, which includes EllisDon, PCL, Fengate Asset Management and Plenary Americas, accepted the award earlier this month. Although the IJGlobal Awards ceremony is primarily geared toward equity investors and developers, EllisDon says the success of the transaction reflects the efforts of hundreds of individuals across design, construction, facilities services, and other teams. "This recognition highlights the strength of the public-private partnership model and the close collaboration between development partner PCL, clients Trillium Health Partners and Infrastructure Ontario, and equity partners Fengate Asset Management and Plenary Americas," said Jeff Brace, Head of Infrastructure, EllisDon Capital. "It also reflects the important contributions of lenders and advisors who helped establish a new benchmark for megaproject financing in Canada. While the full list of contributors is extensive, this award belongs to everyone who played a role." The IJGlobal Awards celebrate outstanding greenfield and refinancing projects across the global energy and infrastructure sectors, recognizing teams that successfully deliver complex deals with lasting value.